To sell blood? I fully support giving blood, but what's the point if it's just going to be sold at a profit? I'm not in the habit of giving charitable donations to corporations.
Because searching out and downloading videos is trivially easy. Head to ISOHunt or The Pirate Bay an hour or so after broadcast, and there will be hundreds or thousands of people seeding any tv show. They come in standardized formats and there isn't really any variance in quality.
However, you're right about people doing this as the only option. I don't subscribe to cable and I have no intention of ever doing so, so bittorrent is my only option.
On the other hand, pricing and product quality may make these services useless. I expect at least as high quality as I would get from bittorrent (meaning DRM is right out), and I expect to pay significantly less than DVD pricing.
As a programmer with 30 years of experience, solid or otherwise.
How useful is a Cobal programmer today? I wouldn't pay any more for someone with Fortran experience than without, because it's entirely irrelevant. Maybe it'll settle out, but it hasn't yet. A 54 year old programmer is almost guaranteed to just be old and in the way. If they can keep a youthful mindset (and hours), great. If not, there's the iceberg, fuck off.
The purpose of net neutrality legislation is not to tell ISPs *how* they may shape traffic, but to ban them from doing so at all. We're far more likely to see a ban on P2P packets from greedy corporations who don't want people using the bandwidth they've paid for.
So take the option out of their hands. ISPs may sell bulk bandwidth, no strings attached.
You don't need a license to use the software. I have the right to enter into a licensing agreement with Apple, but I have no obligation to do so. Unless they have my signature on such a license, it's terms are not enforceable (at least in the free world, YMMV in North Korea or the United States).
Just as I have the right to buy a book, make notes in the margins and then resell it, I have the right to modify the software and then resell my copy. I also have the right to sell as many copies of my patch as I like. Again, YMMV in non social democracies.
There are various tricks to subvert patent expiration, and this is one of them. Instead of patenting a large system, they patent as many small parts of it as possible, spreading the applications over years.
This way, the system as a whole doesn't lose protection until the last patent expires. The mp3 patents are an example of this, as they would have entered the public domain years ago if not for these shenanigans.
The only real solution is to require one patent per system. Make them pick the best and disallow any associated patents.
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Those countries are, understandably, uncomfortable with a US controlled DNS system.
If it's going to use characters not present on normal keyboards, what's the point? Why not just use IP addresses?
I don't really see the point to donating blood to a system that would just as soon leave you to die.
If they're just selling it to for profit hospitals? I'm not particularly interested in providing them a product to sell.
You're leaking stupid all over the place.
We operate a fully non-profit blood donation system in Canada.
I'm sure your local blood bank would say exactly the same thing regardless of what type you were asking after.
To sell blood? I fully support giving blood, but what's the point if it's just going to be sold at a profit? I'm not in the habit of giving charitable donations to corporations.
Because searching out and downloading videos is trivially easy. Head to ISOHunt or The Pirate Bay an hour or so after broadcast, and there will be hundreds or thousands of people seeding any tv show. They come in standardized formats and there isn't really any variance in quality.
However, you're right about people doing this as the only option. I don't subscribe to cable and I have no intention of ever doing so, so bittorrent is my only option.
On the other hand, pricing and product quality may make these services useless. I expect at least as high quality as I would get from bittorrent (meaning DRM is right out), and I expect to pay significantly less than DVD pricing.
You're a failure. That's all there really is to it.
As a programmer with 30 years of experience, solid or otherwise.
How useful is a Cobal programmer today? I wouldn't pay any more for someone with Fortran experience than without, because it's entirely irrelevant. Maybe it'll settle out, but it hasn't yet. A 54 year old programmer is almost guaranteed to just be old and in the way. If they can keep a youthful mindset (and hours), great. If not, there's the iceberg, fuck off.
Men pay a *lot* more for insurance. Fix that before worrying about petty little things.
Are we going to space to do science for science's sake? If so, robot probes win hands down.
If, however, we're going to space to blaze a trail for future commercial and private ventures, robots are largely useless.
You may as well be arguing that a ban on murders is an open door to allowing some murders.
Check the crazy libertarian anti-government stance when you're talking to grown ups.
But these shenanigans are being done. As I said, look up the mp3 patents.
And Apple is liable for damages if *they* break it.
My P2P traffic is far more important than some yokel glued to the idiot box. Who the fuck cares if TV works? Only children and morons watch it anyway.
The purpose of net neutrality legislation is not to tell ISPs *how* they may shape traffic, but to ban them from doing so at all. We're far more likely to see a ban on P2P packets from greedy corporations who don't want people using the bandwidth they've paid for.
So take the option out of their hands. ISPs may sell bulk bandwidth, no strings attached.
You don't need a license to use the software. I have the right to enter into a licensing agreement with Apple, but I have no obligation to do so. Unless they have my signature on such a license, it's terms are not enforceable (at least in the free world, YMMV in North Korea or the United States).
Just as I have the right to buy a book, make notes in the margins and then resell it, I have the right to modify the software and then resell my copy. I also have the right to sell as many copies of my patch as I like. Again, YMMV in non social democracies.
Only matters if it's someone else's prior art.
They've sold the software with the phone, and it then belongs to the purchaser to do with as they please.
I'm pretty certain that's not the case.
In practice, if you're losing enough packets to make a dent in a TCP stream you're not going to be able to recover in any event.
For almost all applications latency is going to be more important anyway.
There are various tricks to subvert patent expiration, and this is one of them. Instead of patenting a large system, they patent as many small parts of it as possible, spreading the applications over years.
This way, the system as a whole doesn't lose protection until the last patent expires. The mp3 patents are an example of this, as they would have entered the public domain years ago if not for these shenanigans.
The only real solution is to require one patent per system. Make them pick the best and disallow any associated patents.
Once they sell it to someone, it becomes that person's product to do with as they like.
New Zealand is out of compliance in this case. There is absolutely no justification for changing time zone data frequently.