Philips' system skips CDs, and instead uses a DVD burner
More importantly than DRM is how much will this cost? DRM is important, don't get me wrong, but no matter how little copyright protection is on the thing, if the DVD audio player costs $250 in addition to the rest of the audio system, not many people are going to buy it unless it sounds better than all else.
But on a more serious note, they are calling everybody who buys a computer a theif. No questioning use. No checking if the computer will even be connected to the internet.
Everybody. Every man, woman and child. Every office assistant, every student.
Let's pretend that the computers sold are $700. That's not including the monitor (which is used to see what pirated files you want to download), printer (which is used to print labels for your pirated CDs), or any other peripherals (such as your speakers, used to play the latest pirated Rammestien singles). They get $13 right off the bat. Now, let's add another $112 for the 16%. That means that on a $700 computer, you have to pay an additional $130, not including peripherals / other sales taxes.
I work at a retail store. We sell about 6 computers per week. Multiply that by the amount of stores in Germany, and that number by $130.
And the recording industry needs how much more money to pay for the pirated CD sales losses?
I would like to thank you all for your advice on this issue, from these posts I have seen both extremes and have decided what path I will take in the future (well ok I cheated a bit and got some legal advice too).
You blame this on the GameCube? C'mon, you know that the Cube is just used to take up the time between when you would normally go to bed and the time when Cowboy Bebop comes on.
Besides, now playing Ocarina of Time Master Quest takes up that time.. Metroid is so 2 months ago.
look at the size of garden hose, and then look at the size of a phone wire. if properly threaded, the number of wire that could fit into a garden hose would make for a great amount of bandwidth, even though it would only be like an isdn line.
perhaps filling the hose with optics would be better. either way, a garden hose is big enough to produce quite a bit of bandwidth.
I'll bite. Hell, you already consider me a foe, so what more harm can I do?
To start off with, the information is grossly understated. If we were to find out what is going on with the filtering issue, we would need many more numbers than what they gave us (e.g. total number of mails processed, then broken down by sender, whether the recipient was in the to part of the header or the bcc part, etc).
There are so many factors that go into this that it's not even funny. I run a medium sized hosting company and take care of spam complaints from the inside and outside, as well as deal with filtering. It's not the most interesting job in the world... and yes, I do have clients (business owners) who use AOL for their home dialup service. They tend to be the ones that complain most.
So, to answer your question, yes, from the information we were given, it appears that their filtering is 99.4% successful. Is this at all accurate? Nope.
It's not my fault the moderators don't agree with you. Most of the time, they don't agree with me either. Unfortunately, unless you can think of a better moderation system and get Taco to build it, it's gonna be this way.
Yep. From what I have noticed in real life, every person who still uses AOL is quite adept at complaining. Reporting these spams is the best way to complain to AOL about them.
Well, they already seems to be tracking every property in the UK, as the article states:
the only details that will be entered are name, address and Meter Point Asset Number - the number in the corner of every household electricity bill which is unique to that property
But then they go and cause more distrust of the program, by stating of these numbers:
It could also become a pre-requisite of any universal ID card
And lastly, I feel we've all eard this one before:
It is a pro-active way to protect your identity
Well, ok, one more, but only because it sounds funny out of context:
we need mega-systems
I know that usually companies are on top of these updates to keep the best updates on the shelves, but how long does it really take a company to go from reproduction with the new updates to shelf life, if at all?
Or, if they are too lazy to even re-release it, how long until they decide it's compatable and post it on their website?
Perhaps they (interwoven) are taking a lesson from what slashdot has been preaching and will sit on the patent and never file any suits, thus taking away the chance of another company doing just that?
Slashdot Mirror
it seems as though he is making quite a bit of money off nothing.
a book on how to imagine databases that hold no information
How to imagine imaginary numbers
I wish I had nothing that could make me a lot of money as well.
guess who didn't click the links?
a cookie to who figures it out.
It would seem as though this person is trying to make their own version of this ThinkGeek toy.
Good luck to him/her. ThinkGeek is out of stock until June, and even then it will be expensive ($200 I think).
Philips' system skips CDs, and instead uses a DVD burner
More importantly than DRM is how much will this cost? DRM is important, don't get me wrong, but no matter how little copyright protection is on the thing, if the DVD audio player costs $250 in addition to the rest of the audio system, not many people are going to buy it unless it sounds better than all else.
oops.. my bad.
I even bought a subscription to see the article early so I could read it over fully just so I wouldn't make stupid mistakes like that.
and I still missed it. as stated before... oops..
From the article:
"Blank magnetic media, especially recordable CDs"
Yes, because CDs are magnetic...
But on a more serious note, they are calling everybody who buys a computer a theif. No questioning use. No checking if the computer will even be connected to the internet.
Everybody. Every man, woman and child. Every office assistant, every student.
Let's pretend that the computers sold are $700. That's not including the monitor (which is used to see what pirated files you want to download), printer (which is used to print labels for your pirated CDs), or any other peripherals (such as your speakers, used to play the latest pirated Rammestien singles). They get $13 right off the bat. Now, let's add another $112 for the 16%. That means that on a $700 computer, you have to pay an additional $130, not including peripherals / other sales taxes.
I work at a retail store. We sell about 6 computers per week. Multiply that by the amount of stores in Germany, and that number by $130.
And the recording industry needs how much more money to pay for the pirated CD sales losses?
I would like to thank you all for your advice on this issue, from these posts I have seen both extremes and have decided what path I will take in the future (well ok I cheated a bit and got some legal advice too).
Salesperson: "Ma'am, please remove any stolen merchandise."
Woman: "But..."
What does this mean for the the big guys in model rocketry, who use engines larger than this?
Umm.. IANAL, but I would interpret this to mean that they won't use engines larger than that without complying to the new set of laws.
Besides, it's not like you can't use more than one engine per rocket.
staying up til 3am playing on a worknight = bad
You blame this on the GameCube? C'mon, you know that the Cube is just used to take up the time between when you would normally go to bed and the time when Cowboy Bebop comes on.
Besides, now playing Ocarina of Time Master Quest takes up that time.. Metroid is so 2 months ago.
That cool little bean bag penguin that came in the box.
You can still get one of these at your local Staples store for $4.50 on clearance, just ask if they have Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 for Linux.
oh. well where's the fun in that? :-
that's not that bad of a thing. really.
look at the size of garden hose, and then look at the size of a phone wire. if properly threaded, the number of wire that could fit into a garden hose would make for a great amount of bandwidth, even though it would only be like an isdn line.
perhaps filling the hose with optics would be better. either way, a garden hose is big enough to produce quite a bit of bandwidth.
my dialup is angry at you right now.
i let you get modded down as a troll, apparantly :
...getting the rights to the book title "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
a convenient way to show certain posters at -3
Fair enough.
Personally, I leave what I don't see up to the moderators.
I assign friends as people I agree with that are insightful and bring a new angle onto the subject that I didn't see before.
I assign foes as people I don't agree with, yet are insightful and bring a new angle onto the subject that I didn't see before.
Both are shown at +3.
I'll bite. Hell, you already consider me a foe, so what more harm can I do?
To start off with, the information is grossly understated. If we were to find out what is going on with the filtering issue, we would need many more numbers than what they gave us (e.g. total number of mails processed, then broken down by sender, whether the recipient was in the to part of the header or the bcc part, etc).
There are so many factors that go into this that it's not even funny. I run a medium sized hosting company and take care of spam complaints from the inside and outside, as well as deal with filtering. It's not the most interesting job in the world... and yes, I do have clients (business owners) who use AOL for their home dialup service. They tend to be the ones that complain most.
So, to answer your question, yes, from the information we were given, it appears that their filtering is 99.4% successful. Is this at all accurate? Nope.
It's not my fault the moderators don't agree with you. Most of the time, they don't agree with me either. Unfortunately, unless you can think of a better moderation system and get Taco to build it, it's gonna be this way.
Yep. From what I have noticed in real life, every person who still uses AOL is quite adept at complaining. Reporting these spams is the best way to complain to AOL about them.
They are just doing what they do best.
erm... 5.5 million per day as the article states?
That'd be my guess.
Well, they already seems to be tracking every property in the UK, as the article states:
the only details that will be entered are name, address and Meter Point Asset Number - the number in the corner of every household electricity bill which is unique to that property
But then they go and cause more distrust of the program, by stating of these numbers:
It could also become a pre-requisite of any universal ID card
And lastly, I feel we've all eard this one before:
It is a pro-active way to protect your identity
Well, ok, one more, but only because it sounds funny out of context:
we need mega-systems
so, here are some others for your reading enjoyment:
MSN Money Article
Boston Globe Article
BizReport Article
On an offtopic note, the new strong bad email is also slashdotted. Anybody got a link for me?
I know that usually companies are on top of these updates to keep the best updates on the shelves, but how long does it really take a company to go from reproduction with the new updates to shelf life, if at all?
Or, if they are too lazy to even re-release it, how long until they decide it's compatable and post it on their website?
I don't know how good an idea this might be.
As it currently stands, I try to be awake for as little daylight as I can, and brightly lit t-shirts would kinda defeat the purpose.
Perhaps they (interwoven) are taking a lesson from what slashdot has been preaching and will sit on the patent and never file any suits, thus taking away the chance of another company doing just that?
Or maybe I just have too much faith in society.