But Sci-Fi, at least Pop Sci-fi, is about humans interacting in crazy places and situations. The Doctor isn't human, so you always need one in the story to ground the viewers. Yes, it's a bit of a crutch, but that's why most sci-fi books don't make good movies. Also, putting real non-humans in is very hard as far as production costs. Unless you count robots like R2D2 or Daleks that are essentially props, doing stuff like Farscape where everybody is a creature is expensive, and non-sci-fi audiences don't connect well.. it doesn't pay money back.
no sense extending the time slot for something everybody's already downloaded, or is a rerun. I know other episodes of shows that are "oversized" get cut in reruns also. Even big shows like ER or Law and Order, so it's not just sci-fi. What's sad is that they air a show without even knowing about what episode it is or why it's important.... to the 50 something engineers making programming decisions, it's "just a show"... and they have a schedule to keep!
I've been getting episodes from iTunes anyway, so they're in the same order as the DVD issue. (I think)
it's the "opposite" effect going on. At high pressures extra gas adds to your fluids, just like bubbles added to really cold pop under pressure. Warm it up and take off the pressure and you get fizz... only inside your brain which is generally not good. In this case, the air pressure is so low the membranes that hold liquid don't work properly to hold it in... It's probably like a mild version of vacuum degassing used in manufacturing... in addition to the lack of oxygen.
This is why you can't have USB-to-USB devices like you have Firewire-to-Firewire devices. It's why USB is very bad for time-sensitive data like music and video, because you're always waiting for the host controller to do something on the CPU, which might be busy.. have you ever seen DMA to memory ever work properly on consumer grade hardware anyway?
It's not so much a "scam" as it is designing to the market. Firewire devices have a non-trivial price premium because of the device-to-device controller... but that's why they can do things like daisy-chain or direct connect between computers with no special cables. On the other hand USB allows endpoint devices to be made very cheaply.. they have near-zero intelligence if you want. The USB host can be as "thick" or "thin" as the OEM wants... they can put all the host chip control in software drivers to keep chip cost down. They can also put all the control codes for devices in software... remember "wINKjets" that went obsolete with each new Windows version... they have almost no internal software at all.
If you get a dud car do YOU the buyer really care why? You just want the damn company to not make bad ones! VERY big bucks to into ensuring that employees CANNOT ignore buzzers. Like I said 1% of cars off the line with critical mistakes would put a car maker out of business, as unacceptable. We're talking about PEOPLE, not CARS and we pay nearly as much for the medical attention as we do for cars! as SCIENTISTS they should demand better.. would they accept lab results that were wrongly performed 1% of the time?
so did MY doctor prescribing "color of the day" pill sit an read the report before giving it to me, or just take the salesman's word that the report given the FDA was good? FDA reports are found badly written and faulty all the time compared to what salesmen tell the customer. If MY doctor didn't read the report then he has "blind faith".. see where I'm going. Throw enough crap against the wall and you really don't know.
From another article this week, medical science considers 1% uncaught mistakes during scientific procedures to be "real science" too.
but YOU can't do it nearly as well as a large company. Like I said, in Michigan it was ILLEGAL to homebrew.. at all.. until the early 90's with inability to collect taxes and judge the food quality as justification. The only importer was the State. Even buying brand only from Ohio was mildly questionable.
Big companies are easy to regulate.. they have too much money at stake to go to jail for a few million in taxes. Again, that's why tobacco will never be illegal because they can tax the hell out of it... sin tax money is hard to make up. That's why drug companies can make morphine all day but YOU can't have a pot in a window.
only in extremely narrow circumstance like finances. Even environmental regs are geared at individual workers and not management because it's too hard to nail them.
Like I said, which PERSON can you legally prove BROKE a law? Not a manager or "responsible" or should have known, but actually committed the act of computer intrusion? These laws are written to people not companies.
no it would be felony murder... you intended to deface a public fixture for safety... Felony murder is used all the time. When you run from the cops thru stoplights and one-way streets and cause traffic accidents where people die.. that's felony murder even though your car didn't actually hit the other person's at all. you committed one crime that a "reasonable man" would know to cause harm to another.
the whole point of Blu-Ray is that it is REQUIRED to be connected for licensing updates just like this. Older players will automatically update themselves when newer discs are put in either from the internet or from the disc. This is exactly how the system is designed to work. Along with stopping new discs from being cracked, it keeps Players from being cracked as well if they want to watch new movies they have to stay up to date.
The part where you have 19 MegaBYTES per second of bandwidth...(full 1080p stream from disc) that's higher than 100Mb (100M bits/ 8 bit.byte ~ 12MB) can push.
Even with Gig, you couldn't run many other machines or they'd shut you down unless you had good switches (not consumer junk). They don't let you stream the display, so you'd have to stream the file, from physical media, to the PC, to the network fast enough to keep up with playback.
Linux has poor GRAPHIC DESIGN programs... you got Scribus and Gimp and LaTex. Design is about page layout.. fonts, lines, drawings, and colors have to be PERFECT. Not "good enough" but as perfect as a printed page, every time, no mistakes... that's where Linux falls down dead versus Mac. For the most part Windows does too, but there's so much money in the Windows market people accept the mistakes MS Windows software makes or they pay lots of money/time to work around the problems "because everybody has to".
and the first rounds were cheap... prices for good software rise as the market proves GOOD software is hard to make.
Right now iPhone is in "gold rush" mode. Every body is making everything thing at every price because nobody knows what the market is yet, it's been 6 months.. hardly time for doom and gloom.
I think it's time to START complex apps as small apps and see how the market reacts. What can you sell for $1.99? The market is not ready to commit $29.99 to ANY app yet.. frankly if somebody else can make the same app for $2.99 then your app is not worth the higher price.
There's three kinds of "complex". There's problems that are purely hard to solve like encoding video or building 3D game engines that take real talent to make it look easy. There are projects that are large and take lots of grunt work... ERP systems come to mind as simple programs but you need lots of them to work well or they take lots of content or research... think encyclopedias or the Sims again, it takes resources or creativity to make the volume of content required in a manner to sell it, not easy for good quality without money. The last are simply programs that are big... like office programs... They are easy to duplicate functions, but control the market because they have lots of little pieces and people using them. Unless you are in the first two groups don't expect to charge a lot.
only 51% of REPRESENTATIVES need to think it's OK. As long as they get reelected they will do it. This is just one of a hundred actions people base their vote on, it won't be on a TV ad so why not give a company a break?
As long as they vote "right" on the three votes against gay marriage, stem cells, and abortion, most of the country will continue to elect them with no faults.
Way no!!! they are "selling" a covenant not to sue... kind of like Microsoft.. if you pay them money. They are still free to punish uploaders, and they are free to decide to change their minds next year. It's just an "arrangement".. like paying money "not" to have your shops windows broken.
Actually Patronage is the cornerstone of most OSS projects. One large company that needs a task done but doesn't want to "own" it pays people to work on it seems to be the model. Look at Yahoo, Google, IBM, Apache... all big money paying little people for projects that add value but aren't really part of the business model.
so for your break out year everybody is downloading and you're on the radio you get nothing... because you didn't sell any records LAST year! Brilliant considering they won't publish any new stuff the next year for you to make sales numbers and they get to pocket the difference.
That's what China is coming out from right now. For the last decade you had exactly that situation you describe. The state owned/controlled all the manufacturing of cool stuff.. and the people were too poor to have anything unless it was black market. In the US, corporations are pushing us INTO that situation to keep their profits.
feudalism, the time of nobility, religion, and guilds is approaching again.
Look how corporations are setting up to be the new "nobel houses". Even the Federal and State governments are getting in the habit of no-bid contracts to "default" companies that get to charge whatever they wish when they were given those distribution rights by some middle manager, not even the legislature. This "tax" is just another step to keeping the cultural "high priests" in the position to which they have become accustom.
I say give them the tax as long as they only publish PG rated music everybody can agree on.. if everybody has to pay for it. Then all "questionable" music will be out of record stores and off the radio.. no more gansta rap!!!!
Much of the music is picked specifically for sleep deprivation, played loud, all the time, to prevent sleeping, much of it is also considered religiously offensive, if they understood english. As "american rock music" they are forcing them to commit sin, according to Islam, every day.
What if we got anti-abortion activists (religious terrorists sympathizers) pregnant just so we could abort them to harvest stem cells as part of their prison "work"? It's just a medical procedure to save lives like donating blood right?
whoa there, you're using militia in a second amendment way.... this is Iraq, not the USA, that doesn't apply there.
Funny thing about war is that according to Geneva convention "citizens" don't really have the right to rebuild their society... their GOVERNMENT has that right. According to Geneva, citizens do not have the right to overthrow a government, the Declaration of Independence is not actually a legal document the US government has to follow, just some pretty words. Geneva is all about what GOVERNMENTS with armies can do (remember it dates from precedents from the middle ages, we're all still technically serfs) citizens are "owned" by their boarders. It's illegal to commit war crimes against residents, if they follow all the rules during the war, and while it's a "war". At this time the war is over.. sort of.. because they have a government that is recognized by somebody else, now those militias are just terrorists again..because the new government says so. so it's open season, just like when Saddam gassed the Kurds for rebellion (which was legal, they committed open rebellion just like when Sherman torched Atlanta, and there's plenty of precedent to do the same thing on US soil.. look what we did/do to Indians)
except none of the "residents" of gitmo are actual terrorists by the army's own admitting. Most were "enemy combatants" picked up for shooting at soldiers during the invasion or turned in under "reward" programs as knowing info about the terrorists. Most have learned more intel about terrorist ops inside gitmo and from the interrigators than they knew on the outside. The majority are just street thugs who were pushed into harassing soldiers by actual terrorists... more dangerous guys will be looting the streets after the next Superbowl. Reality is that they can't let them go because the broke about a dozen US an international laws.. and got zero intelligence from it... worse than that, those guys will go back and be heroes for their cause... and know all the people we are actually looking for to tell them to go hide. Then the failure of the army will be complete.
That said I think this is more about artist royalties. Using the songs in that manner counts as public performance and they are on US property, therefore they need to pay artists for the songs being played. If we're not going to pay the artists that provide tools for war, we could save a bunch of money not paying for expensive planes... paying people to torture isn't cheap, they are generally high priced. If we don't pay them then we won't leave a paper trail either. Besides it's illegal to pay people in Cuba anyway, some of that money may leak out to the Cuban economy.
in other words they'll have too much money to care what customers think about their products because the products sell themselves... (waits for trolls)
What company wouldn't want enough cash on hand to be able to NOT SELL STUFF for a whole year? (of course what kinds of products would they make?)
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sounds like they showed contempt for the court... they can be sent to jail until the judge feels like they learned their lesson!
But Sci-Fi, at least Pop Sci-fi, is about humans interacting in crazy places and situations. The Doctor isn't human, so you always need one in the story to ground the viewers. Yes, it's a bit of a crutch, but that's why most sci-fi books don't make good movies. Also, putting real non-humans in is very hard as far as production costs. Unless you count robots like R2D2 or Daleks that are essentially props, doing stuff like Farscape where everybody is a creature is expensive, and non-sci-fi audiences don't connect well.. it doesn't pay money back.
no sense extending the time slot for something everybody's already downloaded, or is a rerun. I know other episodes of shows that are "oversized" get cut in reruns also. Even big shows like ER or Law and Order, so it's not just sci-fi. What's sad is that they air a show without even knowing about what episode it is or why it's important.... to the 50 something engineers making programming decisions, it's "just a show"... and they have a schedule to keep!
I've been getting episodes from iTunes anyway, so they're in the same order as the DVD issue. (I think)
it's the "opposite" effect going on. At high pressures extra gas adds to your fluids, just like bubbles added to really cold pop under pressure. Warm it up and take off the pressure and you get fizz... only inside your brain which is generally not good.
In this case, the air pressure is so low the membranes that hold liquid don't work properly to hold it in... It's probably like a mild version of vacuum degassing used in manufacturing... in addition to the lack of oxygen.
This is why you can't have USB-to-USB devices like you have Firewire-to-Firewire devices. It's why USB is very bad for time-sensitive data like music and video, because you're always waiting for the host controller to do something on the CPU, which might be busy.. have you ever seen DMA to memory ever work properly on consumer grade hardware anyway?
It's not so much a "scam" as it is designing to the market. Firewire devices have a non-trivial price premium because of the device-to-device controller... but that's why they can do things like daisy-chain or direct connect between computers with no special cables. On the other hand USB allows endpoint devices to be made very cheaply.. they have near-zero intelligence if you want. The USB host can be as "thick" or "thin" as the OEM wants... they can put all the host chip control in software drivers to keep chip cost down. They can also put all the control codes for devices in software... remember "wINKjets" that went obsolete with each new Windows version... they have almost no internal software at all.
If you get a dud car do YOU the buyer really care why? You just want the damn company to not make bad ones! VERY big bucks to into ensuring that employees CANNOT ignore buzzers. Like I said 1% of cars off the line with critical mistakes would put a car maker out of business, as unacceptable. We're talking about PEOPLE, not CARS and we pay nearly as much for the medical attention as we do for cars! as SCIENTISTS they should demand better.. would they accept lab results that were wrongly performed 1% of the time?
so did MY doctor prescribing "color of the day" pill sit an read the report before giving it to me, or just take the salesman's word that the report given the FDA was good? FDA reports are found badly written and faulty all the time compared to what salesmen tell the customer. If MY doctor didn't read the report then he has "blind faith".. see where I'm going. Throw enough crap against the wall and you really don't know.
From another article this week, medical science considers 1% uncaught mistakes during scientific procedures to be "real science" too.
but YOU can't do it nearly as well as a large company. Like I said, in Michigan it was ILLEGAL to homebrew.. at all.. until the early 90's with inability to collect taxes and judge the food quality as justification. The only importer was the State. Even buying brand only from Ohio was mildly questionable.
Big companies are easy to regulate.. they have too much money at stake to go to jail for a few million in taxes. Again, that's why tobacco will never be illegal because they can tax the hell out of it... sin tax money is hard to make up. That's why drug companies can make morphine all day but YOU can't have a pot in a window.
only in extremely narrow circumstance like finances. Even environmental regs are geared at individual workers and not management because it's too hard to nail them.
Like I said, which PERSON can you legally prove BROKE a law? Not a manager or "responsible" or should have known, but actually committed the act of computer intrusion? These laws are written to people not companies.
no it would be felony murder... you intended to deface a public fixture for safety... Felony murder is used all the time. When you run from the cops thru stoplights and one-way streets and cause traffic accidents where people die.. that's felony murder even though your car didn't actually hit the other person's at all. you committed one crime that a "reasonable man" would know to cause harm to another.
the whole point of Blu-Ray is that it is REQUIRED to be connected for licensing updates just like this. Older players will automatically update themselves when newer discs are put in either from the internet or from the disc. This is exactly how the system is designed to work. Along with stopping new discs from being cracked, it keeps Players from being cracked as well if they want to watch new movies they have to stay up to date.
The part where you have 19 MegaBYTES per second of bandwidth...(full 1080p stream from disc) that's higher than 100Mb (100M bits/ 8 bit.byte ~ 12MB) can push.
Even with Gig, you couldn't run many other machines or they'd shut you down unless you had good switches (not consumer junk). They don't let you stream the display, so you'd have to stream the file, from physical media, to the PC, to the network fast enough to keep up with playback.
good luck with that.
Linux has poor GRAPHIC DESIGN programs... you got Scribus and Gimp and LaTex. Design is about page layout.. fonts, lines, drawings, and colors have to be PERFECT. Not "good enough" but as perfect as a printed page, every time, no mistakes... that's where Linux falls down dead versus Mac. For the most part Windows does too, but there's so much money in the Windows market people accept the mistakes MS Windows software makes or they pay lots of money/time to work around the problems "because everybody has to".
and the first rounds were cheap... prices for good software rise as the market proves GOOD software is hard to make.
Right now iPhone is in "gold rush" mode. Every body is making everything thing at every price because nobody knows what the market is yet, it's been 6 months.. hardly time for doom and gloom.
I think it's time to START complex apps as small apps and see how the market reacts. What can you sell for $1.99? The market is not ready to commit $29.99 to ANY app yet.. frankly if somebody else can make the same app for $2.99 then your app is not worth the higher price.
There's three kinds of "complex". There's problems that are purely hard to solve like encoding video or building 3D game engines that take real talent to make it look easy. There are projects that are large and take lots of grunt work... ERP systems come to mind as simple programs but you need lots of them to work well or they take lots of content or research... think encyclopedias or the Sims again, it takes resources or creativity to make the volume of content required in a manner to sell it, not easy for good quality without money. The last are simply programs that are big... like office programs... They are easy to duplicate functions, but control the market because they have lots of little pieces and people using them. Unless you are in the first two groups don't expect to charge a lot.
only 51% of REPRESENTATIVES need to think it's OK. As long as they get reelected they will do it. This is just one of a hundred actions people base their vote on, it won't be on a TV ad so why not give a company a break?
As long as they vote "right" on the three votes against gay marriage, stem cells, and abortion, most of the country will continue to elect them with no faults.
Way no!!! they are "selling" a covenant not to sue... kind of like Microsoft.. if you pay them money. They are still free to punish uploaders, and they are free to decide to change their minds next year. It's just an "arrangement".. like paying money "not" to have your shops windows broken.
Actually Patronage is the cornerstone of most OSS projects. One large company that needs a task done but doesn't want to "own" it pays people to work on it seems to be the model. Look at Yahoo, Google, IBM, Apache... all big money paying little people for projects that add value but aren't really part of the business model.
so for your break out year everybody is downloading and you're on the radio you get nothing... because you didn't sell any records LAST year! Brilliant considering they won't publish any new stuff the next year for you to make sales numbers and they get to pocket the difference.
That's what China is coming out from right now. For the last decade you had exactly that situation you describe. The state owned/controlled all the manufacturing of cool stuff.. and the people were too poor to have anything unless it was black market. In the US, corporations are pushing us INTO that situation to keep their profits.
feudalism, the time of nobility, religion, and guilds is approaching again.
Look how corporations are setting up to be the new "nobel houses". Even the Federal and State governments are getting in the habit of no-bid contracts to "default" companies that get to charge whatever they wish when they were given those distribution rights by some middle manager, not even the legislature. This "tax" is just another step to keeping the cultural "high priests" in the position to which they have become accustom.
I say give them the tax as long as they only publish PG rated music everybody can agree on.. if everybody has to pay for it. Then all "questionable" music will be out of record stores and off the radio.. no more gansta rap!!!!
Much of the music is picked specifically for sleep deprivation, played loud, all the time, to prevent sleeping, much of it is also considered religiously offensive, if they understood english. As "american rock music" they are forcing them to commit sin, according to Islam, every day.
What if we got anti-abortion activists (religious terrorists sympathizers) pregnant just so we could abort them to harvest stem cells as part of their prison "work"? It's just a medical procedure to save lives like donating blood right?
whoa there, you're using militia in a second amendment way.... this is Iraq, not the USA, that doesn't apply there.
Funny thing about war is that according to Geneva convention "citizens" don't really have the right to rebuild their society... their GOVERNMENT has that right. According to Geneva, citizens do not have the right to overthrow a government, the Declaration of Independence is not actually a legal document the US government has to follow, just some pretty words. Geneva is all about what GOVERNMENTS with armies can do (remember it dates from precedents from the middle ages, we're all still technically serfs) citizens are "owned" by their boarders. It's illegal to commit war crimes against residents, if they follow all the rules during the war, and while it's a "war". At this time the war is over.. sort of.. because they have a government that is recognized by somebody else, now those militias are just terrorists again..because the new government says so. so it's open season, just like when Saddam gassed the Kurds for rebellion (which was legal, they committed open rebellion just like when Sherman torched Atlanta, and there's plenty of precedent to do the same thing on US soil.. look what we did/do to Indians)
except none of the "residents" of gitmo are actual terrorists by the army's own admitting. Most were "enemy combatants" picked up for shooting at soldiers during the invasion or turned in under "reward" programs as knowing info about the terrorists. Most have learned more intel about terrorist ops inside gitmo and from the interrigators than they knew on the outside. The majority are just street thugs who were pushed into harassing soldiers by actual terrorists... more dangerous guys will be looting the streets after the next Superbowl. Reality is that they can't let them go because the broke about a dozen US an international laws.. and got zero intelligence from it... worse than that, those guys will go back and be heroes for their cause... and know all the people we are actually looking for to tell them to go hide. Then the failure of the army will be complete.
That said I think this is more about artist royalties. Using the songs in that manner counts as public performance and they are on US property, therefore they need to pay artists for the songs being played. If we're not going to pay the artists that provide tools for war, we could save a bunch of money not paying for expensive planes... paying people to torture isn't cheap, they are generally high priced. If we don't pay them then we won't leave a paper trail either. Besides it's illegal to pay people in Cuba anyway, some of that money may leak out to the Cuban economy.
Here's the solution... RIAA lawyers in Gitmo!!!
in other words they'll have too much money to care what customers think about their products because the products sell themselves... (waits for trolls)
What company wouldn't want enough cash on hand to be able to NOT SELL STUFF for a whole year? (of course what kinds of products would they make?)