but then I dont respond to advertisement in general.
I have heard this before - and very much doubt I would find anything the least surprising about where you live, what you wear, what you eat and drink, the car you drive, or how you stock your medicine cabinet.
[T]ourism has become Malaysia's third largest source of income from foreign exchange and accounted for 7% of Malaysia's economy as of 2005. As of 2009, Malaysia ranks 9th among the top most visited countries in the world, after Germany, although the vast majority of Malaysia's visitors are from neighboring Singapore.
If Mr Yankelevitz's nice designs are not open source, then there should be an alternative design that is.
Have you considered the possibility these controllers may have to be customized for each client or patient? That solutions have to be found for each new generation of controller? That training the user is a problem in itself?
If someone wanted to fill his shoes, it wouldn't be an easy task.
He puts each controller together by hand, using his engineering skills to solder dozens of switches and circuits. Controllers are offered for just over $200 and include a 1-year warranty for repairs.
"If the bottom line is profit, there's no way to make a profit on these," Yankelevitz said.
Yankelevitz said larger companies and game manufacturers have shown no interest in producing the controllers because the market is so small. He's sold just over 800 of the devices through 30 years. Factory construction of the controller would be cost prohibitive, over $1,000 each.
Currency is much more convenient, since government agents do not have to judge whether or not a piece of gold or some paper money or a check is healthy and disease-free. Currency also allows the government to provide a much broader array of services, because it simplifies the system of paying the cost of those services -- salaries paid in currency are a lot easier to compute than salaries paid in physical goods.
You do understand that payment in wheat, chickens or cattle would be no less an inconvenience for the drugstore or the supermarket? That you don't need the government to tell you that barter does not scale well to a country of four million square miles and 310 million people?
We shouldn't be able to patent software for the same reason we can't patent mathematics. Copyright protection is sufficient and suitable for software.
I am tempted to think that software is more than math, it is math and logic applied to a particular problem in the real world --- where the sucess or failure of your solution isn't defined by mathematical or logical rules.
But by how much it will cost to mplement. How quickly it can be brought to market. The pupose will it serve.
These aren't the kind of questions that define a man as a mathematician --- but they most certainly are the questions that define a man as an inventor.
Copyright gives an writer a potent weapon against derivative works, against the "reverse engineering." of his stories. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck... No one is obliged open up the hood to look inside.
The internal mechanisms described in a patent matter.
To do an old thing - or a new thing - in a clearly original and productive way is what a patent is all about.
Yes, we should, but I'll be happy to wait until after they've answered the more pressing question about what the hell Homeland Security are doing enforcing copyright claims in the first place.
Homeland Security absorbed damn near every federal agency with police powers other than the FBI.
You might as well have asked why Homeland Security - aka the Coast Guard - is inspecting the PFDs aboard your outboard motor boat.
That much you could have learned from a five second search through Google.
Copyright is a constitutionally defined and protected property right. Infringement can be and has been prosecured under federal criminal law for about 100 years.
The NET -- No Electronic Theft -- Act has been law for fourteen years.
To simplify somewhat:
Economic and property crimes with an interstate and foreign dimension are a federal responsibility. Ordinary crimes of theft and violence are a state and local responsibility.
The production budget for Toy Story 3 was $200 million -- a sizable chunk of which goes straight into the pocket of the geek. The global theatrical gross, $1.06 billion, 70% of that from foreign markets.
High Wage, High Skilled Labor. Made In The USA. Clean and Green. A Favorable Balance of Trade.
The Globalization of American Culture and Values. You are not going to get the politician to kill this golden goose.
WTF is wrong with the Police? WTF is wrong with this world?.. Police makes this "great" arrests instead of arresting the drug dealers and murderers and many other shits from the streets
Don't these people know, that when the little green LED is on next to the camera there is something going on with the camera?
Small and green does not raise an alarm when you live surrunded by LED indicators and displays. There are at least five active in my own living room. The instantaneous flash of a snapshot isn't likely to be noticed or questioned even on the rare occasion when you are looking directly at the lamp.
Does this mean we now have official sites where we can stream / download movies in decent formats for reasonable cost?
There is Netflix.
30% of "prime time" download traffic in the U.S.
Standard and HD resolutions to1080p. Client installed on every "Internet enabled" HDTV, Blu-Ray player, Roku set top box and video game console. Prices start at $8/mo.
There is Hulu and Hulu+ Amazon VOD...
There are the many free or low-rent sites like Crackle which stream anime and other genre films at standard definition or below.
Not a bad way to test-drive something like Steamboy, which is available only on DVD from Netflix.
If you steal, you reduce the impetus for people to create. Simple as pie.
You can also deny them publication:
In 1842 there was still no international copyright law, a condition that was stunting American letters and depriving authors on both sides of the Atlantic of a living. Britain was willing to recognize the copyright of foreign writers --- but only if their countries reciprocated.
This American publishers adamantly refused to do. Instead, they competed in bribing English pressmen to get early sheets of British books. The sheets were rushed by boat over to the United States, where the jolly pirates churned out cheap editions in a matter of hours.
But it was not only British authors they were robbing. Few publishers were willing to pay American authors for books when they could purloin better-known British ones for free. Herman Melville was hurt by the lack of an international copyright, and such eminent American authors as Emerson, Longfellow, and Hawthorne had to pay publishers an advance, rather than vice versa, in order to have their books produced. The early giants of American literature had to scramble for work at customhouses and in other government jobs, and Edgar Allan Poe, according to his biographer Sidney P. Moss, had to raise advance money for one collection of poems by soliciting 75 cents a head from his fellow West Point classmates, to whom he then dedicated the book.
The non-profit Library of America publishes the classics in durable hard cover editions. The LOA has been generous to writers like H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Philip K. Dick, Dashiell Hammett, Jack London.
You look at their catalog and one thing becomes perfectly clear:
The working-class writer - and working class themes and values in American writing - do not exist in recognizable form before the era of extended copyright.
The geek will argue that a musician should make his living on the concert tour. Mugs and tee-shirts. But what if the musician is too old or too young for the rigors of the concert tour?
College is a waste of time for anyone looking to go into the IT field. Programming? Its iffy honestly. Most places would hire someone with 5 years XP over some college kid with 1 year.
I think its fair to say that the geek is little uncertain - "at sea" - when he looks at the iOS, at Unity, at Windows 8. Even "The Ribbon" can throw him off-balance.
The liberal arts major doesn't have to be told why a name like The Gimp becomes a liability when porting to other operating systems and environments.
The business major will look at Skpe and see the UI. The feature set. The ubiquity of the client. The networking effects and other factors that drive adoption.
Understanding the tech is easy, if the tech is all you know.
i guess that will double the deaths to, um, where's my calculator... zero
I'll take that as an admission you are only counting deaths from radiation sickness. Deaths which would occur within the first few hours, days, weeks or months of exposure.
My understanding, from TFPR, is that the card does h.246 encoding onboard(and the manufacturer of the card has paid their protection money to the MPEG LA) so the driver has no h.246 related duties, it just configures the card and collects the encoded output.
It is not "protection money."
It is a royalty.
It is royalty that maxes out at 20 cents per unit after the first 100,000 units you sell each year.
Unless your are producing on an industrial scale, the custom boards you are buildi for the academic and hobbyist market aren't of the slightest interest to the MPEG-LA.
Why? It's a good codec as demonstrated by its wide adoption.
The geek can be entirely self-absorbed, seeing nothing beyond his own pre-occupation with computers and the Interenet.
But standards like can H.264 evolve and take root in very different environments. They can serve very different constituencies --- and when they gain traction on the web, they can take him by surprise.
Sure it might kill a few people, but so did planes and steam engines and a lot of other things before they were turned into more safe designs.
The Wright Flyer, 1903. The DC-3,1936.
It can take a long time to build trust and safety into your new machine.
The hybrid gas-electric car with a capacitor enters a market where there are many good - competitive - alternatives. It won't be granted a bye on safety simply because the tech is new.
It isn't as if you were launching the first passenger steamboat on the Mississippi.
Slashdot Mirror
but then I dont respond to advertisement in general.
I have heard this before - and very much doubt I would find anything the least surprising about where you live, what you wear, what you eat and drink, the car you drive, or how you stock your medicine cabinet.
[T]ourism has become Malaysia's third largest source of income from foreign exchange and accounted for 7% of Malaysia's economy as of 2005. As of 2009, Malaysia ranks 9th among the top most visited countries in the world, after Germany, although the vast majority of Malaysia's visitors are from neighboring Singapore.
Tourism in Malaysia
Facebook has 600 million users.
How much global exposure will a $600,000 add budget buy in you print, television and other media?
they'll specifically run all their blessed-and-packaged stuff over a separate logical link
But isn't this what you want in a home security product?
If Mr Yankelevitz's nice designs are not open source, then there should be an alternative design that is.
Have you considered the possibility these controllers may have to be customized for each client or patient? That solutions have to be found for each new generation of controller? That training the user is a problem in itself?
If someone wanted to fill his shoes, it wouldn't be an easy task.
He puts each controller together by hand, using his engineering skills to solder dozens of switches and circuits. Controllers are offered for just over $200 and include a 1-year warranty for repairs.
"If the bottom line is profit, there's no way to make a profit on these," Yankelevitz said.
Yankelevitz said larger companies and game manufacturers have shown no interest in producing the controllers because the market is so small. He's sold just over 800 of the devices through 30 years. Factory construction of the controller would be cost prohibitive, over $1,000 each.
Man builds 30 years of quadriplegic gaming
Currency is much more convenient, since government agents do not have to judge whether or not a piece of gold or some paper money or a check is healthy and disease-free. Currency also allows the government to provide a much broader array of services, because it simplifies the system of paying the cost of those services -- salaries paid in currency are a lot easier to compute than salaries paid in physical goods.
You do understand that payment in wheat, chickens or cattle would be no less an inconvenience for the drugstore or the supermarket? That you don't need the government to tell you that barter does not scale well to a country of four million square miles and 310 million people?
We shouldn't be able to patent software for the same reason we can't patent mathematics. Copyright protection is sufficient and suitable for software.
I am tempted to think that software is more than math, it is math and logic applied to a particular problem in the real world --- where the sucess or failure of your solution isn't defined by mathematical or logical rules.
But by how much it will cost to mplement. How quickly it can be brought to market. The pupose will it serve.
These aren't the kind of questions that define a man as a mathematician --- but they most certainly are the questions that define a man as an inventor.
Copyright gives an writer a potent weapon against derivative works, against the "reverse engineering." of his stories. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck... No one is obliged open up the hood to look inside.
The internal mechanisms described in a patent matter.
To do an old thing - or a new thing - in a clearly original and productive way is what a patent is all about.
Yes, we should, but I'll be happy to wait until after they've answered the more pressing question about what the hell Homeland Security are doing enforcing copyright claims in the first place.
Homeland Security absorbed damn near every federal agency with police powers other than the FBI.
You might as well have asked why Homeland Security - aka the Coast Guard - is inspecting the PFDs aboard your outboard motor boat.
That much you could have learned from a five second search through Google.
Copyright is a constitutionally defined and protected property right. Infringement can be and has been prosecured under federal criminal law for about 100 years.
The NET -- No Electronic Theft -- Act has been law for fourteen years.
To simplify somewhat:
Economic and property crimes with an interstate and foreign dimension are a federal responsibility. Ordinary crimes of theft and violence are a state and local responsibility.
The production budget for Toy Story 3 was $200 million -- a sizable chunk of which goes straight into the pocket of the geek. The global theatrical gross, $1.06 billion, 70% of that from foreign markets.
High Wage, High Skilled Labor. Made In The USA. Clean and Green. A Favorable Balance of Trade.
The Globalization of American Culture and Values. You are not going to get the politician to kill this golden goose.
The word "pirate" has been hijacked from the meaning of robbing ships at sea using violent threat to meaning copying a CD.
The usage was current when the Black Flag still flew over the Caribbean.
The poor have to pay for their flicks and tunes or go without.
P2P demands a substantial investment in hardware and services.
To the geek, the free media fix is his technocratic and middle class entitlement.
To the judge and jury. it is white collar crime.
WTF is wrong with the Police? WTF is wrong with this world?.. Police makes this "great" arrests instead of arresting the drug dealers and murderers and many other shits from the streets
The police can multi-task.
Story is obviously a fake.
The geek spends too much time in grandma's basement.
Don't these people know, that when the little green LED is on next to the camera there is something going on with the camera?
Small and green does not raise an alarm when you live surrunded by LED indicators and displays. There are at least five active in my own living room. The instantaneous flash of a snapshot isn't likely to be noticed or questioned even on the rare occasion when you are looking directly at the lamp.
Pic's or it didn't happen
What gives you the right to see them?
Does this mean we now have official sites where we can stream / download movies in decent formats for reasonable cost?
There is Netflix.
30% of "prime time" download traffic in the U.S.
Standard and HD resolutions to1080p. Client installed on every "Internet enabled" HDTV, Blu-Ray player, Roku set top box and video game console. Prices start at $8/mo.
There is Hulu and Hulu+ Amazon VOD...
There are the many free or low-rent sites like Crackle which stream anime and other genre films at standard definition or below.
Not a bad way to test-drive something like Steamboy, which is available only on DVD from Netflix.
a title using "pirates" for copyright infringers
The usage was current while the Black Flag still flew over the Caribbean.
--- and for so long as the geek frequents and publicizes sites like The Pirate Bay that isn't going to change.
Either nobody asked the experts or the judge didn't care. I hope he uses online banking and finds himself with a negative balance some day.
Simply a reminder.
It is your job as plaintiff or defendant to make your case through evidence and arguments that everyone in the courtroom can see and hear.
Not to ask the judge and jury to fill in the blanks behind closed doors.
For the past few years, at work, I am forced to use MS-office, MS-vista ....
But you have yet to master English grammar.
If you steal, you reduce the impetus for people to create. Simple as pie.
You can also deny them publication:
In 1842 there was still no international copyright law, a condition that was stunting American letters and depriving authors on both sides of the Atlantic of a living. Britain was willing to recognize the copyright of foreign writers --- but only if their countries reciprocated.
This American publishers adamantly refused to do. Instead, they competed in bribing English pressmen to get early sheets of British books. The sheets were rushed by boat over to the United States, where the jolly pirates churned out cheap editions in a matter of hours.
But it was not only British authors they were robbing. Few publishers were willing to pay American authors for books when they could purloin better-known British ones for free. Herman Melville was hurt by the lack of an international copyright, and such eminent American authors as Emerson, Longfellow, and Hawthorne had to pay publishers an advance, rather than vice versa, in order to have their books produced. The early giants of American literature had to scramble for work at customhouses and in other government jobs, and Edgar Allan Poe, according to his biographer Sidney P. Moss, had to raise advance money for one collection of poems by soliciting 75 cents a head from his fellow West Point classmates, to whom he then dedicated the book.
The non-profit Library of America publishes the classics in durable hard cover editions. The LOA has been generous to writers like H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Philip K. Dick, Dashiell Hammett, Jack London.
You look at their catalog and one thing becomes perfectly clear:
The working-class writer - and working class themes and values in American writing - do not exist in recognizable form before the era of extended copyright.
The geek will argue that a musician should make his living on the concert tour. Mugs and tee-shirts. But what if the musician is too old or too young for the rigors of the concert tour?
College is a waste of time for anyone looking to go into the IT field. Programming? Its iffy honestly. Most places would hire someone with 5 years XP over some college kid with 1 year.
I think its fair to say that the geek is little uncertain - "at sea" - when he looks at the iOS, at Unity, at Windows 8. Even "The Ribbon" can throw him off-balance.
The liberal arts major doesn't have to be told why a name like The Gimp becomes a liability when porting to other operating systems and environments.
The business major will look at Skpe and see the UI. The feature set. The ubiquity of the client. The networking effects and other factors that drive adoption.
Understanding the tech is easy, if the tech is all you know.
Understanding the user is hard.
i guess that will double the deaths to, um, where's my calculator... zero
I'll take that as an admission you are only counting deaths from radiation sickness. Deaths which would occur within the first few hours, days, weeks or months of exposure.
My understanding, from TFPR, is that the card does h.246 encoding onboard(and the manufacturer of the card has paid their protection money to the MPEG LA) so the driver has no h.246 related duties, it just configures the card and collects the encoded output.
It is not "protection money."
It is a royalty.
It is royalty that maxes out at 20 cents per unit after the first 100,000 units you sell each year.
Unless your are producing on an industrial scale, the custom boards you are buildi for the academic and hobbyist market aren't of the slightest interest to the MPEG-LA.
SUMMARY OF AVC/H.264 LICENSE TERMS
The world is truly better off without H.264
Why? It's a good codec as demonstrated by its wide adoption.
The geek can be entirely self-absorbed, seeing nothing beyond his own pre-occupation with computers and the Interenet.
But standards like can H.264 evolve and take root in very different environments. They can serve very different constituencies --- and when they gain traction on the web, they can take him by surprise.
But are there more messed up families due to drugs than there are due to drug prohibition? I doubt it.
But why do you doubt it?
I wonder if this has anything to do with the FSF's "Brick Nintendo" campaign...
this is just another immature teenager up to stupid sh*t.
This is the first I've heard of FSF's "Brick Nintendo" campaign. Which seems to be fully up to its usual sophomore beer blast spring break standards.
Sure it might kill a few people, but so did planes and steam engines and a lot of other things before they were turned into more safe designs.
The Wright Flyer, 1903. The DC-3,1936.
It can take a long time to build trust and safety into your new machine.
The hybrid gas-electric car with a capacitor enters a market where there are many good - competitive - alternatives. It won't be granted a bye on safety simply because the tech is new.
It isn't as if you were launching the first passenger steamboat on the Mississippi.