There is a difference between an ISP and a web host. A corporation that hosts web sites by providing accounts, server space, etc. etc. to them should be liable for knowingly hosting an illegal site, just as a landlord should be liable for knowingly letting a crack dealer operate on his property.
Howwever, if all they are doing is providing cables, dial up numbers and servers that allow people to access the internet, they should be no more liable for what their customers do on the internet than the phone company should be liable
for the crack dealer who uses his phone to
make delivery appointments.
You can get the exact same effect without the saran wrap or the glasses just by displaying the two images on the screen and crossing your eyes to superimpose them. You have to cross your eyes when using the saran wrap method anyway, so what is the advantage to putting the Saran wrap on?
Know what, I for one don't give a rat's ass about the artists either. Their own business model - of making money by getting royalties from recorded music, is also doomed, but at least they can make money from live concerts and endorsements. To put it bluntly, both they and the music industry have to be sacrificed for the common good, so I say go ahead and screw all of them without guilt. Here's why:
Many years ago some predicted that unless copyright law changed radically, the current situation vis a vis music copying could easily devolve into something even more grossly dangerous to civil liberties than that other misguided attemt to enforce unenforcable laws, the "drug war." The only way that one could even attempt to enforce laws against copying in the age of the internet is through massive invasions of privacy and massive civil and criminal penalties against traders. Both these things are starting to come to pass. Imagine how obtrusive the drug war would be if all the drugs were free and could be transmitted over broadband lines! We have a clear choice here between the privacy and liberty of the masses and the livelyhood of a tiny few. There are much bigger issues here than
just a bunch of teenagers and college kids swapping music.
PS: Obviously I'm all for boycotting CDs, and have been for a couple of years, but remember that not all CDs are put out by the major labels. There are a lot of independent artists and record companies out there who put out CDs and are not RIAA members. If you want high quality music with CD level sound, pick some up!
If the anchor has to be in water anywhere within +/- 45 degrees of the equator, then what's wrong with the Great Lakes? Most of Michgan and Huron, and all of Erie and Ontario are below 45 degrees. There are major airports all over the place, the waves don't get as bad as those at sea, there are no hurricanes, most of the water area is within US terrritory, and equipment can be easily barged in from anywhere along the Eastern Seaboard via the Saint Lawrence. The only negative that I can think of is that the winters are sometimes hard
(icing problems?).
I vote for Lake Ontario, just north of Rochester. The local economy could use something like this.
If you want to define space junk as any useless object that leaves the earth's atmosphere, then you can say that the first piece of man made space junk was created by the first cave man who knocked two rocks together outside on a clear day and got a spark. Photons, after all, can be considered "objects".
I saw this type of monitor exhibited at the SID conference back in 1995 (Orlando, FL). They had an LCD display on a laptop with the front polarizer removed. If you wore special polarized glasses with the polarization direction at 45 degrees clockwise, you could see the image. I'm pretty sure it was a different company. These new guys either got the same idea, or bought out the people who thought of it originally.
I am neither a patent lawyer nor a programmer, but I have obtained several patents for my company. It has always been my understanding that patent violation only occurs when one uses the patented technology commercially. For example, if a widget is patented (but not copyrighted!!!), somebody can make their own and use it in their own lab/office/home, and even make multiple copies and give them away to their friends, without getting a license or paying royalties. They just can't *sell* the widgets, or *sell* items that use the widgets as components.
That seems to make the situation different for Linux and other open source software than for run of the mill proprietary software. Linux is given away for free. Isn't it true that the companies that are "selling" Linux aren't really selling Linux at all, they are just selling packaging, manuals, and technical support? If that is the case wouldn't they be safe from lawsuits? Or does the fact that they are making a profit indirectly from patented algorithms make them liable? What about companies that are *using* Linux for things like running the servers for their online business. They are using patented algorithms in a profit making activity, even if they are not selling it, so would they be liable for violating someone's patent?
Are there any patent lawyers on this thread who know the answers to this?
Video Barn on Jefferson Road (a half mile or so east of the main Post Office) has by far the largest rental selection in this area. They seem to have several hundred titles at any given time, though you can only rent them for two days.
The anime collection started in a unique way. Video Barn is down the road from the Rochester Institute of Technology, which contains among other things the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). The NTID students of course needed videos with subtitles, and way back when about the only videos with subtitles were anime, so the store started to stock them.
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There is a difference between an ISP and a web host. A corporation that hosts web sites by providing accounts, server space, etc. etc. to them should be liable for knowingly hosting an illegal site, just as a landlord should be liable for knowingly letting a crack dealer operate on his property. Howwever, if all they are doing is providing cables, dial up numbers and servers that allow people to access the internet, they should be no more liable for what their customers do on the internet than the phone company should be liable for the crack dealer who uses his phone to make delivery appointments.
DTI has been making 2D/3D desktop monitors like this for years. See http://www.dti3d.com
You can get the exact same effect without the saran wrap or the glasses just by displaying the two images on the screen and crossing your eyes to superimpose them. You have to cross your eyes when using the saran wrap method anyway, so what is the advantage to putting the Saran wrap on?
Know what, I for one don't give a rat's ass about the artists either. Their own business model - of making money by getting royalties from recorded music, is also doomed, but at least they can make money from live concerts and endorsements. To put it bluntly, both they and the music industry have to be sacrificed for the common good, so I say go ahead and screw all of them without guilt. Here's why: Many years ago some predicted that unless copyright law changed radically, the current situation vis a vis music copying could easily devolve into something even more grossly dangerous to civil liberties than that other misguided attemt to enforce unenforcable laws, the "drug war." The only way that one could even attempt to enforce laws against copying in the age of the internet is through massive invasions of privacy and massive civil and criminal penalties against traders. Both these things are starting to come to pass. Imagine how obtrusive the drug war would be if all the drugs were free and could be transmitted over broadband lines! We have a clear choice here between the privacy and liberty of the masses and the livelyhood of a tiny few. There are much bigger issues here than just a bunch of teenagers and college kids swapping music. PS: Obviously I'm all for boycotting CDs, and have been for a couple of years, but remember that not all CDs are put out by the major labels. There are a lot of independent artists and record companies out there who put out CDs and are not RIAA members. If you want high quality music with CD level sound, pick some up!
If the anchor has to be in water anywhere within +/- 45 degrees of the equator, then what's wrong with the Great Lakes? Most of Michgan and Huron, and all of Erie and Ontario are below 45 degrees. There are major airports all over the place, the waves don't get as bad as those at sea, there are no hurricanes, most of the water area is within US terrritory, and equipment can be easily barged in from anywhere along the Eastern Seaboard via the Saint Lawrence. The only negative that I can think of is that the winters are sometimes hard (icing problems?). I vote for Lake Ontario, just north of Rochester. The local economy could use something like this.
If you want to define space junk as any useless object that leaves the earth's atmosphere, then you can say that the first piece of man made space junk was created by the first cave man who knocked two rocks together outside on a clear day and got a spark. Photons, after all, can be considered "objects".
Do you suppose that ship they have impounded off of New Jersey picked up a load of Russian mushrooms during its travels?
I saw this type of monitor exhibited at the SID conference back in 1995 (Orlando, FL). They had an LCD display on a laptop with the front polarizer removed. If you wore special polarized glasses with the polarization direction at 45 degrees clockwise, you could see the image. I'm pretty sure it was a different company. These new guys either got the same idea, or bought out the people who thought of it originally.
All your socks are belong to us!!!!!
I am neither a patent lawyer nor a programmer, but I have obtained several patents for my company. It has always been my understanding that patent violation only occurs when one uses the patented technology commercially. For example, if a widget is patented (but not copyrighted!!!), somebody can make their own and use it in their own lab/office/home, and even make multiple copies and give them away to their friends, without getting a license or paying royalties. They just can't *sell* the widgets, or *sell* items that use the widgets as components. That seems to make the situation different for Linux and other open source software than for run of the mill proprietary software. Linux is given away for free. Isn't it true that the companies that are "selling" Linux aren't really selling Linux at all, they are just selling packaging, manuals, and technical support? If that is the case wouldn't they be safe from lawsuits? Or does the fact that they are making a profit indirectly from patented algorithms make them liable? What about companies that are *using* Linux for things like running the servers for their online business. They are using patented algorithms in a profit making activity, even if they are not selling it, so would they be liable for violating someone's patent? Are there any patent lawyers on this thread who know the answers to this?
Video Barn on Jefferson Road (a half mile or so east of the main Post Office) has by far the largest rental selection in this area. They seem to have several hundred titles at any given time, though you can only rent them for two days. The anime collection started in a unique way. Video Barn is down the road from the Rochester Institute of Technology, which contains among other things the National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID). The NTID students of course needed videos with subtitles, and way back when about the only videos with subtitles were anime, so the store started to stock them.