IE is on everyone windows machine. Therefore it's the perfect browser for selling windows only DRM. Please don't be stupid and suggest that someone using firefox for their main browser can't launch IE if they want to buy drmed video.
Most news sites have polls, blogs, comments, and messageboards. This bill would block students form going to their local newspapers site or the big sites like cnn and msnbc. Politicians are stupid.
You can't prove who saw the postings on deal sites and who just bought the dvds because they were planning on buying them. If you put two dvd sets in your cart and it came up zero, I don't think it's unreasonable to assume it is some kind of deal. Stores have free after rebate all the time, free after instant rebate isn't too much of a stretch. Amazon screwed up and the only people they may be able to extort are those that used debit cards. No credit card customer is going to have to take their harrassment.
This story won't die and keeps popping up. But no one seems to care that the drm used for the videos will only work in windows. Which means safari support would be extremely retarded, and firefox support isn't needed. What would be the point in letting someone purchase drm video through firefox when they might not be on a windows platform. It makes perfect sense to restrict a windows only product to ie, it's a safe guard to prevent people who can't use the videos from buying them. If walmart allowed purchases through firefox, everyone would be freaking out about how non windows users can buy videos they can't play.
If that happens drug companies will avoid it. They want money, that is all they care about. It make perfect sense that companies pay india for the samples. But the more cheaper route is probably just to set up their own clinics in other countries to get samples. It could written off as charity.
They are running an ad campaign making fun of vista, but they accidently forgot to get a beta version of vista and test itunes on it? This incompatibility is definitely deliberate. Sadly most companies would be blasted to hell for not testing with a beta or rc version of vista to be ready for it's release. Not to mention the business version has been out for 2 months. But the fanboys will of course rejoice.
Look at how much of the surface of our planet is covered by our own trash? Do you really think a thousand+ satellites is going to fill up the entire low earth orbit? You have to love their pictures of earth with debris being little dots that cover it so much. Those dots would have to be debris larger than whole cities to even come close to being that big.
Locking the number one mp3 player to one store fits the bill a million times better than just offering IE for free on windows by default. You can easily install another browser, but it's a little hard to buy music from other stores when they can't license the drm needed for the ipod or the ipod can't play other drm locked content.
In order for microsoft to help keep the courts away from breaking them up they need competition. Apple provides that competition. Unfortunately, their computer sales can't keep them afloat forever, so they have the ipod. But the ipod with itunes is a monopoly and if that hits the courts, apple will probably die as a company. So microsoft released competition to the ipod/itunes monopoly. This will help protect Apple in the music business which keeps Apple alive and microsoft's computer competition going.
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As long as the device doesn't just start recording automatically, XM will be safe. If a device that records audio is deemed illegal, the lawsuits are going to be crazy.
What if the investment is to make a dirty factory cleaner? But until a factory sprouts up that is completely funded by gates, it's dumb to critize the most generous person in the world. (Even though I disagree strongly about charity)
Why would a developing nation worry about using american owned and priced software? Linux is free, they can train their own people to support it and make software. Hell they don't even have to respect the GPL, so they can keep everything they do in house. Then if it turns out to be worth anything they could sell it to other developing countries.
This scenario would of course suck for america, but isn't this what linux is supposed to do? Destroy the US?
If it's not protected the same as mail in your home, that is not right. People shouldn't need to know how to run their own mail server to have their mail protected.
Seems like this is a dumb statement from sony. Why pay all that cash for capabilities that will never be used? Sony should be saying it will take years for companies to max out the system and therefore the PS3 will consitently always have the best graphics for years, instead they tell people they are wasting money. Dumb sony.
Would something like google checkout or yahoo stores be the perfect solution? As long as it goes green when it comes time to enter financial information, I doubt anyone would care. I think microsoft is smart to not allow every little business to handle their own financial transactions. These are the stores where credit theft probably comes from.
I doubt Nintendo's instructions tell you to throw the controller because it has a wrist strap. Nintendo should have never even put a wrist strap on this thing, but instead just warned people not to throw the controller.
All that is going to happen is people are going to test this new strap to it's limit and try to get it to break. They will probably be successfull and make a couple youTube videos, and nintendo hopefully will ignore it the second time. There is nothing wrong with the first strap, if your going to be an idiot and throw your wii remote, you deserve a broken tv.
All OSes have a web browser. How can Microsoft be punished for something everyone does? Not to mention the fact that Windows is the most secure OS out there. No other OS has been tested so much.
The click wheel isn't a problem anymore. Full screen players won't have room for them. The problem is codecs and drm. This hurts the customers the most. Of course the music industry loves it, because if you switch from an ipod to a zune, you need to rebuy all you music.
Patents need to be for a way of doing something, not an abstract desription that bars anyone from figuring out news ways to get your "idea" done. There are probably millions of different ways to implement something that would fall under this description. Each way requiring it's own research and development and real innovation. I just wish I could go back and write on a piece of paper, "a way to make a solid state device to emit blue light" and send it into the us patent office. Then I could own all the work that other companies spent making blue diodes, or even prevented them from wanting to develop it because I already owned it. Then we would have no ps3.
It doesn't say, but I honestly hope those filmed in this movie throwing out ballots are charged with their crime. If not, it would be just one more reason not to vote republican.
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IE is on everyone windows machine. Therefore it's the perfect browser for selling windows only DRM. Please don't be stupid and suggest that someone using firefox for their main browser can't launch IE if they want to buy drmed video.
Most news sites have polls, blogs, comments, and messageboards. This bill would block students form going to their local newspapers site or the big sites like cnn and msnbc. Politicians are stupid.
You can't prove who saw the postings on deal sites and who just bought the dvds because they were planning on buying them. If you put two dvd sets in your cart and it came up zero, I don't think it's unreasonable to assume it is some kind of deal. Stores have free after rebate all the time, free after instant rebate isn't too much of a stretch. Amazon screwed up and the only people they may be able to extort are those that used debit cards. No credit card customer is going to have to take their harrassment.
This story won't die and keeps popping up. But no one seems to care that the drm used for the videos will only work in windows. Which means safari support would be extremely retarded, and firefox support isn't needed. What would be the point in letting someone purchase drm video through firefox when they might not be on a windows platform. It makes perfect sense to restrict a windows only product to ie, it's a safe guard to prevent people who can't use the videos from buying them. If walmart allowed purchases through firefox, everyone would be freaking out about how non windows users can buy videos they can't play.
If that happens drug companies will avoid it. They want money, that is all they care about. It make perfect sense that companies pay india for the samples. But the more cheaper route is probably just to set up their own clinics in other countries to get samples. It could written off as charity.
They are running an ad campaign making fun of vista, but they accidently forgot to get a beta version of vista and test itunes on it? This incompatibility is definitely deliberate. Sadly most companies would be blasted to hell for not testing with a beta or rc version of vista to be ready for it's release. Not to mention the business version has been out for 2 months. But the fanboys will of course rejoice.
Look at how much of the surface of our planet is covered by our own trash? Do you really think a thousand+ satellites is going to fill up the entire low earth orbit? You have to love their pictures of earth with debris being little dots that cover it so much. Those dots would have to be debris larger than whole cities to even come close to being that big.
Locking the number one mp3 player to one store fits the bill a million times better than just offering IE for free on windows by default. You can easily install another browser, but it's a little hard to buy music from other stores when they can't license the drm needed for the ipod or the ipod can't play other drm locked content.
In order for microsoft to help keep the courts away from breaking them up they need competition. Apple provides that competition. Unfortunately, their computer sales can't keep them afloat forever, so they have the ipod. But the ipod with itunes is a monopoly and if that hits the courts, apple will probably die as a company. So microsoft released competition to the ipod/itunes monopoly. This will help protect Apple in the music business which keeps Apple alive and microsoft's computer competition going.
As long as the device doesn't just start recording automatically, XM will be safe. If a device that records audio is deemed illegal, the lawsuits are going to be crazy.
This is definitely a good idea. No one needs a retail box for software.
At this point no one can buy the company, because they will be liable for all of SCO's actions.
What if the investment is to make a dirty factory cleaner? But until a factory sprouts up that is completely funded by gates, it's dumb to critize the most generous person in the world. (Even though I disagree strongly about charity)
Why would a developing nation worry about using american owned and priced software? Linux is free, they can train their own people to support it and make software. Hell they don't even have to respect the GPL, so they can keep everything they do in house. Then if it turns out to be worth anything they could sell it to other developing countries. This scenario would of course suck for america, but isn't this what linux is supposed to do? Destroy the US?
If it's not protected the same as mail in your home, that is not right. People shouldn't need to know how to run their own mail server to have their mail protected.
Seems like this is a dumb statement from sony. Why pay all that cash for capabilities that will never be used? Sony should be saying it will take years for companies to max out the system and therefore the PS3 will consitently always have the best graphics for years, instead they tell people they are wasting money. Dumb sony.
Would something like google checkout or yahoo stores be the perfect solution? As long as it goes green when it comes time to enter financial information, I doubt anyone would care. I think microsoft is smart to not allow every little business to handle their own financial transactions. These are the stores where credit theft probably comes from.
I doubt Nintendo's instructions tell you to throw the controller because it has a wrist strap. Nintendo should have never even put a wrist strap on this thing, but instead just warned people not to throw the controller.
All that is going to happen is people are going to test this new strap to it's limit and try to get it to break. They will probably be successfull and make a couple youTube videos, and nintendo hopefully will ignore it the second time. There is nothing wrong with the first strap, if your going to be an idiot and throw your wii remote, you deserve a broken tv.
The government really needs to heavily fine the music industry for repeated calling these cases of copyright infringment stealing.
All OSes have a web browser. How can Microsoft be punished for something everyone does? Not to mention the fact that Windows is the most secure OS out there. No other OS has been tested so much.
The click wheel isn't a problem anymore. Full screen players won't have room for them. The problem is codecs and drm. This hurts the customers the most. Of course the music industry loves it, because if you switch from an ipod to a zune, you need to rebuy all you music.
Patents need to be for a way of doing something, not an abstract desription that bars anyone from figuring out news ways to get your "idea" done. There are probably millions of different ways to implement something that would fall under this description. Each way requiring it's own research and development and real innovation. I just wish I could go back and write on a piece of paper, "a way to make a solid state device to emit blue light" and send it into the us patent office. Then I could own all the work that other companies spent making blue diodes, or even prevented them from wanting to develop it because I already owned it. Then we would have no ps3.
I've never seen a braile price tag in a physical store, so why is the web any different?
It doesn't say, but I honestly hope those filmed in this movie throwing out ballots are charged with their crime. If not, it would be just one more reason not to vote republican.