personally i think its clear that a thumbnail has reduced value
But marketable value.
Though I wonder about some of the issues arising from displaying porn on a cell phone. With the cases against people watching porn on the DVD players in their cars where it could be visible to others, I wonder if it won't soon be illegal to look at pornography in public on a cell phone. Or even to possess an unsealed adult magazine in public just like with open alcoholic beverage containers in cars.
Anyway, back to the real subject, Google isn't looking to provide people with free copies of books or even necessarily complete pages. I'd imagine you'd get results just like the context blurbs you get for web pages, but following the link takes you to a page of vendors that sell the book rather than the book itself, and no Cache links.
Or are these book authors worried that searches for seemingly unique phrases across so many books might bring up so many results that there will be accusations of rampant plagiarism?
Some of his other game idea posts include... Freelance Foto, an on-the-run photojournalist game.
On-the-run?
"My name is Thomas Veil, or at least it was. I'm a photographer. I had it all: a wife, Alyson; friends; a career. And in one moment it was all taken away, all because of a single photograph. I have it; they want it; and they will do anything to get the negative."
I too bought such an HDTV. However, I'm not as happy. It isn't capable of letterboxing 1080i video, filling the screen with a stretched image. I can barely stand watching TNT-HD on it (TNT-HD apparently designs their signal for 4:3 HDTVs and cylindrically distort widescreen movies accordingly). I end up using my HD cable box just to downconvert it to SD for recording with my TiVo. All SD downconversions are letterboxed with grey bars by the cable box, but I'd rather they weren't so I could capture them to make anamorphic DVDs. Its VGA inputs sit unused.
For my latest DVD player purchase, I made sure it included an HDMI port as I do intend to buy a new HDTV. though I want a 16:9 1080i CRT w/HDMI-HDCP, DVI-HDCP, component, Firewire (I want to send unencrypted HD DV signals from Final Cut Studio to my TV), and a full complement of SD inputs, at a size where SD signals aren't smaller than they are on the 32" 4:3. So far only Sony is close to these specs.
Black markets develop because things desired are either made difficult to acquire or are made artificially more expensive than their perceived worth, be it by price or prison.
Or, more generally, when demand exceeds supply?
Scarcity is profitable. Too much scarcity isn't good for the original vendor.
Does this mean the event happened 440 million years ago and we're just now detecting it because information about it has finally arrived?
Yes. Though it doesn't matter that it happened that long ago.
The physics of spacetime have always puzzled me.
Then here's one for you: since it could not have had any causal effect on us until its light propogated to us, in a very real sense for us it has only just happened.
So 440 million years ago 440 million lightyears away is really right now.
You get out a large 1.5 inch/ 4cm drill, put a hole through the laptop case, and attach a large chain with an appropriate weight or lockset to the laptop using said hole. Bolt the other end of the chain...
It's probably not really $5.4 billion in lost sales; it's more likely $5.4 billion in unclaimed legal penalties for unprosecuted infringements.
Much like how someone duplicating CDs in a garage with three 52x burners is said to be duplicating with the equivalent of 156 burners. Anything to inflate the figures.
Just be careful when referencing the blueprint set for the Enterprise-D: the regular bridge crew's quarters are rotated 180 degress so that the doors that should lead into them intead lead into the crawlspaces behind them. Either that, or the doors should be on the other side of the next hallway.
And I'm sure the police wouldn't mind cameras outside their precincts being publically accessible 24/7 so people can anonymously monitor who are the city's paid informants.
Yes, anonymously. When was the last time a surveillance camera had below it a sign reading, "This camera is being monitored by Joe Smith"?
Today, it wouldn't be considered abandoned property but rather property with its ownership transferred to the city so if any newspaper tried to seize it it would be guilty of stealing city property.
Only city/county/state/federal agents and appropriately licensed refuse companies would be legally permitted to retrieve it.
It was also used by Don Adams as Maxwell Smart to comedic effect:
"This yacht happens to be surrounded by the 7th Fleet!" "I find that hard to believe." "Would you believe the 6th Fleet?" "I don't think so." "How about a school of angry flounder?"
Listings come from Tribune Media Services which has a national monopoly on the service of collecting all the local listings around the country. TMS claims copyright over them so you aren't allowed to edit them to make corrections for yourself. (I believe the copyright truly only covers the episode descriptions and not the collection of facts of what is on when, but I'm not up to speed on the latest changes in database copyright law.)
My TiVo still insists on recording The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet every Wednesday at 11:30 CT on ISATE thinking it is Teleworld Paid Program.
I barely bought anything on VHS. I used to do a lot of recording and archiving of television on VHS, esp. movies from HBO. SLP/EP mode at that.
I didn't start buying DVDs until the advent of deCSS. But now my DVD library is reaching 700 titles, legally bought, and most of it is TV season or series box sets. (I believe a majority is still shrink-wrapped.)
They didn't get their hands into my wallet until it was possible to copy. But odd thing is, I didn't "steal" anything. I don't do rent-to-copy. Anything I've burned has eventually been replaced with store-bought versions. The only compelling reason for me to copy is for copying one side of double-sided disks (The Lone Gunmen) for use in my 400-disc non-flipping changer. I'm replacing my HBO tapes with purchased DVDs as soon as they come out, sometimes with Region 2 purchases for out-of-print titles like Flash Gordon (actual used region 1 disks of FG are expensive collector's items).
My point: I won't be buying HD-DVD or Blu-Ray discs until their protections are broken and I can use them as I will. I have no intention to pirate anything; I just want to be able to exercise fair use, even if I never in fact exercise it.
(If you're curious about my music, there's nothing out there worth stealing to me. I don't have anything like an iPod. I buy very little in any format and have purchased only two must-have SACD titles. Only the 400-disc changer can play them, and it is full except for slots reserved for Legend of the Rangers, Star Trek: The Animated Series (presumed to be 3 disks), and Disc 2 of Season 7 of ST:TNG which was missing from the box set and lacks information of from where to request a replacement disc in the packaging.)
Slashdot Mirror
It isn't real, it never happened!
But, I've been keeping that journal as proof that these events are real. I know they are; they... have to be!
try to read a long excerpt where they don't differentiate between paragraphs and tell me how easy it is to read.
Dude, this is slashdot. We get that all the time.
personally i think its clear that a thumbnail has reduced value
But marketable value.
Though I wonder about some of the issues arising from displaying porn on a cell phone. With the cases against people watching porn on the DVD players in their cars where it could be visible to others, I wonder if it won't soon be illegal to look at pornography in public on a cell phone. Or even to possess an unsealed adult magazine in public just like with open alcoholic beverage containers in cars.
Anyway, back to the real subject, Google isn't looking to provide people with free copies of books or even necessarily complete pages. I'd imagine you'd get results just like the context blurbs you get for web pages, but following the link takes you to a page of vendors that sell the book rather than the book itself, and no Cache links.
Or are these book authors worried that searches for seemingly unique phrases across so many books might bring up so many results that there will be accusations of rampant plagiarism?
Some of his other game idea posts include... Freelance Foto, an on-the-run photojournalist game.
On-the-run?
"My name is Thomas Veil, or at least it was. I'm a photographer. I had it all: a wife, Alyson; friends; a career. And in one moment it was all taken away, all because of a single photograph. I have it; they want it; and they will do anything to get the negative."
Indeed, I like more new in my news.
I too bought such an HDTV. However, I'm not as happy. It isn't capable of letterboxing 1080i video, filling the screen with a stretched image. I can barely stand watching TNT-HD on it (TNT-HD apparently designs their signal for 4:3 HDTVs and cylindrically distort widescreen movies accordingly). I end up using my HD cable box just to downconvert it to SD for recording with my TiVo. All SD downconversions are letterboxed with grey bars by the cable box, but I'd rather they weren't so I could capture them to make anamorphic DVDs. Its VGA inputs sit unused.
For my latest DVD player purchase, I made sure it included an HDMI port as I do intend to buy a new HDTV. though I want a 16:9 1080i CRT w/HDMI-HDCP, DVI-HDCP, component, Firewire (I want to send unencrypted HD DV signals from Final Cut Studio to my TV), and a full complement of SD inputs, at a size where SD signals aren't smaller than they are on the 32" 4:3. So far only Sony is close to these specs.
Spatz pulled their product from the market. Better find yourself another vendor.
Black markets develop because things desired are either made difficult to acquire or are made artificially more expensive than their perceived worth, be it by price or prison.
Or, more generally, when demand exceeds supply?
Scarcity is profitable. Too much scarcity isn't good for the original vendor.
Supernova explosion with 33-minute GRB display and loud report. Light and get away.
Does this mean the event happened 440 million years ago and we're just now detecting it because information about it has finally arrived?
Yes. Though it doesn't matter that it happened that long ago.
The physics of spacetime have always puzzled me.
Then here's one for you: since it could not have had any causal effect on us until its light propogated to us, in a very real sense for us it has only just happened.
So 440 million years ago 440 million lightyears away is really right now.
I thought I'd felt a great disturbance in the Force.
So then how long until we use up the planet's supply of fissionable uranium and have to switch to yet another power source?
You get out a large 1.5 inch/ 4cm drill, put a hole through the laptop case, and attach a large chain with an appropriate weight or lockset to the laptop using said hole. Bolt the other end of the chain...
To the user? Talk about extreme body piercing!
Movie ticket sales declined more in 2000 than in 2004.
Which year was it when they started putting brown dots in areas of high brightness to deter ticket sales^W^W digicamming?
They are the bad guy because the DMCA and the SBCE happened.
The Society for Better Computing Ethics?
Oh, you must mean the SBCTEA, the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act.
It's probably not really $5.4 billion in lost sales; it's more likely $5.4 billion in unclaimed legal penalties for unprosecuted infringements.
Much like how someone duplicating CDs in a garage with three 52x burners is said to be duplicating with the equivalent of 156 burners. Anything to inflate the figures.
Just be careful when referencing the blueprint set for the Enterprise-D: the regular bridge crew's quarters are rotated 180 degress so that the doors that should lead into them intead lead into the crawlspaces behind them. Either that, or the doors should be on the other side of the next hallway.
And I'm sure the police wouldn't mind cameras outside their precincts being publically accessible 24/7 so people can anonymously monitor who are the city's paid informants.
Yes, anonymously. When was the last time a surveillance camera had below it a sign reading, "This camera is being monitored by Joe Smith"?
Also, that paper that blew out of your pocket last week during the windstorm, yeah, that's littering, that will be $200.
Great, now we're liable for crimes committed by act of God?
Today, it wouldn't be considered abandoned property but rather property with its ownership transferred to the city so if any newspaper tried to seize it it would be guilty of stealing city property.
Only city/county/state/federal agents and appropriately licensed refuse companies would be legally permitted to retrieve it.
3. Listings are often wrong, which is just sad.
Listings come from Tribune Media Services which has a national monopoly on the service of collecting all the local listings around the country. TMS claims copyright over them so you aren't allowed to edit them to make corrections for yourself. (I believe the copyright truly only covers the episode descriptions and not the collection of facts of what is on when, but I'm not up to speed on the latest changes in database copyright law.)
My TiVo still insists on recording The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet every Wednesday at 11:30 CT on ISATE thinking it is Teleworld Paid Program.
I barely bought anything on VHS. I used to do a lot of recording and archiving of television on VHS, esp. movies from HBO. SLP/EP mode at that.
I didn't start buying DVDs until the advent of deCSS. But now my DVD library is reaching 700 titles, legally bought, and most of it is TV season or series box sets. (I believe a majority is still shrink-wrapped.)
They didn't get their hands into my wallet until it was possible to copy. But odd thing is, I didn't "steal" anything. I don't do rent-to-copy. Anything I've burned has eventually been replaced with store-bought versions. The only compelling reason for me to copy is for copying one side of double-sided disks (The Lone Gunmen) for use in my 400-disc non-flipping changer. I'm replacing my HBO tapes with purchased DVDs as soon as they come out, sometimes with Region 2 purchases for out-of-print titles like Flash Gordon (actual used region 1 disks of FG are expensive collector's items).
My point: I won't be buying HD-DVD or Blu-Ray discs until their protections are broken and I can use them as I will. I have no intention to pirate anything; I just want to be able to exercise fair use, even if I never in fact exercise it.
(If you're curious about my music, there's nothing out there worth stealing to me. I don't have anything like an iPod. I buy very little in any format and have purchased only two must-have SACD titles. Only the 400-disc changer can play them, and it is full except for slots reserved for Legend of the Rangers, Star Trek: The Animated Series (presumed to be 3 disks), and Disc 2 of Season 7 of ST:TNG which was missing from the box set and lacks information of from where to request a replacement disc in the packaging.)
Copy protection is (increasingly) designed to stop the casual copiers.
Which include fair users.
Except Spatz doesn't list the DVIMAGIC on its own site.