The entertainment industry as a whole wakes up fom their weird unrealistic dream world they live in to see the real picture. Their method of tackling the problem (lawsuits, cease and disist, etc.) will not work on the internet generation. The internet genration is not happy. If they were happy with the way things are now, you wouldn't have this big problem. If they keep this up, they might realise they'll run out of money when people start to realise how igorant they really are and start to seek other free methods of entertainment.
This goes beyond just the music industry. The problem is that other industries can't keep up with the web generation. They remind me of the old businessmen of a age long past in dusty rooms with little light. As the saying goes, "they are stuck in the dark ages".
You not going to here me say " wants to be free" that may be true (or not true), but we are going to start seeing 1 source for content. For example, take a look at the Olympics. Here in the US, only 1 station can broudcast the Olympics because they bought the exclusive rights to it! What happens? We get cheesy commentator talking about 1 type of sport instead of seeing all the different sports. We fall victim to their ideas. We know what you want to se, so we'll show you this one sport. Are we having fun yet? No.
What does the olympics have to with Napster? A lot in the general sense. The Olypics is an example of what happens when the "big people" control all the sources of a particular medium. In this case it's the Olympics, and in Napsters case its music. The "big people" of the music industry don't want you to know what you are buying when you buy music. They want you to buy it and have it whether you like it or not. They don't want you to be able to easily list to your music on devices that are small and easily carried around in a shirt pocket. When was the last time you carried around a cd play in your shirt pocket? They want to control the distribution of the medium.
As for artists, like a cetain drumer of a has been band, they just want money and more money. Their limited intelligence has not grasp the potential of this new medium. They could release MP3s of songs they have just recorded for an album on the internet before they leave the studio. What will this do? For one, wet the appetite of a fan or new fan for the new album. Two, they could get feed back from fans on the song. They could fine tune it because the song may not live up to what the artist(s) is capable of producing.
These are just 2 idea of what is an unlimited horizen that coul be blocked if Napster loses. I am sick of the entertainment industry as a whole. Face it they have warped view of reality in general. They cry about making on a few million dollars per episode of a tv show or per album. Well, we could fight back. A lot of us work for companies in which we don't really see any more income from the product once we are done programming (or what ever). how about we start doing the same thing. Let's make cost of cathedral software sky rocket. It would make the consumers turn to open source.
Here's what I have to say to the entertainment industry: "Grow up, and come out of that little world you live in! Get a clue. You're taking the wrong approach to internet! You can't stop it. You can redirect it's course."
Don't forget to add the cost of the external drive and any other non-standard iMac equipment that the rest of us consider standard. Not to mention 2 500MHz processors on some Apple machines? Will te software recognise that? I sure after you purchased everything you wanted (like extern writeable medium and a RW-CDROM drive) you come above $1200. I think the all purpose external writeable drive is $200 to $500, but I don't know for certain because I have no intension of buy an iMac when I can build my own pc. Remember the iMac is really just a big, pretty paper weight.:)
Then you have PC processors aroung the GHz range. Mortorola hasn't even come close to that. Last I heard, their processors top out around 700MHz. Why didn't Apple use 2 of those? Apple has to do something, or this could be there last stand.
Now, watch the flames from all who have been lead astray from the path to worshipers the Apple!
From the little information I have, CERN was started about 1976. Work On ARPANET began in the 60's, and in 1970, the first publication of the Host to Host protocol was published. Later, that year, there was the "[f]irst cross-country link installed by AT&T between UCLA and BBN at 56kbps. This line is later replaced by another between BBN and RAND. A second line is added between MIT and Utah" (Hobbes' Internet Timeline). According to this, CERNET was around in 1976ish. In 1971, ARPANET had 15 node and 23 hosts. The WWW is only a subset of the internet. While I can't disprove the CERN claim of WWW, I do know WWW did not take off until you had browsers. That is all I know, and I admit it isn't much.
Do we REALLY want scientist creating black holes on Earth? Look at all the problem in the past that were cause because we didn't understand something completely!!! We'd be asking for trouble!
Based on the numbers given in the article, Gravitational Attraction can be represented as:
Ga = (L)^-(d-1) GA = Gravitaitonal Atraction L = reduction Amount d = the dimension (reduction amount to the power of the dimension minus 1 negated)
If you were to reduce the distance of 2 objects in the seventh dimension by half, the attraction becomes 64. That a lot of gravity. It would be interesting if they could prove this, but would there be any real change in our lives? This is just my simple formula based on the limited information from the article.
What's with the Login with a password at openoffice.org? I think this may come dwn after the 10/13/2000 release date? I hope so. What would be the point of GPLing the Star Office if only a select fiew can get to it?! Wonder what MS thought when they heard that?
The real quesiton is when are we going to put this on Linux/UNIX? We can't have software starting out on Windoze. That's just not heard of...well ok sort of...
I only see this as a problem with price comparison lists. Some of those lists are picky now. I've seen them favor one product over another simply by not including a product because the product competes with some form of finacial income of the company producing the list.
Let say Company A, selling widgets A & B, tells Yahoo, "I don't want you searching here", and they tell Lycos, "You can search here". If you don't use a metabrowser, this would effect you. I use metabroswers that go to search engines and compile the lists from them. This makes more sense to me. That way I should get Company A's web site from Lycos if it matches my specifications with a high enough score to make the count of total items I want. In reality, that is what I want when I use a search engine. I want the matchs sorted in the relation to the score, and not by the location they came from whether it was a search engine or something else. I use programs like Copernic 2000 and Web Ferret for such purposes.
In short, if you are using a good metabrowser, it will not be relevant whether Company A is listed in Yahoo. You should get is from Lycos if it makes the grade and your meta browser looks at Lycos. If the metabrowser doesn't support Lycos, then Company A may not get me as a customer. That would reflect bad planning on their part, and it would their responcibility to change the situation.
I don't do much shopping on the net, but I can see how this could upset the people that use the net for price comparison.
You have to remember, there is not much interest on the part of the people involved in the supplying of the oil. The oil producing countries don't want America to stop buying from them. The Oil/Gas companies certainly don't want us to stop.
There is a HUGE mark up on the price of gas/oil before it hits the US consumer. The Oil/gas companies could have swallowed up the latest price increases easily, and they still would have made a profit. They could have said "Hey we'll swallow this cost so you, the consumer, don't have to", but noooo. They want to fill there fat bellies with money.
Look at the technology. The idea of a conbustion engine is old. Sure we get better mileage, but nothing better has been produced! They don't want it to. Again, it would cut into their profit margin!
Sure, they say they are working on "clean" fuel, but really? I doubt it. As for natural gas, that wouldn't be much better. They supply of that is also limited. We need to develop methods of travelinf long distances that are not based on fossil fuels. The new sources should be renewable. One comparison, would be all of us "time sharing" on one of those huge computers that took up a room, from back in the beginning, only because the people charging us with the time sharing fees would lose money. (BTW, according to MS's idea...we should head back to that. Only, It's going to be on the Internet.)
What I heard has lead me to beleive that you can also compile C and C++ with Kylix. That would the best thing about it. I know pascal, C, and C++, and it shouldn't be too difficult to pickup on the variations in Delphi--especially now that there are books on it. Now that JBuilder will be supported on the Mac OS X, they might port the other tools (like C++Builder and Delphi) too, but that is just speculation. It would be nice to write a C++ program on Linux and have it compile (and run) on WinNT/Win9x and Mac OS X all at once. Support 3 platforms with the development of only 1. Their venture into the UNIX world began with JBuilder on Solaris. I think this is the case because they made JBuilder 3 Enterprise, Solaris Edition available via the web on 10/19/1999. I may be wrong about some of this. I think they are heading in the right direction! I look forward to thier future.
>> Who knows what black box projects are going on and what they are doing.
> Uh, don't you mean "black ops"?
No not really, but I should probably explain it for the intellectually challenged. "[B]lack ops" would refer to an operation. A Black box project refers to a project that may or may not contain operations. The project I am refering to contained both. Research and people actually using it.
And Sun Workstations were? Just curious. I don't see anything revolutionary about Mac OS X. Apple took some free stuff, glued them together, had some graphics artists come up with a new look and presto...a "new" os.
My guess is the person is an Apple whorshiper that follows blindly.
Who says that can't happen here in America. Bill Clinton does it. Remember that little thing about hiring a detective? Who knows what black box projects are going on and what they are doing. Hell, the US & Russian governments don't need to use electronics. They have other means. In the US, one such project was "StarGate"-- I am not sure if I have the name correct. The US government you trained military to remotely view places in the world from well within the US borders.
For all we know, Bill Clinton has a mega database with all our names in it, or was that Bill Gates.;)
My guess is they are building a database of all information they can get there hands on. If you check the web site, they are looking for people with database developers with experience. From the web page:
"You must be a professional and able to communicate on all levels of business. Technical skills are Internet and RDBMS technologies, including XML, C++, UNIX, client-server applications, RDBMS applications, middleware applications, and 3-tiered architectures. Experience with schema design and deployment, application development, and database tuning desired, in an Oracle 8 and Oracle 8i environment. "
I don't like the sound of them operating in "stealth mode". Their could be some privacy issues that they might be violating. I wonder what they do when they don't find a firewall or other security protection. I think they need to come clean sooner rather than later.
Another possibilty is they may be trying to map the most efficient ways to get from point a to point b at certain times. The way it is described, it seems that this could be used to build a map of the web itself. I don't know what they would use it for. If you put all the information you'd get from this into a database, you can easily start to analise the patterns.
Either way, I don't like it. I won't like it until they come clean. Maybe this is another Microsoft company try to get info on us.;)
The following quotes have been take from the FIN leaflet.
The first bullet says, "The FIN is a non-partisan effort,...". Ok, so it's non-partisan. If it really was non-partisan, you'd think they wouldn't have to stress that first.
Given that it is non-partisan, the second bullet says, "The FIN is open to all Microsoft customers, shareholders, employees, alumni, and partners....". Interesting, is this non-partisan effort is only open to Microsoft supporters? Not according to what they list here.
Hmm... ok, this is just more MS BS, but I have an idea. We could all send it in with all three options check. In the last check box we could write in "support Linux in all ways above Microsoft products". According to there own information, it is non-partisan, so we should be able to do that.;) What do you think they'd do if they received a lot of these sign ups?
Heck, why don't they just get it over with and sue everybody, every company, and every organization in the world? It could probably be proven that they are guilty in some way or form. This is getting REAL stupid. If they drop the price of tickets and concerts alnog with selling cheap mp3 cds, they would probably elliminate the problem, but NOOOO that would be to obvious. We REALLY MUST KEEP THE LAWYERS ABILITY TO BY BMWs and JAGs.
In classical music, the space between samples can mean a world of difference in the music. You average pop, rock, or even rap is usually uneffected by the space between samples. Note, I am not saying it is not effected by it. I am only saying is usually doesn't make a difference. Most people do not notice the difference, but a lot of musicians can. (This doesn't include the rap, rock, and pop musicians who don't know what a music staff is--though they might be able to pick up some differences if they are very good at "playing by ear".)
As for developing skips, that's nothing a unfortunate scatch can prevent.
Maybe I should have more clear. I was refering to the number of samples taken per a given time period in compared to a continuously streamed recording. Subtle details that don't make it to the final listener. These details really only become evident in classical music. I remember reading about it a long time ago. I think it may apply more to the cd players, but it was a long time ago. you are approaching it from a different angle than I am.
Most CDs use sampling. This is fine for most popular music formas but there can be a difference in the quality for classical music (and other music forms that can have intricate sounds). In that aspect the tapes we used to buy were better. CDs just last longer, easy to navigate from song to song, and were cheaper to make (thus increasing the profit margin for the greedy companies). I would hope they would aim for better than CD quality.
Along with the many "so called" befits this new advance is supposed to bring will come new ways to discriminate. Imagine not being able to get lifeinsurance or health insurance when you are 20 because they determined you have a genetic disease. Then, of course, you have the genetic databases that will eventually be built. Eventually, they will try and link behavior to your genetic profile, and this will incourage more databases and more discimination.
The future looks like so much fun! ------------------------- I wish vacations were longer. A time machine would definately be handy right now.
When did you first realise this? They Have had this patent for a while. Did somebody bump their head one day and realise they "invented" this idea? Get real. My best guess is that Brit-T was jealose of an American inventing the phone--an American I might add who was born in Scottland. I think They are just jealose of the technological advances that American Telephone companies have made. They just want to say..."Me TOO!".
This is utterly stupid. Why aren't they going after other countries--including their own. Why us? Time for another "Boston Tea Party"? This time we could all wear crowns and try and be the royal family!
I think I might have to go back to stop reading the news. It makes me sick to think companies will try this! Below is a letter of the future:
!
That will be all we have left to say if these stupid patents are allowed to continue!!
If I remember correctly, pdf is smaller than html. Doesn't it also keep the images too? Can anyone verify this? I know they are extremely small documents.
Slashdot Mirror
The entertainment industry as a whole wakes up fom their weird unrealistic dream world they live in to see the real picture. Their method of tackling the problem (lawsuits, cease and disist, etc.) will not work on the internet generation. The internet genration is not happy. If they were happy with the way things are now, you wouldn't have this big problem.
If they keep this up, they might realise they'll run out of money when people start to realise how igorant they really are and start to seek other free methods of entertainment.
This goes beyond just the music industry. The problem is that other industries can't keep up with the web generation. They remind me of the old businessmen of a age long past in dusty rooms with little light. As the saying goes, "they are stuck in the dark ages".
You not going to here me say " wants to be free" that may be true (or not true), but we are going to start seeing 1 source for content. For example, take a look at the Olympics. Here in the US, only 1 station can broudcast the Olympics because they bought the exclusive rights to it! What happens? We get cheesy commentator talking about 1 type of sport instead of seeing all the different sports. We fall victim to their ideas. We know what you want to se, so we'll show you this one sport. Are we having fun yet? No.
What does the olympics have to with Napster? A lot in the general sense. The Olypics is an example of what happens when the "big people" control all the sources of a particular medium. In this case it's the Olympics, and in Napsters case its music. The "big people" of the music industry don't want you to know what you are buying when you buy music. They want you to buy it and have it whether you like it or not. They don't want you to be able to easily list to your music on devices that are small and easily carried around in a shirt pocket. When was the last time you carried around a cd play in your shirt pocket? They want to control the distribution of the medium.
As for artists, like a cetain drumer of a has been band, they just want money and more money. Their limited intelligence has not grasp the potential of this new medium. They could release MP3s of songs they have just recorded for an album on the internet before they leave the studio. What will this do? For one, wet the appetite of a fan or new fan for the new album. Two, they could get feed back from fans on the song. They could fine tune it because the song may not live up to what the artist(s) is capable of producing.
These are just 2 idea of what is an unlimited horizen that coul be blocked if Napster loses. I am sick of the entertainment industry as a whole. Face it they have warped view of reality in general. They cry about making on a few million dollars per episode of a tv show or per album. Well, we could fight back. A lot of us work for companies in which we don't really see any more income from the product once we are done programming (or what ever). how about we start doing the same thing. Let's make cost of cathedral software sky rocket. It would make the consumers turn to open source.
Here's what I have to say to the entertainment industry: "Grow up, and come out of that little world you live in! Get a clue. You're taking the wrong approach to internet! You can't stop it. You can redirect it's course."
>iMac: ~$799
:)
Don't forget to add the cost of the external drive and any other non-standard iMac equipment that the rest of us consider standard. Not to mention 2 500MHz processors on some Apple machines? Will te software recognise that? I sure after you purchased everything you wanted (like extern writeable medium and a RW-CDROM drive) you come above $1200. I think the all purpose external writeable drive is $200 to $500, but I don't know for certain because I have no intension of buy an iMac when I can build my own pc. Remember the iMac is really just a big, pretty paper weight.
Then you have PC processors aroung the GHz range. Mortorola hasn't even come close to that. Last I heard, their processors top out around 700MHz. Why didn't Apple use 2 of those? Apple has to do something, or this could be there last stand.
Now, watch the flames from all who have been lead astray from the path to worshipers the Apple!
From the little information I have, CERN was started about 1976. Work On ARPANET began in the 60's, and in 1970, the first publication of the Host to Host protocol was published. Later, that year, there was the "[f]irst cross-country link installed by AT&T between UCLA and BBN at 56kbps. This line is later replaced by another between BBN and RAND. A second line is added between MIT and Utah" (Hobbes' Internet Timeline). According to this, CERNET was around in 1976ish. In 1971, ARPANET had 15 node and 23 hosts. The WWW is only a subset of the internet. While I can't disprove the CERN claim of WWW, I do know WWW did not take off until you had browsers. That is all I know, and I admit it isn't much.
Do we REALLY want scientist creating black holes on Earth? Look at all the problem in the past that were cause because we didn't understand something completely!!! We'd be asking for trouble!
Based on the numbers given in the article, Gravitational Attraction can be represented as:
Ga = (L)^-(d-1)
GA = Gravitaitonal Atraction
L = reduction Amount
d = the dimension
(reduction amount to the power of the dimension minus 1 negated)
If you were to reduce the distance of 2 objects in the seventh dimension by half, the attraction becomes 64. That a lot of gravity. It would be interesting if they could prove this, but would there be any real change in our lives? This is just my simple formula based on the limited information from the article.
What's with the Login with a password at openoffice.org? I think this may come dwn after the 10/13/2000 release date? I hope so. What would be the point of GPLing the Star Office if only a select fiew can get to it?! Wonder what MS thought when they heard that?
Are any of the software items covered under EULA derivatives of a GPL type liscence? In that case I think they'd have a hard time enforcing the EULA.
The real quesiton is when are we going to put this on Linux/UNIX? We can't have software starting out on Windoze. That's just not heard of...well ok sort of...
I only see this as a problem with price comparison lists. Some of those lists are picky now. I've seen them favor one product over another simply by not including a product because the product competes with some form of finacial income of the company producing the list.
Let say Company A, selling widgets A & B, tells Yahoo, "I don't want you searching here", and they tell Lycos, "You can search here". If you don't use a metabrowser, this would effect you. I use metabroswers that go to search engines and compile the lists from them. This makes more sense to me. That way I should get Company A's web site from Lycos if it matches my specifications with a high enough score to make the count of total items I want. In reality, that is what I want when I use a search engine. I want the matchs sorted in the relation to the score, and not by the location they came from whether it was a search engine or something else. I use programs like Copernic 2000 and Web Ferret for such purposes.
In short, if you are using a good metabrowser, it will not be relevant whether Company A is listed in Yahoo. You should get is from Lycos if it makes the grade and your meta browser looks at Lycos. If the metabrowser doesn't support Lycos, then Company A may not get me as a customer. That would reflect bad planning on their part, and it would their responcibility to change the situation.
I don't do much shopping on the net, but I can see how this could upset the people that use the net for price comparison.
You have to remember, there is not much interest on the part of the people involved in the supplying of the oil. The oil producing countries don't want America to stop buying from them. The Oil/Gas companies certainly don't want us to stop.
There is a HUGE mark up on the price of gas/oil before it hits the US consumer. The Oil/gas companies could have swallowed up the latest price increases easily, and they still would have made a profit. They could have said "Hey we'll swallow this cost so you, the consumer, don't have to", but noooo. They want to fill there fat bellies with money.
Look at the technology. The idea of a conbustion engine is old. Sure we get better mileage, but nothing better has been produced! They don't want it to. Again, it would cut into their profit margin!
Sure, they say they are working on "clean" fuel, but really? I doubt it. As for natural gas, that wouldn't be much better. They supply of that is also limited. We need to develop methods of travelinf long distances that are not based on fossil fuels. The new sources should be renewable. One comparison, would be all of us "time sharing" on one of those huge computers that took up a room, from back in the beginning, only because the people charging us with the time sharing fees would lose money. (BTW, according to MS's idea...we should head back to that. Only, It's going to be on the Internet.)
What I heard has lead me to beleive that you can also compile C and C++ with Kylix. That would the best thing about it. I know pascal, C, and C++, and it shouldn't be too difficult to pickup on the variations in Delphi--especially now that there are books on it.
Now that JBuilder will be supported on the Mac OS X, they might port the other tools (like C++Builder and Delphi) too, but that is just speculation. It would be nice to write a C++ program on Linux and have it compile (and run) on WinNT/Win9x and Mac OS X all at once. Support 3 platforms with the development of only 1.
Their venture into the UNIX world began with JBuilder on Solaris. I think this is the case because they made JBuilder 3 Enterprise, Solaris Edition available via the web on 10/19/1999. I may be wrong about some of this. I think they are heading in the right direction! I look forward to thier future.
>> Who knows what black box projects are going on and what they are doing.
> Uh, don't you mean "black ops"?
No not really, but I should probably explain it for the intellectually challenged. "[B]lack ops" would refer to an operation. A Black box project refers to a project that may or may not contain operations. The project I am refering to contained both. Research and people actually using it.
And Sun Workstations were? Just curious. I don't see anything revolutionary about Mac OS X. Apple took some free stuff, glued them together, had some graphics artists come up with a new look and presto...a "new" os.
My guess is the person is an Apple whorshiper that follows blindly.
Who says that can't happen here in America. Bill Clinton does it. Remember that little thing about hiring a detective? Who knows what black box projects are going on and what they are doing. Hell, the US & Russian governments don't need to use electronics. They have other means. In the US, one such project was "StarGate"-- I am not sure if I have the name correct. The US government you trained military to remotely view places in the world from well within the US borders.
;)
For all we know, Bill Clinton has a mega database with all our names in it, or was that Bill Gates.
My guess is they are building a database of all information they can get there hands on. If you check the web site, they are looking for people with database developers with experience. From the web page:
;)
"You must be a professional and able to communicate on all levels of business. Technical skills are Internet and RDBMS technologies, including XML, C++, UNIX, client-server applications, RDBMS applications, middleware applications, and 3-tiered architectures. Experience with schema design and deployment, application development, and database tuning desired, in an Oracle 8 and Oracle 8i environment. "
I don't like the sound of them operating in "stealth mode". Their could be some privacy issues that they might be violating. I wonder what they do when they don't find a firewall or other security protection. I think they need to come clean sooner rather than later.
Another possibilty is they may be trying to map the most efficient ways to get from point a to point b at certain times. The way it is described, it seems that this could be used to build a map of the web itself. I don't know what they would use it for. If you put all the information you'd get from this into a database, you can easily start to analise the patterns.
Either way, I don't like it. I won't like it until they come clean. Maybe this is another Microsoft company try to get info on us.
The following quotes have been take from the FIN leaflet.
...". Ok, so it's non-partisan. If it really was non-partisan, you'd think they wouldn't have to stress that first.
...". Interesting, is this non-partisan effort is only open to Microsoft supporters? Not according to what they list here.
;) What do you think they'd do if they received a lot of these sign ups?
The first bullet says, "The FIN is a non-partisan effort,
Given that it is non-partisan, the second bullet says, "The FIN is open to all Microsoft customers, shareholders, employees, alumni, and partners.
Hmm... ok, this is just more MS BS, but I have an idea. We could all send it in with all three options check. In the last check box we could write in "support Linux in all ways above Microsoft products". According to there own information, it is non-partisan, so we should be able to do that.
>We REALLY MUST KEEP THE LAWYERS ABILITY TO BY BMWs and JAGs.
:)
should be:
We REALLY MUST KEEP THE LAWYERS ABILITY TO BUY BMWs and JAGs.
They pissed me off so much I mispelled buy.
Heck, why don't they just get it over with and sue everybody, every company, and every organization in the world? It could probably be proven that they are guilty in some way or form. This is getting REAL stupid. If they drop the price of tickets and concerts alnog with selling cheap mp3 cds, they would probably elliminate the problem, but NOOOO that would be to obvious. We REALLY MUST KEEP THE LAWYERS ABILITY TO BY BMWs and JAGs.
Is is too late to start our own world?
In classical music, the space between samples can mean a world of difference in the music. You average pop, rock, or even rap is usually uneffected by the space between samples. Note, I am not saying it is not effected by it. I am only saying is usually doesn't make a difference. Most people do not notice the difference, but a lot of musicians can. (This doesn't include the rap, rock, and pop musicians who don't know what a music staff is--though they might be able to pick up some differences if they are very good at "playing by ear".)
As for developing skips, that's nothing a unfortunate scatch can prevent.
Maybe I should have more clear. I was refering to the number of samples taken per a given time period in compared to a continuously streamed recording. Subtle details that don't make it to the final listener. These details really only become evident in classical music. I remember reading about it a long time ago. I think it may apply more to the cd players, but it was a long time ago. you are approaching it from a different angle than I am.
Most CDs use sampling. This is fine for most popular music formas but there can be a difference in the quality for classical music (and other music forms that can have intricate sounds). In that aspect the tapes we used to buy were better. CDs just last longer, easy to navigate from song to song, and were cheaper to make (thus increasing the profit margin for the greedy companies). I would hope they would aim for better than CD quality.
Along with the many "so called" befits this new advance is supposed to bring will come new ways to discriminate. Imagine not being able to get lifeinsurance or health insurance when you are 20 because they determined you have a genetic disease. Then, of course, you have the genetic databases that will eventually be built. Eventually, they will try and link behavior to your genetic profile, and this will incourage more databases and more discimination.
The future looks like so much fun!
-------------------------
I wish vacations were longer. A time machine would definately be handy right now.
When did you first realise this? They Have had this patent for a while. Did somebody bump their head one day and realise they "invented" this idea? Get real. My best guess is that Brit-T was jealose of an American inventing the phone--an American I might add who was born in Scottland. I think They are just jealose of the technological advances that American Telephone companies have made. They just want to say..."Me TOO!".
This is utterly stupid. Why aren't they going after other countries--including their own. Why us? Time for another "Boston Tea Party"? This time we could all wear crowns and try and be the royal family!
I think I might have to go back to stop reading the news. It makes me sick to think companies will try this! Below is a letter of the future:
!
That will be all we have left to say if these stupid patents are allowed to continue!!
If I remember correctly, pdf is smaller than html. Doesn't it also keep the images too? Can anyone verify this? I know they are extremely small documents.