a press release shouldn't count as news, for it is rammed packed with FUD and PR bullshit that its hard to really see the issues.
What seems to be the issue. Adobe guessed the market direction, bought imbedding rights on the cheap, now the companies wake up and see the direction the market has gone, and want a larger licensing paycheck.
The DMCA is probably just fluff, but the point should be made that the DMCA even covers the creation of a document (PDF).
The outcome if for Adobe would begin the process of containing and boxing in the DMCA, something that needs to be done.
MP3s going down? Not likely... If anything the new licensing fees will enable more research which will lead to better compression and less quality loss.
Freeware and shareware hurt... BFD!! Really... Pay that $0.75 for your download... Its less then a cup of coffee!
I'm not being a prick... But there are a lot of users out there who use WinDoze and this would be another tool in protecting us from those crazy script kiddies...
They do... Its just an advanced topic, so if you are a beginner... Don't worry about it... Publish your stuff to the web.. Since you are only a beginner, we'll cover that next week.
The problem is some "professionals" are really beginners...
The new security guards should be smarter in the United States at least, since they are Federals now, rather then high school dropouts or recent immigrants.
Everyone is given a sticker for the laptops that pass inspection, then all the flight stewardess has to do is look... No sticker, no using.
Consider it an arm band policy... If you cheat, you get fined just like smoking... It can be a good revenue stream.
and for $5 I'd rather prosecute you for the thief you are.. because $5 covers absolutely nothing.
$5 is not reasonable.. I would pay $100 for the year if it gave me unlimited downloading just like Audio Galaxy did, and with the same variety... Even if that means initially that they have to provide the content.
Its about convience... Make it convient, I'll use it...
Both are doing their best to turn their customers into thieves and through their policy actively encourage their most loyal fans to seek other sources of entertainment!
My prediction? Both the RIAA and MLB will need to loose big money before they wake up!
Oh, and Canadians.. Congradulations on showing the Blue Jays and Expos just what would of happened with a strike... and a 15% drop in CD sales in Canada... Good job!!!
1) There was a strike. For then the fans would have left and certainly some teams would have gone bankrupt.
2) That this crack-down nonsense would end. For it is these types of fans that baseball would need the next time it goes on strike.
3) That baseball would die. Sure its America's favorite past time, but its also starting to look like America's biggest problem! GREED!!!
Major League Baseball casts Americans in the worst light possible. Here is a sport where some of the top paid players can't speak a word of English, but worst still, these players seem less inteligent then other sports (next to boxing and football).
This is not a racial thing, I'm just curious since new words are introduced rapidly (every Tuesday with the next album release) and though I prefer Eurodance and Trance, I find it difficult to converse with my hommies.
This French Canadian is out of his mind... Typical!
Well now to begin disecting his PR bullshit.
Did MIT Base Its $50 Million Soldier of Tomorrow On Radix?
No.. It based it on a flexible, adaptive power suit that is not bulk yet still intimidating built with TECHNOLOGY and SKILLS that MIT is easily able to supply.
People who buy Radix buy a fantasy, said Lai. Now MIT says all future U.S. soldiers will look like Radix. They're saying Radix is not fantasy, it's reality.
Radix who? Seriously, from artistic impression to actual implementation, I am confident that there will be serious revisions such that Radix will be nearly indistinguishable.
an attorney for MIT admitted the school reproduced figures and scenes from Radix to illustrate to the U.S. Army certain research concepts of the future U.S. soldier as part of its winning bid to create the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies (ISN.)
The keywords are "reproduced" and "illistrate". This means that MIT still had to do some work. I would like to know where Radix got his influence, since as previous readers have said, "power suits are nothing new".. and I'm sure if we did enough research we could find several PS designs that predate Radix and have "striking" similarities.
MIT's lead person on the project subsequently told the media that his daughter created the Radix image at his direction.
She did create the image of Radix... You see how much patch work she did? That wasn't a simple task. I guess the MIT spokeperson should have said "that we created the image using Radix sprites". Its an easy enough mistake... When a construction company says that they built a building, the don't mean that they built all the materials, merely that they assembled them into the final product. Hence MIT was correct in the statement.
Lai hopes the Army will revisit its decision to award MIT $50 million based upon the flawed application.
Bitter French Canadian... Again a typical response. The contract was awarded on more then just pretty artistic work. It was based on the ability to deliver what was proposed. So why should the contract be revisited? MIT's ability to deliver a solution hasn't changed.
Does the U.S. Army want to let somebody get away with stealing, cheating and lying?
Let's see.. the army is responsible for killing, killing, and oh yes... more killing. If MIT ripped graphic elements, but delivers a superior killing machine, does the army care? I sure hope not. The Army is responsible for defending the country, somebody's hurt feelings should not detract from their purpose.
As an artist, your work is who you are, said Ray Lai. Everybody knows you don't put your name on somebody else's work. If I went to MIT and did that, I would be thrown out of school.
Hey MIT... Next time cite the damn sources!
Radix features characters who scan for life forms, wear invincible body armor, can become invisible, and display physical skills enhanced by machinery.
Hey Radix... Please tell me how you plan to implement this technology... You don't know... Well congradufuckinglations, you proved my point. Your ideas are just that and carry no real weight when it comes to taking a comic to reality. And your "featues" are not unique... because invincible armor does not exist, there is always a weak spot somewhere...
Until MIT promises never to do it again, we can't be sure that Radix is safe, said Ray Lai.
Always the victim eh Frenchie? Radix is safe, because I hope Ray that your story is more then just a single illustration. Radix is a separate reality, so there is no reason not to continue to develop this world... Because I'm sure the Army won't be coming out with stories about their new body armor... Hell, if your nice, they might let you assist in making it visually inimidating.
But alas, Ray, you are just looking near term! And Frenchi, that is your flaw!
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a press release shouldn't count as news, for it is rammed packed with FUD and PR bullshit that its hard to really see the issues.
What seems to be the issue. Adobe guessed the market direction, bought imbedding rights on the cheap, now the companies wake up and see the direction the market has gone, and want a larger licensing paycheck.
The DMCA is probably just fluff, but the point should be made that the DMCA even covers the creation of a document (PDF).
The outcome if for Adobe would begin the process of containing and boxing in the DMCA, something that needs to be done.
Ha Ha...
Followed by a Cartman...
I hate you guys!
If that were true, we would also have 1st Ammendment rights too...
Patriotism != Racism. I can still be a patriot without being a racist.
World Series (2 teams from Canada, rest from States).
WarDriving... Cities from only the western part of North America...
Don't call it "World" if its just North America, and especially don't if its just a region of North America.
probably not!
Now that the self-righteous have posted..
Its time to move on!
MP3s going down? Not likely... If anything the new licensing fees will enable more research which will lead to better compression and less quality loss.
Freeware and shareware hurt... BFD!! Really... Pay that $0.75 for your download... Its less then a cup of coffee!
wait, and wait, and wait.. Oh, and wait some more. After waiting, we wait some more...
Sounds like fun...
At least you can bet against the pitch drop... Bonzi!
and here is an excellent example of way to much time on your hands to know this fact..
the other example is me taking the time to reply to this message and to have even been reading this tread.
Maybe it was cool "way back when". Now it's just gay.
Its Prince... Makes sense now... That whole cross-gender / gay/hetro / symbol/word thing...
But atleast he's batting on our team... Switch hitters can be such a pain in the ass.
The lyrics/liner notes on his records have been that way for a while too.
You just don't download his stuff?
to port it to Windows?
I'm not being a prick... But there are a lot of users out there who use WinDoze and this would be another tool in protecting us from those crazy script kiddies...
Oh to be young and under 18 again...
They do... Its just an advanced topic, so if you are a beginner... Don't worry about it... Publish your stuff to the web.. Since you are only a beginner, we'll cover that next week.
The problem is some "professionals" are really beginners...
Yikes!!!!
a new trick...
The new security guards should be smarter in the United States at least, since they are Federals now, rather then high school dropouts or recent immigrants.
Everyone is given a sticker for the laptops that pass inspection, then all the flight stewardess has to do is look... No sticker, no using.
Consider it an arm band policy... If you cheat, you get fined just like smoking... It can be a good revenue stream.
I'll be the first to say that Iraq and even Syria deserve a good flattening... But we must ask... Are you prepared to pay triple for the price of oil?
That's what its going to take, because Iraq, Iran, and Syria will all need to be dealt with, and Saudi Arabia and Eygpt need to stay out of it.
See, the trick is to ensure that the Arabs stay divided, give them a cause, and we have a problem, for life is cheap there.
Oil is just to vulnerable... we need an alternative, for only then can we flatten those son-of-a-bitches...
Until then, the UN is how we need to go!
and for $5 I'd rather prosecute you for the thief you are.. because $5 covers absolutely nothing.
$5 is not reasonable.. I would pay $100 for the year if it gave me unlimited downloading just like Audio Galaxy did, and with the same variety... Even if that means initially that they have to provide the content.
Its about convience... Make it convient, I'll use it...
Well we'll just have to show them how much we like it by going and giving them another $250,000,000 in its run, and twice that in DVD rentals...
Of course some people won't see the movie.. But then there are people like me who own the DVD, saw the movie, bought the books, etc.
You have my cash... Now let me have a peak!
The story just read like a "I want my candy, and your's and your's. If I can't get mine... You shouldn't get your's."
And that is typical of any spoiled brat!
I can't... But this is /. Since when does my post actually have to be accurate, true, or resonable?
Both are doing their best to turn their customers into thieves and through their policy actively encourage their most loyal fans to seek other sources of entertainment!
My prediction? Both the RIAA and MLB will need to loose big money before they wake up!
Oh, and Canadians.. Congradulations on showing the Blue Jays and Expos just what would of happened with a strike... and a 15% drop in CD sales in Canada... Good job!!!
1) There was a strike. For then the fans would have left and certainly some teams would have gone bankrupt.
2) That this crack-down nonsense would end. For it is these types of fans that baseball would need the next time it goes on strike.
3) That baseball would die. Sure its America's favorite past time, but its also starting to look like America's biggest problem! GREED!!!
Major League Baseball casts Americans in the worst light possible. Here is a sport where some of the top paid players can't speak a word of English, but worst still, these players seem less inteligent then other sports (next to boxing and football).
Learn to understand Ebonics?
This is not a racial thing, I'm just curious since new words are introduced rapidly (every Tuesday with the next album release) and though I prefer Eurodance and Trance, I find it difficult to converse with my hommies.
Cheapies...
Seriously... Shell out the cash and give us the code... How lame (no pun)...
If Sun was as big and powerful as MS, we'd be making Sun-of-a-bitch jokes just a Micro-soft penis choices...
Cheapies...
Well now to begin disecting his PR bullshit.
No.. It based it on a flexible, adaptive power suit that is not bulk yet still intimidating built with TECHNOLOGY and SKILLS that MIT is easily able to supply.
Radix who? Seriously, from artistic impression to actual implementation, I am confident that there will be serious revisions such that Radix will be nearly indistinguishable.
The keywords are "reproduced" and "illistrate". This means that MIT still had to do some work. I would like to know where Radix got his influence, since as previous readers have said, "power suits are nothing new".. and I'm sure if we did enough research we could find several PS designs that predate Radix and have "striking" similarities.
She did create the image of Radix... You see how much patch work she did? That wasn't a simple task. I guess the MIT spokeperson should have said "that we created the image using Radix sprites". Its an easy enough mistake... When a construction company says that they built a building, the don't mean that they built all the materials, merely that they assembled them into the final product. Hence MIT was correct in the statement.
Bitter French Canadian... Again a typical response. The contract was awarded on more then just pretty artistic work. It was based on the ability to deliver what was proposed. So why should the contract be revisited? MIT's ability to deliver a solution hasn't changed.
Let's see.. the army is responsible for killing, killing, and oh yes... more killing. If MIT ripped graphic elements, but delivers a superior killing machine, does the army care? I sure hope not. The Army is responsible for defending the country, somebody's hurt feelings should not detract from their purpose.
Hey MIT... Next time cite the damn sources!
Hey Radix... Please tell me how you plan to implement this technology... You don't know... Well congradufuckinglations, you proved my point. Your ideas are just that and carry no real weight when it comes to taking a comic to reality. And your "featues" are not unique... because invincible armor does not exist, there is always a weak spot somewhere...
Always the victim eh Frenchie? Radix is safe, because I hope Ray that your story is more then just a single illustration. Radix is a separate reality, so there is no reason not to continue to develop this world... Because I'm sure the Army won't be coming out with stories about their new body armor... Hell, if your nice, they might let you assist in making it visually inimidating.
But alas, Ray, you are just looking near term! And Frenchi, that is your flaw!