Since the powers that be in the US (although I doubt this would have been the case today) decided that the new color standard was to fully compatible with the old b&w standard
Television standards in the states were essentially the creation of RCA.
Introducing compatible color makes perfect economic sense when there are tens of millions of existing black and white sets and you are the dominant manufacturer and broadcaster.
Peter Goldmark was demonstrating field-sequential color in 1940, a hybrid system that used color wheels in both the camera and the receiver.
Prototype sets were massive even by console radio standards --- and it became perfectly clear that CBS didn't have the resources to develop all-electronic color.
Broadcasting on the VHF band meant that you could get deep penetration into suburban and rural areas without building a network of repeaters.
Tuning the UHF bands - which is what you need for field-sequential - wasn't all that easy in the vacuum tube era.
Only Arkansas and Virginia have anything on the statute books, and the Virgina law has openings for the rights agencies you could drive a tank through. To begin, you have to prove "malacious intent."
as far as i can see they where just giving it away.
This argument is plausible only when the site unmistakably belongs to a legitimate distributer --- otherwise you are just another guy whose new refrigerator fell off the back of a truck.
Juries are middle-aged, middle-class, small-C conservatives. There ain't nothing wrong with their bullshit detector.
Can you say "entrapment" boys and girls? I knew you could.
Can you say "I know the difference between civil and criminal law. The difference between the rules that bind the police and the rules that bind every else?" I am not sure you can.
it's not like the people who would have been caught by this were innocents.
Saying that comes pretty close to sabotaging any hope of raising entrapment as a defense. If you are ready and willing to download all those lovely "free movies" and the site is designed to attract the greedy little fool you are --- it's game over.
The strength of Microsoft's software isn't in its quality. It is in it's compatibility with existing infrastructure.
Well, duh.
I know it will sound as if I am re-writing history, ignoring all that came before.
But perception creates its own reality and infrastructure as you define it - as the home user came to know it - as the small business came to know it - was built to service the MSDOS and Windows client.
id and Sierra were writing console-quality games for the PC when graphics support for animation in PC hardware was non-existent. AOL for MSDOS is launched in 1991.
look at the backlash against Vista
I don't see a backlash against Vista. What I see is the $800 Pavilion HP laptop with Vista Premium driving OEM Linux off the pages at Walmart.com.
His central point was: "Don't you feel like you're being ripped off paying for the health care of jobless people when you're busting a gut earning a living?"
The uninsured has untreated and antibiotic resistant TB. He coughs. You die. It is in everyone's interest that we do not return to the plague years.
Before the invention of the polio vaccine, the beginning of summer was a terror for every parent:
1916 9,000 new cases are reported in New York City alone
1934 2,500 in a localized epidemic are treated at L.A. County General Hospital alone
1945-1948 20,000 new cases in the U.S. each year
1952 58,000
1953 35,000 The History of Polio
The price of Windows, both in pure dollars and in requirements is rising sharply.
The brand-name HP Pavilion Vista Premium laptop at Walmart.com starts at $780 with a dual-core AMD CPU, 1 GB of RAM, a DVD burner, integrated WiFi, integrated webcam, and DX9 GeForce Go graphics that do not suck.
There seems to be a misunderstanding by some people that Bill Gates is hated because he is rich.
The uncomfortable truth for the Geek is that Gates isn't hated at all.
Hardball capitalism is and always has been the American national sport.
The empire builder draws the wrath of a minority. But in the end he emerges from scandals, lawsuits and the hoo-rah of the election cycle unscathed - and there will be many cheering him on.
It's just that Gates happens to be responsible for a poorly-made piece of software that everyone uses.
Apple took the word "Computer" out of its name.
The Mac is built using generic Windows PC parts. "Boot Camp" becomes a core marketing tool. In damn near thirty years of competition Apple remains a - very - distant second to Microsoft, in Microsoft's core markets.
The Geek trots out the "poorly-made" argument at every opportunity.
It is guaranteed a +4, +5 mod-up, Insightful, on Slashdot. But the fact remains that something like 500 million desktop-laptop users world-wide have found that Windows does what they want it to do.
Meh, let me know when someone surpasses Rockefeller. In today's dollars, he would have been worth around $200 billion. And you wanna talk about monopolies, predatory pricing, and anti-trust? The Sherman Antitrust Act was DIRECTED at Rockefeller's Standard Oil.
Standard Oil became dominant before the automobile.
You could fill a lantern or a stove with the Standard product with the reasonable expectation that you wouldn't be widowed the next time your wife struck a match.
That side of the story tends to be forgotten, along with the fact that the retail price of the monopoly product grew progressively cheaper.
Not so surprisingly then, customers stuck with Standard's regional operating companies after the break-up of the trust.
The small independents faded out of the picture.
Big Oil began to emerge as we know it today -- and Rockefeller grew richer, faster, even as he retired from business and began to focus on his charities, medical research, colonial Williamsburg.
I just spent $400 on a 32" CRT TV, and I'm not about to go out and spend $700+ on a similarly sized HDTV
Tiger Direct has a $400 special on a 32 inch wide screen LCD. ATSC tuner. 720p. HDMI, component video, etc. Weight 57 pounds.Niko SV3206 32" LCD HDTV Television
Your hernia-in-a-box CRT will need a converter for broadcast reception in two years. You paid $400 for 4:3 video and analog audio and you call this a bargain?
It doesn't add to the plot or production quality, and can often get in the way of it.
most people can't notice any difference in quality between Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. That's what matters; if Blu-Ray does offer some quality increase over HD-DVD, due to its greater capacity, it's not noticeable.
Greater capacity means more room for soundtracks, dialog tracks, interactive content, and other marketable extras.
Not only does Windows CE not support a lot of these chips, but even if it did no one in their right mind would use windows for something that didn't need a GUI
Win CE is not Microsoft's only entry in the embedded market.
But they do need to prove you guilty beyond circumstantial evidence
This is flat-out wrong.
In a civil case there is a simple "finding" of fact for the plaintiff or defendant.
Circumstantial evidence is evidence. Most of the time, it is the only evidence a jury will ever see.
In practice, circumstantial evidence often has an advantage over direct evidence in that it is more difficult to suppress or fabricate.
Much of the evidence against Timothy McVeigh was circumstantial, for example. Speaking about McVeigh's trial, University of Michigan law professor Robert Precht said, "Circumstantial evidence can be, and often is much more powerful than direct evidence." Circumstantial evidence
The key thing I'm trying to say is that you have to prove guilt. How can they prove it was my computer it could have been a hacked WEP and the only way they'd have access to my router is for them to hack ME.
In a civil case you do not have to prove "guilt."
To win you only have to persuade a jury that you have the simpler, more reasonable explanation.
In discovery, you only have to ask for permission to dig deeper.
The fundamental problem with the arguments being made here is that the RIAA probably isn't asking a judge to look at a single incident but many. Hundreds. Thousands.
This is why I support an independent media specification organization.
RCA spent enormous sums of money developing black and white and color TV for the American market. The committee crawls on all fours. The entrepreneur takes the ball and runs.
Compare the state of HD radio in the U.S. with DAB in Canada. In this border town, there are sixteen HD channels available now vs. one experimental DAB broadcast by the CBC.
Its been speculated that VHS beat Betamax due to more support from the pR0n industry. Sex sells.
So does Disney. So does extended play.
Beta's superior video scarcely mattered when almost no one had a set that could display it. Blu-Ray enters a market where HDTV is taking off like a rocket.
In the old days, you could trust that your electronic gadgets did nothing but what you expected. They were simple hardware, with little software. You could open the box and figure out what it did. Now days, with software dominating the technology in gadgets, I prefer that software to be open. Who's to say that your iPhone isn't spying on you? When you run Vista, you must agree to trust Microsoft with all kinds of personal information. My cell phone service provider knows where I am 24/7, and I'm not allowed to turn that feature off.
The old days died in the eighties with Heathkit.
The end was in sight when the transistor entered consumer electronics in the late fifties.
The phone company has known where you are since 1876. The phone company has to know who to bill, the phone company has to know how to route a call.
Any form of communication implies a certain loss of privacy - of anonymity.
Yeah, I wanna see the code.
If you don't trust Apple, why should you trust Apple's release of Apple's code?
Somehow, in this era of major terrorism, genocide, nuclear proliferation, insurgency in Iraq and Afghanistan, and other thorny issues, I don't think anybody in the government loses sleep over allofmp3.
In ten years, J.K. Rowling went from being a welfare mother to being richer than the Queen of England. The U.S. and the U.K. have learned how to spin their culture into pure gold for export.
You might as well ask if there is anyone in the Aussie government who cares about the wool market, anyone in the Saudi government who cares about oil.
copyright infringement is not theft. it is what it is.
The notion that copyright infringement was a form of theft became current in English language and in English thought while the Black Flag still flew over the Caribbean.
The geek wastes time and pursuing the linguistic argument, the philosophical argument, which were lost long ago.
The legal argument doesn't take him much farther - at least the states - where copyright infringement can put him in a federal penitentiary on a felony charge.
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Television standards in the states were essentially the creation of RCA.
Introducing compatible color makes perfect economic sense when there are tens of millions of existing black and white sets and you are the dominant manufacturer and broadcaster.
Peter Goldmark was demonstrating field-sequential color in 1940, a hybrid system that used color wheels in both the camera and the receiver.
Prototype sets were massive even by console radio standards --- and it became perfectly clear that CBS didn't have the resources to develop all-electronic color.
Broadcasting on the VHF band meant that you could get deep penetration into suburban and rural areas without building a network of repeaters.
Tuning the UHF bands - which is what you need for field-sequential - wasn't all that easy in the vacuum tube era.
You are the fish. You swallowed the bait. They reeled you in. What do you think happens next? You get gutted and hung out to dry.
What makes you think you can trust Pirate Bay?
This bill has been bounced back and forth between the Illinois House and Senate for two years, without any final action being taken. Bill Status of HB0380 Spyware Prevent Initiative Act
Only Arkansas and Virginia have anything on the statute books, and the Virgina law has openings for the rights agencies you could drive a tank through. To begin, you have to prove "malacious intent."
2007 State Legislation Relating to Internet Spyware or Adware, An Act to amend and reenact 18.2-152.4 of the Code of Virginia, relating to computer trespass; spyware; penalty
This argument is plausible only when the site unmistakably belongs to a legitimate distributer --- otherwise you are just another guy whose new refrigerator fell off the back of a truck.
Juries are middle-aged, middle-class, small-C conservatives. There ain't nothing wrong with their bullshit detector.
Can you say "I know the difference between civil and criminal law. The difference between the rules that bind the police and the rules that bind every else?" I am not sure you can.
it's not like the people who would have been caught by this were innocents.
Saying that comes pretty close to sabotaging any hope of raising entrapment as a defense. If you are ready and willing to download all those lovely "free movies" and the site is designed to attract the greedy little fool you are --- it's game over.
Entrapment
Well, duh.
I know it will sound as if I am re-writing history, ignoring all that came before.
But perception creates its own reality and infrastructure as you define it - as the home user came to know it - as the small business came to know it - was built to service the MSDOS and Windows client.
id and Sierra were writing console-quality games for the PC when graphics support for animation in PC hardware was non-existent. AOL for MSDOS is launched in 1991.
look at the backlash against Vista
I don't see a backlash against Vista. What I see is the $800 Pavilion HP laptop with Vista Premium driving OEM Linux off the pages at Walmart.com.
The uninsured has untreated and antibiotic resistant TB. He coughs. You die. It is in everyone's interest that we do not return to the plague years.
Before the invention of the polio vaccine, the beginning of summer was a terror for every parent:
1916 9,000 new cases are reported in New York City alone
1934 2,500 in a localized epidemic are treated at L.A. County General Hospital alone
1945-1948 20,000 new cases in the U.S. each year
1952 58,000
1953 35,000 The History of Polio
The brand-name HP Pavilion Vista Premium laptop at Walmart.com starts at $780 with a dual-core AMD CPU, 1 GB of RAM, a DVD burner, integrated WiFi, integrated webcam, and DX9 GeForce Go graphics that do not suck.
This is what Walmart delivers for $780:
HP Pavilion Entertainment Laptop
Vista Premium
AMD Turon Dual Core 1.8 GHz CPU
WXGA 15" 1280x800 wide-screen display
120 GB SATA HDD
1 GB DDR RAM
8X DVD R/RW drive
Integrated WiFi and Ethernet
NVIDA GeForce Go graphics
Altec Lansing speakers
Integrated webcam
6-cell LiOn battery
For $820: HP Pavilion Vista Premium 2 GHz Intel Dual Core + 160 GB HDD. Intel 950 graphics.
HP Pavilion Entertainment Laptop w/Mobile
The uncomfortable truth for the Geek is that Gates isn't hated at all. Hardball capitalism is and always has been the American national sport. The empire builder draws the wrath of a minority. But in the end he emerges from scandals, lawsuits and the hoo-rah of the election cycle unscathed - and there will be many cheering him on.
Apple took the word "Computer" out of its name.
The Mac is built using generic Windows PC parts. "Boot Camp" becomes a core marketing tool. In damn near thirty years of competition Apple remains a - very - distant second to Microsoft, in Microsoft's core markets.
The Geek trots out the "poorly-made" argument at every opportunity.
It is guaranteed a +4, +5 mod-up, Insightful, on Slashdot. But the fact remains that something like 500 million desktop-laptop users world-wide have found that Windows does what they want it to do.
Standard Oil became dominant before the automobile.
You could fill a lantern or a stove with the Standard product with the reasonable expectation that you wouldn't be widowed the next time your wife struck a match.
That side of the story tends to be forgotten, along with the fact that the retail price of the monopoly product grew progressively cheaper.
Not so surprisingly then, customers stuck with Standard's regional operating companies after the break-up of the trust.
The small independents faded out of the picture.
Big Oil began to emerge as we know it today -- and Rockefeller grew richer, faster, even as he retired from business and began to focus on his charities, medical research, colonial Williamsburg.
Tiger Direct has a $400 special on a 32 inch wide screen LCD. ATSC tuner. 720p. HDMI, component video, etc. Weight 57 pounds.Niko SV3206 32" LCD HDTV Television
Your hernia-in-a-box CRT will need a converter for broadcast reception in two years. You paid $400 for 4:3 video and analog audio and you call this a bargain?
It doesn't add to the plot or production quality, and can often get in the way of it.
The answer in one word: Ratatouille.
Greater capacity means more room for soundtracks, dialog tracks, interactive content, and other marketable extras.
Win CE is not Microsoft's only entry in the embedded market.
The embedded market for devices with a GUI has grown rather larger and more complex than that of the PDA. Microsoft Windows Embedded, Windows Automotive
This is flat-out wrong.
In a civil case there is a simple "finding" of fact for the plaintiff or defendant.
Circumstantial evidence is evidence. Most of the time, it is the only evidence a jury will ever see.
In practice, circumstantial evidence often has an advantage over direct evidence in that it is more difficult to suppress or fabricate.
Much of the evidence against Timothy McVeigh was circumstantial, for example. Speaking about McVeigh's trial, University of Michigan law professor Robert Precht said, "Circumstantial evidence can be, and often is much more powerful than direct evidence." Circumstantial evidence
In a civil case you do not have to prove "guilt."
To win you only have to persuade a jury that you have the simpler, more reasonable explanation.
In discovery, you only have to ask for permission to dig deeper.
The fundamental problem with the arguments being made here is that the RIAA probably isn't asking a judge to look at a single incident but many. Hundreds. Thousands.
RCA spent enormous sums of money developing black and white and color TV for the American market. The committee crawls on all fours. The entrepreneur takes the ball and runs.
Compare the state of HD radio in the U.S. with DAB in Canada. In this border town, there are sixteen HD channels available now vs. one experimental DAB broadcast by the CBC.
So does Disney. So does extended play.
Beta's superior video scarcely mattered when almost no one had a set that could display it. Blu-Ray enters a market where HDTV is taking off like a rocket.
The old days died in the eighties with Heathkit.
The end was in sight when the transistor entered consumer electronics in the late fifties.
The phone company has known where you are since 1876. The phone company has to know who to bill, the phone company has to know how to route a call.
Any form of communication implies a certain loss of privacy - of anonymity.
Yeah, I wanna see the code.
If you don't trust Apple, why should you trust Apple's release of Apple's code?
J K Rowling is worth $1 billion dollars to Inland Revenue.
In 2006 Russian exports to the U.S. were worth $19 billion dollars. U.S. exports to Russia $4.7 billion. United States and Russia Have Prosperous Relationship
Do you think Putin gives a damn about about the downtrodden American geek who wants to keep his cheap mp3 fix?
Get real yourself.
In ten years, J.K. Rowling went from being a welfare mother to being richer than the Queen of England. The U.S. and the U.K. have learned how to spin their culture into pure gold for export.
You might as well ask if there is anyone in the Aussie government who cares about the wool market, anyone in the Saudi government who cares about oil.
There is no bribery and nothing dishonest in saying that if you want to join the WTO, you must play by the rules of the WTO.
AllOfMP3 will come down - and stay down - as soon as Putin decides it is bad for business.
The notion that copyright infringement was a form of theft became current in English language and in English thought while the Black Flag still flew over the Caribbean.
It made perfect sense to Dickens, who had some choice things to say about the American character in this context. Copy Wrong: Internet Piracy and Dickens and Melville
The geek wastes time and pursuing the linguistic argument, the philosophical argument, which were lost long ago.
The legal argument doesn't take him much farther - at least the states - where copyright infringement can put him in a federal penitentiary on a felony charge.