In your analogy, it would be Sony causing the backlog, not the people in line. You have a producers and consumers problem and the consumers are actual consumers. It seems fairly trivial to figure out who the producers would be.
Are you arguing, then, that Sony should release the PS3 because people are waiting for it?
I believe, but am not exactly sure, that the First Sale Doctrine applies regardless of whether or not the copyright owner wishes the work to be resold. The only exception to this is when the work is contained in a medium protected by the DMCA, in which case, reverse-engineering the container to allow for resale would be prohibited.
The same is holds for Fair Use exemptions, which are provided without the consent of the copyright owner.
The problem with this is those people who only want to buy one console. If the XBox 360 is only $200 at launch vs. $500 for the PS3, people who don't want to spend $500, and only want one console will probably buy an XBox 360. By the time the PS3 is $200, Sony will already have lost the market.
hen there's the OS X and Classic MacOS camps, which take the "being an elitist prick" mentality to a whole new level.
It's a reaction based on being the often taunted computer minority for so many years. Macs are cool now, and it's hard for a lot of people not to point out what they realized years ago.
If Congress had declared war, by international treaty our soldiers would be facing international war crimes tribunals rather than simple court martials for Abu Gharib and the like- and such international tribunals would not stop with low-ranking soldiers, but travel up the chain of command to Bush himself. Do your really want that?
If soldiers and commanders committed war crimes, why wouldn't we want that? Would we not want it to happen just because it's "our guys"?
First, the World Trade Center collapsed because jet fuel burns extremely hot. The WTC design was actually far stronger than most other skyscrapers standing today. Notice that the building survived the initial impact of a plane, and that it wasn't until later, when the intense heat of the burning fuel had time to weaken the steel support structure that it collapsed. A normal building fire would not have threatened the structural integrity of the WTC because there was nothing in the WTC that was hot enough to melt the beams, until the plane, full of fuel, arrived.
Second, I didn't notice in the article whether the volume of the material expands or contracts when it turns solid. If the hollow beam is partly filled with liquid (because the liquid expands when frozen) then there isn't necessarily enough contact between the liquid and the burning sections of the building to protect the upper portions of the beam. The beam will conduct some of the heat to the liquid, but depending on where the fire occurs in relation to the beam, the top of the liquid might freeze first, leaving the upper portion of the beam hollow. If the liquid contracts when frozen, you end up with a partly filled beam, which isn't necessarily stronger than a beam with nothing in it.
This leads to the third point, that nothing is mentioned about the structural properties of the liquid when frozen. Steel behaves extremely well under tension, and concrete under pressure. Thus, they complement each other quite well (which is why we make buildings out of them). Would the liquid make a better replacement for the steel, or the concrete? And would it perform equally well when the building is not on fire? Has having liquid-filled cavities in the building strengthened or weakened the structure, for the large majority of the time?
Finally, does the cost of using a material like this justify it? It's new, it probably costs more than steel to use in a building. Wouldn't redundant support structures be more reasonable? Or, using a design like the WTC, which I noted only failed from the heat of burning jet fuel?
Apple offers about half of their computers with either an ATI or nVidia card respectively (or a choice betweeen either). The top of the line (BTO) card in the PowerMac G5 is currently an nVidia card, but all the Powerbooks are ATI-based. It goes back and forth depending on current tech fairly quickly.
I don't think you cheated to get into college, and I think dedication is important and with merit, no matter to what subject. However, the one drawback to the Ivy League recruitment system is that, when the money is not tied to athletic performance, those who used sports to sneak in (feigning interest so that a college entrance board would give them a shot) can't be kicked back out. I can think of a few examples of students here who made it in because of sports, and then promptly dropped the sport to enjoy a life of partying and Cs.
Ivy League schools do not give specifically athletic scholarships, you are correct. However, I've seen a lot of cases where athletes are accepted into Ivys based largely on athletic merit. Need-based financial aid fills any gap left open by lack of athletic scholarship.
Athletic recruitment happens at all schools, even the Ivys. (I go to a different one than you, but you'll have to figure out which!:P ).
Ask most Americans a vague question and you will get a vague answer. We touch neither Russia nor Cuba, so whether we border those countries or not depends on your definition of "border". You have decided for everyone else that border means within a certain radius of a physical land mass belonging to the United States. I might subscribe to the definition of border as any country that touches one of our land borders. So, it's not really sad, as long as they can point out Mexico and Canada.
They have quarterly revenues approaching ten billion, not profits. There is a huge difference. Last quarter profit was about $2.7 billion. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3918721.stm)
The card is 8X AGP. You can physically put one in a Windows computer, but it won't work because it won't have a driver or the appropriate ROM for a PC. These are the reasons I was referring to when I referenced PC cards not working in Macs--no hardware reason, just a software one.
No, it will not work on Windows, for the same reason I can't go out and buy any video card I want for my G5. The DVI connections on the card are the newest version of the DVI spec. Just wait a little longer, and you'll be able to get a PC video card that supports Apple's 30" monitors.
The Windows version of the iPod shipped with MusicMatch which is independent of Apple. If I'm not mistaken, there are also third party applications which let you browse and modify the contents of an iPod device.
As for Ogg Vorbis, give me a break. At a high enough bitrate, no one can tell the difference between any of the audio formats. I would say MP3 is sufficiently open that you aren't in danger of corrupting your free OSS ideals.
You mention you'd buy an iPod if the price dropped, it became open, and the ability to record was added.
What about the iPod do you want to be more open? You want other people making iPods? You want the iPod to support an open format like, I don't know, MP3? How much more open do you want? Or did you want the AAC DRM to be open? This has nothing to do with buying an iPod, since you have an entirely separate choice to use Apple's proprietary encoding scheme.
You want the price to go down, so buy an older model.
You also want the ability to record, so buy the 3G iPod (I believe that's when voice-recording was added) which is at a reduced price because a new version has been released.
Here's an appropriate story, but with dentists instead of eye surgeons.
There is a small town with two dentists. The town is hundreds of miles from anywhere else that is inhabited, so anyone who visits a dentist visits one of these two. One of the dentists has a sparkling mouth full of perfectly arranged, white teeth. The other dentist has a mouth full (well, half-full) of the ugliest, yellowest, most-malformed teeth anyone has even seen. If you lived in this town, which dentist would you visit?
The answer of course, is the dentist with the nasty teeth, since the dentist with nice teeth obviously visits him for his dental services.
So, perhaps none of those eye surgeons have meet another surgeon they would trust... If they could perform the surgery on themselves, the fact that they all wear glasses might be another matter.
While OS X is quite secure by default, it is good to recognize that OS X, like any OS, isn't without vulnerability. The fact that the OS is getting a thorough look-over for security concerns is just one more step in getting it taken seriously. I'm going to have a full of the paper now.
VGA connections are prone to distortion. There is a reason the industry is switching to DVI (and subsequently DVI Dual Link). You are the first person I have ever heard suggesting that VGA would be preferred over DVI.
While Apple does tend to make products that are often incompatible with older products, there is no way to make the 30" display compatible with older hardware since it requires a new port which isn't available on older products. And don't say, "Well, Apple should have stuck with the old port," because vanilla DVI doesn't support the resolution of the 30" display.
The search I used actually quoted the the phrase "DVI Dual Link" to find exact matches. Since the majority were selling cables for said connection I imagine it is valid, otherwise no one would buy them since they don't match whatever their device is asking for.
It seems another definition of DDL, which just happens to match the DVI definition is for the naming of a card with two Dual Link connections. This must be what Apple is calling it. It's like saying Dual ADC or Dual DVI or Dual VGA.
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In your analogy, it would be Sony causing the backlog, not the people in line. You have a producers and consumers problem and the consumers are actual consumers. It seems fairly trivial to figure out who the producers would be.
Are you arguing, then, that Sony should release the PS3 because people are waiting for it?
I believe, but am not exactly sure, that the First Sale Doctrine applies regardless of whether or not the copyright owner wishes the work to be resold. The only exception to this is when the work is contained in a medium protected by the DMCA, in which case, reverse-engineering the container to allow for resale would be prohibited.
The same is holds for Fair Use exemptions, which are provided without the consent of the copyright owner.
The problem with this is those people who only want to buy one console. If the XBox 360 is only $200 at launch vs. $500 for the PS3, people who don't want to spend $500, and only want one console will probably buy an XBox 360. By the time the PS3 is $200, Sony will already have lost the market.
It's a reaction based on being the often taunted computer minority for so many years. Macs are cool now, and it's hard for a lot of people not to point out what they realized years ago.
If Congress had declared war, by international treaty our soldiers would be facing international war crimes tribunals rather than simple court martials for Abu Gharib and the like- and such international tribunals would not stop with low-ranking soldiers, but travel up the chain of command to Bush himself. Do your really want that?
If soldiers and commanders committed war crimes, why wouldn't we want that? Would we not want it to happen just because it's "our guys"?
They were about as easy to develop as anything else back then.
First, the World Trade Center collapsed because jet fuel burns extremely hot. The WTC design was actually far stronger than most other skyscrapers standing today. Notice that the building survived the initial impact of a plane, and that it wasn't until later, when the intense heat of the burning fuel had time to weaken the steel support structure that it collapsed. A normal building fire would not have threatened the structural integrity of the WTC because there was nothing in the WTC that was hot enough to melt the beams, until the plane, full of fuel, arrived.
Second, I didn't notice in the article whether the volume of the material expands or contracts when it turns solid. If the hollow beam is partly filled with liquid (because the liquid expands when frozen) then there isn't necessarily enough contact between the liquid and the burning sections of the building to protect the upper portions of the beam. The beam will conduct some of the heat to the liquid, but depending on where the fire occurs in relation to the beam, the top of the liquid might freeze first, leaving the upper portion of the beam hollow. If the liquid contracts when frozen, you end up with a partly filled beam, which isn't necessarily stronger than a beam with nothing in it.
This leads to the third point, that nothing is mentioned about the structural properties of the liquid when frozen. Steel behaves extremely well under tension, and concrete under pressure. Thus, they complement each other quite well (which is why we make buildings out of them). Would the liquid make a better replacement for the steel, or the concrete? And would it perform equally well when the building is not on fire? Has having liquid-filled cavities in the building strengthened or weakened the structure, for the large majority of the time?
Finally, does the cost of using a material like this justify it? It's new, it probably costs more than steel to use in a building. Wouldn't redundant support structures be more reasonable? Or, using a design like the WTC, which I noted only failed from the heat of burning jet fuel?
Apple offers about half of their computers with either an ATI or nVidia card respectively (or a choice betweeen either). The top of the line (BTO) card in the PowerMac G5 is currently an nVidia card, but all the Powerbooks are ATI-based. It goes back and forth depending on current tech fairly quickly.
I don't think you cheated to get into college, and I think dedication is important and with merit, no matter to what subject. However, the one drawback to the Ivy League recruitment system is that, when the money is not tied to athletic performance, those who used sports to sneak in (feigning interest so that a college entrance board would give them a shot) can't be kicked back out. I can think of a few examples of students here who made it in because of sports, and then promptly dropped the sport to enjoy a life of partying and Cs.
Ivy League schools do not give specifically athletic scholarships, you are correct. However, I've seen a lot of cases where athletes are accepted into Ivys based largely on athletic merit. Need-based financial aid fills any gap left open by lack of athletic scholarship.
Athletic recruitment happens at all schools, even the Ivys. (I go to a different one than you, but you'll have to figure out which! :P ).
Heating the beer in the car is nature's way of telling you not to drink and drive...
This only applies if we start sending single particles to the Olympics instead of macroscopic athletes...
Ask most Americans a vague question and you will get a vague answer. We touch neither Russia nor Cuba, so whether we border those countries or not depends on your definition of "border". You have decided for everyone else that border means within a certain radius of a physical land mass belonging to the United States. I might subscribe to the definition of border as any country that touches one of our land borders. So, it's not really sad, as long as they can point out Mexico and Canada.
They have quarterly revenues approaching ten billion, not profits. There is a huge difference. Last quarter profit was about $2.7 billion. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3918721.stm)
The card is 8X AGP. You can physically put one in a Windows computer, but it won't work because it won't have a driver or the appropriate ROM for a PC. These are the reasons I was referring to when I referenced PC cards not working in Macs--no hardware reason, just a software one.
Wow, you should charge for that!
No, it will not work on Windows, for the same reason I can't go out and buy any video card I want for my G5. The DVI connections on the card are the newest version of the DVI spec. Just wait a little longer, and you'll be able to get a PC video card that supports Apple's 30" monitors.
The Windows version of the iPod shipped with MusicMatch which is independent of Apple. If I'm not mistaken, there are also third party applications which let you browse and modify the contents of an iPod device.
As for Ogg Vorbis, give me a break. At a high enough bitrate, no one can tell the difference between any of the audio formats. I would say MP3 is sufficiently open that you aren't in danger of corrupting your free OSS ideals.
You mention you'd buy an iPod if the price dropped, it became open, and the ability to record was added.
What about the iPod do you want to be more open? You want other people making iPods? You want the iPod to support an open format like, I don't know, MP3? How much more open do you want? Or did you want the AAC DRM to be open? This has nothing to do with buying an iPod, since you have an entirely separate choice to use Apple's proprietary encoding scheme.
You want the price to go down, so buy an older model.
You also want the ability to record, so buy the 3G iPod (I believe that's when voice-recording was added) which is at a reduced price because a new version has been released.
Well, at least you've found a name for the pro-piracy camp's mascot: Warez the Monkey. (Or has no one else heard the term warez monkey?)
Here's an appropriate story, but with dentists instead of eye surgeons.
There is a small town with two dentists. The town is hundreds of miles from anywhere else that is inhabited, so anyone who visits a dentist visits one of these two. One of the dentists has a sparkling mouth full of perfectly arranged, white teeth. The other dentist has a mouth full (well, half-full) of the ugliest, yellowest, most-malformed teeth anyone has even seen. If you lived in this town, which dentist would you visit?
The answer of course, is the dentist with the nasty teeth, since the dentist with nice teeth obviously visits him for his dental services.
So, perhaps none of those eye surgeons have meet another surgeon they would trust... If they could perform the surgery on themselves, the fact that they all wear glasses might be another matter.
While OS X is quite secure by default, it is good to recognize that OS X, like any OS, isn't without vulnerability. The fact that the OS is getting a thorough look-over for security concerns is just one more step in getting it taken seriously. I'm going to have a full of the paper now.
VGA connections are prone to distortion. There is a reason the industry is switching to DVI (and subsequently DVI Dual Link). You are the first person I have ever heard suggesting that VGA would be preferred over DVI.
While Apple does tend to make products that are often incompatible with older products, there is no way to make the 30" display compatible with older hardware since it requires a new port which isn't available on older products. And don't say, "Well, Apple should have stuck with the old port," because vanilla DVI doesn't support the resolution of the 30" display.
The search I used actually quoted the the phrase "DVI Dual Link" to find exact matches. Since the majority were selling cables for said connection I imagine it is valid, otherwise no one would buy them since they don't match whatever their device is asking for.
It seems another definition of DDL, which just happens to match the DVI definition is for the naming of a card with two Dual Link connections. This must be what Apple is calling it. It's like saying Dual ADC or Dual DVI or Dual VGA.