I wonder how much of the "infringing" material would have been classified as non-infringing if copyright terms had remained at 14 years instead of "indefinitely." They said that most of the material was music, movies, and TV shows; and very few of those works have entered the public domain since the 1920's.
Last week I got another edition of the yellow pages. Before tossing it out, I decided to look up a type of business I had been meaning to look up for a while. I found a single ad-style listing with no address. I tossed the book right out.
This morning I tried looking up the same type of business on Google Maps. It found 344 results and pointed out a few of them on the map, one of which happens to be just a mile and a half from home.
Looking things up on the Internet is not only more convenient, it's also more informative and apparently more comprehensive.
let the OEMs sort it out, but I don't have much of a problem with the "random ballot" -- other than that it's going to lead to the best marketing winning, not the best software.
That's just how Microsoft became a near-monopoly: with the best marketing, not the best software.
The cat's brain is made up of 1 BILLION neurons and 10 trillion synapses. So with the nuerogrid chips, it will require at least a kilowatt to simulate.
Given that the fingerprint is due to "radio-frequency and manufacturing differences" and "significantly different for same-model tags," isn't it also possible that a tag's fingerprint may vary over time?
And if the idea is "to detect counterfeit tags," how can they do that if tags of the same model have different fingerprints?
Where do you get your statistics from? I was under the impression that either heart disease or lung disease was the top killer in the U.S. (sources cited.)
Using file-sharing software does not equate to sharing files illegally. I admit to using BitTorrent to download Fedora ISO's, and there's nothing illegal about that.
I already get a low-mileage discount on my auto insurance from State Farm ( 7,000 miles/year), and I imagine other insurance companies would have similar programs. So what's this bill proposing that insurance companies don't already do?
One reason marketers have given products names instead of numbers, which isn't mentioned in the article, is that courts have ruled that companies can't trademark numbers (though I can't find a source reference).
Reminds me of when I was in France, and still having trouble understanding the spoken French language. I was talking to a guy who asked me, in translation, "Brothers, sisters, one, two, three?" It took me a while to figure out he wanted to know how many siblings I had. Dumbing down the question like that didn't help me understand him any better, it made it worse. Using correct French grammar and simply slowing it down would have been much more helpful.
Not just the PC; I recall the Apple II used an analog joystick as well, and the Atari 400/800 used the same method described in the abstract for their paddle controllers. Those were in the market nearly 20 years before the patent was even filed!
I remember Ask Jeeves used to be able to answer questions, until they were taken over by advertising. From that point all I ever got from them was links to other sites that were selling something maybe partially or tangentially related to your question.
"About 25 percent of the Dutch population downloaded hacked and pirated DVDs, games, and music..."
"... illegal downloaders representing 45 percent of consumers who purchase content legally"
This tells me that at least 44% of the Dutch population doesn't purchase DVDs, games, or music. That's assuming that all downloaders also purchase. If nearly all downloaders don't purchase, then anywhere up to 99.9% of the population isn't buying any of it.
Does that say something about the quality of commercial products?
I wonder if that's the same scammer who's been calling me almost every day for the last two months? My caller ID box shows a Florida number (561-xxx-xxxx, which could be a fake), so I never pick up, but the caller never left a message until just last week. Then I had his pitch captured on my voice mail: it was from "Imperial Majesty Cruise Lines" claiming I've received a free cruise. I've reported every instance to the national Do Not Call registry, but the calls just kept coming until a few days ago.
I think sending the FTC a complete transcript of each voice mail message may have helped.
My first guesses were meters (range) or grams. (Of what, I'm not saying...)
OTOH, SI units normally use 'k' for kilos, not 'K'. 'K' is used more for computing units of 2^10. But 28KB seems awfully small for an image which contains over 4.9 Mpix.
I'm normally not against using animals for scientific experiments, but this sounds painful:
One significant if gruesome study found that the leg-muscle tissue of laboratory rabbits could be stretched farther before ripping if it had been electronically stimulated -- that is, warmed up.
The article doesn't mention whether the lab bunnies were conscious, sedated, or dead while they had their legs ripped.
Even if the hard drive has a couple of million files on it and there are a few thousand known hashes of illegal files, the odds of having a different file with a matching hash are in the neighborhood of 10^28 to 1 against.
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I wonder how much of the "infringing" material would have been classified as non-infringing if copyright terms had remained at 14 years instead of "indefinitely." They said that most of the material was music, movies, and TV shows; and very few of those works have entered the public domain since the 1920's.
Last week I got another edition of the yellow pages. Before tossing it out, I decided to look up a type of business I had been meaning to look up for a while. I found a single ad-style listing with no address. I tossed the book right out.
This morning I tried looking up the same type of business on Google Maps. It found 344 results and pointed out a few of them on the map, one of which happens to be just a mile and a half from home.
Looking things up on the Internet is not only more convenient, it's also more informative and apparently more comprehensive.
Sounds like he's selling something.
That's just how Microsoft became a near-monopoly: with the best marketing, not the best software.
The cat's brain is made up of 1 BILLION neurons and 10 trillion synapses. So with the nuerogrid chips, it will require at least a kilowatt to simulate.
Given that the fingerprint is due to "radio-frequency and manufacturing differences" and "significantly different for same-model tags," isn't it also possible that a tag's fingerprint may vary over time?
And if the idea is "to detect counterfeit tags," how can they do that if tags of the same model have different fingerprints?
Where do you get your statistics from? I was under the impression that either heart disease or lung disease was the top killer in the U.S. (sources cited.)
They've also refused service on devices where their litmus indicator shows signs of turning pink (http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=9214797, http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/04/14/smart.phones.buggy/index.html, http://techgeist.net/2009/09/apple-iphone-abuse-detection-sensors-abusing-2/). It sounds like they're still looking for more excuses not to honor their "warranty."
I won't be buying any more Apple products.
Using file-sharing software does not equate to sharing files illegally. I admit to using BitTorrent to download Fedora ISO's, and there's nothing illegal about that.
I already get a low-mileage discount on my auto insurance from State Farm ( 7,000 miles/year), and I imagine other insurance companies would have similar programs. So what's this bill proposing that insurance companies don't already do?
One reason marketers have given products names instead of numbers, which isn't mentioned in the article, is that courts have ruled that companies can't trademark numbers (though I can't find a source reference).
In "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" (1968), Dr. Jones wears a sensor web to compensate for her blindness.
Fixed it.
Reminds me of when I was in France, and still having trouble understanding the spoken French language. I was talking to a guy who asked me, in translation, "Brothers, sisters, one, two, three?" It took me a while to figure out he wanted to know how many siblings I had. Dumbing down the question like that didn't help me understand him any better, it made it worse. Using correct French grammar and simply slowing it down would have been much more helpful.
I imagine Wolfram Alpha is like that.
Reminds me of the movie The Green Slime I saw when I was way too young to be watching late-night TV.
Not just the PC; I recall the Apple II used an analog joystick as well, and the Atari 400/800 used the same method described in the abstract for their paddle controllers. Those were in the market nearly 20 years before the patent was even filed!
I remember Ask Jeeves used to be able to answer questions, until they were taken over by advertising. From that point all I ever got from them was links to other sites that were selling something maybe partially or tangentially related to your question.
Thank goodness Wikipedia came along.
"About 25 percent of the Dutch population downloaded hacked and pirated DVDs, games, and music ..."
"... illegal downloaders representing 45 percent of consumers who purchase content legally"
This tells me that at least 44% of the Dutch population doesn't purchase DVDs, games, or music. That's assuming that all downloaders also purchase. If nearly all downloaders don't purchase, then anywhere up to 99.9% of the population isn't buying any of it.
Does that say something about the quality of commercial products?
I take that back -- the scammer called again just now.
I wonder if that's the same scammer who's been calling me almost every day for the last two months? My caller ID box shows a Florida number (561-xxx-xxxx, which could be a fake), so I never pick up, but the caller never left a message until just last week. Then I had his pitch captured on my voice mail: it was from "Imperial Majesty Cruise Lines" claiming I've received a free cruise. I've reported every instance to the national Do Not Call registry, but the calls just kept coming until a few days ago.
I think sending the FTC a complete transcript of each voice mail message may have helped.
Is socl netwkng goin to teach them essntl comm skls lik speling and crct gramar?
IDTS
My first guesses were meters (range) or grams. (Of what, I'm not saying...)
OTOH, SI units normally use 'k' for kilos, not 'K'. 'K' is used more for computing units of 2^10. But 28KB seems awfully small for an image which contains over 4.9 Mpix.
I'm normally not against using animals for scientific experiments, but this sounds painful:
The article doesn't mention whether the lab bunnies were conscious, sedated, or dead while they had their legs ripped.
Even if the hard drive has a couple of million files on it and there are a few thousand known hashes of illegal files, the odds of having a different file with a matching hash are in the neighborhood of 10^28 to 1 against.
Didn't we have an article just yesterday saying the Economic Crisis Favors Open Source?