Apple spent time and money to make the files only play on their players, and Real is trying to use the files without permission.
I think you are misinformed. Real isn't worried about being sued because Real made iTunes music playable on some non-existant Real MP3 player. Real is worried about being sued because they came up with a way to have Real's DRM music playable on the iPod.
As far as I know, there aren't any operations within the US. No matter where you are from, you pay a foreign entity in Euros. Unless you mean that the FCC can issue orders to ISPs to block Skype IP packets. Which is not exactly trivial.
combine negative information and positive information to produce a huge explosion.
To a certain extent, would that be like when pro-life and pro-choice people meet -- a huge explosion? Or Republicrats and Democans? Or Windows- and Linux-zealots?
The idea is, because the sun rises and sets and different times throughout the year, DST seeks to minimise the amount of darkness hours that the average human is awake.
Regardless of whether the sun sets at 7 or 8 pm, you will still be going to bed at the same time. Thus, you will be using electricity to keep your lights on for an additional one whole hour if the sun sets at 7pm. Thus, with DST, the sun will set at 8pm at that time of the year, and therefore you will not need to power the light bulbs that extra hour.
I think the GP's point was that there is no such thing as "sustainable resource consuption", and that eventually the resources will be exhausted. Why try to prolong the Earth's life for 50 years or so when we won't even live to see that time period anyway?
I speak rhetorically, as I'm all for a little conservation.
To add one more camera to the list, my Canon ZR60 purchased for 500 USD a year and a half ago hass video pass-through. I frequently play old home movies from their tape, through my MiniDV and then, via IEEE 1394, to my computer.
atheistic, rabid Slashdot privacy fanatics atheists and agnostic pro-privacy people athiest privacy advocates
You don't have to be athiest or agnostic to be pro-privacy. I'm quite sure there are Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and other religious practitioners that are too numerous to list who are pro-privacy.
You don't think the "religious fundis" are really trying to uphold their faith, do you? No. It's all about power, and as soon as their faith won't help them gain more control over the citizens, they'll dump God in favor of the technology that will benefit them.
I'm going to go out on a limb and post something inflammatory, karma be damned.
If someone doesn't have the balls to say what they believe, they don't belong in this world. Last I checked, you needed to be able to voice your opinion in the real world.
If someone is afraid of being ridiculed, they don't belong in this world. Last I checked, in the real world, people were ridiculed for being wrong on a regular basis.
It's a fact of life, and the sooner people learn to deal with it, the better. I have read some stories about these clickers being used on college campuses. College campuses? What the fuck business does someone have in college if they're so afraid of being wrong that they'll take not learning over being ridiculed? Shoot those motherfuckers before they ruin the world anymore.
God, I'm so sick of society coddling people to the point where they can't handle life.
However, if they sold enough of both systems due to people buying both 360 and 360.5, then they could charge higher licensing fees because "look how many consoles are out there!!!"
Interestingly enough, and partially on topic;) the Richter scale is not used in Japan. Instead, they use the shindo (lit. "shake degree") scale. There is no 8.5 on this scale, as it only goes to 7.
The problem is that most of the phone lines in this country were laid with government money. The company built the infrastructure with taxpayer money. Thus, it's not the infrastructure they built all alone. It's infrastructure your grandparents built through taxes.
Azureus has a setting for blocking peers who send above a certain threshold of bad packets. Your technique would fail on BT. I don't know about eD2K and such.
Actually, you can buy Utada Hikaru in America, since she has an English album here (she is an American, after all).
I just couldn't resist plugging an excellent CD. The singles are horrible and make you feel guilty for listening to them, but there are some real odd songs on the album that are just aurally amazing (everyone should listen to Kremlin Dusk at least once in their life).
I would suggest Tokyo Jihen and Sogabe Keiichi actually, if you're looking for some good, recent Japanese music. But that's neither here nor there on/.
It's simple. I have the answer in a hidden bank account in Nigeria, but Prince MBUTU Nirobe cannot transfer you the answer until you forward USD 1000 as an offer of good faith, and to establish a business relationship...
i would like to donate to the eff, except i don't want to be put on a list of terrorists.
If you truly feel that way, you're not only a tinfoil guy, but an un-fucking-believable moron. Good God, are people really witholding money for reasons as inane as that?!?
Your analogy is flawed. If you want an accurate one, A carpenter makes a chair and sells it to A. A sells it to B. OK.
A musician makes a CD and sells it to A. A sells the CD to B. OK.
Contrast this with
A musician makes a CD and sells it to A. A makes a copy and sells it to B. Infringement.
A carpenter makes a chair and sells it to A. A makes a copy of the chair through some sort of future "copying machine". Infringement? It will be interesting to see what happens with intellectual property when we have machines that can make identical copies of everything we possess.
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Apple spent time and money to make the files only play on their players, and Real is trying to use the files without permission.
I think you are misinformed. Real isn't worried about being sued because Real made iTunes music playable on some non-existant Real MP3 player. Real is worried about being sued because they came up with a way to have Real's DRM music playable on the iPod.
Ah, but they are not the same sentence. One has "the" inserted before "Wikipedia":
Not every site that runs MediaWiki is the Wikipedia.
not every site running MediaWiki is WIkipedia.
As far as I know, there aren't any operations within the US. No matter where you are from, you pay a foreign entity in Euros. Unless you mean that the FCC can issue orders to ISPs to block Skype IP packets. Which is not exactly trivial.
Google is completely retarded on this one. All Cnet wrote was his income, the town he lives in, and one of his hobbies.
Isn't that what people do on a regular basis with Bill Gates and Steve Jobs? I fail to see why the CEO should have his panties in a bunch.
That would mean that the new GPL will be out just in time for Richard Stallman's next bath!
Wait. That does not compute. I thought the unwashed masses were people who didn't use Linux.
combine negative information and positive information to produce a huge explosion.
To a certain extent, would that be like when pro-life and pro-choice people meet -- a huge explosion? Or Republicrats and Democans? Or Windows- and Linux-zealots?
The idea is, because the sun rises and sets and different times throughout the year, DST seeks to minimise the amount of darkness hours that the average human is awake.
Regardless of whether the sun sets at 7 or 8 pm, you will still be going to bed at the same time. Thus, you will be using electricity to keep your lights on for an additional one whole hour if the sun sets at 7pm. Thus, with DST, the sun will set at 8pm at that time of the year, and therefore you will not need to power the light bulbs that extra hour.
I think the GP's point was that there is no such thing as "sustainable resource consuption", and that eventually the resources will be exhausted. Why try to prolong the Earth's life for 50 years or so when we won't even live to see that time period anyway?
I speak rhetorically, as I'm all for a little conservation.
So said the guy who runs two computers 24/7.
This is the most informative post I've read in over a week.
To add one more camera to the list, my Canon ZR60 purchased for 500 USD a year and a half ago hass video pass-through. I frequently play old home movies from their tape, through my MiniDV and then, via IEEE 1394, to my computer.
atheistic, rabid Slashdot privacy fanatics
atheists and agnostic pro-privacy people
athiest privacy advocates
You don't have to be athiest or agnostic to be pro-privacy. I'm quite sure there are Christians, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and other religious practitioners that are too numerous to list who are pro-privacy.
Could you imagine a Beowolf Cluster of Humans?
And just about 1100 years too late. If you added cloning to the mix, you could have a Beowulf cluster of Beowulfs!
Duh.
You don't think the "religious fundis" are really trying to uphold their faith, do you? No. It's all about power, and as soon as their faith won't help them gain more control over the citizens, they'll dump God in favor of the technology that will benefit them.
I'm going to go out on a limb and post something inflammatory, karma be damned.
If someone doesn't have the balls to say what they believe, they don't belong in this world. Last I checked, you needed to be able to voice your opinion in the real world.
If someone is afraid of being ridiculed, they don't belong in this world. Last I checked, in the real world, people were ridiculed for being wrong on a regular basis.
It's a fact of life, and the sooner people learn to deal with it, the better. I have read some stories about these clickers being used on college campuses. College campuses? What the fuck business does someone have in college if they're so afraid of being wrong that they'll take not learning over being ridiculed? Shoot those motherfuckers before they ruin the world anymore.
God, I'm so sick of society coddling people to the point where they can't handle life.
However, if they sold enough of both systems due to people buying both 360 and 360.5, then they could charge higher licensing fees because "look how many consoles are out there!!!"
Interestingly enough, and partially on topic ;)
the Richter scale is not used in Japan. Instead, they use the shindo (lit. "shake degree") scale. There is no 8.5 on this scale, as it only goes to 7.
The problem is that most of the phone lines in this country were laid with government money. The company built the infrastructure with taxpayer money. Thus, it's not the infrastructure they built all alone. It's infrastructure your grandparents built through taxes.
Azureus has a setting for blocking peers who send above a certain threshold of bad packets. Your technique would fail on BT. I don't know about eD2K and such.
Actually, you can buy Utada Hikaru in America, since she has an English album here (she is an American, after all).
/.
I just couldn't resist plugging an excellent CD. The singles are horrible and make you feel guilty for listening to them, but there are some real odd songs on the album that are just aurally amazing (everyone should listen to Kremlin Dusk at least once in their life).
I would suggest Tokyo Jihen and Sogabe Keiichi actually, if you're looking for some good, recent Japanese music. But that's neither here nor there on
It's simple. I have the answer in a hidden bank account in Nigeria, but Prince MBUTU Nirobe cannot transfer you the answer until you forward USD 1000 as an offer of good faith, and to establish a business relationship...
There's a word for people like you: a useful idiot.
;)
Actually, that's three words, but who's counting
i would like to donate to the eff, except i don't want to be put on a list of terrorists.
If you truly feel that way, you're not only a tinfoil guy, but an un-fucking-believable moron. Good God, are people really witholding money for reasons as inane as that?!?
Your analogy is flawed. If you want an accurate one,
A carpenter makes a chair and sells it to A. A sells it to B. OK.
A musician makes a CD and sells it to A. A sells the CD to B. OK.
Contrast this with
A musician makes a CD and sells it to A. A makes a copy and sells it to B. Infringement.
A carpenter makes a chair and sells it to A. A makes a copy of the chair through some sort of future "copying machine". Infringement? It will be interesting to see what happens with intellectual property when we have machines that can make identical copies of everything we possess.
...pedophiles out there that the FBI hasn't gotten around to nailing, either.
I don't think the FBI has a chance of nailing pedophiles unless they are a bureau made up of 11-year olds.