The Nokia 6650 is defintely NOT the first 3G phone to be announced! You might want to take a look at the Motorola A820. It will use the UMTS standard, as defined by the ITU under their IMT2000 (a standard capable of delivering upto 2Mbps) - matter of fact, concept models aside, take a look at their whole range of 3G equipment. First? my lilly white butt!
And when it comes to Nokia, announcements are one thing, delivering on it is another! But hey, I'm still waiting for my shiny new Sony/Ericsson P800 as well... "What?! Christmas you say?"
Legal action would be a tad difficult... considering that Jonathan Hedley lives in Australia. It might just be a much simpler option to affect his ability to do this, like banning his IP if he has a static one. Have to admit, I hadn't ever heard of his site until now, so he can't that important. Besides, can't Apache's sensitivity to repetitive webpage requests from an IP be set low enought to shut out that 3% - including Jonathan Hedley?
Look. The only reason they HAVE a website, is to promote and sell their newspaper. And maybe make a little money to try and cover the cost of it by sellings a lot of advertising on it. I don't pay for the junkmail that hits my letterbox, or answer any damned questionaires for it, so I don't see why I should have to do anything (least of all, potentially sign up for spam, if they decide to start selling that too) to read the articles they put on their website - they put them there as a form of ADVERTISING. They're not about to make their news pay-for-view. U-B-Lame.
...Wow, this is kinda weird! I started using something *very* similar to this after my first year at uni 'cause I got sick of scrolling up to the top of my code because I'd forgotten the 'type' of a particular variable - for example, calling a JComboBox called CustomerTitle, jcbCustomerTitle. I didn't know it was any kind of established method (although someone might have mentioned something about it when they told me about Steve McConnell's book "Code Complete"). Wow, I feel vindicated now!
Firstly, this is the 2nd time that this has happened at MIT. Do you think that software piracy is/will still happen on a large scale at MIT even after these events? And secondly dude. If you even remotely have the technical knowledge, I strongly suggest you create and operate a free Copy Protection advisory website from prison. It might just hold you in good stead when the time comes;)
It's a great option - if you've really got your heart set on doing this with your PS2. But I tend to agree witht the guy at the end of the article from DFC Intelligence that this is something that will probably be a stock feature of something like the Play Station 3 and other upcomming devices that will use IBM's embedded "Cell" distributed processor. That way, television sets, and desktop boxes, that also have the Cell processor embedded in them can assist in on-the-fly compression of real time video to a hard drive or some such similar storage device like we're already seeing in gaming consoles like MS's XBox.
They can't even explain what ".Net" is. I would love to have been a fly on the wall in the Patent Office when they tried to explain this one... I'd probably have fallen off the wall laughing!
I read the article in question, and I've heard before the arguments that the major recording labels regularly withhold as much as 40% of artists royalties, but there were 3 things in this article that really leaped off the page for me...
"Not surprisingly, labels are balking at paying roughly 20,000 artists up to 30 years of back pension and health benefits."...this may sound a bit like heresy, but I reluctantly agree. Recording artists are *not* employees. They are not paid a wage. They don't get paid by the hour. What they have is purely a contractual arrangment of service for renumeration. It's up to *them* to put away a portion of their earnings for retirement JUST LIKE ANYONE ELSE who is self-employed. End of story here...
"...earning $710,000 for the label. The band, after repaying expenses ranging from recording fees and video budgets to catering, wardrobe and tour bus costs, is left $14,000 in the hole on royalties."...maybe if the *execs* weren't swanning about in limos and helicopters like they insist their artists do to maintain their "Image", there might just be a few more bucks left over after the whole recording/tour shebang is over. No?...
"They've alienated consumers and artists."...boy o' boy, they sure have. And when they are not giving the artists what they want (i.e. a fair go), and they are not giving the consumers what they want (i.e. a *viable* purchasing and fair-use alternative), then I see any number of sites doing similar to what Prince is doing, and acting as the middle-man for downloading their music, becoming all the more common.
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The Nokia 6650 is defintely NOT the first 3G phone to be announced! You might want to take a look at the Motorola A820. It will use the UMTS standard, as defined by the ITU under their IMT2000 (a standard capable of delivering upto 2Mbps) - matter of fact, concept models aside, take a look at their whole range of 3G equipment. First? my lilly white butt! And when it comes to Nokia, announcements are one thing, delivering on it is another! But hey, I'm still waiting for my shiny new Sony/Ericsson P800 as well... "What?! Christmas you say?"
Legal action would be a tad difficult... considering that Jonathan Hedley lives in Australia. It might just be a much simpler option to affect his ability to do this, like banning his IP if he has a static one. Have to admit, I hadn't ever heard of his site until now, so he can't that important. Besides, can't Apache's sensitivity to repetitive webpage requests from an IP be set low enought to shut out that 3% - including Jonathan Hedley?
Look. The only reason they HAVE a website, is to promote and sell their newspaper. And maybe make a little money to try and cover the cost of it by sellings a lot of advertising on it. I don't pay for the junkmail that hits my letterbox, or answer any damned questionaires for it, so I don't see why I should have to do anything (least of all, potentially sign up for spam, if they decide to start selling that too) to read the articles they put on their website - they put them there as a form of ADVERTISING. They're not about to make their news pay-for-view. U-B-Lame.
...Wow, this is kinda weird! I started using something *very* similar to this after my first year at uni 'cause I got sick of scrolling up to the top of my code because I'd forgotten the 'type' of a particular variable - for example, calling a JComboBox called CustomerTitle, jcbCustomerTitle. I didn't know it was any kind of established method (although someone might have mentioned something about it when they told me about Steve McConnell's book "Code Complete"). Wow, I feel vindicated now!
Firstly, this is the 2nd time that this has happened at MIT. Do you think that software piracy is/will still happen on a large scale at MIT even after these events? ;)
And secondly dude. If you even remotely have the technical knowledge, I strongly suggest you create and operate a free Copy Protection advisory website from prison. It might just hold you in good stead when the time comes
It's a great option - if you've really got your heart set on doing this with your PS2. But I tend to agree witht the guy at the end of the article from DFC Intelligence that this is something that will probably be a stock feature of something like the Play Station 3 and other upcomming devices that will use IBM's embedded "Cell" distributed processor. That way, television sets, and desktop boxes, that also have the Cell processor embedded in them can assist in on-the-fly compression of real time video to a hard drive or some such similar storage device like we're already seeing in gaming consoles like MS's XBox.
That is *exactly* what I was thinking. Nothing lights a fire under a pollies backside like something that affects them directly!
...this is a *COUGH*amd*COUGH* shameless and blatent *COUGH*pepsi*COUGH* display of product placement *COUGH*linux*COUGH* and I'm disgusted by it!
They can't even explain what ".Net" is. I would love to have been a fly on the wall in the Patent Office when they tried to explain this one... I'd probably have fallen off the wall laughing!
I read the article in question, and I've heard before the arguments that the major recording labels regularly withhold as much as 40% of artists royalties, but there were 3 things in this article that really leaped off the page for me...
...this may sound a bit like heresy, but I reluctantly agree. Recording artists are *not* employees. They are not paid a wage. They don't get paid by the hour. What they have is purely a contractual arrangment of service for renumeration. It's up to *them* to put away a portion of their earnings for retirement JUST LIKE ANYONE ELSE who is self-employed. End of story here...
...maybe if the *execs* weren't swanning about in limos and helicopters like they insist their artists do to maintain their "Image", there might just be a few more bucks left over after the whole recording/tour shebang is over. No?...
...boy o' boy, they sure have. And when they are not giving the artists what they want (i.e. a fair go), and they are not giving the consumers what they want (i.e. a *viable* purchasing and fair-use alternative), then I see any number of sites doing similar to what Prince is doing, and acting as the middle-man for downloading their music, becoming all the more common.
"Not surprisingly, labels are balking at paying roughly 20,000 artists up to 30 years of back pension and health benefits."
"...earning $710,000 for the label. The band, after repaying expenses ranging from recording fees and video budgets to catering, wardrobe and tour bus costs, is left $14,000 in the hole on royalties."
"They've alienated consumers and artists."