Xerox has developed so many amazing technologies which either never made it to market, or were brought to market by a myriad of other companies while the company has struggled for years to grow new business opportunities, and growth. This is very interesting, and this is definitely perking up interest. How often do we print something which we only need for a short time? I suspect 95% of what I print is transitory in nature.
If the FCC or Congress thought interoperability and open access were needed, it would definitely be within their mandate because of the whole public airwaves licenses which were purchased for big bucks.
...I'm still not sold on HDTV because the sets are too damned expensive
So you talk about topics you don't know jack about as a matter of course?
My point is that there is interest in HD content, but price and predictability is an issue, and companies need to cooperate in order to effectively profit from this new market. The cable companies are providing a HD-DVR at a modest price, and customers are snapping them up, while Blue-Ray and HD-DVD are relatively stagnant.
Actually NFL footbal was revitalized for me by HD broadcast, and the large screen format. I had not watched football for years because it just was not very much fun to watch on a 32 inch fuzzy square picture. I bought a external HD antenna for my 52" HDTV, and was wowed by the over the air broadcasts for free, especially the NFL broadcasts. The technology that the networks are employing to exploit the format is just amazing. I was blown away by it, I bought an HD 720p projector about 6 weeks ago, and I am just stunned by HD on a 106 inch bright, high contrast, colorful HD wonder. I can't wait until I can afford a true 1080P projector.
A considerable amount of commentary concerning the format war between Blue Ray and HD-DVD is based on the notion that standard definition is "good enough," for most owners of HDTV's, thus neither format will achieve deep penetration in the short term. However, this run on HD-DVR shows a clear demand for HD content. Comcast offers rental for their HD-DVR for a modest price, and no contract, and customers are snapping these units up. ON DEMAND had HD movies that can be viewed at the customers leisure, much of this content is at no additional charge.
It has been posited that the format war is irrelevant due to people downloading HD content over the intertubes; however, the cable companies may make this argument irrelevant with the ON DEMAND feature, and the growing HD content. People want HD content, but are not willing to get hosed in the process by greedy corporations trying to win an unnecessary format war.
I bought the Xbox 360 and HD-DVD player. The first movie I watched was on a 106" screen and an native 720p projector. Just a wonderful movie and great resolution when blown up this large compared to standard dvd.
Common sense is a rare and precious commodity, especially in young boys. I nearly set my parent's house on fire with my little chemistry experiments when I was 8.
But...
Wouldn't you think if you were plotting legal strategy for th RIAA. Wouldn't you vet the cases properly to avoid the potential for embarrassment and bad publicity, and prosecute the most egregious cases with the most unlikable characters being prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law?
They certainly have the ability to selectively prosecute.
1. Grasp the package in my hands and try to find an edge to apply a shearing force with my hands.
2. Finding none, I test the package with my teeth.
3. Ouch that hurt, now I look for a sharp object, the only thing near my grasp is a phillips head screw driver.
4. Now,I stab at the package until a permeate the sealed membrane.
5. Now that I have succeeded in making a couple of holes, I tear at the space between the holes with my hands with a shearing action, and the package tears apart spilling its contents to the ground, watching my new calculator bounce off the tile floor.
6. The tile floor chips, and the calculator has a ding in one corner,and my hand is bleeding slighly but the flow is increasing. No fatal damage.
7. I grab for a paper towel, and wrap it around the base of left thumb.
i had a chance to meet Newt at a fund raiser before he became speaker of the house. It must have been 1993. I was working as a staffer for a Republican congressman. I always found it odd for me as a lifelong Democrat to be working for a Republican. He was your more traditional small government. republican.
Anyhow, Newt gave some completely ridiculous speech on welfare reform, and it made me feel very dirty to be involved with these people.
To make a long story short, I had a long conversation with Newt after his speech. I didn't get into his speech, but talked to him about other stuff.
The funny thing is that he is not a dumb person. Frankly, he impressed me with his intelligence and lucidity. He seems to genuinely believe what he says, and that scared me more than anything.
I support your theory. I bought a PS2 as a DVD player. Gameplay was secondary. In fact, I thought the Xbox was a far superior game machine.
Re:Winning? Who said anything about winning?
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Google should just host the site on their servers, put a link to redirect to youtube.com, and be done with it. I think the owner of utube.com has a legitimate complaint in the costs they are incurring due to the incredible rise in traffic. Google can effectively deal with this in a magnanimous and fair manner.
We should begin private exploration of space-time, and not just space. The Space program is failing, but remarketing it as the Space-Time Program funded by private Kong Bucks should do the trick.
Ebooks good...paper good
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I have got to the point that I prefer to read ebooks. Lets ignore the distribution and availability of legal ebooks for the moment. I have been using ebooks for years primarily on pda's, but I find sub notebooks like the IBM x30 perfectly usuable too.
Currently, I use the Dell Axim x50v using a VGA hack for true VGA, and the latest Mobipocket book reader. I find the resolution of this particular screen and software combo extremely pleasant for reading ebooks. Bound paper books aren't so great for reading for two main reasons. One, you have to hold them open, and the manner which you hold the book changes depending on where you are and what page you are physically reading in a book. This can be very uncomfortable depending on lighting, and whether you are reading while eating or some other task, like many of us do.
Second, the weight of a book, the quality of the paper, or the binding may diminish the quality of the reading experience. Textbooks often use the highest quality paper with excellent contrast; yet they are often heavy, cumbersome, and pages easily damaged. Novels increasingly use crappy paper with poor tactile feel and low contrast.
Occasionally, I purchase books from classic collections which use outstanding paper and binding, but they are expensive. They are nice to own and read from, though; but have limited availibility and selection.
Let us assume availibility of the particular book you would like to read. The Axim is easy hold, read, and operate with a single hand. I wish it had a rocker on the side for changing pages more easily. The screen is very high contrast, and the resolution is outstanding. Mobipocket reader is flexible and has a myriad of useful options. I can read in nearly all lighting conditions for dark to sunlight. I have 12GB of available storage, so I have hundreds of documents at my fingertips at any on time. The reading experience is consistent for every book. I have a Stowaway bluetooth keyboard which is fantastic when I want to read when I prefer not to hold or when eating. It has a stand which fits the Axim well in either portrait or landscape mode.
Sometimes, I prefer to read on a larger laptop screen. Mobipocket has a very good synch function with the pda client, and the reader is outstanding on a laptop.
Obviously, there is some downsides, such as price and power. However, i purchased the laptop and pda irrelevant of their ebook functions; consequently the marginal cost to obtain ebook reader hardware was marginal. The ebook reader software is free.
Finally, the availability of ebooks. This is the real problem and failure of ebooks from a consumer standpoint. Many books are available as scans in various places. Suprisingly, many are of excellent quality and have been proofed and revised. This is clearly a failure of the marketplace to provide a product where there is some level of demand.
I have seen many arguments about how expensive from the publisher's standpoint to provide all books as ebooks. I just don't buy it. Every book is available in a relatively readable electronic format by the time it has reached the publisher. Personally, I feel that everybook should include access to a basic digital version of everybook we buy. It doesn't have to be fancy, just usuable. The problem is that publishers want to sell the ebook version for the same price as the paper price, and this is the crux of the problem since most people do not see the same value of a $25.00 hardback and a $25.00 ebook, especially since most new and popular hardbacks are sold for significantly less than full retail price. Publishers are scared to lill the golden goose, and ebooks languish.
This is where noew legal doctrine arises, and why there is so much conflict about the issue between fair use and copyright. Two things will happen.
1. The courts and/or Congress will resolve the issue 2. The parties will resolve the conflict outside judicial/legal channels
In all likelihood the courts will hammer out what "fair use" means in the digital age.
Yes, Google does make money off the others copyrighted materials, but the key here is they are not selling the material, but facilitating an already accepted "fair use' in a novel manner. Whether the courts accept this legal interpretation or not is debatable, thus the conflict. There is good case law, and legal standing for both sides. The key here is the lack of clarity because of conflicting rights and claims under excisting law which had never anticipated.
If the publishers are smart, they will work together to work out a deal with Google, thus protecting their copyrights and introducing another revenue stream. It just depends on how greedy they want to be. The old story of 100 percent of nothing comes to mind.
Nework news died because they aren't required to provide the public service any more as part their licensing requirements. Why would we expect a for-profit corporation to waste shareholder value on an unprofitable segment such as a real news division. Most news divisions, if not all, have been folded into the entertainment divisions of their respective companies. Consequently, why would we expect network news to be any more informative than the Daily News?
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Does that mean Microsoft sends its over the hill engineers to Carousel?
Xerox has developed so many amazing technologies which either never made it to market, or were brought to market by a myriad of other companies while the company has struggled for years to grow new business opportunities, and growth. This is very interesting, and this is definitely perking up interest. How often do we print something which we only need for a short time? I suspect 95% of what I print is transitory in nature.
Ayn Rand would just love you to pieces!
If the FCC or Congress thought interoperability and open access were needed, it would definitely be within their mandate because of the whole public airwaves licenses which were purchased for big bucks.
I have an 05' Busa and its hellafun to ride, but the bike doesn't react quickly, and is quite dangerous to ride through traffic.
Kawasaki ZX 14 took that title nearly a year ago. Get with the program. Yes, I do have a 2005 Suzuki Hayabusa in my garage.
...I'm still not sold on HDTV because the sets are too damned expensive So you talk about topics you don't know jack about as a matter of course? My point is that there is interest in HD content, but price and predictability is an issue, and companies need to cooperate in order to effectively profit from this new market. The cable companies are providing a HD-DVR at a modest price, and customers are snapping them up, while Blue-Ray and HD-DVD are relatively stagnant.
Actually NFL footbal was revitalized for me by HD broadcast, and the large screen format. I had not watched football for years because it just was not very much fun to watch on a 32 inch fuzzy square picture. I bought a external HD antenna for my 52" HDTV, and was wowed by the over the air broadcasts for free, especially the NFL broadcasts. The technology that the networks are employing to exploit the format is just amazing. I was blown away by it, I bought an HD 720p projector about 6 weeks ago, and I am just stunned by HD on a 106 inch bright, high contrast, colorful HD wonder. I can't wait until I can afford a true 1080P projector.
A considerable amount of commentary concerning the format war between Blue Ray and HD-DVD is based on the notion that standard definition is "good enough," for most owners of HDTV's, thus neither format will achieve deep penetration in the short term. However, this run on HD-DVR shows a clear demand for HD content. Comcast offers rental for their HD-DVR for a modest price, and no contract, and customers are snapping these units up. ON DEMAND had HD movies that can be viewed at the customers leisure, much of this content is at no additional charge. It has been posited that the format war is irrelevant due to people downloading HD content over the intertubes; however, the cable companies may make this argument irrelevant with the ON DEMAND feature, and the growing HD content. People want HD content, but are not willing to get hosed in the process by greedy corporations trying to win an unnecessary format war.
I bought the Xbox 360 and HD-DVD player. The first movie I watched was on a 106" screen and an native 720p projector. Just a wonderful movie and great resolution when blown up this large compared to standard dvd.
The Xbox 360 with HD-DVD player outputs 1080p over component. No difference in 1080/p or 10802 because movies are 24 frames/sec.
Common sense is a rare and precious commodity, especially in young boys. I nearly set my parent's house on fire with my little chemistry experiments when I was 8.
Thousands of PS3 are selling closer to cost on eBay.
But... Wouldn't you think if you were plotting legal strategy for th RIAA. Wouldn't you vet the cases properly to avoid the potential for embarrassment and bad publicity, and prosecute the most egregious cases with the most unlikable characters being prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law? They certainly have the ability to selectively prosecute.
1. Grasp the package in my hands and try to find an edge to apply a shearing force with my hands.
2. Finding none, I test the package with my teeth.
3. Ouch that hurt, now I look for a sharp object, the only thing near my grasp is a phillips head screw driver.
4. Now,I stab at the package until a permeate the sealed membrane.
5. Now that I have succeeded in making a couple of holes, I tear at the space between the holes with my hands with a shearing action, and the package tears apart spilling its contents to the ground, watching my new calculator bounce off the tile floor.
6. The tile floor chips, and the calculator has a ding in one corner,and my hand is bleeding slighly but the flow is increasing. No fatal damage.
7. I grab for a paper towel, and wrap it around the base of left thumb.
8. Another clamshell successfully open!
9. Profit?
i had a chance to meet Newt at a fund raiser before he became speaker of the house. It must have been 1993. I was working as a staffer for a Republican congressman. I always found it odd for me as a lifelong Democrat to be working for a Republican. He was your more traditional small government. republican. Anyhow, Newt gave some completely ridiculous speech on welfare reform, and it made me feel very dirty to be involved with these people. To make a long story short, I had a long conversation with Newt after his speech. I didn't get into his speech, but talked to him about other stuff. The funny thing is that he is not a dumb person. Frankly, he impressed me with his intelligence and lucidity. He seems to genuinely believe what he says, and that scared me more than anything.
Well at least he didn't build a fission reactor in his tool shed, and create a EPA Superfund site.
All Glory to the NEC Turbo Grafx Express!
I support your theory. I bought a PS2 as a DVD player. Gameplay was secondary. In fact, I thought the Xbox was a far superior game machine.
Google should just host the site on their servers, put a link to redirect to youtube.com, and be done with it. I think the owner of utube.com has a legitimate complaint in the costs they are incurring due to the incredible rise in traffic. Google can effectively deal with this in a magnanimous and fair manner.
We should begin private exploration of space-time, and not just space. The Space program is failing, but remarketing it as the Space-Time Program funded by private Kong Bucks should do the trick.
I have got to the point that I prefer to read ebooks. Lets ignore the distribution and availability of legal ebooks for the moment. I have been using ebooks for years primarily on pda's, but I find sub notebooks like the IBM x30 perfectly usuable too. Currently, I use the Dell Axim x50v using a VGA hack for true VGA, and the latest Mobipocket book reader. I find the resolution of this particular screen and software combo extremely pleasant for reading ebooks. Bound paper books aren't so great for reading for two main reasons. One, you have to hold them open, and the manner which you hold the book changes depending on where you are and what page you are physically reading in a book. This can be very uncomfortable depending on lighting, and whether you are reading while eating or some other task, like many of us do. Second, the weight of a book, the quality of the paper, or the binding may diminish the quality of the reading experience. Textbooks often use the highest quality paper with excellent contrast; yet they are often heavy, cumbersome, and pages easily damaged. Novels increasingly use crappy paper with poor tactile feel and low contrast. Occasionally, I purchase books from classic collections which use outstanding paper and binding, but they are expensive. They are nice to own and read from, though; but have limited availibility and selection. Let us assume availibility of the particular book you would like to read. The Axim is easy hold, read, and operate with a single hand. I wish it had a rocker on the side for changing pages more easily. The screen is very high contrast, and the resolution is outstanding. Mobipocket reader is flexible and has a myriad of useful options. I can read in nearly all lighting conditions for dark to sunlight. I have 12GB of available storage, so I have hundreds of documents at my fingertips at any on time. The reading experience is consistent for every book. I have a Stowaway bluetooth keyboard which is fantastic when I want to read when I prefer not to hold or when eating. It has a stand which fits the Axim well in either portrait or landscape mode. Sometimes, I prefer to read on a larger laptop screen. Mobipocket has a very good synch function with the pda client, and the reader is outstanding on a laptop. Obviously, there is some downsides, such as price and power. However, i purchased the laptop and pda irrelevant of their ebook functions; consequently the marginal cost to obtain ebook reader hardware was marginal. The ebook reader software is free. Finally, the availability of ebooks. This is the real problem and failure of ebooks from a consumer standpoint. Many books are available as scans in various places. Suprisingly, many are of excellent quality and have been proofed and revised. This is clearly a failure of the marketplace to provide a product where there is some level of demand. I have seen many arguments about how expensive from the publisher's standpoint to provide all books as ebooks. I just don't buy it. Every book is available in a relatively readable electronic format by the time it has reached the publisher. Personally, I feel that everybook should include access to a basic digital version of everybook we buy. It doesn't have to be fancy, just usuable. The problem is that publishers want to sell the ebook version for the same price as the paper price, and this is the crux of the problem since most people do not see the same value of a $25.00 hardback and a $25.00 ebook, especially since most new and popular hardbacks are sold for significantly less than full retail price. Publishers are scared to lill the golden goose, and ebooks languish.
I bet the Judge puts Bully on his computer, and torrents it before it is even released.
This is where noew legal doctrine arises, and why there is so much conflict about the issue between fair use and copyright. Two things will happen.
1. The courts and/or Congress will resolve the issue
2. The parties will resolve the conflict outside judicial/legal channels
In all likelihood the courts will hammer out what "fair use" means in the digital age.
Yes, Google does make money off the others copyrighted materials, but the key here is they are not selling the material, but facilitating an already accepted "fair use' in a novel manner. Whether the courts accept this legal interpretation or not is debatable, thus the conflict. There is good case law, and legal standing for both sides. The key here is the lack of clarity because of conflicting rights and claims under excisting law which had never anticipated.
If the publishers are smart, they will work together to work out a deal with Google, thus protecting their copyrights and introducing another revenue stream. It just depends on how greedy they want to be. The old story of 100 percent of nothing comes to mind.
Nework news died because they aren't required to provide the public service any more as part their licensing requirements. Why would we expect a for-profit corporation to waste shareholder value on an unprofitable segment such as a real news division. Most news divisions, if not all, have been folded into the entertainment divisions of their respective companies. Consequently, why would we expect network news to be any more informative than the Daily News?