Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see how you can patent something already in the public domain.
And with how long JPEG has been around, you would think they would have raised the point earlier of the unliscensed distribution of their technology. That is, of course, unless the whole point was wait until everybody uses it and then enforce the patent.
If you want to enforce a patent, you need to enforce it from the beginning. Also, anything that is a standard needs to be released to the public domain.
This is obviously a scam. It would be interesting to see how it plays out.
Quoteth: The companies will take several months to decide whether there is a workable business model for the plan, the report said, quoting an executive involved with the scheme.
What a way to end an article. "An executive?" Do we have a name? An executive of what company? Is this a scheme or a potential service?
Further more, is this a workable business model? If you are limiting access to certain areas I would say no. But then again, that's how mobil phones work;) If you already have wireless service points accross the nation, the best way to make this "workable" is to convert those to be able to accept the new service rather than putting up whole new access points. Plus, give everyone access, charge if you will (im sure its possible to verify legitimate access), but gosh freagin dangit stop limiting access to certain areas!
Seriously, this is nothing new. It is also not a "Personal Computer." I wonder how M$ will handle the copyright issues with recording TV programs, or even if they will allow you to edit out the commercials.
All in all, they are just taking a "PC" and further limiting its usage. No thanks, I think I'll pass on that one.
Newspapers usually cover news in a local area, so I can understand why "local bands" are an interest. I just wonder how well it will catch on. Businesses don't usually do something that isn't in the interest of profit. With the songs being put up for free, it will only work if they use the popularity of the music downloads to attract more advertisers (who like to see higher circulation).
Or they will require a log-in with a valid email address amd give you all the spam you can eat.
To account for consumption you need to charge by the byte, that way a fair price is paid by all...
This will only be fair if the cost per byte was low enough. Right now, someone who uses his/her connection on the weekends for web browsing and emails pays the same rate as the one playing online games everday with buddies on other computers on his/her home LAN.
Adjusting the price so that the first user pays the same amount under the new plan would inflate the other price many many many times higher than even reasonably affordable.
Would ISPs find $1/month appropriate for a small-time user in order to keep the more hefty users as customers? I don't think any ISP would like sending out a hundred $1 bills at the cost of $37 postage.
Video games have had more effect on the evolution of mankind than oxygen.... Columbine.
Absolutely! When I was in high school, I kept searching the halls for a secret room that holds the BFG9000. Alas, it was too well hidden, and I was stuck with a stinking plasma gun.
I think his point could be made more clear if we change the words "child porn" to "pictures of naked children." The former being of graphic sexual nature (this is the illegal one), the latter of natural, awe-inspiring beauty (this is the legal one).
Probably every parent has seen their child naked, but taking a picture of your baby girl in a diaper or your child in the bathtub has become taboo, especially in custody battles.
While not illegal, there is a certain level of shame in the social psyche that says "I know I want to but what would others think?" This is what the grandparent post is reffering to, as far as I can tell.
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Come on! Read the posts and you may see that the last ten score:5 posts say exactly what you were thinking. There is no need to read the same thought ten times. Just reply to the post and agree, dangit.
Set up email accounts in several different classes
I tried this for the past couple of years. Unfortunately, the one I wanted identified with me was on Hotmail and got more junk than all the others combined!
Instead of researching a way to make the media easier to lose than a ink pen or loose change, I would much rather see the technology used to increase the density on a 5" disc. Not only would it not be so easy to lose, but you can fit x-many of those tiny discs on one convinient medium.
Seriously, with 8 gigs of mp3s, I would like to put them all on one portable medium.
Yeah, that's what I meant. Forgive me for not saying "Assuming a consistent size." The original post was talking about the density of a transistor rather than transistor density on a chip.
I used to work at Walmart (very briefly, and as a cashier no less) so I was forcefed the "Walmart Culture" and got to talk to other associates that were more in the know. At one point I asked:
If you're culture demands the best for the customer, insisting on having the lowest prices, why is that I rarely ever see linux-related software?
The reply was that there isn't really a substantial market for it, ie: low demand. Preloading Linux on the PCs only seems logical. Most likely, the Waltons confronted the one who came up with the no-OS idea and slapped him/her on the wrist really hard for their stupidity in skrewing the customers on an essentially useless purchase (being that they would have to go back and purchase someting else when they got that message "No operating system found" or otherwise return it to the store).
...doubling of transistor density on a manufactured die every year...
His use of "density" in this context is refering to the number of transistors on the die. For example, more transitors equals more density. That's why he mentions later on something about 1 million transistors.
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bringing the cinemas up to the standards of this digital age
Yay! Now we can watch a bunch of color-changing dots on the wall rather than an actual projected image!
Why are they so excited about a location...
So that they can make their chips with SilAlbany and cheese.
Somehow, I doubt you can store 1000 copies of Beethoven's "OdeToJoy.wav" (approx. 30-min each)
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't see how you can patent something already in the public domain.
And with how long JPEG has been around, you would think they would have raised the point earlier of the unliscensed distribution of their technology. That is, of course, unless the whole point was wait until everybody uses it and then enforce the patent.
If you want to enforce a patent, you need to enforce it from the beginning. Also, anything that is a standard needs to be released to the public domain.
This is obviously a scam. It would be interesting to see how it plays out.
Quoteth: The companies will take several months to decide whether there is a workable business model for the plan, the report said, quoting an executive involved with the scheme.
What a way to end an article. "An executive?" Do we have a name? An executive of what company? Is this a scheme or a potential service?
Further more, is this a workable business model? If you are limiting access to certain areas I would say no. But then again, that's how mobil phones work ;) If you already have wireless service points accross the nation, the best way to make this "workable" is to convert those to be able to accept the new service rather than putting up whole new access points. Plus, give everyone access, charge if you will (im sure its possible to verify legitimate access), but gosh freagin dangit stop limiting access to certain areas!
Windows XP Media Center == TiVo on steroids
Seriously, this is nothing new. It is also not a "Personal Computer." I wonder how M$ will handle the copyright issues with recording TV programs, or even if they will allow you to edit out the commercials.
All in all, they are just taking a "PC" and further limiting its usage. No thanks, I think I'll pass on that one.
Newspapers usually cover news in a local area, so I can understand why "local bands" are an interest. I just wonder how well it will catch on. Businesses don't usually do something that isn't in the interest of profit. With the songs being put up for free, it will only work if they use the popularity of the music downloads to attract more advertisers (who like to see higher circulation).
Or they will require a log-in with a valid email address amd give you all the spam you can eat.
As a resident of New Jersey, all I have to say is ... YAY!!!
(clarification: NJ has a high population density, scarce and expensive open land, and four nuclear powerplants. Nevada has a desert.)
700mph birds are a sign that something is afoot.
On the contrary, I would say it's a sign that something is an aircraft. I have never seen a foot travel that speed.
How much do you want to bet that in the end they set aside their differences and work together against some super-villain?
To account for consumption you need to charge by the byte, that way a fair price is paid by all...
This will only be fair if the cost per byte was low enough. Right now, someone who uses his/her connection on the weekends for web browsing and emails pays the same rate as the one playing online games everday with buddies on other computers on his/her home LAN.
Adjusting the price so that the first user pays the same amount under the new plan would inflate the other price many many many times higher than even reasonably affordable.
Would ISPs find $1/month appropriate for a small-time user in order to keep the more hefty users as customers? I don't think any ISP would like sending out a hundred $1 bills at the cost of $37 postage.
Video games have had more effect on the evolution of mankind than oxygen.... Columbine.
Absolutely! When I was in high school, I kept searching the halls for a secret room that holds the BFG9000. Alas, it was too well hidden, and I was stuck with a stinking plasma gun.
Too bad this was in the other article's posts, otherwise you may have had an original idea.
Very little guesswork needed! None of that 262144 guesses.
The paper is wrinkled, yet the text is straight. I don't believe a word of it.
I think his point could be made more clear if we change the words "child porn" to "pictures of naked children." The former being of graphic sexual nature (this is the illegal one), the latter of natural, awe-inspiring beauty (this is the legal one).
Probably every parent has seen their child naked, but taking a picture of your baby girl in a diaper or your child in the bathtub has become taboo, especially in custody battles.
While not illegal, there is a certain level of shame in the social psyche that says "I know I want to but what would others think?" This is what the grandparent post is reffering to, as far as I can tell.
Come on! Read the posts and you may see that the last ten score:5 posts say exactly what you were thinking. There is no need to read the same thought ten times. Just reply to the post and agree, dangit.
Before he goes to bed, a M$ employee posts an anonymous *nix-supporting comment on slashdot. The next day he is fired for anti-competitive behavior.
Set up email accounts in several different classes
I tried this for the past couple of years. Unfortunately, the one I wanted identified with me was on Hotmail and got more junk than all the others combined!
Actually, virtual child pornography is not illegal.
Instead of researching a way to make the media easier to lose than a ink pen or loose change, I would much rather see the technology used to increase the density on a 5" disc. Not only would it not be so easy to lose, but you can fit x-many of those tiny discs on one convinient medium.
Seriously, with 8 gigs of mp3s, I would like to put them all on one portable medium.
Yeah, that's what I meant. Forgive me for not saying "Assuming a consistent size." The original post was talking about the density of a transistor rather than transistor density on a chip.
I used to work at Walmart (very briefly, and as a cashier no less) so I was forcefed the "Walmart Culture" and got to talk to other associates that were more in the know. At one point I asked:
If you're culture demands the best for the customer, insisting on having the lowest prices, why is that I rarely ever see linux-related software?
The reply was that there isn't really a substantial market for it, ie: low demand. Preloading Linux on the PCs only seems logical. Most likely, the Waltons confronted the one who came up with the no-OS idea and slapped him/her on the wrist really hard for their stupidity in skrewing the customers on an essentially useless purchase (being that they would have to go back and purchase someting else when they got that message "No operating system found" or otherwise return it to the store).
Read it again.
From your refererence:
His use of "density" in this context is refering to the number of transistors on the die. For example, more transitors equals more density. That's why he mentions later on something about 1 million transistors.