Parent was obviously modded down by some newbie to moderation who didn't get the joke, doesn't understand throwing chairs in Redmond, and modded it off-topic because he didn't understand it. This is a lousy excuse for moderation!
One of the huge issues in these unbalanced, unfair, proceedings to take a domain name away from someone with obviously much more foresight than the Chicago Organizing Committee is the fact that he's asking for donations. FOR SOME STUPID REASON the very idea of making any kind of money (donations, ads, sales of merchandise related or not) is always HELD AGAINST the original domain name holder. The people trying to seize it without paying a fair price for it (fair is what the market will bear) certainly plan to use it to raise money, yet its a huge strike against the original owner if he used it for that reason.
Also, that domain is a WHOLE LOT MORE VALUABLE today due to the Streisand Effect!
Lastly, Chicago DOES NOT DESERVE the Olympics in 2016 because clearly their Olympic committee is obviously dominated by LIARS AND THIEVES! This case proves it.
Unless this means that they're a blacker black, and not that they will generate 500X the power of other cells.
Of course, if they absorb 500X more energy, they will likely melt very quickly, so I'm still dubious of just what is being claimed here - and how much is just theory that won't play out in the end.
I am highly dubious of a 500X improvement. I can almost bring myself to accept 500% (i.e. 5X) improvement, but with today's best cells in the 10% - 30% of visible light, and the (remaining) ozone layer stopping a good amount of the UV, I just can't see where there is that much extra energy to harvest if rated efficiencies are correct for current visible light photocells.
I would love to be proven wrong by an actual working model.
Even better, I'd like it to be manufacturable in bulk at comparable prices.
Clearly the RIAA believes if they can threaten defense lawyers with bankruptcy for doing nothing more than vigorously defending their clients with little chance of full payment even when they win, they can eliminate all skilled opposition against them.
To say that the RIAA is Scum is an insult to Scum.
In fact, you wouldn't even know The Truth if it bit you in the butt. Your Truth isn't someone else's Truth. Just look at the political campaigns and try to argue The Truth with someone of the opposite party.
How reliable should a test have to be, when eyewitnesses are notoriously fallible?
Hey, lack of any kind of review is working just fine these days for the RIAA and MediaSentry. All you need in India, or here, are ignorant judges - and boy are we seeing too many of them these days!
Creationism is the very opposite of Science. It is the belief that our current situation is so very improbable that it could never have arisen on its own. To support itself it denies EVERYTHING (e.g. dinosaurs) that conflict with its belief. It is founded on the very LACK of evidence supporting it.
In NYC the police using their breathalyzers (might be a different model) could trigger an intoxicated reading just by keying their radios nearby. The needle would jump higher and they could use that to lock you away for hours until a much slower blood test refused to confirm the reading. It is well known that they used this "ability" to harass and lock away people who annoyed them with no justification. There are all kinds of "tricks" that can be played with these machines and the defense is right to be very leery of any "evidence" provided by them.
And I know Pima county well enough to know not to rely on what their attorneys say as the final word on anything.
I'm sure that the only possible reason that they don't reveal the source code is that it's badly commented, and that's in the places where it's commented at all. Isn't modular or structured. Loop indexes are all "i" and "j". And it still contains a plethora of GOTO statements. The programmers don't want to reveal this to the world.
Works great and is cheap. 8Mbps symmetrical for $72 a month
I don't find that especially cheap, particularly since I don't need the 8Mb up nearly as much as the 8Mb down. I'm getting 8Mb down, and substantially less up from Comcast, but also for $50 or so, rather than $72. And many people don't even consider Comcast all that great or cheap.
Case Study 1: Be at least the size of a small town or school district, right up to a medium country, and threaten to dump Microsoft for Open Source. Microsoft cuts you a significantly better deal than you had before.
Case Study 2: Be a small incorporated town without fiber from your monopoly telephone provider and threaten to put in your own fiber here and now. Phone company stops you in court while immediately and suddenly laying their own fiber, and even giving you a sweet deal for all your municipal facilities.
Reason #8 that Vista sux is that they built it chock-full of internal DRM that simply wastes CPU cycles and memory trying to prevent you from using your hardware as you may wish to use it. This was never Microsoft's job to do, and I find it curious that this design decision doesn't even get passing mention. Makes me doubt how sincere and forthcoming he has actually been about the rest of the issues.
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Parent was obviously modded down by some newbie to moderation who didn't get the joke, doesn't understand throwing chairs in Redmond, and modded it off-topic because he didn't understand it. This is a lousy excuse for moderation!
Actually you want to provide additional capacities so that going back to Exchange is a true downgrade.
So which is Apple?
Mean: believing that they can get it and bully anyone who challenges them?
Stupid: for thinking that they could actually get away with it?
Ignorant: completely of any and all prior art?
One of the huge issues in these unbalanced, unfair, proceedings to take a domain name away from someone with obviously much more foresight than the Chicago Organizing Committee is the fact that he's asking for donations. FOR SOME STUPID REASON the very idea of making any kind of money (donations, ads, sales of merchandise related or not) is always HELD AGAINST the original domain name holder. The people trying to seize it without paying a fair price for it (fair is what the market will bear) certainly plan to use it to raise money, yet its a huge strike against the original owner if he used it for that reason.
Also, that domain is a WHOLE LOT MORE VALUABLE today due to the Streisand Effect!
Lastly, Chicago DOES NOT DESERVE the Olympics in 2016 because clearly their Olympic committee is obviously dominated by LIARS AND THIEVES! This case proves it.
Unless this means that they're a blacker black, and not that they will generate 500X the power of other cells.
Of course, if they absorb 500X more energy, they will likely melt very quickly, so I'm still dubious of just what is being claimed here - and how much is just theory that won't play out in the end.
I am highly dubious of a 500X improvement. I can almost bring myself to accept 500% (i.e. 5X) improvement, but with today's best cells in the 10% - 30% of visible light, and the (remaining) ozone layer stopping a good amount of the UV, I just can't see where there is that much extra energy to harvest if rated efficiencies are correct for current visible light photocells.
I would love to be proven wrong by an actual working model.
Even better, I'd like it to be manufacturable in bulk at comparable prices.
I hope that the posters here, on Groklaw, and on your blog itself, are helping to shape and refine your arguments. I read all 3 as time permits.
Clearly the RIAA believes if they can threaten defense lawyers with bankruptcy for doing nothing more than vigorously defending their clients with little chance of full payment even when they win, they can eliminate all skilled opposition against them.
To say that the RIAA is Scum is an insult to Scum.
Which is it? The datacenters (infrastructure), or the data they contain, that has the value?
As long as you can connect to the sites you want to connect to on the Internet there is no business case for IPv6.
The day you can't connect then the business case is made.
Oh, so those who disagree with you have biases. Really smooth move there, Scott!
The Truth?
You can't handle The Truth!
In fact, you wouldn't even know The Truth if it bit you in the butt. Your Truth isn't someone else's Truth. Just look at the political campaigns and try to argue The Truth with someone of the opposite party.
Didn't this come out days ago?
Hey, lack of any kind of review is working just fine these days for the RIAA and MediaSentry. All you need in India, or here, are ignorant judges - and boy are we seeing too many of them these days!
Creationism is the very opposite of Science. It is the belief that our current situation is so very improbable that it could never have arisen on its own. To support itself it denies EVERYTHING (e.g. dinosaurs) that conflict with its belief. It is founded on the very LACK of evidence supporting it.
Can one install this game in a VM so as to limit the spread of its DRM to just that VM? If not, then there's yet another reason not to buy.
It's all about one thing. Absolutely killing the rental and resale market. You can't even give it to your kid brother when you're done with it.
Be honest! Spore is nothing more than a very expensive rental game now -- not a purchase.
And the only way to make this all go away is to absolutely refuse to buy their product because other manufacturers will follow suit.
I've never pirated a game, but if I wanted to try out Spore I'd pirate a cracked copy of this one.
They just won't give up on this beautiful dream of DRM-Everywhere.
In NYC the police using their breathalyzers (might be a different model) could trigger an intoxicated reading just by keying their radios nearby. The needle would jump higher and they could use that to lock you away for hours until a much slower blood test refused to confirm the reading. It is well known that they used this "ability" to harass and lock away people who annoyed them with no justification. There are all kinds of "tricks" that can be played with these machines and the defense is right to be very leery of any "evidence" provided by them.
And I know Pima county well enough to know not to rely on what their attorneys say as the final word on anything.
I'm sure that the only possible reason that they don't reveal the source code is that it's badly commented, and that's in the places where it's commented at all. Isn't modular or structured. Loop indexes are all "i" and "j". And it still contains a plethora of GOTO statements. The programmers don't want to reveal this to the world.
Oh, and it's written in Visual Basic 4.
I don't find that especially cheap, particularly since I don't need the 8Mb up nearly as much as the 8Mb down. I'm getting 8Mb down, and substantially less up from Comcast, but also for $50 or so, rather than $72. And many people don't even consider Comcast all that great or cheap.
Case Study 1: Be at least the size of a small town or school district, right up to a medium country, and threaten to dump Microsoft for Open Source. Microsoft cuts you a significantly better deal than you had before.
Case Study 2: Be a small incorporated town without fiber from your monopoly telephone provider and threaten to put in your own fiber here and now. Phone company stops you in court while immediately and suddenly laying their own fiber, and even giving you a sweet deal for all your municipal facilities.
Case Study 3: ???
Those damn phone companies think they own you.
Oh, sorry, they do.
TPC forever!
Oh it exists. It's called the Protected Path, and strives to ever prevent unencrypted media data from being available to be ripped from memory.
Reason #8 that Vista sux is that they built it chock-full of internal DRM that simply wastes CPU cycles and memory trying to prevent you from using your hardware as you may wish to use it. This was never Microsoft's job to do, and I find it curious that this design decision doesn't even get passing mention. Makes me doubt how sincere and forthcoming he has actually been about the rest of the issues.