Along the same lines as castes: Who wants to live in a caste oriented society, see the flood of Indians coming to the US?
Sounds like MS are simply denying themselves the best and most talented, and the best output of those that they DO get.
You reap what you sow!
Taps are done at the point of maximum aggregation, not over-the air. It's much easier to tap at the CO that aggregates a bunch of basestations than to chase mobile handsets around the place. Plus, you can use the same gear that you use for wireline.
No, I'd be British if it weren't for my Grandfather and his friends who fought the Brits from 1916 to 1922. I'm from Ireland, ignoramus. Get your facts straight before posting, and quit being an anonymous coward.
I also lived in France for 3 years (hence the use of French), like the French, and France, but, like many French, disdain their elitist, dirigiste, bureaucratic government that constanly leaves the average Frenchman holding the bag for their attempts to maintain privilege (Vichy).
I DO currently reside in the US, and I LOVE my Samsung i330, CDMA2000/1xRTT phone. It also doesn't make noise on my speakers or upset hearing aid wearers.
GSM should have been banned in the US under the Americans With Disabilities Act, never mind because of its inferior use of a public trust, Radio Spectrum.
Disclaimer, I live in San Diego, home of the Q (I don't work there, but I have friends who do), and Issa's district.
I think, for a "Green Field" install, CDMA is an automatic winner over GSM (and the Chinese agree).
1: CDMA is a superior technology for a number of reasons:
(a) It makes better use of spectrum = more bandwidth
(b) It takes less power = longer battery life
(c) It doesn't totally screw with hearing aids or anything else that picks up its dumb-ass pulses. After the pounding Iraq is taking, not messing with hearing aids will probably be a big issue. Nothing like a MOAB within a few clicks of you to make Mettalica seem GOOD for your hearing!
2: Since we are the ones who will be rebuilding Iraq, we should get to decide what we donate.
3: fsck the French (or En Francais: Allez vous faire foutre chez les Grecs, bande de Laches, faineants!), so we should choose a technology that they DON'T make, so they NEVER get a DIME from the country.
BTW: Issa is a Lebanese American. I've actually sat next to him on a plane. Bright guy. EE who started a car alarm company, which is how he got the $ to run for congress. Apparently he thought the perspective of people who actually understood the value of the freedom in this country and worked to build a company was needed in DC. Go figure!
After reading the story, I sent the following to Fox, any comments?
For a network that claims to be fair and balanced, your coverage of the DMCA and copyright issues has been anything but. I guess, considering that you have Hilary Rosen as an "adviser", that might be expected, but I would hope that Fox, in keeping with your motto, would recognize her perspective for the extremely partisan one that it is (not just for the RIAA, but also for the Democrats, remember "Rock the Vote"). When you refer to "The Industry" I presume you mean yours, the entertainment industry, or perhaps one or two tech companies who love to abuse consumer rights (like Microsoft). You clearly don't mean the tech industry, which has come out strongly against the DMCA, UCITA, and Sen. Hollings efforts.
Your comments regarding Fair Use (claiming repealing or modifying the DMCA would _expand_ them) are also partisan and wildly inaccurate. All the tech industry (mostly through www.eff.org and www.cpsr.org) are trying to do is defend the existing fair use rights we have, which DMCA has severely impinged on our ability to exercise. We are also defending our rights to free speech and analysis, which DMCA has ALSO curtailed. (More info on the subject is available at http://www.eff.org/IP/DMCA/.)
If you want to do a fair and balanced story on this, I suggest reviewing what happened when the MPAA tried to get VCRs banned/crippled, and then look at the similarities today.
Hollywood has bought and paid for the acts of Congress in passing the DMCA, unfortunately for them, the Congresspeople it bought and paid for are no longer part of the majority. Further, the lack of easy access to entertainment on-line and in PCs is a big part of the reason for the current tech slump. The current administration, and the necessary powers in Congress (John McCain) seem to recognize this (as well as having no love lost for the almost uniformly left-wing media), so the group your piece was a thinly disguised press release for should turn their efforts to figuring out how to exploit digital media, rather than trying to put the digital genie back in the bottle.
For some history of what happens to those who try to use the rule of law to staunch technology that renders their business model obsolete, I advise reviewing the effect of the laws that required a red flag to be carried in front of cars, passed at the behest of horse-cart manufacturers.
Sure, it slowed the adoption of the automobile, which was not good for the economy, but in the long term, it was totally ineffective in protecting the group that lobbied so hard for it. In fact, it can be argued that by giving the incumbent industry a false sense of protection and security, it prevented them from working on exploiting the new technology, and as a result they, and the communities in which they operated, were relegated to the economic scrap heap.
The analogy in the digital age is that music and movies WILL be provided, without copy protection, by someone, and machines that play them will be available. Even in those jurisdictions where such machines are supposedly illegal, it will be fairly easy to get or make them, because in order to make things profitable at a consumer level you inevitably have to make them from the bottom rung of components, and Moore's law shows that 18 months later, that will be the same price point at which you can get what is currently the most expensive. The only thing the US is doing with these efforts to use the law is ensuring, as with cryptography (the efforts to cripple crypto throughout the 1990s were a dismal failure that have resulted in the leaders in the field all being outside the US), that the economic benefits will flow elsewhere. This is especially troubling for music and movies, since those are a lucrative market that the US currently dominates, but it is inevitable if the current course of action is followed.
A better idea would be for the entertainment industry to recognize that the Internet, Multimedia PCs, MP3 players, etc., provide a more convenient way for people to enjoy content. Broadband delivery makes impulse buying even easier, and reduces their cost of distribution to near zero. While it would be possible for people to download large numbers of songs to their home hard drives and then copy those to their friends, or share them a-la-Napster, if it is more convenient to do it legitimately, and the cost is not prohibitive, people will, in general, do the right thing. It is currently entirely possible for someone to make a good copy of a video tape that they rent from Blockbuster, or even to tape from HBO, and keep it to see again and again, or give it to their friends, but what percentage of people do? When you can rent a movie or get pay-per view for $2-$5 a show, why bother? I'm surprised at the MPAA's involvement in things like the DVD-CCA (which isn't about copy protection, BTW, you can make perfect copies of DVDs all you want without breaking CSS, CSS is about localization and staged releases based on geography, which is a stupid idea that should have ended when making prints of movies ceased to be a problem), given their experience with Videos, which they opposed, now representing nearly 40% of their revenues. The music industry could work on the same model, if they would just get their heads out of the sand and figure out how to USE technology, rather than fight it.
In any event, I realize that this has been somewhat long, but I hope it gives you the impetus to go back, do some better research, and start covering this very important area in the way you do most other things: Fair and Balanced.
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Along the same lines as castes: Who wants to live in a caste oriented society, see the flood of Indians coming to the US? Sounds like MS are simply denying themselves the best and most talented, and the best output of those that they DO get. You reap what you sow!
Taps are done at the point of maximum aggregation, not over-the air. It's much easier to tap at the CO that aggregates a bunch of basestations than to chase mobile handsets around the place. Plus, you can use the same gear that you use for wireline.
1: CDMA IS A Standard, as is GSM, as is AMPS.
2: Standards change and are replaced (see AMPS to GSM/TDMA/CDMA), usually and hopefully by better technology.
3: CDMA is technically superior, and provides a better platform for growth, so if you are building a system from scratch, it is the better choice.
No, I'd be British if it weren't for my Grandfather and his friends who fought the Brits from 1916 to 1922. I'm from Ireland, ignoramus. Get your facts straight before posting, and quit being an anonymous coward. I also lived in France for 3 years (hence the use of French), like the French, and France, but, like many French, disdain their elitist, dirigiste, bureaucratic government that constanly leaves the average Frenchman holding the bag for their attempts to maintain privilege (Vichy). I DO currently reside in the US, and I LOVE my Samsung i330, CDMA2000/1xRTT phone. It also doesn't make noise on my speakers or upset hearing aid wearers. GSM should have been banned in the US under the Americans With Disabilities Act, never mind because of its inferior use of a public trust, Radio Spectrum.
I think, for a "Green Field" install, CDMA is an automatic winner over GSM (and the Chinese agree).
1: CDMA is a superior technology for a number of reasons:
(a) It makes better use of spectrum = more bandwidth
(b) It takes less power = longer battery life
(c) It doesn't totally screw with hearing aids or anything else that picks up its dumb-ass pulses. After the pounding Iraq is taking, not messing with hearing aids will probably be a big issue. Nothing like a MOAB within a few clicks of you to make Mettalica seem GOOD for your hearing!
2: Since we are the ones who will be rebuilding Iraq, we should get to decide what we donate.
3: fsck the French (or En Francais: Allez vous faire foutre chez les Grecs, bande de Laches, faineants!), so we should choose a technology that they DON'T make, so they NEVER get a DIME from the country.
BTW: Issa is a Lebanese American. I've actually sat next to him on a plane. Bright guy. EE who started a car alarm company, which is how he got the $ to run for congress. Apparently he thought the perspective of people who actually understood the value of the freedom in this country and worked to build a company was needed in DC. Go figure!
After reading the story, I sent the following to Fox, any comments?