So you're saying that affordability is the reason why people pirate songs? I've seen plenty people who make more than minimum wage and have lots of disposable income pirate CDs. Pirating has little to do with price and more to do with ease and convenience. Its easier to hope on limewire and look for a song I just heard on the radio and download it - then mix it into a party mix. Sure, some people are just cheap and do it because they don't want to spend the money - but given the fact that these days its starting to get harder and harder to actually use the content in the way that consumers want to I expect piracy is more likely going to increase rather than decrease. I liken it to computer game market. There are plenty of people who buy legitimate copies of games only to have some moronic CD copy protection software stop them from using it. The first thing these people do is look for a mechanism to get past the copy protection.
Try a missle housing. In this day and age, this becomes the ultimate precision weapon. Target a warhead (potentially one in flight for you) and simply lase it out of the sky. If this works I can't wait to see a mobile HELSTAF facility built to knock out large numbers of theater missles.
Missles hitting missles is still a crap shoot, but a laser pulsing missles and burning their warhead cores out is a very practical option for theater missle defense.
And still Microsoft tries to enter and take over markets by expending large sums of money. Hopefully Microsoft's stock holders realize that if they have to spend these obscene amounts of money to get exclusive talent for their platform (like when they acquired Bungie), that they will have extrodinary issues being able to make any type of profit. While Microsoft management may be willing to lose excessive amounts of money - it simply defies logic as to why the stock holders haven't started asking questions.
This is the best IDE around for a reasonable amount of money. You can get to it at http://www.intellij.com. I used to use Eclipse on the Windows platform before switching to this because it works everywhere - it supports refactoring, and its fast... damn fast. The moment I saw it refactor a filename all the way into CVS and fix other files in CVS that imported it, I knew I'd found the right product for me.
I can tell that you aren't a business person. Since when does "combine the largest population of instant messaging customers with the largest population of file sharing customers" sound like a retarded business model. It would only be retarded if the words "and give it away for free relying solely on advertising for revenue" were also in the business plan.
I worked there at one point and can say that this is definitely not the case. Microsoft products are just as well architected as any other product on the market - but for goodness sakes they are bigger than most applications on the market. Hell the Word codebase is larger than some application servers! The larger and more complex an application gets - the more interactions you have - the more bugs you're going to have. Any non-trivial piece of software is going to have bugs.
That much should be obvious - even to the legendary trolls of slashdot:)
With WestNile sweeping the nation, no thanks:)
Besides, what's outside anyways. I figured you'd at least say play a videogame, surf the net, or hang out with some chicks.
New Orleans gov't has always been filled with corruption so Microsoft will find it quite easy to work a deal that's bad for the city in the long run yet good for the politicians who are currently in office. Its one of the main reasons that I had to leave the city to start off - that and the fact that there exist NO IT market within the city at all. Somewhat difficult to have intelligent computer people lobby against free software when they've moved to other cities to find jobs.
But such is the way of things.
That would buy Apple absolutely nothing. Apple loves to innovate, and the love to make money off their hardware. If they went to the 'build your own' x86 market they would be stabbing themselves in the throat as they would have to rely solely on their software to stay afloat and while Apple does make some interesting software, Apple would die on the vine as a software company. It would also be akin to throwing away almost all of their R&D dollars. Their fancy Altivec enhanced software would be trash, their fast soon to eb OpenGL accelerated Java system would have to go back to the poard to powrt for a new class of hardware which would require more software dollars, and they would have to pretty much rearchitect their entire digital hub around a currently unfriendly MB/CPU architecture.
It is *far* mroe likely that they will find a new pimp daddy in IBM who has both the capacity to fab, and the desire to make high end chips in volume (something Motorola completely sucks at these days). IBM is capable and currently producing chips greater than 1Ghz - and if memory serves they have that new.1 micron fab in Fishkill. All signs point to IBM having both the desire and the capability to eat Motorola's lunch and relaunch themselves as a meaningful player (at least through shipping chips) in the desktop space. Who knows, maybe they will just buy Apple and finally ship a decent computer instead of this horrid crap they are pushing upon the computing public.
While this is definitely an interesting competetion (autonomous anything is very cool - especially when they have to go against both nature and a task), I wonder how this will work with respect to practical application. I can see having to autonavigate to a destination, but why scan a barcode. Why not just have it retreive a spoon or something?
Too bad they couldn't find some other city to do this. With a name like that I'm sure environmentalist will always be checking the water around the plant:)
Apple should bury Appleworks in the desert with all the ET cartridges and continue their OpenSource initiative by building a native port of OpenOffice.org. Appleworks is a very novel application, but is pretty much useless for anyone needing to do much more than type a letter to mom.
I contacted the Apple store and they said plainly that the upgrade coupons will not be honored for 10.2 owners regardless of how long you've owned your new Mac. I personally picked up one about 18 days ago and I just won't pay for 10.2 after I just purchased a brand new machine.
The want to see the adoption of OSX go up, they're going to have to do a heck of a lot better than this on the pricing front.
When the lady told me that those coupons are just for proof-of-purchase and would not be honored for upgrade and that there IS NO UPGRADE price, that pretty much ended any concern I had for what Apple does in 10.2, and I will continue to target 10.1.5 for all software releases of that platform until the do something that makes sense.
Apple has been really taking security seriously lately and this only helps to build confidence that the machine is capable of being used by more novice users who know nothing about the evils of being rooted.
This is true, but if one my oscillate their CPU to the frequency of the sun to get past the copy protection system - I can't imagine aa judge who would say that a reasonable man should be able to do that.... then again, I guess I could.
Last time I checked you couldn't circumvent fair use. By building a device that prevents fair use, this Trusted Computing group is creating a device that by its very nature defies the very statutes that the Supreme Court has said are legal!
Specifically there are limits to Copyrights in the following scenarios:
LIMITATIONS ON THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS The copyright owner's exclusive rights are subject to a number of exceptions and limitations that give others the right to make limited use of a copyrighted work. Major exceptions and limitations are outlined in this section.
Ideas Copyright protects only against the unauthorized taking of a protected work's "expression." It does not extend to the work's ideas, procedures, processes, systems, methods of operation, concepts, principles, or discoveries.
Facts A work's facts are not protected by copyright, even if the author spent large amounts of time, effort, and money discovering those facts. Copyright protects originality, not effort or "sweat of the brow."
Independent Creation A copyright owner has no recourse against another person who, working independently, creates an exact duplicate of the copyrighted work. The independent creation of a similar work or even an exact duplicate does not violate any of the copyright owner's exclusive rights.
Fair Use The "fair use" of a copyrighted work, including use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. Copyright owners are, by law, deemed to consent to fair use of their works by others.
The Copyright Act does not define fair use. Instead, whether a use is fair use is determined by balancing these factors:
* The purpose and character of the use. * The nature of the copyrighted work. * The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole. * The effect of the use on the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work.
But nothing in this specification speaks of how you will still be able to maintain your fair use rights. If they build it, people should proactively sue them because its a rights violation for it to exist at all.
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It should be noted that you actually have no constitutional right to fair use. If you think you do - find it and post it here.
So you're saying that affordability is the reason why people pirate songs? I've seen plenty people who make more than minimum wage and have lots of disposable income pirate CDs. Pirating has little to do with price and more to do with ease and convenience. Its easier to hope on limewire and look for a song I just heard on the radio and download it - then mix it into a party mix. Sure, some people are just cheap and do it because they don't want to spend the money - but given the fact that these days its starting to get harder and harder to actually use the content in the way that consumers want to I expect piracy is more likely going to increase rather than decrease. I liken it to computer game market. There are plenty of people who buy legitimate copies of games only to have some moronic CD copy protection software stop them from using it. The first thing these people do is look for a mechanism to get past the copy protection.
Not sure how chroming the missles really helps. The laser will still burn through chrome just like anything else - just possibly at a slower rate.
Try a missle housing. In this day and age, this becomes the ultimate precision weapon. Target a warhead (potentially one in flight for you) and simply lase it out of the sky. If this works I can't wait to see a mobile HELSTAF facility built to knock out large numbers of theater missles.
Missles hitting missles is still a crap shoot, but a laser pulsing missles and burning their warhead cores out is a very practical option for theater missle defense.
Not really, my mailbox has a trash bin next to it :)
And still Microsoft tries to enter and take over markets by expending large sums of money. Hopefully Microsoft's stock holders realize that if they have to spend these obscene amounts of money to get exclusive talent for their platform (like when they acquired Bungie), that they will have extrodinary issues being able to make any type of profit. While Microsoft management may be willing to lose excessive amounts of money - it simply defies logic as to why the stock holders haven't started asking questions.
So my PC really isn't more powerful than my XBox despite having far more capable hardware?
This is the best IDE around for a reasonable amount of money. You can get to it at http://www.intellij.com. I used to use Eclipse on the Windows platform before switching to this because it works everywhere - it supports refactoring, and its fast ... damn fast. The moment I saw it refactor a filename all the way into CVS and fix other files in CVS that imported it, I knew I'd found the right product for me.
I can tell that you aren't a business person. Since when does "combine the largest population of instant messaging customers with the largest population of file sharing customers" sound like a retarded business model. It would only be retarded if the words "and give it away for free relying solely on advertising for revenue" were also in the business plan.
I worked there at one point and can say that this is definitely not the case. Microsoft products are just as well architected as any other product on the market - but for goodness sakes they are bigger than most applications on the market. Hell the Word codebase is larger than some application servers! The larger and more complex an application gets - the more interactions you have - the more bugs you're going to have. Any non-trivial piece of software is going to have bugs.
:)
That much should be obvious - even to the legendary trolls of slashdot
There is such a thing as International Patents.
Don't say that too loudly or someone might suggest to the government that your TV watching needs to be regulated.
With WestNile sweeping the nation, no thanks :)
Besides, what's outside anyways. I figured you'd at least say play a videogame, surf the net, or hang out with some chicks.
New Orleans gov't has always been filled with corruption so Microsoft will find it quite easy to work a deal that's bad for the city in the long run yet good for the politicians who are currently in office. Its one of the main reasons that I had to leave the city to start off - that and the fact that there exist NO IT market within the city at all. Somewhat difficult to have intelligent computer people lobby against free software when they've moved to other cities to find jobs. But such is the way of things.
That would buy Apple absolutely nothing. Apple loves to innovate, and the love to make money off their hardware. If they went to the 'build your own' x86 market they would be stabbing themselves in the throat as they would have to rely solely on their software to stay afloat and while Apple does make some interesting software, Apple would die on the vine as a software company. It would also be akin to throwing away almost all of their R&D dollars. Their fancy Altivec enhanced software would be trash, their fast soon to eb OpenGL accelerated Java system would have to go back to the poard to powrt for a new class of hardware which would require more software dollars, and they would have to pretty much rearchitect their entire digital hub around a currently unfriendly MB/CPU architecture. It is *far* mroe likely that they will find a new pimp daddy in IBM who has both the capacity to fab, and the desire to make high end chips in volume (something Motorola completely sucks at these days). IBM is capable and currently producing chips greater than 1Ghz - and if memory serves they have that new .1 micron fab in Fishkill. All signs point to IBM having both the desire and the capability to eat Motorola's lunch and relaunch themselves as a meaningful player (at least through shipping chips) in the desktop space. Who knows, maybe they will just buy Apple and finally ship a decent computer instead of this horrid crap they are pushing upon the computing public.
While this is definitely an interesting competetion (autonomous anything is very cool - especially when they have to go against both nature and a task), I wonder how this will work with respect to practical application. I can see having to autonavigate to a destination, but why scan a barcode. Why not just have it retreive a spoon or something?
Too bad they couldn't find some other city to do this. With a name like that I'm sure environmentalist will always be checking the water around the plant :)
Apple should bury Appleworks in the desert with all the ET cartridges and continue their OpenSource initiative by building a native port of OpenOffice.org. Appleworks is a very novel application, but is pretty much useless for anyone needing to do much more than type a letter to mom.
I contacted the Apple store and they said plainly that the upgrade coupons will not be honored for 10.2 owners regardless of how long you've owned your new Mac. I personally picked up one about 18 days ago and I just won't pay for 10.2 after I just purchased a brand new machine.
The want to see the adoption of OSX go up, they're going to have to do a heck of a lot better than this on the pricing front.
When the lady told me that those coupons are just for proof-of-purchase and would not be honored for upgrade and that there IS NO UPGRADE price, that pretty much ended any concern I had for what Apple does in 10.2, and I will continue to target 10.1.5 for all software releases of that platform until the do something that makes sense.
Heaven forbid is be a simplification of SIMPle ComPUTER.
Apple has been really taking security seriously lately and this only helps to build confidence that the machine is capable of being used by more novice users who know nothing about the evils of being rooted.
Last I heard you could get a variety of fonts on all machines.
This is true, but if one my oscillate their CPU to the frequency of the sun to get past the copy protection system - I can't imagine aa judge who would say that a reasonable man should be able to do that.... then again, I guess I could.
Last time I checked you couldn't circumvent fair use. By building a device that prevents fair use, this Trusted Computing group is creating a device that by its very nature defies the very statutes that the Supreme Court has said are legal!
Specifically there are limits to Copyrights in the following scenarios:
LIMITATIONS ON THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHTS
The copyright owner's exclusive rights are subject to a number of exceptions and limitations that give others the right to make limited use of a copyrighted work. Major exceptions and limitations are outlined in this section.
Ideas
Copyright protects only against the unauthorized taking of a protected work's "expression." It does not extend to the work's ideas, procedures, processes, systems, methods of operation, concepts, principles, or discoveries.
Facts
A work's facts are not protected by copyright, even if the author spent large amounts of time, effort, and money discovering those facts. Copyright protects originality, not effort or "sweat of the brow."
Independent Creation
A copyright owner has no recourse against another person who, working independently, creates an exact duplicate of the copyrighted work. The independent creation of a similar work or even an exact duplicate does not violate any of the copyright owner's exclusive rights.
Fair Use
The "fair use" of a copyrighted work, including use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. Copyright owners are, by law, deemed to consent to fair use of their works by others.
The Copyright Act does not define fair use. Instead, whether a use is fair use is determined by balancing these factors:
* The purpose and character of the use.
* The nature of the copyrighted work.
* The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole.
* The effect of the use on the potential market for, or value of, the copyrighted work.
But nothing in this specification speaks of how you will still be able to maintain your fair use rights. If they build it, people should proactively sue them because its a rights violation for it to exist at all.