this sounds exactly like the kind of functionality the patent tries to cover as it applies to an application on the "limited resource computing device yada yada". Patent says it was filed July 12, 2002. When did iPod start using this functionality?
It's not the MPAA's problem, they are not required to provide a way for people to watch DVD's on every obscure device or OS. This whole article kind of misses the point.
You're right. And we're not asking for that kind of support, in fact dozens of people have already done the hard work and created ways to watch MPAA Sponsored Material and non MPAA material on obscure devices.
We're asking "why can't I provide myself with a (legal) way to watch DVD's in whatever manner I choose?" And their response is always just "You can't choose, so there is no 'why?'".
People like Valenti are paid to have certain beliefs, and they have no incentive to change those beliefs just because they happen to be wrong, moreover, expect Valenti to use every rhetorical technique in the book to obfuscate the real issues.
I always wonder why interviewers don't respond sometimes by saying "You aren't ansering the question I asked." and if the interviewed person continues to avoid the question, cut them off and repeat "You aren't answering the question" until you get an answer to the question and not some prewritten canned response.
I'm sorry to bring politics into this, but GW Bush does this all the freakin time. Unless the question is about gay marriage.
right, i know he won't license it. but i read where he wasn't going after the creaters of those images because it was just too widespread to do so (or something along those lines). maybe it was an older article. glad to know he's doing something about it though.
Isn't that the whole point? I don't want robots that can develop personality problems... If I want that, I got the devices (Well I need a female too!) to make my OWN little humans, that will probably develop more than their fair share of personality problems.
No crap. We can't even provide health care for humans properly. What will happen when robots start developing problems like S.A.D. and require antidepressants?
And what's the point of having robots who need to develop skills? like her whole domestic vs. miner robots. stupid. she's lost sight of what robots should do, and she just wants to live in a cool Sci-Fi movie.
What's your point about Calvin & Hobbes? Is it the "pissing Calvin" stickers that seem to adorn every pickup truck in the U.S.A.? That is a violation as far as I understand, and as far as the creator of C&H is concerned, but he doesn't give a rats ass aparently. Imagine a sticker of Mickey Mouse pissing on things. Disney would be up in arms over that. Disney wouldn't let me make an exact duplicate or a derivitive work of Mickey. Why is this any different?
CON:... Lack of traditional support Office suites typically do not require much vendor support, but the fact that OpenOffice.org is an open-source project means software support must come from the community, generally spread out across various Web sites and newsgroups.
Ok, so tell me again why the guy was thinking about switching from MS to OO? Oh yeah, "Benincasa is looking to upgrade because Microsoft has discontinued distribution of new licenses for Office 2000 and Office 97"
So MS won't support what they deem "old" products at all, and that isn't listed as a "Con" for them. Yet distributed, widely available support is a "Con" for OO?
And in the "Con" for MS high licensing costs, it doesn't mention that these will be recurring costs, at the whim of Microsoft and their End of Life policies.
Seriously though, screw MS-Windows functionality. In Outlook it sometimes freezes for a minute if I make a quick mouse movement and click on a menu. It feels like it's pondering which button I really wanted to click on, almost as though the click event happened in two different widgets. And after a minute of what I can only believe is highly intelligent AI computations, it finally determines that I wanted to click on "View" instead of the printer icon.
Now the quality of the GUI is arguable. It's widely known, and while that's not all it has going for itself, I feel it's the bigest reason why people continue to use new iterations of MS products. If the computer illiterate has to do anything other than their repetitious task, they won't know what to do (i mean, the structure of menus within menus leading to dialog windows isn't obvious). But this mostly comes down to the fact that the typical users don't ever read the documentation or bother with the help system.
So what's my point... I guess that it is this. We do need a consistent Look and Feel in Linux, that is atleast superficially similar to other popular GUI's, but in functionality (average response time..etc) it should surpass those other GUI's. Arguably we have this already through "themes", though maybe not completely (GTK, QT, TK, Swing, etc all look different).
What I fear is that a lot of that IPO money will probably end up in marketting, causing Lindows to be the first Linux introduction to many people. I don't know a lot about Lindows but I doubt it is up to large scale scrutiny. A bad distro + MS-FUD could do some big damage to public perception of Linux.
sort of off-topic, what's the warranty on Apple products like the iPod? more than 90 days? a longer warranty would tell me that they believe it's a better product, and are not just marketting it as a better product. if companies don't trust their engineering to more than 90 days, why should i?
and your MP3 CD player is about 3-4 times the size of my Karma. Which, for the record, won't skip when dropped several feet. I found this out the hard way.
That sounds like the easy way to find out. All you do is let go of it, and hear if it skips.
The hard way would surely involve differential equations or a computer simulation on a beowulf cluster.
Time to upgrade the Heatsink of Earth, maybe go with a Heatpipe and a couple of huge fans?
you mean trees? they offer nice shade keeping the ground perfectly cool below them, as well as more surface area that allows heat freely move between the earth, themselves and the atmosphere.
well at some point you probably have to have real life security. maybe that means a certified, then locked in a vault until voting day computer, or a computer that boots from a trusted source like a certified and locked in a vault until voting day bootable cdrom. i dunno... i just think there has to be human security checks as well as technological security checks. you can't rely only on one.
Well basically I think some new application that couples FTP or similar protocol to email in a way transparent to the user would be nice.
This doesn't necesitate a user setting up an FTP server on their machine, although I imagine they could do it. If it would benefit an ISP to provide such an email attachment FTP server (instead of allowing attachments directly in email) in terms of mail server load, then I could see them offering the service of hosting such an file transfer server. A requirement on the recipient might be that they need to save that file to their disk within a certain time period after which the file server deletes it....logistical obstacles abound, I'm sure, but I think we should always be looking for a better way to do things. huge attachments in email impacts things it shouldn't need to impact. The most obvious would be waiting for such an attachment before downloading the rest of your mail.
email attachments, especially binary attachments, don't need to increase in size. they need to be reduced. use something intended to be a File Transfer Protocol.
FFS, minus the infrequent emergency use of cellphones on airplanes, please keep them out. All i need is that group of kids on my plane to be talking insanely loud to their friends on their cellphones. We've made out well without cellphones on airplanes for several decades of flying. we don't need them now.
It's just a matter of time before the cellphone companies make cellphones somehow work on the subways. It's going to be so damn annoying the day that happens.
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this sounds exactly like the kind of functionality the patent tries to cover as it applies to an application on the "limited resource computing device yada yada". Patent says it was filed July 12, 2002. When did iPod start using this functionality?
It's not the MPAA's problem, they are not required to provide a way for people to watch DVD's on every obscure device or OS. This whole article kind of misses the point.
You're right. And we're not asking for that kind of support, in fact dozens of people have already done the hard work and created ways to watch MPAA Sponsored Material and non MPAA material on obscure devices.
We're asking "why can't I provide myself with a (legal) way to watch DVD's in whatever manner I choose?" And their response is always just "You can't choose, so there is no 'why?'".
Oh, there's not a "Free as in gimme gimme i deserve it" DVD player for linux.
And no one is allowed to even make such a system, legally, for even their own use.
Lies and horseshit won't help the 'cause'.
trolling won't help the cause either.
Very fscking bad analogy. Analogies are a fraud and yours is right up there at the top.
The 200+ millions of people are not put into physical harm by allowing 100+ thousands of people to decrypt data in order to watch a DVD.
You are so wrong your post should be modded to "+5, Want To See What Idiocy Is?" so no one repeats such a bad analogy.
Am I being denied fair use becaue I cant run windows 98 on my iMac. After all I bought and paid for that copy, I should be able to use it how I like
Yes, you are. And yes, you should.
People like Valenti are paid to have certain beliefs, and they have no incentive to change those beliefs just because they happen to be wrong, moreover, expect Valenti to use every rhetorical technique in the book to obfuscate the real issues.
I always wonder why interviewers don't respond sometimes by saying "You aren't ansering the question I asked." and if the interviewed person continues to avoid the question, cut them off and repeat "You aren't answering the question" until you get an answer to the question and not some prewritten canned response.
I'm sorry to bring politics into this, but GW Bush does this all the freakin time. Unless the question is about gay marriage.
right, i know he won't license it. but i read where he wasn't going after the creaters of those images because it was just too widespread to do so (or something along those lines). maybe it was an older article. glad to know he's doing something about it though.
yep. that's exactly what i had in mind. i've heard a radio program perform this. freaking hilarious.
Isn't that the whole point? I don't want robots that can develop personality problems... If I want that, I got the devices (Well I need a female too!) to make my OWN little humans, that will probably develop more than their fair share of personality problems.
No crap. We can't even provide health care for humans properly. What will happen when robots start developing problems like S.A.D. and require antidepressants?
And what's the point of having robots who need to develop skills? like her whole domestic vs. miner robots. stupid. she's lost sight of what robots should do, and she just wants to live in a cool Sci-Fi movie.
Here's more detail:
/. material. This... this is just talking Meat.
In the 80s, (after graduating from Tufts University in child development...
You mean she isn't an IRC bot? I'm so disappointed. That would have been
What's your point about Calvin & Hobbes? Is it the "pissing Calvin" stickers that seem to adorn every pickup truck in the U.S.A.? That is a violation as far as I understand, and as far as the creator of C&H is concerned, but he doesn't give a rats ass aparently. Imagine a sticker of Mickey Mouse pissing on things. Disney would be up in arms over that. Disney wouldn't let me make an exact duplicate or a derivitive work of Mickey. Why is this any different?
Some people re-install once a year, but if you're anything like me your machine is formatted at least a month.
No, we're not like you. Why waste time re-installing the same crap every month?
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The next "Ask Slashdot", Don't you have anything better to do?
CON: ...
Lack of traditional support Office suites typically do not require much vendor support, but the fact that OpenOffice.org is an open-source project means software support must come from the community, generally spread out across various Web sites and newsgroups.
Ok, so tell me again why the guy was thinking about switching from MS to OO? Oh yeah, "Benincasa is looking to upgrade because Microsoft has discontinued distribution of new licenses for Office 2000 and Office 97"
So MS won't support what they deem "old" products at all, and that isn't listed as a "Con" for them. Yet distributed, widely available support is a "Con" for OO?
And in the "Con" for MS high licensing costs, it doesn't mention that these will be recurring costs, at the whim of Microsoft and their End of Life policies.
Oh yeah, well I have an XML toothbrush. Neener neener on you Chandelier people.
so if you brush in the morning, but don't close out the day by brushing at night, your day is invalid?
Mod me down if you must... [snip]
You hear him. Mods, get at it!
Seriously though, screw MS-Windows functionality. In Outlook it sometimes freezes for a minute if I make a quick mouse movement and click on a menu. It feels like it's pondering which button I really wanted to click on, almost as though the click event happened in two different widgets. And after a minute of what I can only believe is highly intelligent AI computations, it finally determines that I wanted to click on "View" instead of the printer icon.
Now the quality of the GUI is arguable. It's widely known, and while that's not all it has going for itself, I feel it's the bigest reason why people continue to use new iterations of MS products. If the computer illiterate has to do anything other than their repetitious task, they won't know what to do (i mean, the structure of menus within menus leading to dialog windows isn't obvious). But this mostly comes down to the fact that the typical users don't ever read the documentation or bother with the help system.
So what's my point... I guess that it is this. We do need a consistent Look and Feel in Linux, that is atleast superficially similar to other popular GUI's, but in functionality (average response time..etc) it should surpass those other GUI's. Arguably we have this already through "themes", though maybe not completely (GTK, QT, TK, Swing, etc all look different).
What I fear is that a lot of that IPO money will probably end up in marketting, causing Lindows to be the first Linux introduction to many people. I don't know a lot about Lindows but I doubt it is up to large scale scrutiny. A bad distro + MS-FUD could do some big damage to public perception of Linux.
sort of off-topic, what's the warranty on Apple products like the iPod? more than 90 days? a longer warranty would tell me that they believe it's a better product, and are not just marketting it as a better product. if companies don't trust their engineering to more than 90 days, why should i?
and your MP3 CD player is about 3-4 times the size of my Karma. Which, for the record, won't skip when dropped several feet. I found this out the hard way.
That sounds like the easy way to find out. All you do is let go of it, and hear if it skips.
The hard way would surely involve differential equations or a computer simulation on a beowulf cluster.
Time to upgrade the Heatsink of Earth, maybe go with a Heatpipe and a couple of huge fans?
:)
you mean trees? they offer nice shade keeping the ground perfectly cool below them, as well as more surface area that allows heat freely move between the earth, themselves and the atmosphere.
just kidding... unless modded insightful
well at some point you probably have to have real life security. maybe that means a certified, then locked in a vault until voting day computer, or a computer that boots from a trusted source like a certified and locked in a vault until voting day bootable cdrom. i dunno... i just think there has to be human security checks as well as technological security checks. you can't rely only on one.
People buy toasters when their old one breaks. They dont rush out to buy a 5% faster "upgraded" toaster just because it's there.
Obviously your toaster doesn't run and depend on Java...
Well basically I think some new application that couples FTP or similar protocol to email in a way transparent to the user would be nice.
...logistical obstacles abound, I'm sure, but I think we should always be looking for a better way to do things. huge attachments in email impacts things it shouldn't need to impact. The most obvious would be waiting for such an attachment before downloading the rest of your mail.
This doesn't necesitate a user setting up an FTP server on their machine, although I imagine they could do it. If it would benefit an ISP to provide such an email attachment FTP server (instead of allowing attachments directly in email) in terms of mail server load, then I could see them offering the service of hosting such an file transfer server. A requirement on the recipient might be that they need to save that file to their disk within a certain time period after which the file server deletes it.
email attachments, especially binary attachments, don't need to increase in size. they need to be reduced. use something intended to be a File Transfer Protocol.
FFS, minus the infrequent emergency use of cellphones on airplanes, please keep them out. All i need is that group of kids on my plane to be talking insanely loud to their friends on their cellphones. We've made out well without cellphones on airplanes for several decades of flying. we don't need them now.
It's just a matter of time before the cellphone companies make cellphones somehow work on the subways. It's going to be so damn annoying the day that happens.
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