So if you want DRM there will have to be closed-source client-side apps in either case.
Client apps which can exist outside the generic web browser --- and perhaps replace it. Think of the Netflix tile on the Win 8 Start page. Now imagine a one-stop subscription service for books, magazines, newspapers, music, video and games. all instantly accessible without ever once opening Firefox or Chrome.
If he's successful in preventing HTML5 from being adopted by Netflix, Amazon, etc., that's a big win for non-open technology like Flash and Silverlight. Stallman is a good example of what happens if you don't pick your battles carefully.
It's a big win for the walled gardens of the app and the app store.
It's a big win for the internet enabled HDTV, the video game console, the Roku set top box. It's a big loser for the "open web" browser when the content people want --- and are willing to pay for --- is only available elsewhere.
I'm probably going to be crucified for this, but I think he has a good point.
First generation or recent generation black Americans tend to be some of the most dignified people I know, and that includes blacks who have served in the military. But the ones who have been here for numerous generations, especially the inner city ones, are more often than not a bunch of douchebags. Many among them literally call having good grades "acting white" and look down upon it.
The most ignorant and racist post ever to Slashdot. AM talk radio at its best.
I say that as someone who has been using mIRC since 1995 --- and still consider it best-of-breed for Windows.
The fundamental problem is that IRC chat clients remain frozen in time while AIM and its successors stripped chat and messaging clients of their intimidating technical complexity and geek jargon.
But if he is that good, maybe he could be playing the casino circuit. Since gambling is already an "adult" activity, a comedian or rapper would not be disqualified for being smut-mouthed.
And New Hampshire has a population of 1 million and a House of 435 representatives.
What New Hampshire has is a gerontocracy.
State legislators are paid $200 for their two-year term, plus mileage, effectively making them volunteers. The only other benefits are free use of toll roads and of state-owned resorts. A 2007 survey found that nearly half the members of the House are retired, with an average age over 60.
So there was no "new" art prior to the invention of artificial copyright?
Not as much as the geek likes to pretend.
The non-profit Library of America reprints the best of American literature in compact and handsome hardcover editions, including the best in journalism, genre fiction and so on.
It couldn't be made plainer that most of this wonderfully diverse company of authors are of lower and middle class origins, working writers --- professionals --- who were products of modern copyright era,
All property rights are "artificial" in the sense that it is the power of the state that defines and enforces them.
Seriously. Want to still play games, but the consoles don't do what you want? Use a computer. They are first-flight gaming platforms these days.
The PC game is either single player or multiplayer online. It isn't social gaming --- something to be shared with friends and family at home --- and the low budget rig probably won't be able to deliver the big screen, big sound, theatrical experience of the mainstream console game.
Why are we funding this kind of service in rural areas when the much cheaper to wire urban areas still don't have this sort of service?
"Dig We Must."
The rural Telco doesn't have to snake its way inch by inch through 150-200 years of existing urban infrastructure below ground and above --- which is what you'll find in the Northeast.
Seriously, most of the tax revenue comes from the developed portions of the country, but most of the spending is done in less developed areas of the country.
Nonsense.
Unless you chose to count the cost of importing water, food and power into cities like New York and Los Angeles.
We don't need to hobble our technologies to make certain people money.
Half of prime time Internet traffic in the states was a licensed Netflix download before Netflix offered a download-only service.
Standard Definition, No multichannel theater sound. No captioning,
The only thing you accomplish by keeping content protection out of the browser is to shift focus to the walled gardens of the OS branded app and app store.
Subscription services?
No problem for OSX and Windows, the Intenet enabled HDTV, the Dennon home theater receiver, the Roku set top box. The Xbox, Playstation or the Wii.
Big problem for the Linux enthusiast not running Android or Chrome.
This enormously increases the power of the lobbyist -- and the permanent state bureaucracy . Expertise but no term limits.
2) corporate money is not free speech
The EFF is a corporation. "In union there is strength."
You can't exclude the for-profit corporation from the right to free speech and freedom of association without putting every other reasonably prosperous collective enterprise at risk of being silenced when they become inconvenient to one faction or another.
Free speech only for the isolated and the poor means nothing in a population of 333 million.
5) Large scale infrastructure projects...LARGE. High speed trains, universal fiber broadband
It takes years --- often decades --- of unrelenting promotion and lobbying by for these things to happen.
The Panama Canal. National Parks. The Interstate Highway System.
It can't be done without strong and stable political leadership. Long term financial planning and support. The Bell System in its prime did think in terms of a building a national telecommunications infrastructure. The state sanctioned monopoly can do that.
7) outlaw lobbyists
The lobbyist represents interests important in a politician's home district. Those interests do not go away and they cannot be silenced.
Was the Deutschmark not money during the hyperinflation of the 1920s?
When no one wants it, no one trusts it, it isn't money, it's toilet paper.
In January 1923 French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr, the industrial region of Germany in the Ruhr valley to ensure that the reparations were paid in goods, such as coal from the Ruhr and other industrial zones of Germany. Because the Mark was practically worthless, it became impossible for Germany to buy foreign exchange or gold using paper Marks. Instead, reparations were paid in goods. Inflation was exacerbated when workers in the Ruhr went on a general strike, and the German government printed more money in order to continue paying them for "passively resisting." As a result of hyperinflation, there were news accounts of individuals in Germany suffering from a compulsion called zero stroke, a condition where the person has a "desire to write endless rows of [zeros] and engage in computations more involved than the most difficult problems in logarithms."
Foxcon legal department assessed the cost of litigation to fight against bogus patents potentially higher than just pay those damn mafioso.
Grow up.
This is Foxconn, remember.
[The] world's largest electronics contract manufacturer measured by revenues.
Foxconn is primarily an original design manufacturer, and its clients include major American, European, and Japanese electronics and information technology companies. Notable products that the company manufactures include the iPad, iPhone, iPod, Kindle, PlayStation 3 and Wii U.
Foxconn has been involved in several controversies, most relating to how it manages employees in China where it is the largest private-sector employer.
Foxconn's largest factory worldwide is in Longhua, Shenzhen, where hundreds of thousands of workers (varying counts include 230,000, 300,000, and 450,000 are employed at the Longhua Science & Technology Park, a walled campus sometimes referred to as '''Foxconn City'' or ''iPod City.''
Revenues NT$ 3.452 trillion (2011)
Employees 1.23 million (2012)
Look at those numbers and tell me with a straight face that this is a company that can't defend itself.
That its potential exposure wouldn't justify the expense of litigation --- if its attorneys, accountants and engineers saw any reasonable chance of winning on the merits.
Wake me up when it is NON-downloadable content and I can play it offline.
Check the major online retail sites selling SimCity. See where it ranks on the sales charts. Prove to me that anyone but the geek gives a damn about "always on line."
I would have thought that Crest would have realised that SimCity is pretty much become a toxic brand at the moment and will taint everything associated with it.
The download of the new SimCity is #3 in PC game sales at Amazon,com The SimCity 4 download edition is #5. The Sims 3 and its - many - add-ons are well placed in the top 50.
Bioshock Infinite, with a Metacritic rating of 95, is #14.
I'd really love more open source video editor choices on Windows, especially since the decent paid ones are expensive.
The royalties on the AVC. H.264 codec are trivial and come into play only with sales of more than 100,000 units a year.
For [AVC] encoder and decoder products sold both to End Users and on an OEM
basis for incorporation into personal computers but not part of a personal computer
operating system (a decoder, encoder, or product consisting of one decoder and one
encoder = ''unit''), royalties (beginning January 1, 2005) per Legal Entity are 0 - 100,000
units per year = no royalty (this threshold is available to one Legal Entity in an affiliated
group); US $0.20 per unit after first 100,000 units each year; above 5 million units per
year, royalty = US $0.10 per unit. The maximum annual royalty (''cap'') for an Enterprise
(commonly controlled Legal Entities) is $3.5 million per year 2005-2006, $4.25 million
per year 2007-08, $5 million per year 2009-10, and $6.5 million per year in 2011-15.8.
if you are indoors you probably know where you are
Let me introduce you to the Great White North:
PATH is downtown Toronto's underground walkway linking 28 kilometres of shopping, services and entertainment.
PATH facts:
According to Guinness World Records, PATH is the largest underground shopping complex with 29 km (18 miles) of shopping arcades. It has 371,600 sq. metres (4 million sq. ft) of retail space. In fact, the retail space connected to PATH rivals the West Edmonton Mall in size.
The approximate 1,200 shops and services, such as photocopy shops and shoe repairs, found in PATH, employ about 5,000 people. Once a year, businesses in PATH host the world's largest underground sidewalk sale.
More than 50 buildings/office towers are connected through PATH. Twenty parking garages, five subway stations, two major department stores, six major hotels, and a railway terminal are also accessible through PATH. It also provides links to some of Toronto's major tourist and entertainment attractions such as: the Hockey Hall of Fame, Roy Thomson Hall, Air Canada Centre, Rogers Centre, and the CN Tower. City Hall and Metro Hall are also connected through PATH.
There are more than 125 grade level access points and 60 decision points where a pedestrian has to decide between turning left or right, or continuing straight on. The average size of a connecting link is 20 metres (66 ft.) long by 6 metres (20 ft.) wide.
Signage includes a symbol for people with disabilities whenever there is a flight of stairs ahead.
Slashdot Mirror
So if you want DRM there will have to be closed-source client-side apps in either case.
Client apps which can exist outside the generic web browser --- and perhaps replace it. Think of the Netflix tile on the Win 8 Start page. Now imagine a one-stop subscription service for books, magazines, newspapers, music, video and games. all instantly accessible without ever once opening Firefox or Chrome.
If he's successful in preventing HTML5 from being adopted by Netflix, Amazon, etc., that's a big win for non-open technology like Flash and Silverlight. Stallman is a good example of what happens if you don't pick your battles carefully.
It's a big win for the walled gardens of the app and the app store.
It's a big win for the internet enabled HDTV, the video game console, the Roku set top box. It's a big loser for the "open web" browser when the content people want --- and are willing to pay for --- is only available elsewhere.
I'm probably going to be crucified for this, but I think he has a good point.
First generation or recent generation black Americans tend to be some of the most dignified people I know, and that includes blacks who have served in the military. But the ones who have been here for numerous generations, especially the inner city ones, are more often than not a bunch of douchebags. Many among them literally call having good grades "acting white" and look down upon it.
The most ignorant and racist post ever to Slashdot. AM talk radio at its best.
Would having an full-feature open source driver actually hurt or improve business?
In the high-end consumer market who cares about the open source driver other than the open source purist?
IRC still loves you.
But no one loves their IRC chat client.
I say that as someone who has been using mIRC since 1995 --- and still consider it best-of-breed for Windows.
The fundamental problem is that IRC chat clients remain frozen in time while AIM and its successors stripped chat and messaging clients of their intimidating technical complexity and geek jargon.
Barber Shop Quartets, can't get any geekier than that.
Case in point, Bioshock Infinite.
But if he is that good, maybe he could be playing the casino circuit. Since gambling is already an "adult" activity, a comedian or rapper would not be disqualified for being smut-mouthed.
The truth is that casinos have gone middle class and respectable: Upcoming Events at the Fallsview Casino
And New Hampshire has a population of 1 million and a House of 435 representatives.
What New Hampshire has is a gerontocracy.
State legislators are paid $200 for their two-year term, plus mileage, effectively making them volunteers. The only other benefits are free use of toll roads and of state-owned resorts. A 2007 survey found that nearly half the members of the House are retired, with an average age over 60.
Government of New Hampshire
A 91-year-old GOP state legislator in New Hampshire has resigned after saying people with mental illnesses should get a one-way trip to Siberia.
State Rep. Martin Harty, who turns 92 this month, made national news recently when he touted eugenics as a way to get rid of "defective people."
N.H. state legislator resigns after remark about mental illness [March 2011]
Iceland has a 63 member parliament and a population of 319,000.
New York City has a population of 8.245 million and a city council of 51 members.
So there was no "new" art prior to the invention of artificial copyright?
Not as much as the geek likes to pretend.
The non-profit Library of America reprints the best of American literature in compact and handsome hardcover editions, including the best in journalism, genre fiction and so on.
It couldn't be made plainer that most of this wonderfully diverse company of authors are of lower and middle class origins, working writers --- professionals --- who were products of modern copyright era,
All property rights are "artificial" in the sense that it is the power of the state that defines and enforces them.
Seriously. Want to still play games, but the consoles don't do what you want? Use a computer. They are first-flight gaming platforms these days.
The PC game is either single player or multiplayer online. It isn't social gaming --- something to be shared with friends and family at home --- and the low budget rig probably won't be able to deliver the big screen, big sound, theatrical experience of the mainstream console game.
Why are we funding this kind of service in rural areas when the much cheaper to wire urban areas still don't have this sort of service?
"Dig We Must."
The rural Telco doesn't have to snake its way inch by inch through 150-200 years of existing urban infrastructure below ground and above --- which is what you'll find in the Northeast.
Seriously, most of the tax revenue comes from the developed portions of the country, but most of the spending is done in less developed areas of the country.
Nonsense.
Unless you chose to count the cost of importing water, food and power into cities like New York and Los Angeles.
How would you change if you had instant brain-level access to all information
Unlimited access to information --- good, bad and misleading --- is not the same thing as understanding, Nor is understanding the same thing as skill.
We don't need to hobble our technologies to make certain people money.
Half of prime time Internet traffic in the states was a licensed Netflix download before Netflix offered a download-only service.
Standard Definition, No multichannel theater sound. No captioning,
The only thing you accomplish by keeping content protection out of the browser is to shift focus to the walled gardens of the OS branded app and app store.
Subscription services?
No problem for OSX and Windows, the Intenet enabled HDTV, the Dennon home theater receiver, the Roku set top box. The Xbox, Playstation or the Wii.
Big problem for the Linux enthusiast not running Android or Chrome.
1) strict term limits for congress
This enormously increases the power of the lobbyist -- and the permanent state bureaucracy . Expertise but no term limits.
2) corporate money is not free speech
The EFF is a corporation. "In union there is strength."
You can't exclude the for-profit corporation from the right to free speech and freedom of association without putting every other reasonably prosperous collective enterprise at risk of being silenced when they become inconvenient to one faction or another.
Free speech only for the isolated and the poor means nothing in a population of 333 million.
5) Large scale infrastructure projects...LARGE. High speed trains, universal fiber broadband
It takes years --- often decades --- of unrelenting promotion and lobbying by for these things to happen.
The Panama Canal. National Parks. The Interstate Highway System.
It can't be done without strong and stable political leadership. Long term financial planning and support. The Bell System in its prime did think in terms of a building a national telecommunications infrastructure. The state sanctioned monopoly can do that.
7) outlaw lobbyists
The lobbyist represents interests important in a politician's home district. Those interests do not go away and they cannot be silenced.
Let's say he loaded up on Bitcoins and he wants them to go up.
Steve Forbes is not Scrooge McDuck. He'll have liquid reserves, of course. But no Money Bin.
Men in his class don't hoard coin under their mattress. They invest it.
Was the Deutschmark not money during the hyperinflation of the 1920s?
When no one wants it, no one trusts it, it isn't money, it's toilet paper.
In January 1923 French and Belgian troops occupied the Ruhr, the industrial region of Germany in the Ruhr valley to ensure that the reparations were paid in goods, such as coal from the Ruhr and other industrial zones of Germany. Because the Mark was practically worthless, it became impossible for Germany to buy foreign exchange or gold using paper Marks. Instead, reparations were paid in goods. Inflation was exacerbated when workers in the Ruhr went on a general strike, and the German government printed more money in order to continue paying them for "passively resisting." As a result of hyperinflation, there were news accounts of individuals in Germany suffering from a compulsion called zero stroke, a condition where the person has a "desire to write endless rows of [zeros] and engage in computations more involved than the most difficult problems in logarithms."
Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic
Foxcon legal department assessed the cost of litigation to fight against bogus patents potentially higher than just pay those damn mafioso.
Grow up.
This is Foxconn, remember.
[The] world's largest electronics contract manufacturer measured by revenues.
Foxconn is primarily an original design manufacturer, and its clients include major American, European, and Japanese electronics and information technology companies. Notable products that the company manufactures include the iPad, iPhone, iPod, Kindle, PlayStation 3 and Wii U.
Foxconn has been involved in several controversies, most relating to how it manages employees in China where it is the largest private-sector employer.
Foxconn's largest factory worldwide is in Longhua, Shenzhen, where hundreds of thousands of workers (varying counts include 230,000, 300,000, and 450,000 are employed at the Longhua Science & Technology Park, a walled campus sometimes referred to as '''Foxconn City'' or ''iPod City.''
Revenues NT$ 3.452 trillion (2011)
Employees 1.23 million (2012)
Foxconn
Look at those numbers and tell me with a straight face that this is a company that can't defend itself.
That its potential exposure wouldn't justify the expense of litigation --- if its attorneys, accountants and engineers saw any reasonable chance of winning on the merits.
Can you provide a citation that doesn't come from a fear-mongering rag of an excuse for journalism?
From an SAE presentation:
Risk per vehicle per operating hour
Risk of occupant/former occupant experiencing HF exposure above health based limits associated with an R1234yf ignition event: 3 x 10 -12 power
Risk of occupant being exposed to an open flame due to R1236yf ignition: 9 x 10 -14 power
Industry Evaluation of refrigerant HFO-1234yf
Wake me up when it is NON-downloadable content and I can play it offline.
Check the major online retail sites selling SimCity. See where it ranks on the sales charts. Prove to me that anyone but the geek gives a damn about "always on line."
I would have thought that Crest would have realised that SimCity is pretty much become a toxic brand at the moment and will taint everything associated with it.
The download of the new SimCity is #3 in PC game sales at Amazon,com The SimCity 4 download edition is #5. The Sims 3 and its - many - add-ons are well placed in the top 50.
Bioshock Infinite, with a Metacritic rating of 95, is #14.
I'd really love more open source video editor choices on Windows, especially since the decent paid ones are expensive.
The royalties on the AVC. H.264 codec are trivial and come into play only with sales of more than 100,000 units a year.
For [AVC] encoder and decoder products sold both to End Users and on an OEM basis for incorporation into personal computers but not part of a personal computer operating system (a decoder, encoder, or product consisting of one decoder and one encoder = ''unit''), royalties (beginning January 1, 2005) per Legal Entity are 0 - 100,000 units per year = no royalty (this threshold is available to one Legal Entity in an affiliated group); US $0.20 per unit after first 100,000 units each year; above 5 million units per year, royalty = US $0.10 per unit. The maximum annual royalty (''cap'') for an Enterprise (commonly controlled Legal Entities) is $3.5 million per year 2005-2006, $4.25 million per year 2007-08, $5 million per year 2009-10, and $6.5 million per year in 2011-15.8.
SUMMARY OF AVC/H.264 LICENSE TERMS
Wouldn't be surprised if they're being arm-twisted by their content providing cartel.
Netflix is producing or more likely, co-producing original content, which in time, will make its way into other distribution channels.
There's a respectably large underground complex in Crystal City, on the south side of Washington DC, though it's not quite Toronto scale
There are many other examples though few on the scale of Toronto or Montreal. Underground city
if you are indoors you probably know where you are
Let me introduce you to the Great White North:
PATH is downtown Toronto's underground walkway linking 28 kilometres of shopping, services and entertainment.
PATH facts:
According to Guinness World Records, PATH is the largest underground shopping complex with 29 km (18 miles) of shopping arcades. It has 371,600 sq. metres (4 million sq. ft) of retail space. In fact, the retail space connected to PATH rivals the West Edmonton Mall in size.
The approximate 1,200 shops and services, such as photocopy shops and shoe repairs, found in PATH, employ about 5,000 people. Once a year, businesses in PATH host the world's largest underground sidewalk sale.
More than 50 buildings/office towers are connected through PATH. Twenty parking garages, five subway stations, two major department stores, six major hotels, and a railway terminal are also accessible through PATH. It also provides links to some of Toronto's major tourist and entertainment attractions such as: the Hockey Hall of Fame, Roy Thomson Hall, Air Canada Centre, Rogers Centre, and the CN Tower. City Hall and Metro Hall are also connected through PATH.
There are more than 125 grade level access points and 60 decision points where a pedestrian has to decide between turning left or right, or continuing straight on. The average size of a connecting link is 20 metres (66 ft.) long by 6 metres (20 ft.) wide.
Signage includes a symbol for people with disabilities whenever there is a flight of stairs ahead.
PATH Facts