Truthfully, I'm glad they don't respect copyrights and patents. It's one of the few freedoms that actually keep China from flying off the deep end. I could't even imagine RIAA types backed by authoritarian Chinese power.
Try harder.
Imagine a Chinese book or film taking hold in the world market on the scale of "Harry Potter," a franchise worth a billion dollars in royalties to the author alone.
But also a persuasive and accessible celebration of traditonal Chinese culture. Its propaganda value beyond measure.
You think just maybe the government might go all out to protect an asset of such value?
PS: How does China even acknowledge foreign patents, no less patent things themselves, considering they're communist?
China's major trading partners are, like China itself, mixed economies in which both state and private initiatives are important. For primers, in English, on the intellectual property law of China: Ministry of Science and Technology: Policies and Regulations When China joined the WTO, Microsoft became the first foreign company to admitted into China's government-sanctioned software industry trade association.
"a few dozen" people being able to leave latent prints that match yours is plausible.
In the real world, the New Jersey state police do not close a rape case when partial prints are matched to a seventy-five year old war vet bound to a wheelchair in Petaluma.
It's not about white or blue collar crime, but about whether the type of "identification" supplied would actually be useful for the type of crime.
It's about being convicted of a felony, which has very large and long term consequences.
You have no "right" to parole. Your conduct will be monitored for years to come. You do not want a felony conviction on your record if you are ever arrested again on any charge.
Your data is permanently kept, so that if ever one of the other few dozen people who have near-identical fingerprints to you (in the US alone) commits a crime, you can be charged with it, thereby reducing the number of unsolved cases. It's a form of patriotism
Modded to +3, Informative?
Informative demands a show of proof. Not the kind of bald assertion that would be beneath contempt if you heard it on AM Talk Radio.
Just what do law makers do with someone that creates a virus that makes little girls clothes go transparent?
I'm paranoid... at least when it comes to anything that requires law makers and politicians to have common sense and good humor
You do not play sexual jokes on kids. You do not probe mil net without paying a price. To anyone but a Geek, this is not rocket science.
an elite few will be purchasing $800 widescreen, rear projection systems with surround sound equipment.
The New York Tines has HDTV in 19% of american households. The Geek is the last to know.
The RCA model is a bog standard entrant from Walmart.com, marketed for sale to middle class families, the core market for projection TV. It isn't by chance that Harry Potter is on the fast track for HD release.
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CAR insurance is now not almost 100% mandatory BY LAW and YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR IT AND NOT THE GOVERNMENT.) Hello? Can we say FORCED CONSUMERISM?
Back then, when I pressed "record" on a tape recorder or the shutter button on a camera, it did what I wanted instantaneously.
and it would be days before the negatives and prints came back from the developer.
perhaps a minute or two for a Polaroid. Unless you were skilled in photo lab work with toxic chemicals, enlargers and such like, you would not be doing any editing.
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Perhaps if we applied the free-market...that we have in consumer electronics to health and education, it might not just be the tchotchkes that get more and more features as they get cheaper and cheaper
The rules of the market do apply.
The problem is that the arts, health and education, are essentially craft work, skilled labor. There are limits to what you can achieve through mass production, there are limits to recruitment when the pay is minimum wage.
as more and more people start making noise about all the DRM garbage associated, they are just going to steer away for quite a long time.
I doubt it.
If the novie plays that will be the end of it for just about everyone.
If one click in Vista or OSX saves HD to your hard drive or low-res to a portable player, so much the better.
But only a Geek to give a damn about codecs, cables and connectors, or the fine points of managed copy. Everyone else will just buy the standard color-coded MCE bundles from Dell or HP and be up and running in under an hour.
I can't imagine that half the people that buy HDTV sets can even see any actual quality difference between an HDTV version of a movie and a standard DVD version without buy a television so large that few if any can afford it.
Why are computer manufacturers so ready to jump in bed with the RIAA/MPAA?
Sony is a giant in both the entertainment industry and electronics.
Fully half of Apple's revenues come from the iPod and iTunes. There are strategic alliances between all the major players in these industries, including, of course, retailers like Walmart.
The problem is, his range becomes very limited, especially in the winter he can only do 25 miles. I guess these are the reasons that EV's never really caught on.
This is no better range than the urban electrics of 1905.
Games should be rated for violence, and graphic sex, but boobies that can't be seen without a hack? Holy fuck, what is wrong with parents?!
Mark Twain pulled the first American print run of Huckleberry Finn after an anonymous engraver made pornographic changes in an illustration. Huck Finn's Obscene Illustration
30,000 pages to be snipped and replaced. However crude or funny the in-jokes stay in-house.
The problem isn't prudery. The problem is in pushing the limits of the voluntary ratings system until it collapses and the government takes over. You want to introduce nudity and sex into your game? Fine. But do it openly under an M or AO rating. Don't hide behind the excuse that adult content is accessible only through a mod.
Better yet, why doesn't every country get together and decide what a child is? Or how about every U.S. state?
Let's be honest here, shall we?
When the talk is about child pornography, the discussion is almost certain to focus on the sexually immature child, those age twelve and under. Including those still in infancy.
Why don't they go after the purveyors of said pornography?
They can and they do. But going after the distributer sometimes means you bag the lot.
Silly... no matter what, there's always a way around this for anyone that's the least bit determined.
You think the Feds might ask for help from their counterparts in Canada? Who won't lose any sleep over whatever happens to that annoying little twit routing his calls through Toronto.
I'm not against selling Linux to non-geeks, but I think that the right place to start is single purpose machines -- e.g. A real cheap web browsing PC with a bundled printer.
How many companies have tried to make a go of the web appliance and failed?
Walmart doesn't even pretend to service this market anymore. What it wants is the higher margins and aftermarket sales that come with Windows MCE.
Walmart.com did have a closeout sale of 900 MHz IBM thinkpads, refurbished, $300, with Win XP. If you are thinking cheap, there are other ways to go than DIY Linux.
Do we really want to go to any great lengths to make life any easier for people who just want to be automatons? And is this the kind of element that we would like to see thrive in our society?
Most of us go through life automating everything that is of secondary interest or value.
That is why the superhet with two dials replaces displaces the regenerative receiver with three or four.
Radio in the twenties twenties was dominated by hobbyists and engineers. In the thiries it becomes mass popular entertainment and the technology recedes permenently into the background.
The skill sets that are essential to the first generation of users disappear in the next. This is the norm and not the exception.
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Try harder.
Imagine a Chinese book or film taking hold in the world market on the scale of "Harry Potter," a franchise worth a billion dollars in royalties to the author alone.
But also a persuasive and accessible celebration of traditonal Chinese culture. Its propaganda value beyond measure.
You think just maybe the government might go all out to protect an asset of such value?
China's major trading partners are, like China itself, mixed economies in which both state and private initiatives are important. For primers, in English, on the intellectual property law of China: Ministry of Science and Technology: Policies and Regulations When China joined the WTO, Microsoft became the first foreign company to admitted into China's government-sanctioned software industry trade association.
In the real world, the New Jersey state police do not close a rape case when partial prints are matched to a seventy-five year old war vet bound to a wheelchair in Petaluma.
It's about being convicted of a felony, which has very large and long term consequences.
You have no "right" to parole. Your conduct will be monitored for years to come. You do not want a felony conviction on your record if you are ever arrested again on any charge.
Modded to +3, Informative?
Informative demands a show of proof.
Not the kind of bald assertion that would be beneath contempt if you heard it on AM Talk Radio.
The appliance model, home delivery, no assembly required, service under warranty, is what sells Dell to the middle class.
Just what do law makers do with someone that creates a virus that makes little girls clothes go transparent?
I'm paranoid... at least when it comes to anything that requires law makers and politicians to have common sense and good humor You do not play sexual jokes on kids. You do not probe mil net without paying a price. To anyone but a Geek, this is not rocket science.
The New York Tines has HDTV in 19% of american households. The Geek is the last to know.
The RCA model is a bog standard entrant from Walmart.com, marketed for sale to middle class families, the core market for projection TV. It isn't by chance that Harry Potter is on the fast track for HD release.
Take the bus.
and it would be days before the negatives and prints came back from the developer.
perhaps a minute or two for a Polaroid. Unless you were skilled in photo lab work with toxic chemicals, enlargers and such like, you would not be doing any editing.
The rules of the market do apply.
The problem is that the arts, health and education, are essentially craft work, skilled labor. There are limits to what you can achieve through mass production, there are limits to recruitment when the pay is minimum wage.
I doubt it.
If the novie plays that will be the end of it for just about everyone.
If one click in Vista or OSX saves HD to your hard drive or low-res to a portable player, so much the better.
But only a Geek to give a damn about codecs, cables and connectors, or the fine points of managed copy. Everyone else will just buy the standard color-coded MCE bundles from Dell or HP and be up and running in under an hour.
You want to pick the winner? Look at the market for family entertainment.
How much do you think the Harry Potter franchise is worth to Time-Warner? To Walmart? It has made J.K. Rowling richer than the Queen.
RCA 52" Widescreen Projection HDTV, HD52W59 $ 894 USD
Sony is a giant in both the entertainment industry and electronics.
Fully half of Apple's revenues come from the iPod and iTunes. There are strategic alliances between all the major players in these industries, including, of course, retailers like Walmart.
This is no better range than the urban electrics of 1905.
Fine by me. Bethesda is one of the few companies I'd trust to understand that "Mature" is not a synonym for soft-core pornography.
Mark Twain pulled the first American print run of Huckleberry Finn after an anonymous engraver made pornographic changes in an illustration. Huck Finn's Obscene Illustration
30,000 pages to be snipped and replaced. However crude or funny the in-jokes stay in-house.
The problem isn't prudery. The problem is in pushing the limits of the voluntary ratings system until it collapses and the government takes over. You want to introduce nudity and sex into your game? Fine. But do it openly under an M or AO rating. Don't hide behind the excuse that adult content is accessible only through a mod.
Let's be honest here, shall we?
When the talk is about child pornography, the discussion is almost certain to focus on the sexually immature child, those age twelve and under. Including those still in infancy.
Why don't they go after the purveyors of said pornography?
They can and they do. But going after the distributer sometimes means you bag the lot.
Your argument, taken literally, would prevent any sort of community action against the sexual abuse of children.
and if they have cut a deal wirh the CIA or the Russian Mafia, what then?
it amazes me when Geek paranoia stops at the U.S. border.
You think the Feds might ask for help from their counterparts in Canada?
Who won't lose any sleep over whatever happens to that annoying little twit routing his calls through Toronto.
How many companies have tried to make a go of the web appliance and failed?
Walmart doesn't even pretend to service this market anymore. What it wants is the higher margins and aftermarket sales that come with Windows MCE.
Walmart.com did have a closeout sale of 900 MHz IBM thinkpads, refurbished, $300, with Win XP. If you are thinking cheap, there are other ways to go than DIY Linux.
There is more to building a successful office suite than a choice of formats for storage, output and exchange.
Most of us go through life automating everything that is of secondary interest or value.
That is why the superhet with two dials replaces displaces the regenerative receiver with three or four.
Radio in the twenties twenties was dominated by hobbyists and engineers. In the thiries it becomes mass popular entertainment and the technology recedes permenently into the background.
The skill sets that are essential to the first generation of users disappear in the next. This is the norm and not the exception.