I personally feel like a legitimate argument could be made for government interference in business as follows: free market implies that the market reacts to shape the companies that sell to it. In a representative government, the government theoretically reflects the will of the people, and is therefore a creation of the market. As such, interference from the government is just one of the means by which a market can react to a company's action.
if i buy a chair, then sell it in a yard sale, do i (or, in this case, the buyer) owe the maker of the chair a fee? or the owner of the store from which i purchased it? or the lumber yard that provided the wood?*
blizzard has made their money off of the physical copy of the software. and, in your example, microsoft has made their money off of the sale of their product. it's not even vaguely piracy.
perhaps you were under the impression that the software was still being used by the original purchaser? i can think of few other reasons for you to have made this post.
I live in Mt Pleasant, SC. After 3 months I know only my roommates and some people with whom I work. And, 3 months from now I'll probably be moving again. Why? I'm in the Navy, and haven't got much choice in the matter.
While getting to know one's community is generally a very rewarding thing, the "moving to a whole new town" isn't such a horrible thing--sometimes a job requires it, and sometimes people want to see what's out there--why should they have to wait 6 months to rent an apartment when they've done nothing wrong? It's not unreasonable for them to expect that their identities are safe.
In the event that two identical photons were generated, their wavefunctions would be linked. Hence, the man in the middle, upon observing his photon, would collapse the wavefunction of both his photon and the one that had continued interrupted. So, while the information could be compromised, the intended recipient would know about it.
They'll simply speak in code that they agreed upon offline. If a bunch of guys agree offline that one of them posting a "first post" troll on slashdot means "plant the bombs on the bridges tonight and detonate them at rush hour tomorrow," no one's going to catch that except the intended audience.
I'm not at all certain about this. After all, if you actually meet a person, there are witnesses. They see you and this other person. If you get dinner at a restaraunt, there may even be credit card receipts.
The internet allows this communication to take place without anyone really being aware of who you meet. I think the example you used is fine so long as you just want to set a trigger, and indeed that is probably untraceable. But if the FBI has person X pegged as a terrorist, and you talk to person X, well they will probably start looking at who you're talking to. and if this passes and they see person X's ip packets headed towards your computer, they'll do the same.
Understand, I'm not for this, but the FBI will use this to establish networks of communication, to figure out who else could be in on things. In much the same way HUAC sessions looked for more communists, I imagine.
actually, if I asked about mac software I'd love to see linux solutions. Usually just a quick recompile away...
But to respond to the original question, try TMPG. It's not free, and it doesn't do everything that the really complicated programs do, but I've had good luck with it. It's been more than competent at switching video types around for me and reencoding, and the themes/buttons that it comes with can be switched around.
It certainly wipes the floor with SonicMyDVD, which came bundeled with my burner.
PS- I run all these on my PC. No need to call me a mac troll
this is the only way I can come up with for Apple to make money off of this deal--the iTMS isn't raking in the cash, and it won't be, no matter how many people have it installed as a default. The iTMS was designed to sell iPods, which each provide gobs of $ worth of profit.
does anyone have any knowledge of the terms of apple's deal? Are they pulling down some percentage of the profit on each unit? Are they just licensing the tech (doesn't sound like it, since evidently Apple is doing the manufacturing)?
Does it seem hypocritical that this V-T supercomputer runs on Linux
Big Mac runs on OSX, which is based on FreeBSD. not Linux.
according to apple [apple.com], as well as in the keynote--available as a quicktime stream on apple's website (sorry).
while apple loves to exaggerate, they probably don't lie (except about the power of the G5:) )
not quite. in part the laws were changed because people who had created a work were finding their copy rights expired while they were still alive--as such, other people were using and profiting off of the creator's work--while the creator saw nothing. these laws were made to extend the copy right to the owners death.
the problem is with copy right transfers. right now most music companies require in signing contracts that all work an artist creates belongs to the record company. since a corporations don't die, they can hold onto copy right until the other maximum the law sets forth (73 years?). and they keep lobbying for more.
open with: I am using iTunes and really liking it.
that being said, it seems like someone has finally caught on. Napster 2.0 looks to be using a business model almost identical to the iTMS. It's not a subscription service, the files can be used on up to 3 computers--the only difference is that a given playlist can only be burnt once, vice ten times.
Generally it seems good--will they make money on it? The difference between Napster and Apple is that Apple is using their store to sell a player. And while Napster has a number of players which are evidently being specifically designed for it, does the money from them go to the Napster company?
Indeed. Video will just be recorded into a proprietary format with DRM taking up half the filesize, playable only using Windows Media Player on a Paladium system running MS Windows. Great.
Actually, I think I would remove the code from my system and write it up as a short paper. Then I would take that to my favorite CS prof who's interested in this sort of thing. That way it's much more likely to be viewed as an academic pursuit (which I assume it is) than to be seen as some extortive process. After you've talked it over with him and possibly a lawyer, you might be able to get some kind of compensation from the company that produced the software.
1. Find bug in grade posting software
2. ???
3. Profit!!!
From what I've read on Bayesian filtering it seems like most of the spam is caught not only from the body text, but also from the spam crap in the headers (eg bad message id). could other tricks be added into this filtering as "virtual words"--more picture than text, for example, or similar things?
The question is: will Microsoft do what apple has done and provide nearly error free support for the hardware that the new computer comes with?
As I see it, MS can go 2 ways with this: they can try and go truly maclike and attempt to control every stage in the PC process. This is scary to me. Or they can leave the control in the hands of the hardware manufacturers and keep a list of software that they are developing for hardware manufacturers to rise to.
The issue that I worry about is this: I like open source because when a new bit of incompatible hardware comes out, within days somebody has fixed a driver or whatever for it to work. But with MS, the programmers must see if a new driver for a product is really something that can make more money for the company. THAT is what I see coming out of this...MS will be able to squash any form of competition from participating companies.
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At one of my commands there was a sailor (E-3) whose last name was "Guzzler". You do the math.
They temporarily assigned her the title of "Fireman" in spite of her rate. Good order and discipline and all that
A mathematician is a device for converting coffee into theorems
since when is physics not nerdy?
I personally feel like a legitimate argument could be made for government interference in business as follows: free market implies that the market reacts to shape the companies that sell to it. In a representative government, the government theoretically reflects the will of the people, and is therefore a creation of the market. As such, interference from the government is just one of the means by which a market can react to a company's action.
if i buy a chair, then sell it in a yard sale, do i (or, in this case, the buyer) owe the maker of the chair a fee? or the owner of the store from which i purchased it? or the lumber yard that provided the wood?*
blizzard has made their money off of the physical copy of the software. and, in your example, microsoft has made their money off of the sale of their product. it's not even vaguely piracy.
perhaps you were under the impression that the software was still being used by the original purchaser? i can think of few other reasons for you to have made this post.
*the answer is no.
I live in Mt Pleasant, SC. After 3 months I know only my roommates and some people with whom I work. And, 3 months from now I'll probably be moving again. Why? I'm in the Navy, and haven't got much choice in the matter.
While getting to know one's community is generally a very rewarding thing, the "moving to a whole new town" isn't such a horrible thing--sometimes a job requires it, and sometimes people want to see what's out there--why should they have to wait 6 months to rent an apartment when they've done nothing wrong? It's not unreasonable for them to expect that their identities are safe.
Without ripping off Google
why would microsoft stop ripping off companies now?
short for "Sempron Faithful?"
In the event that two identical photons were generated, their wavefunctions would be linked. Hence, the man in the middle, upon observing his photon, would collapse the wavefunction of both his photon and the one that had continued interrupted. So, while the information could be compromised, the intended recipient would know about it.
yay physics.
go easy on him--if he's a real /. geek he hasn't seen the sun in a while
I'm not at all certain about this. After all, if you actually meet a person, there are witnesses. They see you and this other person. If you get dinner at a restaraunt, there may even be credit card receipts.
The internet allows this communication to take place without anyone really being aware of who you meet. I think the example you used is fine so long as you just want to set a trigger, and indeed that is probably untraceable. But if the FBI has person X pegged as a terrorist, and you talk to person X, well they will probably start looking at who you're talking to. and if this passes and they see person X's ip packets headed towards your computer, they'll do the same.
Understand, I'm not for this, but the FBI will use this to establish networks of communication, to figure out who else could be in on things. In much the same way HUAC sessions looked for more communists, I imagine.
actually, if I asked about mac software I'd love to see linux solutions. Usually just a quick recompile away...
But to respond to the original question, try TMPG. It's not free, and it doesn't do everything that the really complicated programs do, but I've had good luck with it. It's been more than competent at switching video types around for me and reencoding, and the themes/buttons that it comes with can be switched around.
It certainly wipes the floor with SonicMyDVD, which came bundeled with my burner.
PS- I run all these on my PC. No need to call me a mac troll
confused am I
this is the only way I can come up with for Apple to make money off of this deal--the iTMS isn't raking in the cash, and it won't be, no matter how many people have it installed as a default. The iTMS was designed to sell iPods, which each provide gobs of $ worth of profit.
does anyone have any knowledge of the terms of apple's deal? Are they pulling down some percentage of the profit on each unit? Are they just licensing the tech (doesn't sound like it, since evidently Apple is doing the manufacturing)?
anyone?
Does it seem hypocritical that this V-T supercomputer runs on Linux
:) )
Big Mac runs on OSX, which is based on FreeBSD. not Linux.
according to apple [apple.com], as well as in the keynote--available as a quicktime stream on apple's website (sorry). while apple loves to exaggerate, they probably don't lie (except about the power of the G5
the brick house belongs to RedHat
behind it there's a spacious titanium bunker--Novell
IBM hasn't got a house--instead they have an artillery battery
the problem is with copy right transfers. right now most music companies require in signing contracts that all work an artist creates belongs to the record company. since a corporations don't die, they can hold onto copy right until the other maximum the law sets forth (73 years?). and they keep lobbying for more.
open with: I am using iTunes and really liking it. that being said, it seems like someone has finally caught on. Napster 2.0 looks to be using a business model almost identical to the iTMS. It's not a subscription service, the files can be used on up to 3 computers--the only difference is that a given playlist can only be burnt once, vice ten times. Generally it seems good--will they make money on it? The difference between Napster and Apple is that Apple is using their store to sell a player. And while Napster has a number of players which are evidently being specifically designed for it, does the money from them go to the Napster company?
scalar energy as opposed to...vector energy? which doesn't exist? ps- IAAP
Indeed. Video will just be recorded into a proprietary format with DRM taking up half the filesize, playable only using Windows Media Player on a Paladium system running MS Windows. Great.
Actually, I think I would remove the code from my system and write it up as a short paper. Then I would take that to my favorite CS prof who's interested in this sort of thing. That way it's much more likely to be viewed as an academic pursuit (which I assume it is) than to be seen as some extortive process. After you've talked it over with him and possibly a lawyer, you might be able to get some kind of compensation from the company that produced the software. 1. Find bug in grade posting software 2. ??? 3. Profit!!!
Perhaps his college-age son was subpoenaed?
From what I've read on Bayesian filtering it seems like most of the spam is caught not only from the body text, but also from the spam crap in the headers (eg bad message id). could other tricks be added into this filtering as "virtual words"--more picture than text, for example, or similar things?
The question is: will Microsoft do what apple has done and provide nearly error free support for the hardware that the new computer comes with? As I see it, MS can go 2 ways with this: they can try and go truly maclike and attempt to control every stage in the PC process. This is scary to me. Or they can leave the control in the hands of the hardware manufacturers and keep a list of software that they are developing for hardware manufacturers to rise to. The issue that I worry about is this: I like open source because when a new bit of incompatible hardware comes out, within days somebody has fixed a driver or whatever for it to work. But with MS, the programmers must see if a new driver for a product is really something that can make more money for the company. THAT is what I see coming out of this...MS will be able to squash any form of competition from participating companies.