Downloading over my connection would take... 19 hours, less than a day.
Downloading IS the instant gratification.
"Instant." You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
"Instant" is "15 seconds!?! But I'm hungry NOW!"
I'm not much of an entertainment consumer, but I wouldn't consider "I'll start this download and watch it sometime tomorrow night" as even approximating "instant". Media-based entertainment not a priority, so I sure as Hell am not scheduling the next 24 hours of my life to accommodate it.
Physical media is perfect for the "impulse purchase, genuinely instant gratification" lifestyle expected of consumers (and many consumers strive to live up to).
I don't know about you, but purchasing something in the store doesn't give me instant gratification - I actually have to go home and watch it before I get any gratification - so I'm not totally sure you understand what "Instant" means, either...
My wager would be that the lawyer was going with "copying a recipe" being a verbatim copy. The list of ingredients and basic tasks to create a food item is not copyrightable as it's a process (and thus would require the recipe in question to be patented).
So you don't recognize that there might be some information that shouldn't be exposed to the public for a certain length of time?
Recognizing that there is some information that shouldn't be immediately exposed is entirely compatible with believing that more information is being restricted than their ought to be.
Are you disabled? Is there anything legitimately keeping you from getting a job? If not, what makes you think you have the right to live off of everyone's taxes?
the way slavery went out of style the moment it became more profitable to have consumer goods for sale to paid workers who could be controlled almost as well as slaves by debt.
I don't think it was really more profitable (in absolute terms it was, but in relative terms, not so much), but it certainly was easier - once people had the illusion of freedom they became much more docile.
$10 divided by the 52 hours you spend talking to your brother on Xbox Live == $0.19 an hour extra you are paying. How much is a long distance phone plan?
If he's anything like the average Xbox player, he probably has a cell phone and doesn't pay anything extra for long distance. Depending on when that hour is, it's likely a call made at that time would not even consume his monthly allotment of minutes.
why _would_ someone include an.exe file for a cracked Mac program?:\
So the windows users who clearly didn't have enough intelligence to recognize they were downloading a mac program can be infected with the same virus/malware that the actual crack is infected with.
What search engine are you using where anywhere in the top 10 pages of results for "Horses" are there horses mating with humans? Google with Safe Search disabled doesn't even have anything like that.
Honestly, in this case, fear mongering is better than just taking it - I mean, it's nearly impossible to make a home video without creating something that MPEG LA thinks you should pay them for.
This story demonstrates the exact opposite of your assertion.
The license to create is different from the license to allow the viewing of what was created.
The second sentence should have been "served on pages with ads will be"
What is uncertain about "will continue not to charge royalties for Internet Video that is free to end users" - unless you're charging your users and still showing them ads then there are no royalties.
The absurdity of this "debate" is astounding. Blastocysts, which is the correct, but less headline grabbing, name for the clump of cells the "Embryotic Stems cells" are harvested from are all the result of in-vitro fertilization. The excess eggs that are a invariably a result of this procedure are then left in a freezer until become inviable and are discarded. "Embrytoic" stem cell research puts these cells to a use that benefits mankind rather that throwing them in a trashbin. Anyone who truly has a problem with destroying blastocytes needs to rail against the procedure that causes them, in vitro fertilization.
But of course this makes for a far less compelling election speech or political rant.
Does it really shock you that the people arguing don't have a clue what they're actually arguing about?
No, upper limit is right. We know that our DNA has all the information needed to create the hardware in our brain, so this sets an upper limit on the necessary amount of information.
My understanding is that the brain works (at least partially) on chemicals, which would mean that all of the laws of physics and chemistry would be necessary as well. Similarly it's incorrect to say that MS Word has all the information needed to run a word processor on the computer - it doesn't, it requires an Operating System.
I wasn't thinking of the president, rather I figured that after 4 years there'd be enough elections that you could have the majority of the positions be replaced (and thus the vote could/would go a different way).
When someone dies, their junk mail stops. It's pretty creepy when you notice this.
Or if it doesn't stop, instead of being to "Valued Customer John Doe, save $$$ on Viagra" it's "To the grieving widow of John Doe, save $$$$ on Viagra"
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I know an awful lot of people, and only two of them own iPads.
I know an awful lot of people and none of them live in China. There can't be that many people in China...
Apple is coming out with a easy to swallow capsule.
Red or Blue??
Silver, charcoal, purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, red and pink. ;-)
I think you mean Chrome, Charcoal, Grape, Blueberry, Lime, Lemon, Tangerine, Rose, and Bubblegum.
Downloading over my connection would take... 19 hours, less than a day. Downloading IS the instant gratification.
"Instant." You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
"Instant" is "15 seconds!?! But I'm hungry NOW!"
I'm not much of an entertainment consumer, but I wouldn't consider "I'll start this download and watch it sometime tomorrow night" as even approximating "instant". Media-based entertainment not a priority, so I sure as Hell am not scheduling the next 24 hours of my life to accommodate it.
Physical media is perfect for the "impulse purchase, genuinely instant gratification" lifestyle expected of consumers (and many consumers strive to live up to).
I don't know about you, but purchasing something in the store doesn't give me instant gratification - I actually have to go home and watch it before I get any gratification - so I'm not totally sure you understand what "Instant" means, either...
My wager would be that the lawyer was going with "copying a recipe" being a verbatim copy. The list of ingredients and basic tasks to create a food item is not copyrightable as it's a process (and thus would require the recipe in question to be patented).
So you don't recognize that there might be some information that shouldn't be exposed to the public for a certain length of time?
Recognizing that there is some information that shouldn't be immediately exposed is entirely compatible with believing that more information is being restricted than their ought to be.
Why should a random person have this amount of power just because they came up with / helped implement the idea?
It's what we've always done, for precedent see God.
I don't believe Google has officially announced how they are selected, my guess would be that it is a mixture of both.
Is it just me, or was google instant available before the /. story about the google light-up-letters story even posted?
Google rolls features out early to random people for testing.
Or they simply use a mac but they think indifferent to it.
Fixed.
Are you disabled? Is there anything legitimately keeping you from getting a job? If not, what makes you think you have the right to live off of everyone's taxes?
The American Sense of Entitlement?
the way slavery went out of style the moment it became more profitable to have consumer goods for sale to paid workers who could be controlled almost as well as slaves by debt.
I don't think it was really more profitable (in absolute terms it was, but in relative terms, not so much), but it certainly was easier - once people had the illusion of freedom they became much more docile.
$10 divided by the 52 hours you spend talking to your brother on Xbox Live == $0.19 an hour extra you are paying. How much is a long distance phone plan?
If he's anything like the average Xbox player, he probably has a cell phone and doesn't pay anything extra for long distance. Depending on when that hour is, it's likely a call made at that time would not even consume his monthly allotment of minutes.
UPS and Fedex can't deliver letters?
They can only deliver "urgent" letters.
why _would_ someone include an .exe file for a cracked Mac program? :\
So the windows users who clearly didn't have enough intelligence to recognize they were downloading a mac program can be infected with the same virus/malware that the actual crack is infected with.
What search engine are you using where anywhere in the top 10 pages of results for "Horses" are there horses mating with humans? Google with Safe Search disabled doesn't even have anything like that.
Honestly, in this case, fear mongering is better than just taking it - I mean, it's nearly impossible to make a home video without creating something that MPEG LA thinks you should pay them for.
This story demonstrates the exact opposite of your assertion.
The license to create is different from the license to allow the viewing of what was created.
The second sentence should have been "served on pages with ads will be"
What is uncertain about "will continue not to charge royalties for Internet Video that is free to end users" - unless you're charging your users and still showing them ads then there are no royalties.
The absurdity of this "debate" is astounding. Blastocysts, which is the correct, but less headline grabbing, name for the clump of cells the "Embryotic Stems cells" are harvested from are all the result of in-vitro fertilization. The excess eggs that are a invariably a result of this procedure are then left in a freezer until become inviable and are discarded. "Embrytoic" stem cell research puts these cells to a use that benefits mankind rather that throwing them in a trashbin. Anyone who truly has a problem with destroying blastocytes needs to rail against the procedure that causes them, in vitro fertilization. But of course this makes for a far less compelling election speech or political rant.
Does it really shock you that the people arguing don't have a clue what they're actually arguing about?
I would not trust Silverlight with a Windows Machine, and it does not work properly on any other
Silverlight isn't terrible on OS X. Some features don't work the best (esp. when running out of browser), but it works.
No, upper limit is right. We know that our DNA has all the information needed to create the hardware in our brain, so this sets an upper limit on the necessary amount of information.
My understanding is that the brain works (at least partially) on chemicals, which would mean that all of the laws of physics and chemistry would be necessary as well. Similarly it's incorrect to say that MS Word has all the information needed to run a word processor on the computer - it doesn't, it requires an Operating System.
The difficulty in truly understanding the genome is that it's both program and data.
Running on the operating system that is physics and chemistry and being fed additional data from user space constantly.
the most surprising thing about this is that the problem isn't worse than reported.
Actually it is, our journalism department isn't doing well, either.
In other news, the porn industry just announced a press conference to announce a product that will change the way you "feel" about porn!
I wasn't thinking of the president, rather I figured that after 4 years there'd be enough elections that you could have the majority of the positions be replaced (and thus the vote could/would go a different way).
When someone dies, their junk mail stops. It's pretty creepy when you notice this.
Or if it doesn't stop, instead of being to "Valued Customer John Doe, save $$$ on Viagra" it's "To the grieving widow of John Doe, save $$$$ on Viagra"