No juggling of rights packages is going to recover that revenue stream, especially as the rights packages are controlled in part by UK monopolies law.
I am not so sure. Since Sky can't maintain a monopoly in England, the value of their rights are reduced. They will demand that the soccer league stop selling undervalued rights to the Greek broadcaster, or sell them at a price that equals the English value.
Ultimately, either the Greek broadcaster looses right to the football matches, or they need to charge the same as Sky.
i bet Serkis loves his job because he never leaves the studio, doesn't have to travel around the world all the time and is always there for his kids while making a very nice living and not seeing most of his money go to agents, publicists, accountants and lawyers
Wrong.
According to NPR, motion capture actors now perform on the real set wearing a Lycra bodysuit covered with dots. Both live action and motion capture cameras "capture" the scene.
According to the interview, Serkis doesn't see any difference between motion capture acting and live action acting. They are both acting to him.
Why use up resources chasing after these ghosts when the simple solution is just turn your cell phones off?
Why use up resources locking your car when the simple solution is to trust the laws against stealing?
People accidentally leave electronic devices on. Some people want to intentionally disrupt flights. Critical systems on airplanes should be designed defensively.
As a transaction geek, I've spent decades working on systems that provide a guaranteed form of consistency.
Uh...so you spent decades working on systems which are not needed for many problems (many problems don't need transactions, especially mostly read web publishing problems, which is a strength of no-sql), and now you are upset that people are not using your systems?
As someone explained to me today, the whole purpose of pilots is to deal with unexpected situations like instrument failures. Otherwise, you could have the planes fly themselves. So this is pretty much by definition the pilots fault.
No, I've managed and worked with many incompetent woman coders. I've also managed and worked with good women coders. They are just a much smaller percentage of the work force.
I recently stayed at a bed and breakfast where some older conservative types were arguing that the 1950'ies was the decade where children were taught right, and that all the sex ed and sex on TV these days was causing increased promiscuity.
Except that, according to Wikipedia, the US teenage pregnancy rate was at an all time high in the 1950's. And reserachers estimate only 25% is due to abstinence, while 75% is due to the increased use of contraceptives.
Yeah, I miss those good old days too, Gramps. Just like I miss my Apple II+ with 48k of RAM. Now get off my lawn!
It now makes much more sense that Apple is having Intel manufacture the next generation IOS chips. Based on information from Ars, the finFET shines at lower voltages. So Apple is going to be using Intel not just because they can manufacture smaller than everyone else, but also because the resulting chips will be faster or take less power than anyone else.
Sure, your 3 year old can't hid the kinect, but it is also harder to "accidentally hide" the kinect if they want to watch a movie on NetFlix, like you can with a normal remote.
And the stories of Snow White, Pinocchio, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and many others were taken (stolen?) by Disney from the public domain.
Disney definitely wants things both ways...it liberally borrowed from the public domain, but doesn't want any of its stuff there.
It is true that Disney licensed Mary Poppins. It is very interesting though that the author of Mary Poppins, PL Travers, was a giant pain in the butt for Disney. According to IMDB, she greatly interfered in the making of the movie. Among other things she wanted major changes to the final film, including removing the chalk drawing animated sequence and removing all the music and replacing with period songs like "Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay" or "Greensleeves". I would argue that the music is the soul of the movie.
If the argument is that art won't get created without copyright, an equally valid argument is that art isn't getting created due to copyright.
If you can't compete on innovation, and you can't compete by bullying standards bodies, and you can't compete by leveraging your monopoly, and you can't compete on performance, and you can't compete on security....well, at least you can say you use less power.
And yes, when you work for the same company that wrote the freaking operating system, one would hope that IE would use the least amount of power.
In the real world securing content is very tricky. Especially for video content, where third party CDN's are almost always involved.
If people insist on rubish that stealing was OK because the server was broken, tricked into giving up videos, videos were stolen by sharing against terms of use, etc., publishers are just going to use more draconian means of protecting content. They are going to use encryption, DRM, and other means that will sometimes break legitimate users access. Also, encryption and DRM are going to make content serving more expensive, and the publishers are going to pass on that expense to their users.
Damn. How much misinformation can you pack into a single post?
Hydrogen is just an energy storage medium, just like batteries. You still need to generate power or use fossil fuels to make the hydrogen. See wikipedia for more.
For electric cars, the grid won't need upgrading, because electric cars will mostly charge at night. See here for more.
I disagree. If he wanted to make money, the site would have been crawling with ads, and would have imploded. In the absense of other believable data, I believe he wanted to build it because he liked to build things, and that he wanted to make something successful.
Off topic, what is with all the Zuckerberg hate on Slashdot? He is a techie made good. He is living most coder's dreams. Is it that he invented it, and you didn't?
Everyone does not agree. I work on websites, and developers are the only ones that really understand the code. Having them shut out of the production boxes means they can't look at the logs, run top, look at configuration, and help diagnose the problems.
In some industries, it makes sense to have developers not access production systems. For us it does. Blanket statements are stupid.
Microsoft created a liberal dynamic library search path that allows (or even encourages) applications to not fully specify DLL locations. Now, after the fact, they publish this security statement saying not to use the dynamic library searching they documented previously. It is of course Microsoft's fault. They didn't consider security at all when loading DLLs, and now they are blaming applications that implemented the documented specification.
The bottom line is that Windows was never designed to be secure, it was designed to have the most functionality, and trying to patch every hole now is almost impossible. Generally, when code reaches this level of complexity and brittleness, it is often the best course to start all over.
It is cool that they have Enigma machines, but they aren't the only place, even in the US. I recently saw two Enigma machines at The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, that were captured on the U505 sub. See wikipedia for more locations.
The irony here is that Microsoft lets ideology stand in the way all the time (.Net only for Windows, OpenXML versus ODF, etc). Come to think of it, so does Sony (crippling hardware platforms due to their music business). And look at where that's gotten them.
And a huge fail, at least for many business folks, is the lack of being able to dial phone numbers that are sent in the location field of meetings. According to Apple support, the world is supposed to all start sending conference bridge numbers in the body of meetings. Good luck with that, Apple.
It is unclear that StemCells was wrongly awarded its patent. From the TFA:
The roots of the conflict go back several years. While at Salk Institute, Schwartz created a new application out of an existing technique: deriving neural stem cells from post-mortem brains, then growing them in culture. At the same time, StemCells was doing similar things.
The solution to over-patenting isn't more patents. That would just be shoveling more money to lawyers and away from doing research or curing people. The solutions here seem to be to either allow nonprofits and universities to use patents for basic research, or to shorten patent lengths. A 20 year patent seems ridiculous when product lifecycles and discoveries are moving much more quickly.
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I am not so sure. Since Sky can't maintain a monopoly in England, the value of their rights are reduced. They will demand that the soccer league stop selling undervalued rights to the Greek broadcaster, or sell them at a price that equals the English value.
Ultimately, either the Greek broadcaster looses right to the football matches, or they need to charge the same as Sky.
Wrong.
According to NPR, motion capture actors now perform on the real set wearing a Lycra bodysuit covered with dots. Both live action and motion capture cameras "capture" the scene.
According to the interview, Serkis doesn't see any difference between motion capture acting and live action acting. They are both acting to him.
And Serkis most definitely has an agent, publicist, a manager and even a web guy.
So you offer two factor identification? SSL webmail?
Gmail does.
Security through being small isn't security.
If Netflix provided a good amount of streaming connect, I would agree.
But from what I saw, it isn't very extensive. I had trouble finding stuff I wanted to watch.
Why use up resources locking your car when the simple solution is to trust the laws against stealing?
People accidentally leave electronic devices on. Some people want to intentionally disrupt flights. Critical systems on airplanes should be designed defensively.
Uh...so you spent decades working on systems which are not needed for many problems (many problems don't need transactions, especially mostly read web publishing problems, which is a strength of no-sql), and now you are upset that people are not using your systems?
As someone explained to me today, the whole purpose of pilots is to deal with unexpected situations like instrument failures. Otherwise, you could have the planes fly themselves. So this is pretty much by definition the pilots fault.
No, I've managed and worked with many incompetent woman coders. I've also managed and worked with good women coders. They are just a much smaller percentage of the work force.
I recently stayed at a bed and breakfast where some older conservative types were arguing that the 1950'ies was the decade where children were taught right, and that all the sex ed and sex on TV these days was causing increased promiscuity.
Except that, according to Wikipedia, the US teenage pregnancy rate was at an all time high in the 1950's. And reserachers estimate only 25% is due to abstinence, while 75% is due to the increased use of contraceptives.
Yeah, I miss those good old days too, Gramps. Just like I miss my Apple II+ with 48k of RAM. Now get off my lawn!
It now makes much more sense that Apple is having Intel manufacture the next generation IOS chips. Based on information from Ars, the finFET shines at lower voltages. So Apple is going to be using Intel not just because they can manufacture smaller than everyone else, but also because the resulting chips will be faster or take less power than anyone else.
Sure, your 3 year old can't hid the kinect, but it is also harder to "accidentally hide" the kinect if they want to watch a movie on NetFlix, like you can with a normal remote.
Darned kids.
And the stories of Snow White, Pinocchio, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, and many others were taken (stolen?) by Disney from the public domain.
Disney definitely wants things both ways...it liberally borrowed from the public domain, but doesn't want any of its stuff there.
It is true that Disney licensed Mary Poppins. It is very interesting though that the author of Mary Poppins, PL Travers, was a giant pain in the butt for Disney. According to IMDB, she greatly interfered in the making of the movie. Among other things she wanted major changes to the final film, including removing the chalk drawing animated sequence and removing all the music and replacing with period songs like "Ta Ra Ra Boom De Ay" or "Greensleeves". I would argue that the music is the soul of the movie.
If the argument is that art won't get created without copyright, an equally valid argument is that art isn't getting created due to copyright.
If you can't compete on innovation, and you can't compete by bullying standards bodies, and you can't compete by leveraging your monopoly, and you can't compete on performance, and you can't compete on security....well, at least you can say you use less power.
And yes, when you work for the same company that wrote the freaking operating system, one would hope that IE would use the least amount of power.
Whatever.
In the real world securing content is very tricky. Especially for video content, where third party CDN's are almost always involved.
If people insist on rubish that stealing was OK because the server was broken, tricked into giving up videos, videos were stolen by sharing against terms of use, etc., publishers are just going to use more draconian means of protecting content. They are going to use encryption, DRM, and other means that will sometimes break legitimate users access. Also, encryption and DRM are going to make content serving more expensive, and the publishers are going to pass on that expense to their users.
Damn. How much misinformation can you pack into a single post?
Hydrogen is just an energy storage medium, just like batteries. You still need to generate power or use fossil fuels to make the hydrogen. See wikipedia for more.
For electric cars, the grid won't need upgrading, because electric cars will mostly charge at night. See here for more.
ICE cars aren't efficient. Most cars today are about 20% efficient.
I disagree. If he wanted to make money, the site would have been crawling with ads, and would have imploded. In the absense of other believable data, I believe he wanted to build it because he liked to build things, and that he wanted to make something successful.
Off topic, what is with all the Zuckerberg hate on Slashdot? He is a techie made good. He is living most coder's dreams. Is it that he invented it, and you didn't?
Everyone does not agree. I work on websites, and developers are the only ones that really understand the code. Having them shut out of the production boxes means they can't look at the logs, run top, look at configuration, and help diagnose the problems.
In some industries, it makes sense to have developers not access production systems. For us it does. Blanket statements are stupid.
Microsoft created a liberal dynamic library search path that allows (or even encourages) applications to not fully specify DLL locations. Now, after the fact, they publish this security statement saying not to use the dynamic library searching they documented previously. It is of course Microsoft's fault. They didn't consider security at all when loading DLLs, and now they are blaming applications that implemented the documented specification.
The bottom line is that Windows was never designed to be secure, it was designed to have the most functionality, and trying to patch every hole now is almost impossible. Generally, when code reaches this level of complexity and brittleness, it is often the best course to start all over.
They kissed and made up in the end (at least Spyglass got $8 million), according to this article.
For important birthdays, proms, graduations, weddings, birth of your daughter's children, have your wife record or write messages for your daughters.
A message saying she is proud, that she remembers when she did those things, a bit of motherly advise, a lot of love.
It is cool that they have Enigma machines, but they aren't the only place, even in the US. I recently saw two Enigma machines at The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago, that were captured on the U505 sub. See wikipedia for more locations.
The irony here is that Microsoft lets ideology stand in the way all the time (.Net only for Windows, OpenXML versus ODF, etc). Come to think of it, so does Sony (crippling hardware platforms due to their music business). And look at where that's gotten them.
And a huge fail, at least for many business folks, is the lack of being able to dial phone numbers that are sent in the location field of meetings. According to Apple support, the world is supposed to all start sending conference bridge numbers in the body of meetings. Good luck with that, Apple.
So it seems that both inventions were made at the same time, independently. In that case, either party may file for and be awarded the patent in the US.
The solution to over-patenting isn't more patents. That would just be shoveling more money to lawyers and away from doing research or curing people. The solutions here seem to be to either allow nonprofits and universities to use patents for basic research, or to shorten patent lengths. A 20 year patent seems ridiculous when product lifecycles and discoveries are moving much more quickly.