Even more extreme is the ADC's in digital hearing adis. I would be really pissed if my digital hearing aid kept turning off every time I tried to listen to copyrighted material.
If you mean liberal in the tree huging, pot smoking, down with the Man and big corporations are taking over the planet
This is not the standard definition of liberal.
If you mean liberal in the classical definition of liberal (bigger goverment controling more of your life to prevent the world from eating your children)
Again, this is not the classic definition of liberal. This particular demonization of liberals really started to occur during the Reagan era, when "liberal" actually started to become a dirty word.
The classic definition of liberal is basically just someone who doesn't agree with the established political or religious philosophy, or who wants more freedom in political and religious matters.
As far as I know a capitol loss can only be used to offset capitol gains...so unless you made money on stock, you can't save taxes with the loss.
This is essentially correct, although you can claim up to $3,000 per year in capital losses against normal income. If your loss is larger, you can carry over the remainder in the next year (and the next year after that until you've claimed it all).
My 9th tee controller works with 2.5. I'm running 2.5.1-01-1-000 and haven't had my tivo plugged into the phone jack for months. Plus, I can telnet to it and copy mpegs from it, so it's obviously working.
A wonderful rant. Too bad it is spoiled by the fact that Susan Wilson was at the press conference, in addition to Angie Harmon and the congresscritter.
More importantly, where does the RIAA get off on expecting other companies to spend money to solve the RIAA's piracy problem? If a company sells products that allow consumers to partake in legal activities, why shouldn't that company be able to advertise those products? More importantly, why does the RIAA seem to think that they should be able to prevent that?
Corruption of high-level officials is certainly a problem, but it is mostly insignificant compared to the impacts of systemic corruption at all levels of a country's bureauocracy, from the traffic cop on up. The report that I cited deals more with the latter than the former. I think that applying "fudge factors" based on a country's relative economic and political might only serves to conceal the real problems.
Here is a color-coded map showing relative levels of corruption in different countries. More specifically, it represents how well the countries' governments control corruption in their country.
In hard data, the US is in the 91st percentile, so it's doing pretty well, although there are other countries that are less corrupt than the US, such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden, etc. Finland has the honor of being the least corrupt country in the world.
The February 28th edition of The Economist had a special report about corruption around the world. It was very interesting reading.
I've never had the signal blocked by people behind me. It must be in the deployment. I've only ever gone to the Cinerama in Seattle, but I saw Episode One there in a packed theater, and I had no trouble with the device (it was the first time I ever used it).
I agree that some hearing people would prefer to see captions even if they don't need them. I know that my wife prefers them on. However, I also know people who don't like the captions. For instance, if I have one friend who has a caption-capable TV. He knows how to turn them on, since he does it whenever I'm over there. However, once I leave, he always turns them off again, which suggests that he'd prefer not to see captions on his programs.
I doubt that you'll ever see permanent captions at the theaters, because marketing people are notoriously scared of trying new things if they think it might alienate their existing customer base.
There's also Rear Window Captioning, which is really cool. You're given a small piece of smoked plexiglass, and a mirror image of the captions is projected and reflected in the glass. You can go to movies with your hearing friends, and they see the uncaptioned movie normally, and you can see the captioned version.
Sadly, not all movies come with RWC (Lord of the Rings:-().
First quote: But future economics will be based on the intangible.
Second quote: you are ultimately destroying jobs... truckers, cashiers, store owners, warehousemen, and so on
So, in this future intangible economy, exactly what are the truckers, cashiers, store owners and warehousmen going to be doing?
The fact is that economic models change. Business that don't change their business models to adapt to changing economic models will go out of business.
If the typewriter industry had the lobbying clout of the entertainment industry, general purpose wordprocessors for computers would not exist, and printers would have a surtax of $1 per DPI capability, adding $600 to the cost of a 600 DPI printer.
It's time for the entertainment industry to change their model or go out of business like the typewriter industry.
You completely missed Stallman's point. He wasn't talking about patenting music or patenting processes that use music as part of the process. He was talking about patenting the techniques that are used to actually create music.
Composers don't just create their compositions out of whole cloth. They borrow techniques and ideas from other composers.
There are many many aspects of a musical composition that are are regularly used by all composers. For example, what if somebody had patented syncopation? Other composers would not be able to use that technique in their pieces. What if somebody had patented the concept of the chorus? What if somebody had patented the guitar riff? The whole punk rock thing would have never happened. What if somebody patented the drum solo? No more drum solos at rock concerts. Actually, that wouldn't be such a bad thing, but you get the idea.
First of all, they're phasing C++ out of the cirriculum in favor of Java.
Why would I care what language is or is not being taught in the curriculum? When I was in university, I was taught Fortran and Pascal in my first year. I was expected to learn any other languages needed for my subsequent courses, which included C, APL and Lisp. At that time, object oriented programming wasn't even part of the curriculum.
A good developer can learn new languages quickly; in fact, I wouldn't feel comfortable hiring a developer who felt that he needed formal training in a language in order to learn it.
Today, I do most of my programming in C++ and Perl, languages that I had no exposure to in university, and I haven't touched Fortran or Pascal since 1987. None of my employers have every seriously thought that I'm not qualified just because I didn't learn those languages in university.
If either of the parties had denied that the emails were valid, then the judge may have ruled differently. However, from what I could tell from the story, neither party denied the authenticity of the email exchanges. Therefor, the judge made a sane ruling and said that the contract was valid.
Have you ever driven over one of those automated traffic counters on the highway? Doesn't it piss you off that some faceless beaurocrat somewhere is spying on your driving trends? I see no difference between what AOL is doing (aggregating anonymous search statistics) and what a traffic counter does (aggregating anonymous vehicle traffic).
It doesn't matter anyway. By Republican logic, it doesn't matter how much you get, it only matters if you got any at all. At least that's the stance they're taking with respect to Enron contributions, where the Republicans got ~70% of the total, but Democrats and Republicans are equally guilty.
What exactly is the phrase "fair and balanced" supposed to imply if it doesn't imply unbiased? Faux News chants that mantra over and over again. As for the idiot Bernie Goldberg, try these URLs for kicks: here, and here. There's plenty more on that site as well. Not that I actually expect a Faux sheep be willing to accept an alternate viewpoint.
Nor did he mention the other Disney-sponsored copyright act, the Sony Bono [R-DeadNow] Copyright Extension Act. Both sides of the aisle have big problems with pandering to media giants.
So on the one hand, we see people on/. rail about the MPAA and RIAA, who are taking protectionist stances because their business model is threatened by digital media. And on the other hand, we see people/. who defend a different industry that is taking protectionist stances because their business model depends on non-free (beer or speech) software.
I don't know what your stand is on the media companies, so your position may be consistent. However, many people hold the position that business models should adapt to the marketplace, not that businesses (RIAA, MPAA, Microsoft) shouldn't be attempting to adapt the marketplace to their business model.
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I wasn't pissed. My cable company raises their prices every 6 months. This is the first price increase I've gotten from Tivo. I just forked over the $200 for the lifetime sub and was done with it.
You would be subject to UK law, which sadly, has even less protection for you. For example, Greg Palast, a respected UK journalist published researched and factual articles in the Observer about Barricks, the gold mining company, and their unsavory activities in Africa, including allegations of murder by Anmesty International.
Barricks successfully sued the paper, so you can't actually read the articles in the UK, even though those same articles are 100% protected by US libel laws.
Actually, I was born in Edmonton, raised in Fort Saskatchewan, Red Deer, and Rimbey, moved back to Edmonton and and lived there for 15 years before moving to Seattle. As for the women, that's where I met my wife, so you should watch your tongue:-)
The only reason I wouldn't move back to Edmonton is because of the cold. Here in Seattle, the magnolia tree in our courtyard started to bud yesterday:-)
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Even more extreme is the ADC's in digital hearing adis. I would be really pissed if my digital hearing aid kept turning off every time I tried to listen to copyrighted material.
Well, yes, but.
The primary POSE developer is employed by Palm, and has access to all PalmOS source, so in the case of POSE, there is no step 1 or 2.
If you mean liberal in the tree huging, pot smoking, down with the Man and big corporations are taking over the planet
This is not the standard definition of liberal.
If you mean liberal in the classical definition of liberal (bigger goverment controling more of your life to prevent the world from eating your children)
Again, this is not the classic definition of liberal. This particular demonization of liberals really started to occur during the Reagan era, when "liberal" actually started to become a dirty word.
The classic definition of liberal is basically just someone who doesn't agree with the established political or religious philosophy, or who wants more freedom in political and religious matters.
As far as I know a capitol loss can only be used to offset capitol gains...so unless you made money on stock, you can't save taxes with the loss.
This is essentially correct, although you can claim up to $3,000 per year in capital losses against normal income. If your loss is larger, you can carry over the remainder in the next year (and the next year after that until you've claimed it all).
My 9th tee controller works with 2.5. I'm running 2.5.1-01-1-000 and haven't had my tivo plugged into the phone jack for months. Plus, I can telnet to it and copy mpegs from it, so it's obviously working.
A wonderful rant. Too bad it is spoiled by the fact that Susan Wilson was at the press conference, in addition to Angie Harmon and the congresscritter.
More importantly, where does the RIAA get off on expecting other companies to spend money to solve the RIAA's piracy problem? If a company sells products that allow consumers to partake in legal activities, why shouldn't that company be able to advertise those products? More importantly, why does the RIAA seem to think that they should be able to prevent that?
Corruption of high-level officials is certainly a problem, but it is mostly insignificant compared to the impacts of systemic corruption at all levels of a country's bureauocracy, from the traffic cop on up. The report that I cited deals more with the latter than the former. I think that applying "fudge factors" based on a country's relative economic and political might only serves to conceal the real problems.
Here is a color-coded map showing relative levels of corruption in different countries. More specifically, it represents how well the countries' governments control corruption in their country.
In hard data, the US is in the 91st percentile, so it's doing pretty well, although there are other countries that are less corrupt than the US, such as Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Sweden, etc. Finland has the honor of being the least corrupt country in the world.
The February 28th edition of The Economist had a special report about corruption around the world. It was very interesting reading.
I've never had the signal blocked by people behind me. It must be in the deployment. I've only ever gone to the Cinerama in Seattle, but I saw Episode One there in a packed theater, and I had no trouble with the device (it was the first time I ever used it).
I agree that some hearing people would prefer to see captions even if they don't need them. I know that my wife prefers them on. However, I also know people who don't like the captions. For instance, if I have one friend who has a caption-capable TV. He knows how to turn them on, since he does it whenever I'm over there. However, once I leave, he always turns them off again, which suggests that he'd prefer not to see captions on his programs.
I doubt that you'll ever see permanent captions at the theaters, because marketing people are notoriously scared of trying new things if they think it might alienate their existing customer base.
There's also Rear Window Captioning, which is really cool. You're given a small piece of smoked plexiglass, and a mirror image of the captions is projected and reflected in the glass. You can go to movies with your hearing friends, and they see the uncaptioned movie normally, and you can see the captioned version.
:-().
Sadly, not all movies come with RWC (Lord of the Rings
First quote: But future economics will be based on the intangible.
... truckers, cashiers, store owners, warehousemen, and so on
Second quote: you are ultimately destroying jobs
So, in this future intangible economy, exactly what are the truckers, cashiers, store owners and warehousmen going to be doing?
The fact is that economic models change. Business that don't change their business models to adapt to changing economic models will go out of business.
If the typewriter industry had the lobbying clout of the entertainment industry, general purpose wordprocessors for computers would not exist, and printers would have a surtax of $1 per DPI capability, adding $600 to the cost of a 600 DPI printer.
It's time for the entertainment industry to change their model or go out of business like the typewriter industry.
You completely missed Stallman's point. He wasn't talking about patenting music or patenting processes that use music as part of the process. He was talking about patenting the techniques that are used to actually create music.
Composers don't just create their compositions out of whole cloth. They borrow techniques and ideas from other composers.
There are many many aspects of a musical composition that are are regularly used by all composers. For example, what if somebody had patented syncopation? Other composers would not be able to use that technique in their pieces. What if somebody had patented the concept of the chorus? What if somebody had patented the guitar riff? The whole punk rock thing would have never happened. What if somebody patented the drum solo? No more drum solos at rock concerts. Actually, that wouldn't be such a bad thing, but you get the idea.
First of all, they're phasing C++ out of the cirriculum in favor of Java.
Why would I care what language is or is not being taught in the curriculum? When I was in university, I was taught Fortran and Pascal in my first year. I was expected to learn any other languages needed for my subsequent courses, which included C, APL and Lisp. At that time, object oriented programming wasn't even part of the curriculum.
A good developer can learn new languages quickly; in fact, I wouldn't feel comfortable hiring a developer who felt that he needed formal training in a language in order to learn it.
Today, I do most of my programming in C++ and Perl, languages that I had no exposure to in university, and I haven't touched Fortran or Pascal since 1987. None of my employers have every seriously thought that I'm not qualified just because I didn't learn those languages in university.
If either of the parties had denied that the emails were valid, then the judge may have ruled differently. However, from what I could tell from the story, neither party denied the authenticity of the email exchanges. Therefor, the judge made a sane ruling and said that the contract was valid.
Have you ever driven over one of those automated traffic counters on the highway? Doesn't it piss you off that some faceless beaurocrat somewhere is spying on your driving trends? I see no difference between what AOL is doing (aggregating anonymous search statistics) and what a traffic counter does (aggregating anonymous vehicle traffic).
Agreed on McCain. He is an honorable man, and probably the only Republican I would ever vote for (assuming I could vote as a non-US citizen :-).
It doesn't matter anyway. By Republican logic, it doesn't matter how much you get, it only matters if you got any at all. At least that's the stance they're taking with respect to Enron contributions, where the Republicans got ~70% of the total, but Democrats and Republicans are equally guilty.
What exactly is the phrase "fair and balanced" supposed to imply if it doesn't imply unbiased? Faux News chants that mantra over and over again. As for the idiot Bernie Goldberg, try these URLs for kicks: here, and here. There's plenty more on that site as well. Not that I actually expect a Faux sheep be willing to accept an alternate viewpoint.
Name one Republican who has gone on record as saying that this bill would be wrong.
Nor did he mention the other Disney-sponsored copyright act, the Sony Bono [R-DeadNow] Copyright Extension Act. Both sides of the aisle have big problems with pandering to media giants.
So on the one hand, we see people on /. rail about the MPAA and RIAA, who are taking protectionist stances because their business model is threatened by digital media. And on the other hand, we see people /. who defend a different industry that is taking protectionist stances because their business model depends on non-free (beer or speech) software.
I don't know what your stand is on the media companies, so your position may be consistent. However, many people hold the position that business models should adapt to the marketplace, not that businesses (RIAA, MPAA, Microsoft) shouldn't be attempting to adapt the marketplace to their business model.
I wasn't pissed. My cable company raises their prices every 6 months. This is the first price increase I've gotten from Tivo. I just forked over the $200 for the lifetime sub and was done with it.
You would be subject to UK law, which sadly, has even less protection for you. For example, Greg Palast, a respected UK journalist published researched and factual articles in the Observer about Barricks, the gold mining company, and their unsavory activities in Africa, including allegations of murder by Anmesty International.
Barricks successfully sued the paper, so you can't actually read the articles in the UK, even though those same articles are 100% protected by US libel laws.
Actually, I was born in Edmonton, raised in Fort Saskatchewan, Red Deer, and Rimbey, moved back to Edmonton and and lived there for 15 years before moving to Seattle. As for the women, that's where I met my wife, so you should watch your tongue :-)
:-)
The only reason I wouldn't move back to Edmonton is because of the cold. Here in Seattle, the magnolia tree in our courtyard started to bud yesterday