The biggest problem with your argument is that all of the major US carriers still lock the phone even if one pays full price for it.
I might buy your argument if the phone was only locked during the period of time that the buyer is obligated to the carrier by the carrier's purchase subsidy (such as by a two year contract). There is a grey area that may even moot the subsidised lock-in period, and that is the existance of a contract termination charge.
From TFA: "With the TrustedFlash chips, music studios can release albums or whole collections of musical groups on a single memory card that consumers could buy at stores and insert into their phones, MP3 players or laptops. They can listen to the music tracks they paid for, or pay additional money to get a security code that unlocks additional songs...
It sounds like gruvi is a secure content distribution add-on doo-dad for flash memory which in some ways is similar to DIVX (Digital Video Express). I really hope that the public embraces gruvi as warmly as it did DIVX.
The "Use N' Throw" culture in the US for transistor radios probably started sometime in the 1970's. The transistors in the early transistor radios were socketed and could be easily replaced (although even those early transistors were not likely to ever need replacement). I have not worked on a TR-1, however I worked on a great many radios from the 1960's and 1970's and have found that almost all transistor radios that were discarded either worked fine or were discarded due to physical damage, including damage caused by battery leakage. I have seen a number of transitor radios that have gotten wet. As long as the transister radio had been dried promptly, there was no damage caused by the water. I was given a transistor radio that had went through a diswasher; after allowing the speaker to dry out, I turned the radio on and it worked fine. I believe that many TR-1's would still be in playable condition today, assuming: 1. There had been no physical damage (including battery leakage). 2. There had been no improper repairs. 3. The storage conditions were good enough that no corrosion developed. 4. The radio is given a thorough cleaning before it is turned on.
In what way is TiVo standing up for their customers? I don't think that cooperating with Macrovision by including DRM features is standing up for it's customers.
I read their specs and I can answer two of your questions:
It is not as heavy as a small car (at least not a street licensable small car).
It does run Linux and it is available with Linux already installed.
From TFA: "there's a danger that their tastes can narrow and that society may balkanize into groups with obscure interests."
Would this outcome be bad for society on a whole, or is it just bad for mass market manufacturers? I really doubt that this will be allowed to happen. How long before marketers start going to the sellers and giving them incentives to have their preference engines suggest specific products, brands, titles, artists, albums, etc.? This sort of marketing is already a common occurance in brick and mortar stores, the difference is that in brick and mortar stores, it is shelf position, displays, and salesperson spiffs that are sought rather than preference engine suggestions.
Do you honestly think it takes MORE power to send a photon down fiber than it does to send an electron down copper? Seriously. What the #$#ck do you people think powers POTS?!?! AIR?!?
Bzzzzzzt
I am so sorry, the correct answer was Telephone Central Office Power, which doesn't power the cable company's line equipment nor does it power people's home networks.
Thank you for playing, we have some lovely parting gifts for you...
The local telcos are having a difficult time adjusting to the fact that people are no longer required to subscribe to their service. For about the past 40 years or so almost every American home has had at least one telephone line provided by the local telco. It used to be that commercial subscribers and Long Distance subsidised residential service. Telcos and their customers had to adjust to residential telephone service becoming a major income producer for the telcos when the Bell System was broke up on Jan 1, 1984. In the mid 1980's local service became more expensive to consumers and long distance charges went down.
Now, because of a major shift in technology, telcos are starting to notice larger numbers of residential and even commercial customers dropping wired telephone service. The telcos are in a snit because they no longer have an effective telephone service monopoly and they are now in heavy competition with wireless telephones and VoIP. In most areas the local telcos do provide wireless service but they have to compete tooth and nail with other wireless carriers. When telcos begin to offer VoIP they will find several low cost competitors. In most areas the telcos don't have a monopoly for broadband services as their DSL has to compete with broadband cable and wireless providers.
And it's not just wired telephones where telcos are losing revenue, income from Yellow Pages advertising is also starting to decline because people are moving away from using dead tree phone books.
I suspect that barring major governmental interference, consumers will no longer have a local telco and a cable provider; they will two competing broadband carriers. Many cable companies already have fiber to the pedestal and provide VoIP telephone service, at least one telco is starting to install fiber to the pedestal. Many cable companies now provide all of the services that the telco can provide with cable to the pedestal, PLUS the the cable companies also provide cable TV.
Penn State University Press is not the university book store, it is the university book publisher. Looking at their titles, it does not appear that they publish textbooks; they seem to mostly publish books about, well, Pennsylvania. From their Mission Statement:
"...As the publishing arm of a land-grant and state-supported institution, the Press recognizes its special responsibility to develop books about Pennsylvania, both scholarly and popular, that enhance interest in the region and spread awareness of the state's history, culture, environment.
You are indeed furtunate to live in a city that has such a wide selection of diverse radio programming. In most cities a great many of the radio stations are owned by companies such as Viacom and Clear Channel.
Even the Mormons own fifteen radio stations in five US cities, including WTOP which is the major news station in Washington, DC.
There have been court decisions upholding sections of sections 107 - 118 in the context of home recordings of broadcasted programs.
There is also a Supreme Court decision that specifically says that the recording of tv broadcasts is legal for home use. Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios 464 U.S. 417, 104 S. Ct. 774, 78 L. Ed. 2d 574 (1984)
Plague is not that uncommon in the southwestern US. Doctors (at least in areas where plague is endemic) are aware of the signs and symptoms of plague and plague can be successfully treated with garden variety antibiotics, including tetracycline.
This situation happens quite frequently with new technologies. The usual thing that happens is that the patent holders cross-license or pool licenses among themselselves. This method is very effective at allowing a technology to develop while at the same time keeping a very high barrier to actual competition. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_license
It is fair to consider it to be spam as it is not an opt-in mailing list. The adress was not confirmed to be legitimate before it was added to the distribution list.
In the past 30 or so years, many of them in the US military, I have frequently heard the terms "Bum Fuck Egypt" or "Butt Fuck Egypt" (abbreviated as "BFE") used to indicate a remote location. I have also (very seldom) heard the term "Beyond Fucking Egypt" (also abbreviated as "BFE") used to indicate a long distance .
RFD stands for "Rural Free Delivery", which I believe was replaced by the term "Rural Route".
BUFF as a name for a B52 means "Big Ugly Fat Fucker".
you're more likely to get high-speed service over your power lines out in farm country, IMHO.
I personally hope for the best in your endeavor to get broadband services that are compatible with existing licensed services. I sincerely hope that BPL or PLC never happens and that the current pilot programs go down in flames. Putting fiber on powerlines is cool, putting broadband RF on power lines is very uncool as it emits wideband RF radiation that can interfer with other communication services.
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The biggest problem with your argument is that all of the major US carriers still lock the phone even if one pays full price for it.
I might buy your argument if the phone was only locked during the period of time that the buyer is obligated to the carrier by the carrier's purchase subsidy (such as by a two year contract). There is a grey area that may even moot the subsidised lock-in period, and that is the existance of a contract termination charge.
Fuck off spammer.
From TFA: "With the TrustedFlash chips, music studios can release albums or whole collections of musical groups on a single memory card that consumers could buy at stores and insert into their phones, MP3 players or laptops. They can listen to the music tracks they paid for, or pay additional money to get a security code that unlocks additional songs...
It sounds like gruvi is a secure content distribution add-on doo-dad for flash memory which in some ways is similar to DIVX (Digital Video Express). I really hope that the public embraces gruvi as warmly as it did DIVX.
The "Use N' Throw" culture in the US for transistor radios probably started sometime in the 1970's. The transistors in the early transistor radios were socketed and could be easily replaced (although even those early transistors were not likely to ever need replacement). I have not worked on a TR-1, however I worked on a great many radios from the 1960's and 1970's and have found that almost all transistor radios that were discarded either worked fine or were discarded due to physical damage, including damage caused by battery leakage. I have seen a number of transitor radios that have gotten wet. As long as the transister radio had been dried promptly, there was no damage caused by the water. I was given a transistor radio that had went through a diswasher; after allowing the speaker to dry out, I turned the radio on and it worked fine. I believe that many TR-1's would still be in playable condition today, assuming: 1. There had been no physical damage (including battery leakage). 2. There had been no improper repairs. 3. The storage conditions were good enough that no corrosion developed. 4. The radio is given a thorough cleaning before it is turned on.
The most obvious problem with your argument is that Tivo has been red flagging non-PPV programs.
In what way is TiVo standing up for their customers? I don't think that cooperating with Macrovision by including DRM features is standing up for it's customers.
Just because TiVo considers itself to be a DRM victim doesn't mean that people should continue to buy DRM crippled TiVo's.
I read their specs and I can answer two of your questions: It is not as heavy as a small car (at least not a street licensable small car). It does run Linux and it is available with Linux already installed.
From TFA: "there's a danger that their tastes can narrow and that society may balkanize into groups with obscure interests."
Would this outcome be bad for society on a whole, or is it just bad for mass market manufacturers? I really doubt that this will be allowed to happen. How long before marketers start going to the sellers and giving them incentives to have their preference engines suggest specific products, brands, titles, artists, albums, etc.? This sort of marketing is already a common occurance in brick and mortar stores, the difference is that in brick and mortar stores, it is shelf position, displays, and salesperson spiffs that are sought rather than preference engine suggestions.
That is not a problem, it is a feature that has already been explained in this article. Hint: try going to http://download.mozilla.org/?product=firefox-1.0.7 &os=win&lang=en-US
Do you honestly think it takes MORE power to send a photon down fiber than it does to send an electron down copper? Seriously. What the #$#ck do you people think powers POTS?!?! AIR?!?
Bzzzzzzt
I am so sorry, the correct answer was Telephone Central Office Power, which doesn't power the cable company's line equipment nor does it power people's home networks.
Thank you for playing, we have some lovely parting gifts for you...
The local telcos are having a difficult time adjusting to the fact that people are no longer required to subscribe to their service. For about the past 40 years or so almost every American home has had at least one telephone line provided by the local telco. It used to be that commercial subscribers and Long Distance subsidised residential service. Telcos and their customers had to adjust to residential telephone service becoming a major income producer for the telcos when the Bell System was broke up on Jan 1, 1984. In the mid 1980's local service became more expensive to consumers and long distance charges went down. Now, because of a major shift in technology, telcos are starting to notice larger numbers of residential and even commercial customers dropping wired telephone service. The telcos are in a snit because they no longer have an effective telephone service monopoly and they are now in heavy competition with wireless telephones and VoIP. In most areas the local telcos do provide wireless service but they have to compete tooth and nail with other wireless carriers. When telcos begin to offer VoIP they will find several low cost competitors. In most areas the telcos don't have a monopoly for broadband services as their DSL has to compete with broadband cable and wireless providers. And it's not just wired telephones where telcos are losing revenue, income from Yellow Pages advertising is also starting to decline because people are moving away from using dead tree phone books. I suspect that barring major governmental interference, consumers will no longer have a local telco and a cable provider; they will two competing broadband carriers. Many cable companies already have fiber to the pedestal and provide VoIP telephone service, at least one telco is starting to install fiber to the pedestal. Many cable companies now provide all of the services that the telco can provide with cable to the pedestal, PLUS the the cable companies also provide cable TV.
Penn State University Press is not the university book store, it is the university book publisher. Looking at their titles, it does not appear that they publish textbooks; they seem to mostly publish books about, well, Pennsylvania. From their Mission Statement: "...As the publishing arm of a land-grant and state-supported institution, the Press recognizes its special responsibility to develop books about Pennsylvania, both scholarly and popular, that enhance interest in the region and spread awareness of the state's history, culture, environment.
You are indeed furtunate to live in a city that has such a wide selection of diverse radio programming. In most cities a great many of the radio stations are owned by companies such as Viacom and Clear Channel. Even the Mormons own fifteen radio stations in five US cities, including WTOP which is the major news station in Washington, DC.
Sections 107 - 118 of the Copyright Act. See http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html
There have been court decisions upholding sections of sections 107 - 118 in the context of home recordings of broadcasted programs.
There is also a Supreme Court decision that specifically says that the recording of tv broadcasts is legal for home use. Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios 464 U.S. 417, 104 S. Ct. 774, 78 L. Ed. 2d 574 (1984)
And if you install Adobe Reader you end up with the Yahoo! Toolbar getting installed unless you click in the right place.
Plague is not that uncommon in the southwestern US. Doctors (at least in areas where plague is endemic) are aware of the signs and symptoms of plague and plague can be successfully treated with garden variety antibiotics, including tetracycline.
This situation happens quite frequently with new technologies. The usual thing that happens is that the patent holders cross-license or pool licenses among themselselves. This method is very effective at allowing a technology to develop while at the same time keeping a very high barrier to actual competition. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross_license
It could also be because Apple is not running a proper opt-in mailing list.
It is fair to consider it to be spam as it is not an opt-in mailing list. The adress was not confirmed to be legitimate before it was added to the distribution list.
It is very reasonable to consider it to be spam as it is not opt-in email. The email address was not confirmed to be legitimate.
Looks to me like they were writing a newspaper article using Babelfish to translate a press release.
They'd go nuts configuring the Unitarian Universalist version.
In the past 30 or so years, many of them in the US military, I have frequently heard the terms "Bum Fuck Egypt" or "Butt Fuck Egypt" (abbreviated as "BFE") used to indicate a remote location. I have also (very seldom) heard the term "Beyond Fucking Egypt" (also abbreviated as "BFE") used to indicate a long distance .
RFD stands for "Rural Free Delivery", which I believe was replaced by the term "Rural Route".
BUFF as a name for a B52 means "Big Ugly Fat Fucker".
you're more likely to get high-speed service over your power lines out in farm country, IMHO.
I personally hope for the best in your endeavor to get broadband services that are compatible with existing licensed services. I sincerely hope that BPL or PLC never happens and that the current pilot programs go down in flames. Putting fiber on powerlines is cool, putting broadband RF on power lines is very uncool as it emits wideband RF radiation that can interfer with other communication services.