lets go, 14 years from time of creation(first time someone besides the creator sees it), estate gets it for the remainder of the 14 years if the creator dies before the expiration. I mean really, life+70 is a long long time, especily when Disney(the company not the guy or a guy at disney) owns the copyright. Since Disney isn't "dead" yet.....
If i had an infinite number of the same car, i would be unable to tell if you took one or not.(1) Also in your case it would be more along the lines of; "If i had a mater replicator it would wrong to duplicate someones car as i walked by it because i liked it." Which I disagree with quite a bit, as neither of us has lost anything. In fact if you ask nicely and tell me how much power the thing is likely to use duplicating my car and how long it will take i'd probably be happy to let you plug it in and let you know when the car will be around that long. Heck, i'd be okay with you putting the "scan" of my car on the internet if you could, although i probably would have beaten you too it. I hope that mater replication comes about during my lifetime. i for one can not wait to "print" out my car/boat/plane/spaceship/robot/desk/food/etc. Think of the havoc that will play on the economy!
Time for Mozilla to face reality and pay up the license as Apple and Google have done.
Except the problem is how do you keep the users from redistrubting the code that has how to decode a h264 file? and the users they give it to, and so on? Good luck getting a license from MPEG-LA that grants everyone a license to use it. Also, is Chrome(not chromium) available for linux distros other than debian/ubuntu/redhat/SUSE? slackware? gentoo? LFS? and host of others, see distro watch, because Chromium does not have support for the html5/h264 youtube.
I'd rather my wife be shot than tasered... For the most part the bullet wound is going to be relitivly repairable, her heart stopping from the taser is probably going to do some damage long term, even if they have the defibulator on hand and preped and ready to go. Seeing as the cop doesn't know about her condition by looking at her, I'm willing to bet that the taser would just get whipped out and bam.... Those with heart murmurs or pace makes are likly to suffer quite a bit of trauma from a taser. So in my case it's the fact the cops seem to think they are "safe". Cops get a bad rap because they are seen as overstepping their bounds or "selectively" enforcing. If all of the traffic is speeding but i'm the only one in the 40 cars around me that gets pulled over, that isn't "fair". Also is the cop 100% sure that is wide angle radar/laser gun only targeted my car? that it was a correct reading? if i want to argue the ticket how much time off work do i need? if it is thrown out does the cop get pay docked to cover my lost wages? Even something like a speeding ticket isn't simple from a human point of view. Also most states have a "obstructing traffic" law, so which law wins? speed limit or slowing down traffic?
So i'm in full support of the police doing their jobs, but they(as a group) need to enforce uniformly. Speeding tickets for all speeding or none at all, etc.
VW is also using a very similar engine in the Dekar rally. 9000KM over the desert (this year in Argentina and Chile) Those cars are doing 120KM avg speed across a 600KM stage, they top out at 180Kph or so... So i'm betting that it's not an issue with diesel engines anymore.
Also the 'chute could have the resistance controlled by computer/micro-controller and then would be deployed automaticly if he hasn't yet and then adjusted to provide a safe landing speed. I'm also guessing that the fail safe one is not the para wing style ones, but a mostly simple round one with little steering ability.
Fix what? I keep hearing about major infrastructure upgrades for the Chinese people on the east coast of china. A huge huge hydro-electric dam, a major investment in nuclear power plant development, a plan for 20+ high speed long range rail links. So apart from the "crappy"(they could be much much worse) working conditions, and the rural part of china (where i'm not sure the peoples there want them to change much, they are doing the same thing that people 1000's of years ago were doing) So i'm not really sure thats there's much to "fix" apart from some social issues.
I'm currently giving chromium a shot, but it doesn't support the parents site either. As far as i can tell, despite having 2-3 media players that can play h264 with video decode help from my gpu there is no way to make it work on Linux.
lol 300Kbps just wait a year or two, "web" cams will be able to send out 2-3Mbps. Games and voice i agree with you, but what happens when/if video conferencing really takes off. That needs high bandwidth and low latency. Well high bandwidth for the current US connections.
what about video conferencing with a better camera than your 1.2Mpixel USB web cam? i'd count that as both high bandwidth(3+Mbps) and needing to be low latency(=100ms, preferably =25ms, it needs to be short enough you don't start talking over each other.) TBH i'd really like to be able to flag my traffic correctly. Bittorrent at high bandwidth, but at just about whatever ping 5000ms, WoW at "medium" bandwidth but 100ms, skype at low bandwidth but 50ms ping. That way i could run all 3 at the same time and not have to set bittorrent to only use 2/3 of my bandwidth. I have an incentive to set my own bandwidth correctly.
my distro of choice(gentoo) has it inside of the package manager. they could just be running the setup for me for all i know( i should look at that), but it works almost 100% of the time.
57XX and 58xx specs out with working open drivers? Thought not.... Hmm that GTX295 nvidia card would just work in my system after opening the case and removing my 8600GT. And that's the difference.
been installing gentoo with nvidia cards for ohhh 5+ yars now, no issues. Sounds like Ubuntu isn't packaging things well, or it could be that whole "no non-free" thing they have going. Also the NV driver should work enough for getting the real driver installed.
total cost of the use of Nokias patents may be "payable" by the "value" of the cross licensed patents. "Value" as seen by Nokia. Nokia may not care about Apples patents very much, thus give them a low value. not all patents are worth the same to all parties. so the RAND rate for the use of some of Nokias may be $3000000/yr but they work out that Motorola patents are worth $1000000/yr and thus Motorola pays Nokia $2000000/yr. now along comes apple, and they have patents to offer too, but negoations only get apple to $250000/yr, they then owe Nokia $2750000/yr cash. Now that would look unfair to someone that values Apple patents higher than that. but its still the same rate. imo
they may be getting the same rate, just that you can use cross licensed patents to pay some of that "fee". Now does apple have anything that nokia would like? is it the same amount as say Motorola who have some chip design under their belt? or RIM? or XXXX? Most of apples patents seem to be on the UI or layout of the device, maybe "touchscreen only phone". Nokia may feel that these are not worth as much as some of the ones they've gotten other places, and thus feel there is little value there, and the "cash" fee portion is higher to reflect that. That would seem to not be against RAND. it's still the same "price", just the payment methods are different.
It could be that Motorola or Samsung or RIM had more to offer of interest to Nokia in way of cross licensed patents. Nokia would then take the "cost of a liscense" = "Fee" - "Value of cross licensed patents". See how if apples "Value of cross licensed patents" is less they pay more in money?
lol, Iphone has sizeable marketshare? maybe of the Smartphone market in the USA. Nokia is a very very large cell phone provider(yes they have a couple of smartphones), I'm willing to bet that the few patants that nokia would like of apples are mostly cosmetic, where as nokia's are going to be things like "Talk GSM", "Send your identifier to the tower", "Method of picking the best tower in range".
Cation to all about the link in the above. It will resize your browser window repeatedly if you have javascript and flash enabled. Some warning would have been nice from the parent about that.
Well i'm betting some of them do have a want to filter. Think of a cable company that gets told it wants to filter or it doesn't want to have access to new movies on Pay per view. See how that would work, "we're not sure of your ability to ensure that this PPV content doesn't get out, but if you manage to filter the internet connections you provide, we'll take that as a sign you are trustworthy"
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lets go, 14 years from time of creation(first time someone besides the creator sees it), estate gets it for the remainder of the 14 years if the creator dies before the expiration. I mean really, life+70 is a long long time, especily when Disney(the company not the guy or a guy at disney) owns the copyright. Since Disney isn't "dead" yet.....
If i had an infinite number of the same car, i would be unable to tell if you took one or not.(1) Also in your case it would be more along the lines of; "If i had a mater replicator it would wrong to duplicate someones car as i walked by it because i liked it."
Which I disagree with quite a bit, as neither of us has lost anything. In fact if you ask nicely and tell me how much power the thing is likely to use duplicating my car and how long it will take i'd probably be happy to let you plug it in and let you know when the car will be around that long. Heck, i'd be okay with you putting the "scan" of my car on the internet if you could, although i probably would have beaten you too it. I hope that mater replication comes about during my lifetime. i for one can not wait to "print" out my car/boat/plane/spaceship/robot/desk/food/etc. Think of the havoc that will play on the economy!
(1) See definition of infinite.
Time for Mozilla to face reality and pay up the license as Apple and Google have done.
Except the problem is how do you keep the users from redistrubting the code that has how to decode a h264 file? and the users they give it to, and so on? Good luck getting a license from MPEG-LA that grants everyone a license to use it. Also, is Chrome(not chromium) available for linux distros other than debian/ubuntu/redhat/SUSE? slackware? gentoo? LFS? and host of others, see distro watch, because Chromium does not have support for the html5/h264 youtube.
I'd rather my wife be shot than tasered... For the most part the bullet wound is going to be relitivly repairable, her heart stopping from the taser is probably going to do some damage long term, even if they have the defibulator on hand and preped and ready to go. Seeing as the cop doesn't know about her condition by looking at her, I'm willing to bet that the taser would just get whipped out and bam.... Those with heart murmurs or pace makes are likly to suffer quite a bit of trauma from a taser. So in my case it's the fact the cops seem to think they are "safe". Cops get a bad rap because they are seen as overstepping their bounds or "selectively" enforcing. If all of the traffic is speeding but i'm the only one in the 40 cars around me that gets pulled over, that isn't "fair". Also is the cop 100% sure that is wide angle radar/laser gun only targeted my car? that it was a correct reading? if i want to argue the ticket how much time off work do i need? if it is thrown out does the cop get pay docked to cover my lost wages? Even something like a speeding ticket isn't simple from a human point of view. Also most states have a "obstructing traffic" law, so which law wins? speed limit or slowing down traffic?
So i'm in full support of the police doing their jobs, but they(as a group) need to enforce uniformly. Speeding tickets for all speeding or none at all, etc.
VW is also using a very similar engine in the Dekar rally. 9000KM over the desert (this year in Argentina and Chile) Those cars are doing 120KM avg speed across a 600KM stage, they top out at 180Kph or so... So i'm betting that it's not an issue with diesel engines anymore.
http://www.dakar.com/
Also the 'chute could have the resistance controlled by computer/micro-controller and then would be deployed automaticly if he hasn't yet and then adjusted to provide a safe landing speed. I'm also guessing that the fail safe one is not the para wing style ones, but a mostly simple round one with little steering ability.
heat engine != ICE... no fire needed.
Fix what? I keep hearing about major infrastructure upgrades for the Chinese people on the east coast of china. A huge huge hydro-electric dam, a major investment in nuclear power plant development, a plan for 20+ high speed long range rail links. So apart from the "crappy"(they could be much much worse) working conditions, and the rural part of china (where i'm not sure the peoples there want them to change much, they are doing the same thing that people 1000's of years ago were doing) So i'm not really sure thats there's much to "fix" apart from some social issues.
I'm currently giving chromium a shot, but it doesn't support the parents site either. As far as i can tell, despite having 2-3 media players that can play h264 with video decode help from my gpu there is no way to make it work on Linux.
lol 300Kbps just wait a year or two, "web" cams will be able to send out 2-3Mbps. Games and voice i agree with you, but what happens when/if video conferencing really takes off. That needs high bandwidth and low latency. Well high bandwidth for the current US connections.
what about video conferencing with a better camera than your 1.2Mpixel USB web cam? i'd count that as both high bandwidth(3+Mbps) and needing to be low latency(=100ms, preferably =25ms, it needs to be short enough you don't start talking over each other.) TBH i'd really like to be able to flag my traffic correctly. Bittorrent at high bandwidth, but at just about whatever ping 5000ms, WoW at "medium" bandwidth but 100ms, skype at low bandwidth but 50ms ping. That way i could run all 3 at the same time and not have to set bittorrent to only use 2/3 of my bandwidth. I have an incentive to set my own bandwidth correctly.
my distro of choice(gentoo) has it inside of the package manager. they could just be running the setup for me for all i know( i should look at that), but it works almost 100% of the time.
57XX and 58xx specs out with working open drivers? Thought not.... Hmm that GTX295 nvidia card would just work in my system after opening the case and removing my 8600GT. And that's the difference.
been installing gentoo with nvidia cards for ohhh 5+ yars now, no issues. Sounds like Ubuntu isn't packaging things well, or it could be that whole "no non-free" thing they have going. Also the NV driver should work enough for getting the real driver installed.
Now if only i could get my PS3 to play a MKV. I'm stck with MP4's because of it.
The real problem here is that it uses bundled libs. Those are a HUGE!!!! security nightmare waiting to happen.
As a note last i knew VLC was required to rip dvd with hand brake on windows due it it needing VLC's libdvdcss.
How do you get outputed tables to line up in a terminal using proportional fonts? or how about indenting?
total cost of the use of Nokias patents may be "payable" by the "value" of the cross licensed patents. "Value" as seen by Nokia. Nokia may not care about Apples patents very much, thus give them a low value. not all patents are worth the same to all parties. so the RAND rate for the use of some of Nokias may be $3000000/yr but they work out that Motorola patents are worth $1000000/yr and thus Motorola pays Nokia $2000000/yr. now along comes apple, and they have patents to offer too, but negoations only get apple to $250000/yr, they then owe Nokia $2750000/yr cash. Now that would look unfair to someone that values Apple patents higher than that. but its still the same rate. imo
they may be getting the same rate, just that you can use cross licensed patents to pay some of that "fee". Now does apple have anything that nokia would like? is it the same amount as say Motorola who have some chip design under their belt? or RIM? or XXXX? Most of apples patents seem to be on the UI or layout of the device, maybe "touchscreen only phone". Nokia may feel that these are not worth as much as some of the ones they've gotten other places, and thus feel there is little value there, and the "cash" fee portion is higher to reflect that. That would seem to not be against RAND. it's still the same "price", just the payment methods are different.
It could be that Motorola or Samsung or RIM had more to offer of interest to Nokia in way of cross licensed patents. Nokia would then take the "cost of a liscense" = "Fee" - "Value of cross licensed patents". See how if apples "Value of cross licensed patents" is less they pay more in money?
lol, Iphone has sizeable marketshare? maybe of the Smartphone market in the USA. Nokia is a very very large cell phone provider(yes they have a couple of smartphones), I'm willing to bet that the few patants that nokia would like of apples are mostly cosmetic, where as nokia's are going to be things like "Talk GSM", "Send your identifier to the tower", "Method of picking the best tower in range".
Cation to all about the link in the above. It will resize your browser window repeatedly if you have javascript and flash enabled. Some warning would have been nice from the parent about that.
*WOOSH* I'm thinking that was the the point of the statement.
Well i'm betting some of them do have a want to filter. Think of a cable company that gets told it wants to filter or it doesn't want to have access to new movies on Pay per view. See how that would work, "we're not sure of your ability to ensure that this PPV content doesn't get out, but if you manage to filter the internet connections you provide, we'll take that as a sign you are trustworthy"