Actualy, were the cans you could crush on your head actualy made out of a paper product and you had to stop doing that when companies switched to AL? I think this is the case, but i'm too young to remember, but trust me, it REALLY hurs to try and smash an AL beer can on yoru forhead, college taught me that.
Actualy, i'm pretty sure that its your local phone company that does the slamming, not the long distance, it just happens that in this case it the same thing (: The company i used to work for got slammed by US West onto all kinds of small EXPENSIVE long distance companies, and of course US West got a chunk of the proffits. We switched to macleod after they did it a couple of times, no problems since.
They aren't saying that region encoding is a violation of fair use. They are saying getting around it is not a violation of copyright. Fair use means that its not illegal for you to watch region 2 disks in region 1. That doesn't mean they can't put all kinds of things, like region codes, on disks to try and stop you. They just shouldn't be able to sue you when you do. You don't see the MPAA sueing the companies that make region free disk do you? of coures they put presure on them, but no one is getting sued. I really don't see anyting wrong with putting region codes on disks and encrypting the movies, but what is wrong is trying to punish me when i get around all the barriers.
The problem with Gnutella is the porn. Alot of Napster users are kids, and their parents dont really care if they are downloading illegal music, but you better believe they will flip when they see the porn adds next to the music listings on Gnutella. Napsters one saving grace was that it was only used for music. The more general utilities are going to be cursed by their openness
I honestly think that if napster made a good faith effort to keep RIAA music off they systems the RIAA would leave them alone. But napster won't even try to do that. They say that there is nothing wrong with allowing RIAA music on their system. So the people to blame for shutting out independent lables are napster. They didn't even try to get along. Napster will say there is no way to keep RIAA music off their system, well then maybe they should shut their system down untill they find a way. This isn't a fight between the big lables and the independent lables, that will happen later, this is just the RIAA trying to keep control of the copyrights it already has. After that it will start trying t osquash TRUE independent muisic outlets.
Napster doesn't give a damn about you, if they can't have copies of RIAA music on their service they will just close up shop. There is no money in it if they can't. Big names are all they are interested in, thats what gets 95% of the users onto their system. I really like how the judge said "what lures them is the infringing use." Its not the ability to download new artists that brings people to napster. Does anyone really think that napster would have ever been as poplular or ever will be as popular when/if it comes back up with no RIAA music allowed? Nope, it won't, everyone will have moved to Gnutella where they can still get their fav. metallica songs. Because thats what everyone wants, to get all their popular music for free. They feel no guilt because its so easy, they think its anonymous, that no one knows who they are so nothing bad can happen to them, and they are right,for the most part, thats exactly the system napster has set up. But it screws over those people who put their music out in the open expecting to get paid for it.
You don't buy a lot of stuff online do you? In order for companies to process your card without actualy seeing the card they need your billing address, and it must be exact. When i say exact i mean exact, i once was declined because i used the wrong zip code, it was valid for my city, and mail sent to it would have easily got to me, but its not the one on the card. if you don't provide the correct info they can't process the order. the email address probly isn't needed here, but most places use it for a unique user ID. and your phone number is usualy part of your address, but its also a place to call if your card fails. I have never bought anything online that didn't require all of this information. So basicly there is no conspiracy here. besides, you could also just shell out $1.33 for the book and a stamp and mail it to him.
You are not the market they are pushing for. the monitor does what it does better than anything else out there, the gov't and the medical industry won't even blink at the price tag.
What makes me laugh, is that region coding is suposed to make this kind of thing pointless. if you have a region 2 player and you import a region 1 disk then you can't play it. so it doesn't matter what you have on the region 1 disk, the region 2 people can't play it. Of course they coudl just import a region 1 player, but the percentage of people who would do that is pretty low. I am personal all for region encoding, i don't see anything wrong with it, but the companies need to use it if they are going to encode the disks!!!
There is a difference between protecting your source and protecting the guilty. If these two guys did it, and talked to a reporter, well then they deserve to get caught just based on their stupidity. Now if he had interviewed someone who told him who did it,and they wanted to remain anonymous, well thats a whole different ball game. Reporters shouldn't be allowed to be used to brag about what you have done without fear of punishment. Either the reporter spills his guts or he goes to jail for contempt.
Lets also not forget that this module is so loud that crew members have to wear earplugs until the russian engineers can come up with muffelers for certain components. It also isn't up to snuff in its ability to take hits from mico debries, this also must be fixed in the next couple of years. not to mention that there are serious venelation problems in the zaria module thats been up there for a couple of years now. yes alot of what they have up there is cool, but it also has some VERY serious problems that should have been worked out long ago.
I think RAMBUS is going to try to gouge cutomers on SDRAM. Trust me, if they could get prices of RDRAM down to $120 they would, but they can't, its just too hard to make and too complicated. The yields are terrible and they have to build an entire memory module just to test it. So if even one chip is bad they lose all the chips on the module. It just costs WAY more to make RDRAM and the customer pays for it. There is that whole royalty thing, but its not a $700 difference.
Where does it say the mini-series came after the original movie??? when they say original mini-series that makes me think that the original movie was cut from the same place. i really don't know, i was only 4 when the movie came out and certainly don't remember.
If different companies all come out with their own PS2s, they won't all have the same hardware and will require more work on the part of the developers to make sure their software works with everything. the good thing about developing for consoles in the past was that you knew exactly what your target hardware was, now things could get more dificult.
Would this give an even larger time diferential? If its going faster than the speed of light, wouldn't going further make it show up sooner? make one of these things half a mile long and see what happens. It may be a small time change at 60' but make that longer and get something intersting, the future of fiber optic networking.
Actualy the bus width does have soemthing to do with latency. the ram chip itself is 16bit, but before it get shipped off to the CPU it is assembled into a 64bit(that right? or is it 32?) chunk to be sent across the main bus. That takes time, yes it runs MUCH faster than PC133, but its not fast enough to make up for the fact that it has to assemble the data.
Just because its not illegal, and pretty much not unethical doesn't mean it doesn't suck. And believe me, if intel had knowen that rambus was going to cause these kinds of problems 3 years ago, the wouldn't have done it, but now they have made an investment and are going to try and make some cash off of it.
But its not just $158 million, its a big chunk of rambus. And if it becomes the dominant form of memory in the world, then the stock price will just keep going up, and the dividends from that million shares of stock will start adding up. Also Intel will have some say in what rambus will be doing and will be able to force it into helping them stay on top. Also intel doesn't pay rambus royalties, AMD would if they made a chipset that used rambus, ya can't beat that.
My question is would the OS company be allowed to create their own apps afte the break up?? Being forced to make only one type of product will be a major problem for the new companies. The OS company will be ok, but the Tools company may not be, companies like borland make a whole lot more than just tools, if they didn't they wouldn't be around for very long, then there is the problems with things like apps, Frontpage is def. an app, but it an Internet program too, could also be seen as a tool, same with word and especialy accesss, they don't fit nicely into any of these catagories, by forcing each company to make only one type of program puts them at a serious disadvantage to their compeditors. and what about IIS? doesn't that come with NT now, isn't that what you really pay for when you buy NT server? hows that going to work?
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Actualy, were the cans you could crush on your head actualy made out of a paper product and you had to stop doing that when companies switched to AL? I think this is the case, but i'm too young to remember, but trust me, it REALLY hurs to try and smash an AL beer can on yoru forhead, college taught me that.
Actualy, i'm pretty sure that its your local phone company that does the slamming, not the long distance, it just happens that in this case it the same thing (: The company i used to work for got slammed by US West onto all kinds of small EXPENSIVE long distance companies, and of course US West got a chunk of the proffits. We switched to macleod after they did it a couple of times, no problems since.
So..........you are saying I can follow you around leaving you threatening letters. but untill I actualy kill you i'm not doing anything wrong?
They aren't saying that region encoding is a violation of fair use. They are saying getting around it is not a violation of copyright. Fair use means that its not illegal for you to watch region 2 disks in region 1. That doesn't mean they can't put all kinds of things, like region codes, on disks to try and stop you. They just shouldn't be able to sue you when you do. You don't see the MPAA sueing the companies that make region free disk do you? of coures they put presure on them, but no one is getting sued. I really don't see anyting wrong with putting region codes on disks and encrypting the movies, but what is wrong is trying to punish me when i get around all the barriers.
After thinging about this for a few more min. A good open soucre Porn filter would be a good plug in for Gnutella, anyone up for the task?
The problem with Gnutella is the porn. Alot of Napster users are kids, and their parents dont really care if they are downloading illegal music, but you better believe they will flip when they see the porn adds next to the music listings on Gnutella. Napsters one saving grace was that it was only used for music. The more general utilities are going to be cursed by their openness
yeah its just a search engine, but 99.9% of its hits are illegal copies of music. Believe me, if yahoo was this way, they would be sued as well.
I honestly think that if napster made a good faith effort to keep RIAA music off they systems the RIAA would leave them alone. But napster won't even try to do that. They say that there is nothing wrong with allowing RIAA music on their system. So the people to blame for shutting out independent lables are napster. They didn't even try to get along. Napster will say there is no way to keep RIAA music off their system, well then maybe they should shut their system down untill they find a way. This isn't a fight between the big lables and the independent lables, that will happen later, this is just the RIAA trying to keep control of the copyrights it already has. After that it will start trying t osquash TRUE independent muisic outlets.
Napster doesn't give a damn about you, if they can't have copies of RIAA music on their service they will just close up shop. There is no money in it if they can't. Big names are all they are interested in, thats what gets 95% of the users onto their system. I really like how the judge said "what lures them is the infringing use." Its not the ability to download new artists that brings people to napster. Does anyone really think that napster would have ever been as poplular or ever will be as popular when/if it comes back up with no RIAA music allowed? Nope, it won't, everyone will have moved to Gnutella where they can still get their fav. metallica songs. Because thats what everyone wants, to get all their popular music for free. They feel no guilt because its so easy, they think its anonymous, that no one knows who they are so nothing bad can happen to them, and they are right,for the most part, thats exactly the system napster has set up. But it screws over those people who put their music out in the open expecting to get paid for it.
You don't buy a lot of stuff online do you? In order for companies to process your card without actualy seeing the card they need your billing address, and it must be exact. When i say exact i mean exact, i once was declined because i used the wrong zip code, it was valid for my city, and mail sent to it would have easily got to me, but its not the one on the card. if you don't provide the correct info they can't process the order. the email address probly isn't needed here, but most places use it for a unique user ID. and your phone number is usualy part of your address, but its also a place to call if your card fails. I have never bought anything online that didn't require all of this information. So basicly there is no conspiracy here. besides, you could also just shell out $1.33 for the book and a stamp and mail it to him.
You are not the market they are pushing for. the monitor does what it does better than anything else out there, the gov't and the medical industry won't even blink at the price tag.
What makes me laugh, is that region coding is suposed to make this kind of thing pointless. if you have a region 2 player and you import a region 1 disk then you can't play it. so it doesn't matter what you have on the region 1 disk, the region 2 people can't play it. Of course they coudl just import a region 1 player, but the percentage of people who would do that is pretty low. I am personal all for region encoding, i don't see anything wrong with it, but the companies need to use it if they are going to encode the disks!!!
There is a difference between protecting your source and protecting the guilty. If these two guys did it, and talked to a reporter, well then they deserve to get caught just based on their stupidity. Now if he had interviewed someone who told him who did it,and they wanted to remain anonymous, well thats a whole different ball game. Reporters shouldn't be allowed to be used to brag about what you have done without fear of punishment. Either the reporter spills his guts or he goes to jail for contempt.
Lets also not forget that this module is so loud that crew members have to wear earplugs until the russian engineers can come up with muffelers for certain components. It also isn't up to snuff in its ability to take hits from mico debries, this also must be fixed in the next couple of years. not to mention that there are serious venelation problems in the zaria module thats been up there for a couple of years now. yes alot of what they have up there is cool, but it also has some VERY serious problems that should have been worked out long ago.
I think RAMBUS is going to try to gouge cutomers on SDRAM. Trust me, if they could get prices of RDRAM down to $120 they would, but they can't, its just too hard to make and too complicated. The yields are terrible and they have to build an entire memory module just to test it. So if even one chip is bad they lose all the chips on the module. It just costs WAY more to make RDRAM and the customer pays for it. There is that whole royalty thing, but its not a $700 difference.
Where does it say the mini-series came after the original movie??? when they say original mini-series that makes me think that the original movie was cut from the same place. i really don't know, i was only 4 when the movie came out and certainly don't remember.
Das Boot was a german miniseries before it was re-cut into a movie. It was nominated for 6 Oscars. Go figure.
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They also wrote a few million dollers in bad checks to stockpile weapons I believe, thats why the FBI/ATF went in.
If different companies all come out with their own PS2s, they won't all have the same hardware and will require more work on the part of the developers to make sure their software works with everything. the good thing about developing for consoles in the past was that you knew exactly what your target hardware was, now things could get more dificult.
Would this give an even larger time diferential? If its going faster than the speed of light, wouldn't going further make it show up sooner? make one of these things half a mile long and see what happens. It may be a small time change at 60' but make that longer and get something intersting, the future of fiber optic networking.
Actualy the bus width does have soemthing to do with latency. the ram chip itself is 16bit, but before it get shipped off to the CPU it is assembled into a 64bit(that right? or is it 32?) chunk to be sent across the main bus. That takes time, yes it runs MUCH faster than PC133, but its not fast enough to make up for the fact that it has to assemble the data.
Just because its not illegal, and pretty much not unethical doesn't mean it doesn't suck. And believe me, if intel had knowen that rambus was going to cause these kinds of problems 3 years ago, the wouldn't have done it, but now they have made an investment and are going to try and make some cash off of it.
But its not just $158 million, its a big chunk of rambus. And if it becomes the dominant form of memory in the world, then the stock price will just keep going up, and the dividends from that million shares of stock will start adding up. Also Intel will have some say in what rambus will be doing and will be able to force it into helping them stay on top. Also intel doesn't pay rambus royalties, AMD would if they made a chipset that used rambus, ya can't beat that.
This study is no more FUD than the Napster people saying that they are the cause of record sales going up in other areas.
My question is would the OS company be allowed to create their own apps afte the break up?? Being forced to make only one type of product will be a major problem for the new companies. The OS company will be ok, but the Tools company may not be, companies like borland make a whole lot more than just tools, if they didn't they wouldn't be around for very long, then there is the problems with things like apps, Frontpage is def. an app, but it an Internet program too, could also be seen as a tool, same with word and especialy accesss, they don't fit nicely into any of these catagories, by forcing each company to make only one type of program puts them at a serious disadvantage to their compeditors. and what about IIS? doesn't that come with NT now, isn't that what you really pay for when you buy NT server? hows that going to work?