Suppose, just suppose, that someone in Finland wishes to download something from TPB not owned or controlled by this trade association requesting this all-encompassing block? Something otherwise legal in Finland to download? Hasn't the trade association totally overstepped their charter by trying to deny that as well?
I would like to see a solution that gave me an entire IPv4 address space on my side of my Internet modem/router and transparent IPv6 out the other end. Every router could have their own IPv4 network as big as they could possible build it, and they all connected together quite nicely through the Internet. I'm sure that there is some incredibly obscure reason why this can never happen, but it is a nice thought since everybody speaks IPv4.
We just need to coin a new unit of time called the DNTBR: Duke Nukem Time Between Releases value. It can be used to measure the amount of time to consume a LoC amount of data.
The real Netflix fix, instead of streaming the movie within the tight constraints and impaired quality necessary to prevent buffering, would be for me to order up the movie I wanted that morning like I order up DVD's from them, have them remove a previous movie to make room for the new one, and then d/l it over the day. By the time I'm home in the evening, even a slow DSL line could have a true DVD-level copy available for watching without interruption. The next morning I order another movie or two and the old ones are deleted as part of the new ones arriving. Seriously, this would be such an improvement over the existing system and the expense of mailing much better quality DVDs could go away entirely.
What I don't understand is why Netflix doesn't go to a BitTorrent style P2P swarm type streaming. This would so much get them around how the cable companies are trying to screw them over for doing nothing more than providing programming that I want over a pipe THAT I PAID FOR.
So they're getting death threats over this. I'm not surprised. The big problem there is that only one of those threats ever has to be real. The thing about East Texas is that while it may be hospitable to patent trolls, it is also hospitable to gun ownership. Not a great mix.
Why stop with just the music industry? Why isn't every other industry whose product can conceivably be related to SD memory cards not also applying for their own personal levy piece of the pie? Go ahead an double, triple, the cost of digital memory. I'm sure that will bring the return of full employment and make Canadian society even better than it is now.
You overrate both the memory span of the American voter, and the disaster that $4, $5, and $6/gallon gasoline hath wrought. In fact, the fact that gasoline doesn't immediately now drop to $1.29/gallon will be the great disappointment of the majority of the electorate.
Too bad we hadn't gotten him 10, or even better, 20 years ago.
Of course, if he'd been arrested the day after 9/11, tried in a civilian court, and sentenced to death, he'd still be sitting on death row now, and for years to come.
And the response from the rest of the galaxy is...that Earth is slapped with a littering charge and told to go out there and collect their refuse. Ignorance of intergalactic law is no excuse.
Is Apple deleting the file, or are they erasing the file? There is a huge difference in the recovery of data from flash depending on which route they're taking.
According to Iran, who is never wrong about these things as they will tell you themselves, We wrote this virus in collusion with the Zionist enemy. So why are we having to now go to all of this trouble to decode it?
The IOS4 user agreement is over 15,000 words. There are books shorter than that for sale on Amazon. Your challenge is to find the 86 words that allow Apple to do this.
In truth, such unreadable license agreements SHOULD BE BANNED OUTRIGHT! If you can't say it in, oh say, 2,000 words then you can't inflict it on your customers - end of discussion.
Hey, Iran, get a grip! You're throwing accusations all over the place without anything to back them up. Yeah you lied totally about your nuclear intentions and yeah someone pretty darn good gave you a good screwing over these last couple of years for it. Consider that this alternative was probably why bombs haven't been falling out of the skies on you yet. But your habit of blaming everything on The Great Satan and The Little Satan was old decades ago. Everything bad that happens to you is never your fault. Now you think you've found someone new to blame simply because the truth is: You really don't know how it happened, or who really did it, so you bluster about throwing mud and hoping that something will stick. As the saying goes, when you speak a thousand words then maybe one of them is true. Consider that you earned this insult and, like I said, be glad that it was a computer worm rather than cruise missiles and JDAMs.
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Suppose, just suppose, that someone in Finland wishes to download something from TPB not owned or controlled by this trade association requesting this all-encompassing block? Something otherwise legal in Finland to download? Hasn't the trade association totally overstepped their charter by trying to deny that as well?
I would like to see a solution that gave me an entire IPv4 address space on my side of my Internet modem/router and transparent IPv6 out the other end. Every router could have their own IPv4 network as big as they could possible build it, and they all connected together quite nicely through the Internet. I'm sure that there is some incredibly obscure reason why this can never happen, but it is a nice thought since everybody speaks IPv4.
We just need to coin a new unit of time called the DNTBR: Duke Nukem Time Between Releases value. It can be used to measure the amount of time to consume a LoC amount of data.
David Brin is clearly not a computer programmer.
The real Netflix fix, instead of streaming the movie within the tight constraints and impaired quality necessary to prevent buffering, would be for me to order up the movie I wanted that morning like I order up DVD's from them, have them remove a previous movie to make room for the new one, and then d/l it over the day. By the time I'm home in the evening, even a slow DSL line could have a true DVD-level copy available for watching without interruption. The next morning I order another movie or two and the old ones are deleted as part of the new ones arriving. Seriously, this would be such an improvement over the existing system and the expense of mailing much better quality DVDs could go away entirely.
What I don't understand is why Netflix doesn't go to a BitTorrent style P2P swarm type streaming. This would so much get them around how the cable companies are trying to screw them over for doing nothing more than providing programming that I want over a pipe THAT I PAID FOR.
So they're getting death threats over this. I'm not surprised. The big problem there is that only one of those threats ever has to be real. The thing about East Texas is that while it may be hospitable to patent trolls, it is also hospitable to gun ownership. Not a great mix.
Why stop with just the music industry? Why isn't every other industry whose product can conceivably be related to SD memory cards not also applying for their own personal levy piece of the pie? Go ahead an double, triple, the cost of digital memory. I'm sure that will bring the return of full employment and make Canadian society even better than it is now.
So this explains the lame iPad 2. The screens just weren't ready for the real iPad 2+ yet.
Could Apple really avoid having a screen like this in the iPad 3 once competitors have them?
Newsflash: Crowbars are used in home burglaries. Sue hardware stores now.
This stale story is days old by now.
You overrate both the memory span of the American voter, and the disaster that $4, $5, and $6/gallon gasoline hath wrought. In fact, the fact that gasoline doesn't immediately now drop to $1.29/gallon will be the great disappointment of the majority of the electorate.
Too bad we hadn't gotten him 10, or even better, 20 years ago.
Of course, if he'd been arrested the day after 9/11, tried in a civilian court, and sentenced to death, he'd still be sitting on death row now, and for years to come.
And the response from the rest of the galaxy is...that Earth is slapped with a littering charge and told to go out there and collect their refuse. Ignorance of intergalactic law is no excuse.
So a picture is still worth a thousand words, but 999 of those words may be a lie.
Is Apple deleting the file, or are they erasing the file? There is a huge difference in the recovery of data from flash depending on which route they're taking.
Funny how Microsoft's Malicious Software Removal Tool isn't nearly so polite about asking permission first.
Has somebody's Non-Compete Agreement just expired?
I thought that the iPad's progenitor was the Etch A Sketch.
According to Iran, who is never wrong about these things as they will tell you themselves, We wrote this virus in collusion with the Zionist enemy. So why are we having to now go to all of this trouble to decode it?
Given the vast majority of the PC installed base over Macs, the Obama presidency doesn't bear out this premise of PC verses Mac users.
The IOS4 user agreement is over 15,000 words. There are books shorter than that for sale on Amazon. Your challenge is to find the 86 words that allow Apple to do this.
In truth, such unreadable license agreements SHOULD BE BANNED OUTRIGHT! If you can't say it in, oh say, 2,000 words then you can't inflict it on your customers - end of discussion.
3G makes your tablet a LOT more expensive.
Cheaper to have a WiFi router in your house and remember that there is a lot of WiFi to be found out in the world.
Also WiFi isn't capped.
Or even get a single WiFi hotspot (e.g. Verizon MiFi) and use it with ALL of your devices. Why pay by the device for 3G?
This common sense idea brought to you by someone who runs a popular website and builds a browser.
Hey, Iran, get a grip! You're throwing accusations all over the place without anything to back them up. Yeah you lied totally about your nuclear intentions and yeah someone pretty darn good gave you a good screwing over these last couple of years for it. Consider that this alternative was probably why bombs haven't been falling out of the skies on you yet. But your habit of blaming everything on The Great Satan and The Little Satan was old decades ago. Everything bad that happens to you is never your fault. Now you think you've found someone new to blame simply because the truth is: You really don't know how it happened, or who really did it, so you bluster about throwing mud and hoping that something will stick. As the saying goes, when you speak a thousand words then maybe one of them is true. Consider that you earned this insult and, like I said, be glad that it was a computer worm rather than cruise missiles and JDAMs.