Depends on the laws in your country. In the United States, the answer is no. When you buy a DVD, you have a liscense to the content on that DVD only. You are allowed to make a personal backup copy of the DVD, but that does not intitle you to make copies of other people's DVD's, or other people's version of the movie (VCD, VHS, Film, etc).
Um, sure they do. All the time in fact. At last years E3, the Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP were shown for the first time. Both recieved modifications to their design before being released to the public. While the difference won't be "night and day", it is very possible that the X-Box 360 shown at E3 this year will be tweaked and modified before final product ships for Christmas.
Let me get this straight. Fat guys are losers and Paris Hilton is cool?
Nope, both are losers. However given the choice, I think most people (of either sex) would choose to sleep with Paris before sleeping with a fat gamer.
I know some of my hippie friends have stated for a few years now that Hemp would make the perfect fuel, for simliar reasons. So which gives you the highest energy yield over a year, "grass" or hemp?
First off, this isn't new. Tivo has been doing this for months. I first started getting these in January. And to make clear, the "pop-ups" only appear when fast forwarding through commercials, not during shows. Basically a banner pops up and asks you to hit thumbs up if you want more information. I've never hit the thumbs up, so I don't know what happens at that point, but I'd guess it takes you to a prerecorded commercial of some sort or gets recorded at Tivo HQ and a printed packet gets sent out.
I'm the opposite. I'd rather have two sets of bookmarks. I don't want my work computer getting cluttered with links to my hobbies, and I don't want my home computer polluted with work related links (If I'm going to work from home, I'll use my work laptop).
However, this would be nice for that small set of bookmarks that overlap.
You think spelling on Slashdot is bad, try reading a police report some time. They often don't even both to get the names of the people involved correct.
I'm just curious how a book of their strips would work. Too many of their strips don't make sense unless you read the news post that goes along with them. While many you could figure out (especially if you are an obsessive gamer type), there are others that really just don't work unless you know the context from the news post. Will they have the news post on 1 page and the strip on the next?
Putting it down, not that hard. Putting it down and making it look good/integrate with the home, expensive and/or time consuming. And this is faster than WiFi and hopefully leaks less RF outside your home than WiFi.
I really don't think you can compare the RF noise from this in home wiring to the amount of RF noise created by trying to distribute this to every home over high voltage power lines.
Ok, then even better. They're going to use Microsoft's settlement to go after other companies who are infringing on the patent (Probably Apple and Real). Now that the 800Lbs has set an example for everyone, they should be able to parlay that into nice big settlements from the other guys.
I still don't see how the stock holders were screwed. They're in a better position today than if Microsoft passed on the technology and did not infringe on the patents, and better than waiting several more years in the hopes that the court would award an even bigger settlement down the road.
How many TV's are in the typical home? How much bandwidth will you need to provided signal to all of them (provide each is tuned to a different station)?
While you might only need 19.5Mbps, that assumes only one channel/TV, and assume you aren't do anything else on the network. Most homes have to contend with multiple TV's, plus little Jenny video chatting with her friends, and little bobby is downloading MP3's over P2P, while mom is using Vonage to make a call. You need a bigger pipe to support all of that.
The real question that now needs to be asked is what sort of QoS is provided to insure no dropped packets for VoIP and HDTV?
Sure he was remembered on TV for a few weeks as a great American, why not? He did do some good things you know. When someone dies you don't normally go on TV and talk shit about them. You remember the good things they did. There's nothing wrong with that. It not like when he died they went around deleting everything bad he did from the history books. It's all still there. Talking about the good things he did is just the classy thing to do.
When one of your asshole relatives die do you go to the funeral and talk what a jerk he was. No, you go through your memories and try to find something good to say.
No it didn't. The law pretends that corperations are legal entities when it wants to protect execs from taking responsibility but when a company comes up in court over and over again it doesn't get three-strikes rules or any of that shit you or I would get.
Uh, actually they are being treated exactly like how you or I would. 3 Strikes laws are part criminal law. What we are discussing with Microsoft and Burst is civil law. There's a big difference between the two types of law and I suggest you look into it. There are no restrictions as to how many times anyone can be sued or found guilty of violating civil law.
Does this surprise you? Walt Disney pioneered this with the original "Disneyland" TV program. In order to finance the creation of Disneyland park, he sold (I want to say to CBS, but I'm not sure) a series of 1 hour programs. He named the show Disneyland and each week it played a program that fit one of four themes that just happened to be named after the 4 major themed areas in his upcoming Disneyland park. He was pretty much free to create whatever programming he wanted, so several of the episodes revolved around the construction and grand opening of Disneyland Park. Walt also used the park (once it opened) to promote new theatrical releases, and continued to use Disneyland/Wonderful World of Disney/Etc as a place to promote his park and movie ambitions.
Walt was one of the world's best marketers and the Disney company still uses many of his innovations today to continue to cross-promote their products.
At least they could have linked to the new Wired article that talks about how many TV Compilations are either being held up from being release to DVD or are being released to DVD in a heavily edited format because the record companies are demanding too much money for the music used in the episodes.
Same general topic (evil RIAA), but showing how else the corrupt music industry is screwing over consumers of TV programs.
Actually, they stop and check everyone because they don't trust their employees. They are worried that you are friends with the checker, and the checker failed to ring up everything you purchased. This is the same reason they always have someone telling you what checker to use, no matter how slow of a day it is. They don't want you choosing who rings you up for fear it is your friend.
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Hey now. Despite being very tall and having very large feet, sasquatch actually have very small hands.
Depends on the laws in your country. In the United States, the answer is no. When you buy a DVD, you have a liscense to the content on that DVD only. You are allowed to make a personal backup copy of the DVD, but that does not intitle you to make copies of other people's DVD's, or other people's version of the movie (VCD, VHS, Film, etc).
Um, sure they do. All the time in fact. At last years E3, the Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP were shown for the first time. Both recieved modifications to their design before being released to the public. While the difference won't be "night and day", it is very possible that the X-Box 360 shown at E3 this year will be tweaked and modified before final product ships for Christmas.
Nope, both are losers. However given the choice, I think most people (of either sex) would choose to sleep with Paris before sleeping with a fat gamer.
I know some of my hippie friends have stated for a few years now that Hemp would make the perfect fuel, for simliar reasons. So which gives you the highest energy yield over a year, "grass" or hemp?
First off, this isn't new. Tivo has been doing this for months. I first started getting these in January. And to make clear, the "pop-ups" only appear when fast forwarding through commercials, not during shows. Basically a banner pops up and asks you to hit thumbs up if you want more information. I've never hit the thumbs up, so I don't know what happens at that point, but I'd guess it takes you to a prerecorded commercial of some sort or gets recorded at Tivo HQ and a printed packet gets sent out.
However, this would be nice for that small set of bookmarks that overlap.
You think spelling on Slashdot is bad, try reading a police report some time. They often don't even both to get the names of the people involved correct.
I'm just curious how a book of their strips would work. Too many of their strips don't make sense unless you read the news post that goes along with them. While many you could figure out (especially if you are an obsessive gamer type), there are others that really just don't work unless you know the context from the news post. Will they have the news post on 1 page and the strip on the next?
I did the same thing by accident years ago when I resized the icons on a web page I was working on, but forgot to resize the mouseover images.
Forget Lego's, I want to see a Batman movie made using nothing but Eggo's! Delicious.
I really don't think you can compare the RF noise from this in home wiring to the amount of RF noise created by trying to distribute this to every home over high voltage power lines.
I still don't see how the stock holders were screwed. They're in a better position today than if Microsoft passed on the technology and did not infringe on the patents, and better than waiting several more years in the hopes that the court would award an even bigger settlement down the road.
While you might only need 19.5Mbps, that assumes only one channel/TV, and assume you aren't do anything else on the network. Most homes have to contend with multiple TV's, plus little Jenny video chatting with her friends, and little bobby is downloading MP3's over P2P, while mom is using Vonage to make a call. You need a bigger pipe to support all of that.
The real question that now needs to be asked is what sort of QoS is provided to insure no dropped packets for VoIP and HDTV?
The company gets $34million. That's not too shabby, and will go to help Burst create new products/technology to sell.
When one of your asshole relatives die do you go to the funeral and talk what a jerk he was. No, you go through your memories and try to find something good to say.
Uh, actually they are being treated exactly like how you or I would. 3 Strikes laws are part criminal law. What we are discussing with Microsoft and Burst is civil law. There's a big difference between the two types of law and I suggest you look into it. There are no restrictions as to how many times anyone can be sued or found guilty of violating civil law.
Now you understand why malpractice insurance is so high.
Might it just be because February/March are usually pretty baren when it comes to A-List games?
Perhaps you missed this story here, where it was found that Mozilla is actually faster than Firefox.
Does this surprise you? Walt Disney pioneered this with the original "Disneyland" TV program. In order to finance the creation of Disneyland park, he sold (I want to say to CBS, but I'm not sure) a series of 1 hour programs. He named the show Disneyland and each week it played a program that fit one of four themes that just happened to be named after the 4 major themed areas in his upcoming Disneyland park. He was pretty much free to create whatever programming he wanted, so several of the episodes revolved around the construction and grand opening of Disneyland Park. Walt also used the park (once it opened) to promote new theatrical releases, and continued to use Disneyland/Wonderful World of Disney/Etc as a place to promote his park and movie ambitions.
Walt was one of the world's best marketers and the Disney company still uses many of his innovations today to continue to cross-promote their products.
Same general topic (evil RIAA), but showing how else the corrupt music industry is screwing over consumers of TV programs.
Oh, and here's the Wired article.
Does it even matter what the law says? Can't the airline just say "No ID, no Fly. That's our policy and if you don't like it, don't fly with us."?
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This is enough to make up for all of Flash's downsides, at least for me.
Actually, they stop and check everyone because they don't trust their employees. They are worried that you are friends with the checker, and the checker failed to ring up everything you purchased. This is the same reason they always have someone telling you what checker to use, no matter how slow of a day it is. They don't want you choosing who rings you up for fear it is your friend.