"But the Windows world isn't like that. It's a cold, unforgiving place where nothing is sacred, users turn like rabid wolves on any company that makes even the smallest error, and no prisoners are taken. Especially the Windows browser market." a statement totally disproved by the fact that IE is still the #1 PC browser and it's a pile of crap with holes so big you could drive not just a Safari, but the whole of the African plains through it.
It seems that the author is holding Apple to a standard that not even the mighty giver of life to all, Microsoft, (praise be upon it), is held to.
Because media of all kinds is often given away free. You turn on the radio - free music, all day long. You don't pay a penny for this, but all this copyrighted music flows into your brain for free. Yes, someone, somewhere is paying a smidgen for this so you can listen to it, but you don't. So you turn on free over the air TV and see, what, a movie. You watch it for free.
Basically, people are used to consuming media for free.
People only have so much income, and these numbers for "piracy" add up to such an amount that the people who they say didn't consume it, and went pirate instead literally could not afford to buy what they say was lost. Hell, most people in the USA are in so much debt, I can't beleive they can spend such large amounts as they do on non-essential media, movies, cable etc.
Certainly was NOT a lapsed Catholic. He was very much into his religion, held it dearly as his own words show. And what about the Catholic church in Rwanda? There they on the very same genocide mission as before.
Indeed, Hitler was Catholic and supported and aided by the Pope at the time and the Catholic Church. Why do you think he killed Jewish people? Catholic doctrine was that the whole of the Jewish people were guilty of killing their god, Jesus!
Catholic priest bugger little boys, and the Catholic church covers this up, moving on the priests to new locations with new young boys to bugger.
The Catholic church is guilty of these and many more crimes against humanity.
If you're a Catholic and feel that Nazism, killing Jews and buggering young boys is wrong you owe it upon yourself to leave and denounce the Catholic church. Nothing less is moral for you to do.
Ah, but in Luke Jesus also says slaves should be beaten with many stripes.
The fact is, there's no contempory evidence for Jesus. All words attributed to him were written many many years later, and indeed, the books that make up the Bible were picked and chosen from the many available gospels.
And think about this, what could be a worse hell than living in the joys of a heaven, knowing that friends, relatives, loved ones, human beings, babies, mothers, children, fathers are being tormented in hell fire because your god is so bloody stupid he couldn't convince anyone with even modest intelligence of his own existance. Think about it. Think hard, because that's cruel and unjust.
Thanks for your most honest and thoughtful reply. My only argument against you being Christian, is your allegiance to that religion gives weight to fundementalists who also say they belong to that religion. Sounds like you are very un-fundie though, and as I say, by ditching the nasty bits of the Bible, you've shown yourself to be morally superior to the god character in that book, and to the fundies.
The logic and reasoning that points to the earth not being 4000 years old, and the logic and reasoning that points to evolution being what actually happened, also allow us to see through the charade that is christianity though. Now, if you were a deist, I could amost accept that, but christianity is just a bunch of made up stories. At least the fundies take their holy book by it's word. If you pick and choose from the Bible, you're demonstrating that you yourself have a much better sense of morals than the god you worship. If you've ditched the nasty bits of the Bible already, why not go the whole distance and ditch the rest. You know you want to!
This is only 3840 x 2160 pixels, which is shy of the 4096x2304 pixels needed for the in-camera recording modes in RED ONE www.red.com, and quite a way below what is needed for the full sensor 4520x2540.
Given the RED is the only thing on the horizon that has the resolution to feed this screen, why stop a few pixels short with your design??
Remember athiesm is the only "religion" that's been around since the beginning. All other religions are just young upstarts. You think the Christian God is a Christian? Nope, if he's God, there cannot be any higher power than him for him to believe in, so he must be an Atheist. If being an aethiest is good enough for God, it's good enough for me.
But this was an expensive 1080p plasmas being fed a native 1080p signal..... We're video professionals and do have a good idea what we're doing. Fact is that the quality of the TV and associated circuitry more than outweighs any 720p / 1080p difference. But you're right- a lot of TVs cheat, and suck. IT's tough for us when we're trying to vastly improve the image, and then you see it on a TV that destroys your hard work.
Well, had a 720p and 1080p Plasma in the office, comparing some 4k video downscaled to 1080p, playback from uncompressed DPX over HDSDI. Simple fact was, you had to stand pretty close to the monitors to see the extra resolution of the 1080p, and overall, the 720p had better contrast and an overall better picture. There's no point in more resolution unless you do it right.
With regards to Blu Ray - saw an instore demo, and it looked so awful, I'd prefer to watch a normal DVD. There were more compression artifacts than I've had hot dinners, and really looked bit-starved. What a crappy demo for a crappy format. Yuck.
The reaction to "time machine" was pretty good - the crowds seem to really like that, and it was fun how it was presented. No, there wasn't the biggest of announcements, but overall it was pretty good. I think the key point is that OS X is pretty mature and doesn't really need "that" much doing to it.
I think it's more likely that burst's requests to be "worked with" were turned down because, when you read those patents, they don't actually tell you anything useful. They speak in wide terms. In no way could you build, say, quicktime, by reading those patents. The patents are trvially obvious dream lists. Why would Apple steal something so useless. If patents are to mean anything, they should detail full operation of a product made from the patent. If it's a machine, diagrams showing it's full working, or if it's software, (and I despise software patents) full source code.
But Microsoft are NOT in trouble for being successful - they're in trouble for HOW they achieved their success. Remember, they're a convicted illegal monopolist. They have used market domination in one field to unfairly leverage dominance in others, at the total expense of innovation and consumer benefit.
Exactly! Apple don't distribute any physical music, not sheet music, not discs, not vinyl, not tapes.
Because of the massive publicity of these law suits over the years, no-one can possible claim that they don't know that Apple computers and Apple records are two different companies.
Well, go th other way and just grant every single patent. Let everyone have them. Let them clash!!! Let the lawyers get rich and soon enough tech companies will be putting big $$ into governments to pay for change to the system.
The fact is patents for this kind of "technology" don't work, and can't work, and any attempt to do better prior art searches is just putting a band-aid on a broken neck.
One of the ideas of patents is to stop trade secrets remaining secret forever, that knowledge being lost to everyone. Now that just isn't happening in the computer world. There's no need for that kind of protection.
Well, maybe the patent office should pay for both sides of the dispute - that would keep the costs down. Or perhaps grant everyone's patent without any searches or whatever, and then only decide on whether it's valid or not when a dispute arises, and then they'd only have to concentrate their effort on patents that anyone cares about.
But really, the way forward is to remove software, business methods and "on the internet" from patentability and let them stick to worrying about anti-gravity machines and the like.
Also the patent office needs to be held accountable for it's mistakes, like, for instance, paying for anyone who has to fight a bogus patent. Maybe then they'd take due care?
What would be easiest would be to invalidate now, and forever, any software patents. That would get rid of most of the bad patents in one swoop.
The Key thing is that's NTP's patent was a worthless piece of paper until RIM did the hard work and made a product that worked, and that NTP could try and scrounge some cash from.
Patent Trolling is not clever, it's a cancer in the patent system, just like submarine patents and software patents.
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"But the Windows world isn't like that. It's a cold, unforgiving place where nothing is sacred, users turn like rabid wolves on any company that makes even the smallest error, and no prisoners are taken. Especially the Windows browser market." a statement totally disproved by the fact that IE is still the #1 PC browser and it's a pile of crap with holes so big you could drive not just a Safari, but the whole of the African plains through it.
It seems that the author is holding Apple to a standard that not even the mighty giver of life to all, Microsoft, (praise be upon it), is held to.
Because media of all kinds is often given away free. You turn on the radio - free music, all day long. You don't pay a penny for this, but all this copyrighted music flows into your brain for free. Yes, someone, somewhere is paying a smidgen for this so you can listen to it, but you don't. So you turn on free over the air TV and see, what, a movie. You watch it for free.
Basically, people are used to consuming media for free.
People only have so much income, and these numbers for "piracy" add up to such an amount that the people who they say didn't consume it, and went pirate instead literally could not afford to buy what they say was lost. Hell, most people in the USA are in so much debt, I can't beleive they can spend such large amounts as they do on non-essential media, movies, cable etc.
Well said! Probably above the head of the original poster though....
Certainly was NOT a lapsed Catholic. He was very much into his religion, held it dearly as his own words show. And what about the Catholic church in Rwanda? There they on the very same genocide mission as before.
Indeed, Hitler was Catholic and supported and aided by the Pope at the time and the Catholic Church. Why do you think he killed Jewish people? Catholic doctrine was that the whole of the Jewish people were guilty of killing their god, Jesus!
Catholic priest bugger little boys, and the Catholic church covers this up, moving on the priests to new locations with new young boys to bugger.
The Catholic church is guilty of these and many more crimes against humanity.
If you're a Catholic and feel that Nazism, killing Jews and buggering young boys is wrong you owe it upon yourself to leave and denounce the Catholic church. Nothing less is moral for you to do.
Ah, but in Luke Jesus also says slaves should be beaten with many stripes.
The fact is, there's no contempory evidence for Jesus. All words attributed to him were written many many years later, and indeed, the books that make up the Bible were picked and chosen from the many available gospels.
And think about this, what could be a worse hell than living in the joys of a heaven, knowing that friends, relatives, loved ones, human beings, babies, mothers, children, fathers are being tormented in hell fire because your god is so bloody stupid he couldn't convince anyone with even modest intelligence of his own existance. Think about it. Think hard, because that's cruel and unjust.
Thanks for your most honest and thoughtful reply. My only argument against you being Christian, is your allegiance to that religion gives weight to fundementalists who also say they belong to that religion. Sounds like you are very un-fundie though, and as I say, by ditching the nasty bits of the Bible, you've shown yourself to be morally superior to the god character in that book, and to the fundies.
Unfortunately, your cleverly presented argument relies upon human logic, and is hence, by your own argument, invalid. Have a nice day.
The logic and reasoning that points to the earth not being 4000 years old, and the logic and reasoning that points to evolution being what actually happened, also allow us to see through the charade that is christianity though. Now, if you were a deist, I could amost accept that, but christianity is just a bunch of made up stories. At least the fundies take their holy book by it's word. If you pick and choose from the Bible, you're demonstrating that you yourself have a much better sense of morals than the god you worship. If you've ditched the nasty bits of the Bible already, why not go the whole distance and ditch the rest. You know you want to!
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This is only 3840 x 2160 pixels, which is shy of the 4096x2304 pixels needed for the in-camera recording modes in RED ONE www.red.com, and quite a way below what is needed for the full sensor 4520x2540.
Given the RED is the only thing on the horizon that has the resolution to feed this screen, why stop a few pixels short with your design??
Remember athiesm is the only "religion" that's been around since the beginning. All other religions are just young upstarts. You think the Christian God is a Christian? Nope, if he's God, there cannot be any higher power than him for him to believe in, so he must be an Atheist. If being an aethiest is good enough for God, it's good enough for me.
But this was an expensive 1080p plasmas being fed a native 1080p signal..... We're video professionals and do have a good idea what we're doing. Fact is that the quality of the TV and associated circuitry more than outweighs any 720p / 1080p difference. But you're right- a lot of TVs cheat, and suck. IT's tough for us when we're trying to vastly improve the image, and then you see it on a TV that destroys your hard work.
Well, had a 720p and 1080p Plasma in the office, comparing some 4k video downscaled to 1080p, playback from uncompressed DPX over HDSDI. Simple fact was, you had to stand pretty close to the monitors to see the extra resolution of the 1080p, and overall, the 720p had better contrast and an overall better picture. There's no point in more resolution unless you do it right.
With regards to Blu Ray - saw an instore demo, and it looked so awful, I'd prefer to watch a normal DVD. There were more compression artifacts than I've had hot dinners, and really looked bit-starved. What a crappy demo for a crappy format. Yuck.
The reaction to "time machine" was pretty good - the crowds seem to really like that, and it was fun how it was presented. No, there wasn't the biggest of announcements, but overall it was pretty good. I think the key point is that OS X is pretty mature and doesn't really need "that" much doing to it.
Q: How much money from AllOfMP3 gets back to musicians? - A: bugger all.
Q: How much money from iTunes gets back to musicians? - A: bugger all.
Q: How much money from Napster gets back to musicians? - A: bugger all.
I'm beginning to see a pattern here.....
WIndows OneCare sounds rather close in pronunciation to Windows Wanker for my liking.... But perhaps the meaning is clearer....
I think it's more likely that burst's requests to be "worked with" were turned down because, when you read those patents, they don't actually tell you anything useful. They speak in wide terms. In no way could you build, say, quicktime, by reading those patents. The patents are trvially obvious dream lists. Why would Apple steal something so useless. If patents are to mean anything, they should detail full operation of a product made from the patent. If it's a machine, diagrams showing it's full working, or if it's software, (and I despise software patents) full source code.
But Microsoft are NOT in trouble for being successful - they're in trouble for HOW they achieved their success. Remember, they're a convicted illegal monopolist. They have used market domination in one field to unfairly leverage dominance in others, at the total expense of innovation and consumer benefit.
Exactly! Apple don't distribute any physical music, not sheet music, not discs, not vinyl, not tapes.
Because of the massive publicity of these law suits over the years, no-one can possible claim that they don't know that Apple computers and Apple records are two different companies.
The whole record industry moved into computers though.....
Well, go th other way and just grant every single patent. Let everyone have them. Let them clash!!! Let the lawyers get rich and soon enough tech companies will be putting big $$ into governments to pay for change to the system.
The fact is patents for this kind of "technology" don't work, and can't work, and any attempt to do better prior art searches is just putting a band-aid on a broken neck.
One of the ideas of patents is to stop trade secrets remaining secret forever, that knowledge being lost to everyone. Now that just isn't happening in the computer world. There's no need for that kind of protection.
Well, maybe the patent office should pay for both sides of the dispute - that would keep the costs down. Or perhaps grant everyone's patent without any searches or whatever, and then only decide on whether it's valid or not when a dispute arises, and then they'd only have to concentrate their effort on patents that anyone cares about.
But really, the way forward is to remove software, business methods and "on the internet" from patentability and let them stick to worrying about anti-gravity machines and the like.
Also the patent office needs to be held accountable for it's mistakes, like, for instance, paying for anyone who has to fight a bogus patent. Maybe then they'd take due care?
What would be easiest would be to invalidate now, and forever, any software patents. That would get rid of most of the bad patents in one swoop.
The Key thing is that's NTP's patent was a worthless piece of paper until RIM did the hard work and made a product that worked, and that NTP could try and scrounge some cash from.
Patent Trolling is not clever, it's a cancer in the patent system, just like submarine patents and software patents.