U.S. Public wants 'Unsustained Congressional Presence On the Moon and the Surface of Mars' where they belong... unless you believe in hell, in which case they'll be going there eventually for a lot less money.
Legal speak for a generic copyrite disclaimer which references a general agreement to me. What is the big deal? Sure it could say GPL, but this seems like a lawyer pleasing way to say "go read the related agreement" to me. The agreement can still be GPL but now the files just say you are restricted to the agreement.
GPL restricts use and copyrite is what gives GPL power.
It is common to estimate sales rates when pricing is impacted by QUANTITY especially in a tightly contested market with thin margins (that is, unless you have a huge quantity discount allowing your margins to be high.)
Such things are the reason why small players don't enter into such markets, they cost more and provide less with lower margins due to low production runs.
Marketing, promotion, and possibly a tax write off - WHILE also maintaining sales levels. For marketing it doubles as PR and provides better statistics on units sold etc.
Can people remember beyond 1 year? Is it cultural that some areas have less memory than others?
Rather than address the obvious fault in the parent's post, I'll suggest another problem: War. Not necessarily all out war, but hacks or even directing large corporations under the control of the enemy could screw up such a system much easier than the old fashioned methods for undermining an enemy's economy.
Long term, it would be wise to join the Chamber of Commerce and help them in promoting the destruction of the USA - it is slow but it'll do the trick.
Comcast is part of the whole scheme to punish you if you get 6 strikes against you by the movie/music mafia. $30 to dispute your assumed guilty verdict - this only means that they won't punish you for what somebody does on your 2nd open wifi connection.
Exactly nailed it. These reboots are a combo of appealing to the old end of the ideal target demo enough to get them to take their kids - OR more likely, not drive the parents crazy while the CHILDREN watch it.
The real target is the KIDS who don't know any better and will attach to the franchise and later repeat the cycle and maybe consume some more stuff even though it is a formula and not as good just because of the connection to the past memories. When a fan makes the movie then it bends a bit more towards the older viewers and maybe appeals slightly outside the normal demo but the producers must be hanging around reminding them of the marketing.
One wonders how much damage is done to children with all these things targeted towards them but combined with things for the parents that would otherwise never be there. I hear from old elementary teachers that children today have a lot of sarcasm but it is worse than that, they don't really understand the sarcasm or expressions they are using.
Given how much CRAP is put out today, I didn't expect anything different.
I'm also not sold on dark edgy themed formulas which is what I expected this to be. Plus it seems that many things are intentionally loaded with propaganda for acceptance of the authoritarian world we are heading towards.
If there is a side agenda to take away the 50s ideal role model, only then would I be interested in seeing it for the culture war.
I would like to know how these mindless fads happen, where 1 movie tries some new FX like an infinite army running over a hill and then everybody has to do it for years and years as each director/producer catches up with the audiences boredom of it.
When this planet is so polluted millions of people die (who matter) then we will create ways to clean it AND we will step up our efforts to reboot life on Mars (the popular appeal of going there.)
The congress and especially the morons on the science committee don't do anything for sensible reasons.
Other than thinking the moon is the 1st step before mars, I can't see why so many are bent on a moon base - other than some OLD military nuts who think there is a strategic advantage to a moon base.
Doing something old IS a waste of money; it would be better to work on cheaper space access or advancing robots - especially since robots already completely outperform humans in space exploration and by the time a human can go to Mars the robots will have evolved by decades (just think of what they did 20 years ago vs today.)
Only humans can own patents (not legal persons which are now corporations.) The rights should be non transferable (as most rights should be.)
This would require employees who do the actual invention get properly taken care of instead of fired for getting too old. Sure, this would result in plenty of ass kissing of SMART people (I know that sounds too unusual, but bare with me.)
We couldn't afford to be paying CEOs so much, they'd have to give some of that up or employee #14325 (who would then be known by their first name) will go to the competition with their patent. "News" magazines would have stories of SMART people trading to other corporations for better deals, possibly akin to the stories we get on sports players and CEOs today. Maybe children would grow up wanting.... now I'm getting too hopeful.
Why shouldn't the "IP" that costs the existing system so much be tied to people instead of corporations? At least trolls would have a name and a face.
Did anybody actually read some of the wikileaks? The US state dept is always doing things like this and the people making the "crazy" claims for decades were vindicated, those people should be listened to even more today (track record, duh. Meanwhile, people who are always wrong stay employed in US media outlets.)
NZ has an economy they do just fine on their own. But when huge movie projects come to promote their nation beyond what the tourism dept's could dream of doing, they'll CHANGE LAWS. This happens constantly in the USA state by state for movies where they'll heavily subsidize movie productions (both parties!) using demand-side economic arguments (which are usually despised.)
Will it be fully conclusive proof that can hold up in court? No. Little is; especially in politics where everybody playing the game is skilled at self preservation. People with an eye for corruption will do well spotting the signs; however, it takes leaks on parties involved in their own words to prove it and even then an expert is often important/necessary to understanding it.
As far as conspiracies about shows like '24' ( the show is supposed to be realistic but portrays greater conspiracies than the ones about the show,) it doesn't take any master plan for such things to happen. A like minded individual with connections can benefit from making decisions aligned with the powerful; being rewarded later or simply encouraged for their help for the cause. It could happen outside FOX and it's GOP TV wing, but since it was FOX it wasn't likely it was entirely organic.
Despotism is on the rise in the USA. everybody living there should be seeing it by now... who isn't sticking their head in the sand...or more appropriately, in their "reality" TV. We have so much BS in all aspects of life, people crave reality so "realism" is popular... and what happens? We get pseudo realism to partially fill the need, creating another unhealthy addiction cycle that promotes consumption.
Just because worker rights are dead and continue to die as the corporate dominance grows doesn't mean we should blindly accept today's situation in the majority of professions.
The few holdouts, unsurprisingly, are professions with functioning UNIONS. Despised and resented by those who lack union backing and even some who do; corporate propaganda is unmatched and it wouldn't surprise me if professors are the last demographic to be enslaved.
Everything is NOT business. These are SCHOOLS. When are people going to realize this. MBAs are not high priests! Stop having your world view dictated by these false prophets! The history of economic success is not a result of modern MBA thinking being applied to all aspects of life.
So called "I.P." should only ever belong to employees and be non-transferable. Save your boss billions with your brainchild and you deserve have a job for life (if not the bonuses the bosses receive.) Come 50-60 years old, they'll fire you saying "What have you done for us lately?" Americans especially need to go to these 3rd world nations and see the walled communities next to slums where there is no upward mobility - it is their future...
Ok so it's much slower; I never payed much attention to the pci thing over the years. But I fail to see why it is a problem outside of video cards. I've heard that the TB to fiber adapters are just as fast and priced the same as the PCI cards. What stuff actually needs x16 PCI outside of video?
TB to FW800 adapter is $29 - and that doesn't even dent TB2.
I have a TON of cables in a pile behind my Mac Pro 1,1. I have 5 HDs inside the tower and 2 burners (yes, that is more than people think is possible without PCI cards.) 2 USB hubs. All ports used.
I love the AFT Pro-57U card reader with USB port - mounted under my desk so I don't have to touch the tower which has no ports open anyhow.
HUBs are a tech support problem: that is why there are so many warnings. Not an issue if you get a decent powered HUB; also, don't put low spec devices on the same bus.
I agree, Apple should have put in more USB 3 ports. I don't care, because I am upset about the lack of OPTICAL audio and only 2 audio jacks. I use all 3 input and 3 output audio jacks on my mac pro. I STILL don't get surround sound output without crazy encoding shit... PCs at least has multiple speaker output.
People don't seem to realize that Thunderbolt is external PCIe, it is not USB or Firewire or SATA. 6 ports gives you 6 PCIe 4x slots at 20Gbs which places it between PCIe 3 and 4. What PCIe card requires more?? Video cards made in the last few years and what else? Users with freaky needs shouldn't be using a mac.
If you need PCIe cards then you get an external box; that is, if you don't just buy a new thunderbolt device. I never used my slots... except I upgraded video... hacked in 4 more cpus... upgraded the HDs every 3 years... I've done IT for macs in video: PCI cards almost always suck unless you NEVER touch the system once it is stable. Thunderbolt drivers have a better chance of being supported.
My mac pro sits on the desk because I don't want hair and dirt in the computer. I would prefer a small computer on the desk over the giant cheese grader blocking the window. I'd have built a PC tower but getting one to run as quietly and not look like crap (since I see it all day) was not worth it; plus hacking it... At this point I'm close enough to just go linux after I finish migrating to GIMP from photoshop. I don't do video anymore, but this mac would be ideal. A linux box is more likely this time, but it's temping to put it off again.
A lot of pro video people insist on having a preview TV and with HDMI out... Serious pros have RAID boxes they will use until justifying buying a new thunderbolt RAID. Having a fast system HD is really nice.
My only complaint is SSD RAID support. I won't give up my RAID 10. HDs at least give warning, SSD can have 1 chip blow the whole thing instantly. Sure, external RAIDs are ok, but losing the system HD is some serious downtime.
Even the minority who think are fed garbage by the "press" which is in bed with the government. Remember the New York times sat on the Pentagon Papers, US Torture (before the 2004 election,) ignored Manning and printed Cheney's lies about WMD as a "leak". They only say anything after the fact when there is no alternative; or are caught printing lies. and they are "the best" newspaper we've got?
Bush setup the legal groundwork for domestic spying, tried to do it for torture (in a totally bogus way,) and did make claims they could kill people like Obama is doing now. Bush didn't use all the stuff he setup. I think Bush could have gone further but didn't have the guts; so the next guy did it. I don't think Obama has taken things that far at all; Bush didn't use all the powers he claimed.
It is oversimplification to flatly compare it to when Bush did it. History doesn't repeat. It rhymes. This rhymes, the tables are turned. The outrage today is because the formerly blind are waking up, it is their turn to get upset-- and the formerly upset can take their turn defending it... It rhymes. We didn't do jack about Bush's illegal actions and even turned around and passed laws to legitimize/legalize his crimes after the fact. So now when Obama does it with some legal backing it is not the same situation and more people are used to it.
We've been Tony Blaired. It's all one big good cop/bad cop game the whole time - with the UK, you know who the bitch is; but who is the real master of the USA?
We have enough trouble with 3 letter depts in government, but when they get contractors it all gets so much worse - especially when those contractors can do the SAME SERVICES for anybody.
A corporation is a government defined, sanctioned, regulated creation. Without government, there are no corporations at all. Therefore, how can the government create an organization which it can then hire to circumvent all the constitutional limitations on government power?
Just a few years ago there was a court case saying the government couldn't circumvent the law by hiring 4rd parties (because the law said no 3rd party hiring so they hired a 4th party until the judge stopped the ridiculous exploit.)
A corporation shouldn't be allowed to do anymore than the government can. I don't care if they are initialized and run by citizens; it is no different than the government paying an assassin to kill you and claiming they didn't violate your rights - the assassin did it. Oh, wait... they are doing that one directly already.
How we can let these lawyers get away with obvious word games that insult basic reasoning? I'd like to know.
I remembered that case. 1994 was over a decade after the Xerox exchange. That case wasn't about the mouse or many of their ideas and they didn't have patents it was a copyright case and part of their position is that microsoft agreed with them because they had a formal agreement which they thought Microsoft was violating. Xerox's part in that case was not relevant as they had sold their rights away to Apple long before that time.
Apple was taking copyright too far and didn't bribe enough people; which is why copyright is pretty weak today (except for music or film) but patents have gone crazy in the scope of their application. You can make a game that is nearly the same but tweak it slightly and as long as you don't take their code or graphics you are safe; but do something similar in the patent realm and you couldn't even make a 1st person shooter if somebody had a patent on that.
Did you read my post you replied to? Why did you feel the need to reply when you were going to say absolutely nothing?
That was pathetic: life can be sacred and defending yourself can be evil. your statement lacks any logic; it's just a premise. It's like arguing religion where the other person just quotes GOD no matter what you say.
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U.S. Public wants 'Unsustained Congressional Presence On the Moon and the Surface of Mars' where they belong... unless you believe in hell, in which case they'll be going there eventually for a lot less money.
Legal speak for a generic copyrite disclaimer which references a general agreement to me. What is the big deal? Sure it could say GPL, but this seems like a lawyer pleasing way to say "go read the related agreement" to me. The agreement can still be GPL but now the files just say you are restricted to the agreement.
GPL restricts use and copyrite is what gives GPL power.
NOTE: I purposely spell it copyrite.
It is common to estimate sales rates when pricing is impacted by QUANTITY especially in a tightly contested market with thin margins (that is, unless you have a huge quantity discount allowing your margins to be high.)
Such things are the reason why small players don't enter into such markets, they cost more and provide less with lower margins due to low production runs.
Marketing, promotion, and possibly a tax write off - WHILE also maintaining sales levels. For marketing it doubles as PR and provides better statistics on units sold etc.
Can people remember beyond 1 year? Is it cultural that some areas have less memory than others?
Rather than address the obvious fault in the parent's post, I'll suggest another problem:
War. Not necessarily all out war, but hacks or even directing large corporations under the control of the enemy could screw up such a system much easier than the old fashioned methods for undermining an enemy's economy.
Long term, it would be wise to join the Chamber of Commerce and help them in promoting the destruction of the USA - it is slow but it'll do the trick.
Comcast is part of the whole scheme to punish you if you get 6 strikes against you by the movie/music mafia. $30 to dispute your assumed guilty verdict - this only means that they won't punish you for what somebody does on your 2nd open wifi connection.
Exactly nailed it. These reboots are a combo of appealing to the old end of the ideal target demo enough to get them to take their kids - OR more likely, not drive the parents crazy while the CHILDREN watch it.
The real target is the KIDS who don't know any better and will attach to the franchise and later repeat the cycle and maybe consume some more stuff even though it is a formula and not as good just because of the connection to the past memories. When a fan makes the movie then it bends a bit more towards the older viewers and maybe appeals slightly outside the normal demo but the producers must be hanging around reminding them of the marketing.
One wonders how much damage is done to children with all these things targeted towards them but combined with things for the parents that would otherwise never be there. I hear from old elementary teachers that children today have a lot of sarcasm but it is worse than that, they don't really understand the sarcasm or expressions they are using.
Given how much CRAP is put out today, I didn't expect anything different.
I'm also not sold on dark edgy themed formulas which is what I expected this to be. Plus it seems that many things are intentionally loaded with propaganda for acceptance of the authoritarian world we are heading towards.
If there is a side agenda to take away the 50s ideal role model, only then would I be interested in seeing it for the culture war.
I would like to know how these mindless fads happen, where 1 movie tries some new FX like an infinite army running over a hill and then everybody has to do it for years and years as each director/producer catches up with the audiences boredom of it.
When this planet is so polluted millions of people die (who matter) then we will create ways to clean it AND we will step up our efforts to reboot life on Mars (the popular appeal of going there.)
1) deny it.
2) deny it
3) disclose heavily scrubbed and minimized data
4) do damage control
5) repeat as needed.
LOL. Bear with me.
Didn't even think of it. god english is so stupid.
The congress and especially the morons on the science committee don't do anything for sensible reasons.
Other than thinking the moon is the 1st step before mars, I can't see why so many are bent on a moon base - other than some OLD military nuts who think there is a strategic advantage to a moon base.
Doing something old IS a waste of money; it would be better to work on cheaper space access or advancing robots - especially since robots already completely outperform humans in space exploration and by the time a human can go to Mars the robots will have evolved by decades (just think of what they did 20 years ago vs today.)
Only humans can own patents (not legal persons which are now corporations.) The rights should be non transferable (as most rights should be.)
This would require employees who do the actual invention get properly taken care of instead of fired for getting too old. Sure, this would result in plenty of ass kissing of SMART people (I know that sounds too unusual, but bare with me.)
We couldn't afford to be paying CEOs so much, they'd have to give some of that up or employee #14325 (who would then be known by their first name) will go to the competition with their patent. "News" magazines would have stories of SMART people trading to other corporations for better deals, possibly akin to the stories we get on sports players and CEOs today. Maybe children would grow up wanting.... now I'm getting too hopeful.
Why shouldn't the "IP" that costs the existing system so much be tied to people instead of corporations? At least trolls would have a name and a face.
Did you ever hear of wikileaks??? Do you know what they did to the US state dept?
Did anybody actually read some of the wikileaks? The US state dept is always doing things like this and the people making the "crazy" claims for decades were vindicated, those people should be listened to even more today (track record, duh. Meanwhile, people who are always wrong stay employed in US media outlets.)
NZ has an economy they do just fine on their own. But when huge movie projects come to promote their nation beyond what the tourism dept's could dream of doing, they'll CHANGE LAWS. This happens constantly in the USA state by state for movies where they'll heavily subsidize movie productions (both parties!) using demand-side economic arguments (which are usually despised.)
Will it be fully conclusive proof that can hold up in court? No. Little is; especially in politics where everybody playing the game is skilled at self preservation. People with an eye for corruption will do well spotting the signs; however, it takes leaks on parties involved in their own words to prove it and even then an expert is often important/necessary to understanding it.
As far as conspiracies about shows like '24' ( the show is supposed to be realistic but portrays greater conspiracies than the ones about the show,) it doesn't take any master plan for such things to happen. A like minded individual with connections can benefit from making decisions aligned with the powerful; being rewarded later or simply encouraged for their help for the cause. It could happen outside FOX and it's GOP TV wing, but since it was FOX it wasn't likely it was entirely organic.
Despotism is on the rise in the USA. everybody living there should be seeing it by now... who isn't sticking their head in the sand...or more appropriately, in their "reality" TV. We have so much BS in all aspects of life, people crave reality so "realism" is popular... and what happens? We get pseudo realism to partially fill the need, creating another unhealthy addiction cycle that promotes consumption.
Just because worker rights are dead and continue to die as the corporate dominance grows doesn't mean we should blindly accept today's situation in the majority of professions.
The few holdouts, unsurprisingly, are professions with functioning UNIONS. Despised and resented by those who lack union backing and even some who do; corporate propaganda is unmatched and it wouldn't surprise me if professors are the last demographic to be enslaved.
Everything is NOT business. These are SCHOOLS. When are people going to realize this. MBAs are not high priests! Stop having your world view dictated by these false prophets! The history of economic success is not a result of modern MBA thinking being applied to all aspects of life.
So called "I.P." should only ever belong to employees and be non-transferable. Save your boss billions with your brainchild and you deserve have a job for life (if not the bonuses the bosses receive.) Come 50-60 years old, they'll fire you saying "What have you done for us lately?" Americans especially need to go to these 3rd world nations and see the walled communities next to slums where there is no upward mobility - it is their future...
>Hey, lets use light flashes and solar tech to store memory!
Nah, we can't do that, the name Flash is already taken for memory; try another idea.
Ok so it's much slower; I never payed much attention to the pci thing over the years. But I fail to see why it is a problem outside of video cards. I've heard that the TB to fiber adapters are just as fast and priced the same as the PCI cards. What stuff actually needs x16 PCI outside of video?
Americans have a lot of confidence so they don't know they are ignorant and stupid.
TB to FW800 adapter is $29 - and that doesn't even dent TB2.
I have a TON of cables in a pile behind my Mac Pro 1,1. I have 5 HDs inside the tower and 2 burners (yes, that is more than people think is possible without PCI cards.) 2 USB hubs. All ports used.
I love the AFT Pro-57U card reader with USB port - mounted under my desk so I don't have to touch the tower which has no ports open anyhow.
HUBs are a tech support problem: that is why there are so many warnings. Not an issue if you get a decent powered HUB; also, don't put low spec devices on the same bus.
I agree, Apple should have put in more USB 3 ports. I don't care, because I am upset about the lack of OPTICAL audio and only 2 audio jacks. I use all 3 input and 3 output audio jacks on my mac pro. I STILL don't get surround sound output without crazy encoding shit... PCs at least has multiple speaker output.
People don't seem to realize that Thunderbolt is external PCIe, it is not USB or Firewire or SATA. 6 ports gives you 6 PCIe 4x slots at 20Gbs which places it between PCIe 3 and 4. What PCIe card requires more?? Video cards made in the last few years and what else? Users with freaky needs shouldn't be using a mac.
If you need PCIe cards then you get an external box; that is, if you don't just buy a new thunderbolt device. I never used my slots... except I upgraded video... hacked in 4 more cpus... upgraded the HDs every 3 years... I've done IT for macs in video: PCI cards almost always suck unless you NEVER touch the system once it is stable. Thunderbolt drivers have a better chance of being supported.
My mac pro sits on the desk because I don't want hair and dirt in the computer. I would prefer a small computer on the desk over the giant cheese grader blocking the window. I'd have built a PC tower but getting one to run as quietly and not look like crap (since I see it all day) was not worth it; plus hacking it... At this point I'm close enough to just go linux after I finish migrating to GIMP from photoshop. I don't do video anymore, but this mac would be ideal. A linux box is more likely this time, but it's temping to put it off again.
A lot of pro video people insist on having a preview TV and with HDMI out... Serious pros have RAID boxes they will use until justifying buying a new thunderbolt RAID. Having a fast system HD is really nice.
My only complaint is SSD RAID support. I won't give up my RAID 10. HDs at least give warning, SSD can have 1 chip blow the whole thing instantly. Sure, external RAIDs are ok, but losing the system HD is some serious downtime.
Even the minority who think are fed garbage by the "press" which is in bed with the government. Remember the New York times sat on the Pentagon Papers, US Torture (before the 2004 election,) ignored Manning and printed Cheney's lies about WMD as a "leak". They only say anything after the fact when there is no alternative; or are caught printing lies. and they are "the best" newspaper we've got?
Bush setup the legal groundwork for domestic spying, tried to do it for torture (in a totally bogus way,) and did make claims they could kill people like Obama is doing now. Bush didn't use all the stuff he setup. I think Bush could have gone further but didn't have the guts; so the next guy did it. I don't think Obama has taken things that far at all; Bush didn't use all the powers he claimed.
It is oversimplification to flatly compare it to when Bush did it. History doesn't repeat. It rhymes. This rhymes, the tables are turned. The outrage today is because the formerly blind are waking up, it is their turn to get upset-- and the formerly upset can take their turn defending it... It rhymes. We didn't do jack about Bush's illegal actions and even turned around and passed laws to legitimize/legalize his crimes after the fact. So now when Obama does it with some legal backing it is not the same situation and more people are used to it.
We've been Tony Blaired. It's all one big good cop/bad cop game the whole time - with the UK, you know who the bitch is; but who is the real master of the USA?
We have enough trouble with 3 letter depts in government, but when they get contractors it all gets so much worse - especially when those contractors can do the SAME SERVICES for anybody.
A corporation is a government defined, sanctioned, regulated creation. Without government, there are no corporations at all. Therefore, how can the government create an organization which it can then hire to circumvent all the constitutional limitations on government power?
Just a few years ago there was a court case saying the government couldn't circumvent the law by hiring 4rd parties (because the law said no 3rd party hiring so they hired a 4th party until the judge stopped the ridiculous exploit.)
A corporation shouldn't be allowed to do anymore than the government can. I don't care if they are initialized and run by citizens; it is no different than the government paying an assassin to kill you and claiming they didn't violate your rights - the assassin did it. Oh, wait... they are doing that one directly already.
How we can let these lawyers get away with obvious word games that insult basic reasoning? I'd like to know.
The use of "IT" in the job title is debatable. But the word "Manager" is a dead giveaway for Incompetence.
The Dilbert principle
I remembered that case. 1994 was over a decade after the Xerox exchange. That case wasn't about the mouse or many of their ideas and they didn't have patents it was a copyright case and part of their position is that microsoft agreed with them because they had a formal agreement which they thought Microsoft was violating. Xerox's part in that case was not relevant as they had sold their rights away to Apple long before that time.
Apple was taking copyright too far and didn't bribe enough people; which is why copyright is pretty weak today (except for music or film) but patents have gone crazy in the scope of their application. You can make a game that is nearly the same but tweak it slightly and as long as you don't take their code or graphics you are safe; but do something similar in the patent realm and you couldn't even make a 1st person shooter if somebody had a patent on that.
Did you read my post you replied to? Why did you feel the need to reply when you were going to say absolutely nothing?
That was pathetic:
life can be sacred and defending yourself can be evil. your statement lacks any logic; it's just a premise. It's like arguing religion where the other person just quotes GOD no matter what you say.
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