Where a motion to dismiss says, in effect, "Even if you're right, so what?", a motion for summary judgment says "We'll show you facts that are so clear we don't even need to go through the hassle of a full trial."
Since the RIAA has already refused in other cases to actually investigate a computer to clear one of the people they're charging, shouldn't summary judgement work in all cases because the RIAA has refused to perform due diligence to prove they're suing the proper computer user, and not just the user identified by an IP address?
Josh's comments are so mild that Sony has to be insane -- or very VERY scared about the problems with the PS3 -- to get upset over anything he said. Maybe they've been listening to their music too much lately and it has rootkit-ed their minds.
It's also interesting how grateful he is that their upper management remembers the lowly artist's names. Perhaps he doesn't realize how much harder it is to replace good artists and management drones. I say that as a Maya 3D user myself, and not nearly as talented as what he shows on his own web-site.
Now if someone could just point me to the article where he compares Maya to 3D Studio Max, I'd really like to read it.
Then after a year or two, they added a fee for every minute you looked at a bulletin board and some other fee for every e-mail over 15 sent that month.
You might recall this happened when Prodigy decided that some BBS were more equal than others and started censoring content to keep their Family Friendly image. The users of the spicier discussions set up e-mail distribution lists and Prodigy tried to stop them by suddenly imposing a cap on free monthly e-mail. They deserved to go down over this, and rightfully did so. Some in the industry still remember this lesson.
One hope I have for this new situation is that there will be a provider who realizes that just providing uncensored pipes is a very good business model, and they will succeed because of it.
The saving grace may be municipal wireless (or even wired through, say, power lines) Internet access. A city shouldn't have the marketing concerns for value-added services as these so-called regulated monopoly carriers. This is probably why the concept is being so vigorously fought by the telco and cable companies. As long as you have somewhere else to go they can't make you life too difficult -- or expensive.
The intention is to reduce the number of licensees to a manageable level, to lock out 'hobbyists' and other entities that Microsoft doesn't want to have to trouble itself with.
I find it way too easy to replace "hobbyists" with "independent music producers" in that quote. And lock them out to benefit who? Organized Music? Almost certainly. MS wants to play nice with Big Music, get their content, and make a few more tens of billions in the process. Get government to close the so called "Analog Hole". Lock struggling producers out of a standard for DRM. Nothing here to hurt the big players at all. All this is just another reason why MS must die.
It's about time these patents were thrown out, although I would have preferred a court ruling that said patent law does not extend beyond the US border. I may love my country, but that doesn't mean I think they're always right.
Doesn't the field become richer when the wider spectrum of legal thought is explored and encouraged?
In a word: No.
You clearly do not understand business when you utter a remark like that. Business is not in the business of diversity of views. They're not out there with the intent of enriching the field. They want to get the job done that they're getting paid for as efficiently as possible.
Even if you never do anything hostile to that business, you have announced yourself as a liability. Now as long as you remain (yes you're gone because of this) you would have to have been watched over to ensure that your personal views and ethics didn't harm the business. That takes another person's time to check your work, which costs money. You're like a known anti-abortion advocate working at Planned Parenthood.
They cut their losses by cutting you. Consider it a gift. You and that business are not a good match for each other and both will be happier working with people of a like mind.
most American users are put off by the device's inability to translate "putty-tat"
Putty-tat is owned by Warner Brothers Studio, part of AOL Time Warner. If you think that ATW is going to license a competing studio -- Sony -- to use their intellectual property then you are crazier than Daffy Duck (also owned by ATW, and emphatically not licensed for use in this Slashdot post.)
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Google-Net verses Verizon-Net. Looks like I just subscribe to both because each is going to give me what the other one doesn't.
How about this one? By 2H2006 it appears that virtually all of Intel and AMD's processors will be 64-bit, and likely with virtualization technology.
And the major security feature of the NX bit doesn't seem to be being backported to 32-bit archtectures.
Do you still have an 80286 around as well while waiting to see if 32-bit processing is more than just a fad?
Win64 is not the only 64-bit operating system out there.
Here's why: It would be the first actual court judgement against the RIAA in these matters.
The RIAA would no longer be able to claim have sued thousands (a lie, most aren't sued) successfully and never lost. That is very big.
Since the RIAA has already refused in other cases to actually investigate a computer to clear one of the people they're charging, shouldn't summary judgement work in all cases because the RIAA has refused to perform due diligence to prove they're suing the proper computer user, and not just the user identified by an IP address?
You actually have a case. How many additional power plants have been built just to use their product on electrically powered equipment.
Hopefully all paid by the RIAA goons.
Like that's never happened?
Bad move to buy a 32-bit chip in a world that's rapidly moving to 64-bit processors.
It's also interesting how grateful he is that their upper management remembers the lowly artist's names. Perhaps he doesn't realize how much harder it is to replace good artists and management drones. I say that as a Maya 3D user myself, and not nearly as talented as what he shows on his own web-site.
Now if someone could just point me to the article where he compares Maya to 3D Studio Max, I'd really like to read it.
Why not. After all the RIAA is suing a woman who says she's never even owned, or turned on, a computer.
You might recall this happened when Prodigy decided that some BBS were more equal than others and started censoring content to keep their Family Friendly image. The users of the spicier discussions set up e-mail distribution lists and Prodigy tried to stop them by suddenly imposing a cap on free monthly e-mail. They deserved to go down over this, and rightfully did so. Some in the industry still remember this lesson.
One hope I have for this new situation is that there will be a provider who realizes that just providing uncensored pipes is a very good business model, and they will succeed because of it.
The saving grace may be municipal wireless (or even wired through, say, power lines) Internet access. A city shouldn't have the marketing concerns for value-added services as these so-called regulated monopoly carriers. This is probably why the concept is being so vigorously fought by the telco and cable companies. As long as you have somewhere else to go they can't make you life too difficult -- or expensive.
Well we had a War on Poverty -- and Poverty won!
I find it way too easy to replace "hobbyists" with "independent music producers" in that quote. And lock them out to benefit who? Organized Music? Almost certainly. MS wants to play nice with Big Music, get their content, and make a few more tens of billions in the process. Get government to close the so called "Analog Hole". Lock struggling producers out of a standard for DRM. Nothing here to hurt the big players at all. All this is just another reason why MS must die.
(As a company, you idiot lawyers.)
It's about time these patents were thrown out, although I would have preferred a court ruling that said patent law does not extend beyond the US border. I may love my country, but that doesn't mean I think they're always right.
Just how does an application know when it's running under a good emulator?
I'd say that's a very good need to worry.
In a word: No.
You clearly do not understand business when you utter a remark like that. Business is not in the business of diversity of views. They're not out there with the intent of enriching the field. They want to get the job done that they're getting paid for as efficiently as possible.
Even if you never do anything hostile to that business, you have announced yourself as a liability. Now as long as you remain (yes you're gone because of this) you would have to have been watched over to ensure that your personal views and ethics didn't harm the business. That takes another person's time to check your work, which costs money. You're like a known anti-abortion advocate working at Planned Parenthood.
They cut their losses by cutting you. Consider it a gift. You and that business are not a good match for each other and both will be happier working with people of a like mind.
I won't ask how often this as come in handy for you.
Now all we need is the other n languages supported by the translator.
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Putty-tat is owned by Warner Brothers Studio, part of AOL Time Warner. If you think that ATW is going to license a competing studio -- Sony -- to use their intellectual property then you are crazier than Daffy Duck (also owned by ATW, and emphatically not licensed for use in this Slashdot post.)
Can you query: Where is the p0rn?
Maybe the IRS is still buying from Dell and can't get a proper AMD64 processor.