" 28 countries are exempt from this testing including a lot of western european countries where the Sept 11th terrorists moved around with impunity. This fingerprinting scheme aint going to fix anything."
You're only exempt if you're staying less than 90 days and don't require a visa.
" Sorry you need to update your version of Microsoft Office to 2003sp3 in order to report a child missing.
When timing is critical a commercial solution can fall flat on it's face."
"Mr. Bray has determined that Open Source Software appears as a bad idea as he further writes:
(So what's wrong?) Plenty, if you're Microsoft or Oracle, or any of the thousands of smaller companies that make closed-source software for government agencies. According to the research firm IDC Corp., federal, state and local governments spend $34 billion a year on software. If Kriss's (Open Source in Government) ideas were to catch on across the land, a lot of that revenue disappears, and much of what remains won't go to firms like Microsoft, which refuses to offer open-source products."
Bray never says open source is a bad idea. He merely says companies like MS and Oracle will lose revenue as a result of OSS. Why should I believe an author who can't even interpret a quote correctly,
according to this article, retiring Win98 is to comply with a court order in regard to java. NS is retiring older products because it isn't worth the hassle to update them to comply with the court order. If you want to blame someone because Win98 is being retired, blame Sun and the US court system, not MS.
" Anyone who is happy with Windows 98 should not be required to upgrade just because Microsoft can't be bothered to support a product they created and sold to end users."
They've dropped 98 support because of a Sun lawsuit over Java, not because "Microsoft can't be bothered to support a product they created and sold to end users." Of course that point was left out of the post in favor of blatant pro-linux bia.
"Haitian civil rights groups in Florida have filed a lawsuit with the circuit court in Palm Beach County, which Rockstar Games has asked to be moved up to a federal court for a final decision on whether or not their game has to be banned from stores."
So a civil rights group is attacking a basic civil right, free speech. How ironic. This isn't a college campus. Censorship is wrong in this case, even if their intentions are well-meaning. People have a right to express their ideas, even if you don't like them. Censorship from the left, as well as the, right should not be tolerated in the US.
"Wehn will people start to understand that Microsoft does not free market principles for it's success - it relies on a government granted monopoly called copyrights. There is a difference." brCopyrights allow free market to exist. You might as well argue that laws against shoplifting hinder free market while you're at it. Just because you have a monopoly on YOUR book, doesn't mean you're not competing against everyone else selling their books.
"...doesn't the language of the ruling seem to give anyone the impression that this court is essentially begging for an improved DMCA that would have the teeth to offer these subpoena powers?"
The court isn't trying to say that there is no way to subponae for the information. They are saying it needs to be done within the context of a lawsuit. All perfectly reasonable.
"The implication is that the present internet architecture is damaging to the music industry, and the music industry's woes have nothing whatsoever to do with fundamental failures to serve the market."
The business decisions made by RIAA members about way of selling their copyrighted works are irrelevant, and your claims about them show your bias.
Ther are more informative articles at FOX news and CNN. I think it's a good decision since it doesn't allow people to subponae personal information outside a lawsuit, which implies a judges approval, althou IANAL.
Real networks saw AOL get three quarters of a billion dollars for netscape, and now they want their money too. How does this help consumers, epsecially given Real network's software refuses to uninstall itself without drastic measures?
The value added is that there is now a separation between the people writing the software and the people running the store. A grocery store company doesn't need a construction division to build the stores, and an online retailer shouldn't need to write the software themselves. The software writers reduce their risk by lining up clients willing to gamble on the online music business, and letting them take part of the risk The value the resellers add is in negotiating good deals with record companies and credit card companies to reduce expenses, as well as make good choices in servers and ISPs. This will hopefully lower the price per song below $1.
Glancing at the patent, it sounds more like he patented the idea of using a CDROM as a storage device that can be written to many times, even updating previous versions of files, by making old copies of files invisible. This process continues until the cdrom has no more area of writable space, at which point no more updates or additional data can be written to the cdrom. In summary, he patented the idea of using a write once medium as a normal storage medium, which most burning sw uses today.
" The 'War on Terror' cannot be won by capturing anyone! You can only 'win' by solving the problems that only serve to create more and more terrorists."
And a free Iraq without the fear of Hussein, with access to the world's media instead of a dictator's myopic view that the US and Israel are evil, would be a good start if it's achieved.
" I've come to the conclusion that there is no "liberal media" nor a "conservative media". It's just "The Media""
I'd say there is both a liberal and conservative media. The didferent elements cater to the views people want to hear. It's just supply and demand. The trick in finding the truth is to look at as much information as you can from both sides and try to find the truth in there, if it exists at all.
Ansel Adams became famous for using too much contrast when making prints of his images. There are many much better photographers. They all use very large format negatives, much bigger than 35mm film negatives, which are still higher resolution than the best digital cameras. Digital technology is not yet ready for artistic photography.
Since the box you're constructing will be on all the time, if the power supply is supplying 250W, that could impact your electric bill much more than a lower power TiVo (50W?). for instance, $2 if you pay 0.15/KWhr
"The music industry corporations made a bundle by changing the format of the media that they supply. There were millions made when the CD replaced the LP and millions of older releases were sold to people who already had the album."
People replaced LPs with CDs because LPs wear out. Before CDs, they were replacing LPs, with the same LPs after they wore out. Why do you think Drak Side of the Moon was on the top 200 list for over ten years?
"The lack of willingness by the younger population (12-17) in this study to purchase music points to the fact that they may have already missed the boat."
The reason that 12-17 year olds don't purchase music online, but instead download it for free, has more to do lack of respect for copyright than mp3 vs. wma.
"Can you also explain how someone can "steal" something from you, yet you still have it ? "
If somethings value has been reduced to $0, it has effectively been stolen. If you distribute something of mine for free that I was charging more than $0 previously, you have stolen it from me because I can no longer sell it for the price of my choosing, but now must compete with you, who have no right to my creation.
"now if i somehow got a hold of a schematic for my processsor and managed to improve the design, how would i go from paper to silicon?"
Assuming you can come up with the cad tools to implement your schematic and layout changes, you can use MOSIS to fab the chip. It costs money, but getting hardware for free as in beer is unrealistic.
"Why should major companies control the architechures that we are using? "
Because advanced CAD tools to design state of the art microprocessors costs millions of dollars. Even if you afford these tools, state-of-the-art fabs cost billions of dollars. Open Source works in software because equipment to develop software is cheap enough that anyone can afford it. Equipment to develop hardware costs a fortune, and needs some corporate support, or a lot of donations. Until a process makes it to MOSIS, the average person can't afford access to it.
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" 28 countries are exempt from this testing including a lot of western european countries where the Sept 11th terrorists moved around with impunity. This fingerprinting scheme aint going to fix anything."
You're only exempt if you're staying less than 90 days and don't require a visa.
" Sorry you need to update your version of Microsoft Office to 2003sp3 in order to report a child missing. When timing is critical a commercial solution can fall flat on it's face."
Nice straw man arguement. insightful my ass.
"Mr. Bray has determined that Open Source Software appears as a bad idea as he further writes: (So what's wrong?) Plenty, if you're Microsoft or Oracle, or any of the thousands of smaller companies that make closed-source software for government agencies. According to the research firm IDC Corp., federal, state and local governments spend $34 billion a year on software. If Kriss's (Open Source in Government) ideas were to catch on across the land, a lot of that revenue disappears, and much of what remains won't go to firms like Microsoft, which refuses to offer open-source products."
Bray never says open source is a bad idea. He merely says companies like MS and Oracle will lose revenue as a result of OSS. Why should I believe an author who can't even interpret a quote correctly,
according to this article, retiring Win98 is to comply with a court order in regard to java. NS is retiring older products because it isn't worth the hassle to update them to comply with the court order. If you want to blame someone because Win98 is being retired, blame Sun and the US court system, not MS.
" Anyone who is happy with Windows 98 should not be required to upgrade just because Microsoft can't be bothered to support a product they created and sold to end users."
They've dropped 98 support because of a Sun lawsuit over Java, not because "Microsoft can't be bothered to support a product they created and sold to end users." Of course that point was left out of the post in favor of blatant pro-linux bia.
"Haitian civil rights groups in Florida have filed a lawsuit with the circuit court in Palm Beach County, which Rockstar Games has asked to be moved up to a federal court for a final decision on whether or not their game has to be banned from stores."
So a civil rights group is attacking a basic civil right, free speech. How ironic. This isn't a college campus. Censorship is wrong in this case, even if their intentions are well-meaning. People have a right to express their ideas, even if you don't like them. Censorship from the left, as well as the, right should not be tolerated in the US.
"Wehn will people start to understand that Microsoft does not free market principles for it's success - it relies on a government granted monopoly called copyrights. There is a difference."
brCopyrights allow free market to exist. You might as well argue that laws against shoplifting hinder free market while you're at it. Just because you have a monopoly on YOUR book, doesn't mean you're not competing against everyone else selling their books.
" ...doesn't the language of the ruling seem to give anyone the impression that this court is essentially begging for an improved DMCA that would have the teeth to offer these subpoena powers?"
The court isn't trying to say that there is no way to subponae for the information. They are saying it needs to be done within the context of a lawsuit. All perfectly reasonable.
"The implication is that the present internet architecture is damaging to the music industry, and the music industry's woes have nothing whatsoever to do with fundamental failures to serve the market."
The business decisions made by RIAA members about way of selling their copyrighted works are irrelevant, and your claims about them show your bias.
Ther are more informative articles at FOX news and CNN. I think it's a good decision since it doesn't allow people to subponae personal information outside a lawsuit, which implies a judges approval, althou IANAL.
Real networks saw AOL get three quarters of a billion dollars for netscape, and now they want their money too. How does this help consumers, epsecially given Real network's software refuses to uninstall itself without drastic measures?
"the FCC has approved a range of radio frequencies to be used on US highways for transmitting important traffic information."
Didn't this happen a long time ago? I believe is was called AM radio,
The value added is that there is now a separation between the people writing the software and the people running the store. A grocery store company doesn't need a construction division to build the stores, and an online retailer shouldn't need to write the software themselves. The software writers reduce their risk by lining up clients willing to gamble on the online music business, and letting them take part of the risk The value the resellers add is in negotiating good deals with record companies and credit card companies to reduce expenses, as well as make good choices in servers and ISPs. This will hopefully lower the price per song below $1.
I think the idea involves using a write once technology as a general purpose memory by playing games with the directory.
Glancing at the patent, it sounds more like he patented the idea of using a CDROM as a storage device that can be written to many times, even updating previous versions of files, by making old copies of files invisible. This process continues until the cdrom has no more area of writable space, at which point no more updates or additional data can be written to the cdrom. In summary, he patented the idea of using a write once medium as a normal storage medium, which most burning sw uses today.
" The 'War on Terror' cannot be won by capturing anyone! You can only 'win' by solving the problems that only serve to create more and more terrorists."
And a free Iraq without the fear of Hussein, with access to the world's media instead of a dictator's myopic view that the US and Israel are evil, would be a good start if it's achieved.
Saddam loyalists will be much less likely to fight without the hope that he will return to power, and they will get back their priveleges.
" I've come to the conclusion that there is no "liberal media" nor a "conservative media". It's just "The Media""
I'd say there is both a liberal and conservative media. The didferent elements cater to the views people want to hear. It's just supply and demand. The trick in finding the truth is to look at as much information as you can from both sides and try to find the truth in there, if it exists at all.
Ansel Adams became famous for using too much contrast when making prints of his images. There are many much better photographers. They all use very large format negatives, much bigger than 35mm film negatives, which are still higher resolution than the best digital cameras. Digital technology is not yet ready for artistic photography.
"although the Boomer role could have been a bit stronger."
Were my eyes deceiving me, or was their a copy of Boomer at the end, one of the 12 models of human looking Cylons. So is Boomer a Cylon sleeper agent?
Since the box you're constructing will be on all the time, if the power supply is supplying 250W, that could impact your electric bill much more than a lower power TiVo (50W?). for instance, $2 if you pay 0.15/KWhr
"The music industry corporations made a bundle by changing the format of the media that they supply. There were millions made when the CD replaced the LP and millions of older releases were sold to people who already had the album."
People replaced LPs with CDs because LPs wear out. Before CDs, they were replacing LPs, with the same LPs after they wore out. Why do you think Drak Side of the Moon was on the top 200 list for over ten years? "The lack of willingness by the younger population (12-17) in this study to purchase music points to the fact that they may have already missed the boat."
The reason that 12-17 year olds don't purchase music online, but instead download it for free, has more to do lack of respect for copyright than mp3 vs. wma.
"Can you explain why you should be paid over and over again - for up to 50 years after your death - for once piece of work ? "
Can you explain why I can will a piece of real estate to my children? Same principle.
"Can you also explain how someone can "steal" something from you, yet you still have it ? "
If somethings value has been reduced to $0, it has effectively been stolen. If you distribute something of mine for free that I was charging more than $0 previously, you have stolen it from me because I can no longer sell it for the price of my choosing, but now must compete with you, who have no right to my creation.
"now if i somehow got a hold of a schematic for my processsor and managed to improve the design, how would i go from paper to silicon?"
Assuming you can come up with the cad tools to implement your schematic and layout changes, you can use MOSIS to fab the chip. It costs money, but getting hardware for free as in beer is unrealistic.
"Why should major companies control the architechures that we are using? "
Because advanced CAD tools to design state of the art microprocessors costs millions of dollars. Even if you afford these tools, state-of-the-art fabs cost billions of dollars. Open Source works in software because equipment to develop software is cheap enough that anyone can afford it. Equipment to develop hardware costs a fortune, and needs some corporate support, or a lot of donations. Until a process makes it to MOSIS, the average person can't afford access to it.