As I recall in the recent past, a well-known seller tried to limit viewing of movies by introducing the Divx technology whereby, the machine would connect to a server to get a key to view. Now if Replay or Tivo try this then there will be a backlash from the consumer. What would be ironic is if one of these PVR manufactures goes bully up than I suspect that the software community will pickup the fragments and produce code to do whatever the original community want.
On a side note, I watch a video program on my PVR from PBS that was for educational instructional use and it had a disclaimer at the beginning stating that copies could be used up until 2006 or so. I don't have any intent on keeping the program that long but why should I depend on a 3 party source to keep and maintain material. A distributed system where PVR owners share programs is just about to become a rally by certain. This peeves me - the thing that manufactures/groups worry about the most is usually good for them and the consumer.
To sum the two paragraphs together: the video material should be in an inter-dispersed local (PVRs) and not limited because of popularity (Fair use). In fact the material should only survive if it is popular enough to be wanted/distributed from enough people wanting to exchange the information - If no one wants it then it would disappear.
Netflix now forces all cancellations occur by phone
Could some inspiring Business Major retort the Uniform Consumer Rights for us? Off the top of my head, which will not be a good verbatim translation, it states that:
A cancellation of an order must be accepted as in the method original ordered in or in a manner that is faster in speed. Meaning that if signed up electronically than they have to accept an electronic cancellation or any means that would be faster. Like if I signed up via mail than if they have a means of electronic cancellation than they have to accept that too all the while accepting the mail as a cancellation method.
For those of you that followed Atari back in the day; you may be surprised to see the name rise from the grave. The name was bought by Infogrames:
On May 7, 2003, Infogrames officially announces its name change to Atari. The Company's U.S. operations became Atari, Inc. (formerly Infogrames, Inc.) and changed its trading symbol on the NASDAQ National Market to "ATAR." Although the holding company parent in France, Infogrames Entertainment SA, retained its current name and maintained its symbol on the Euronext under the code: 5257, all of the Company's worldwide operations were renamed Atari. The Company gained all rights to the Atari license when it acquired Hasbro Interactive, Inc. in December 2000.
I guess this is a re-re-re-release (I probably don't have enough res) of the old titles; it make me wonder how long will these games will be around?
Would you rather get shoot with by the BlueSniper with a virus-outy BlueSnarf dart? And we wonder why Ericsson is moving on to other projects - highlighted from the greedy bass-turd article...so wireless carriers can charge people... Gotta get paid ya know.
And if you really want a blue tooth phone there is a nifty niche and free capitalist market called eBay.
I would sure hate to be cat when the VPs read the heading I am sure something was kicked. Sun needs to read the writing on the wall, newspaper, toilet paper, everywhere - consumers are seeking alternatives from proprietary. Sun's Blade should have been the one in this heading yet they are happy chugging along while companies move forward. Sun is growing Dim.
As for IBM and the RCA scandal, where is the OS/360 today. I wonder if it would have had deeper market penetration if IBM had extended the OS to RCA? Could basically going proprietary with the OS been less successful rather than opening it?
All the automatic meter readers I have seen look about like a metal detector a guy on the beach uses. It has a "head" that scans over the meter that works like a tollgate pass activating circuits and transmitting the necessary data back to the unit. A guy in a truck still has to go buy each house and get relatively close to the meter.
That's $2400 for reading 960 meters, or $2.50 per meter.
There is 661,958 households in Philadelphia
Lets say 80% have water ridiculously for a non poverty nation = 529,566 households
$529,566 * your $2.5 = $1,323,915
Well not millions but 1.3 > 1 so I can fudge an s into the mill. In addition, you did not calculate the synergy of the network; that was just one savings over the big picture.
That is quite brilliant and actually cheap. Think of it, the city could reduce costs in other areas such as, say water meter reading - instead of having guy go out with a scanner to each meter, it could transmit to the office when necessary. That alone would probably save a few million. Services could use spare bandwidth for other services such as easier deployment of traffic monitors, stoplight optimization, human control of high traffic stoplights during peak hours.
I know there is going to be many people that narrow mindedly say that the dollars could be spent on the poor or in some other avenue of no return. The city leaders have struck upon an idea that will actually revolve into a massive savings, data collection, data manipulation, data optimization threshold that will in turn benefit the entire population - it just wont be a direct "ME" benefit to everyone. I'm actually quite interested in seeing how this pans out.
It would be nice if the Internet cloud bubble dissolves when there are enough wireless devices to remove the necessary Internet link via the high-speed backbone.
I just did a realtime quote after the auction ended: Security Name: GOOGLE INC CL A (GOOG) Real-time Quote: Bid: 1.70 Ask: 24.28 Last: N/A Chg: No Chg Market: NASDAQ NM Tick: Down
I dont know if this will be the actuall price or what but interesting non-the-less?
Pre-IPO getting less shares owners selling less
on
Google Slashes IPO price
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· Score: 5, Informative
The initial price per share for Google stocks has been lowered to $85-$95 down from speculative high of $130. This will create a market capital less than $26 billion down from $36 billion. Noted that the confounders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, disclosed that they intended to sell 1 million shares each but will now sell 480,000 shares in the range of $90 per share valued at about $43 Million. In addition, the pre-ipo market will get 5.5 Million shares, half the originally anticipated.
View the Complete prospectus.
Just because a court rules it's illegal doesn't mean the court will/can enforce the ruling. Case in point: 1) Who is going to search every web page to find incorrect meta tags 2) Who is going to decide that a given page has incorrect meta-keyword information 3) Define strong relation to a web page 4) Define Excessive use of meta-keywords in HTML 5) What about servers across national lines 6) Does anyone really use meta-keywords other than spammers
And no I couldn't RTFM in German - as you can see, the babelfish translation is so eloquent and can someone translate the keyword information in the linked page to determine if it's using excessive meta information:
meta NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="Gericht: Suchmaschinen-Spamming per HTML-Metatags wettbewerbswidrig"
Court: Search machine Spamming by HTML Metatags competition-adversely
Manual-like listing of many hundred HTML Metatags without each contentwise connection to an InterNet side f?e to a manipulation of search machines and is competition adverse after. 1 of the law against the mean competition (UWG). That decided the regional court meal in a judgement from 26 May 2004 (Az. 44 0 166/03), ver?entlichten now. Kl?rin of the procedure was a rechtsf?ger trade association.
After the Ausf?ungen of the court f?t a such use from search words to the fact that the InterNet sides of the deplored ones when using search machines at one of the front places designated and accordingly by the users more h?iger frequented w?en. When using hundreds encyclopedia-like together to gereihten terms, which do not exhibit also by far Verst?nis connection to the goods and services offered on the sides, k?e it the operator any longer around do not go pr?ntieren its offer optimally. Rather lie? this only the conclusion too that thereby the technical Schw?en should be used by search machines, in order to provide with the search results a competition advantage.
This does not apply in opinion of the judges from meals however f?jede use of HTML Metatags. So m?e it a competitor accept, if a Website with search words am gef?t, in the broadest sense still in a connection for the performance of the operator stand. Same applies f?die use of names to erm?ichen Gesch?sbezeichnungen or marks, if this "component from on the InterNet side switched are advertising on the left of", in order the operator Gesch?e with advertising partner.
The decision of the LG meal extends the anyway v?ig non-uniform iurisdiction of German courts about HTML Metatags, with which it went so far particularly around the use of strange characteristics into the Metas, by a further problem field. A?liche decision for the use of irrelevant terms in Metatage had in the M? 2002 the LG D?eldorf met. The judgement had been waived however sp?r by the OLG D?eldorf. Whether against the decision from meals redresses are inserted, is not yet admits (Joerg Heidrich)/(tol/c't)
Shouldn't Katie Jones get royalties from Penguin for using her domain name? After all, in the interview, she stated that Katie.com can't be used as Katie Jones bought it for. She had her resume and pictures of her family and now it might draw pedophiles; therefore, she had to remove the pictures and contact information. A lawsuit should be drawn against Penguin for damages against her domain name and royalties should be paid for that domain; after all Katie Jones freely and fairly bought the domain.
Apple has seen sales of iPod boost its bottom line over
The article talks about Previously, iPod would only play digitally protected songs that carry restrictions and were purchased from Apple's own iTunes music store. And Apple is complainig that sales have soared? Apple should see that more means more - more sales due to more formats being played. Now maybe apple should go back to the chain of command and figure out who stuffed in the DMCA trying to get more sales and question that person mangament ability.
The artcile continues by saying Apple has a variety of legal steps. Does this mean that once you own a piece of hardware you can't update the software? Hmm Sounds like they would like to go after the FOSS community if somoeone released an updated iPod OS. RealNetwork would put the legal team on ends if it released the updated source to the community.
This test is like a Kobayashi Maru test on star trek. You have to alter the conditions to win. You can't see the details in the hyper links nore the refer information in the header.
Understand the source perspective before you draw opinions. Green Hills is under threat from Linux due to the embedded software being integrated in more Government system. GreenHills is (was?) a large player in government based Embedded Operating Systems. I imagine you will see a similar stance by WindRiver maker of the popular Realtime Embedded OS VXWorks.
The threat comes from the length of time on some large government projects. Some systems have been around longer than you and me. In the proprietary world, your whole project is dependent on a set of companies staying in business for 30+ years. Now with Linux, you're no longer dependent on that string; you can leverage off the community providing updates or if necessary you as the developer can make the changes. Most people fail to say this with Linux; everyone just says hey it's free and cheap. But if you really want to sell Linux, try saying that your entire project doesn't fall on another proprietary solution, we will have the source code in hand - people will listen.
It's easy to retort GreenHills FUD by saying all changes will be baselined and a change control board will review any updates (easy enough huh).
[SNIP] Bachtell used X-Acto blades to cut the 3M Nextel fabric and then used an industrial sewing machine to stitch the off-white pieces together into an 8-by-9-foot quilt, using Teflon-coated fiberglass thread. It was a nasty job; the itchy, ceramic-fiber cloth sheds and is bad to inhale.
You see all these people working on these satellites wearing protective clothing, not to protect the people but to protect the equipment. If we have learned anything thing, it's to protect your lungs and eyes. Imagine breathing that fiberglass and some form of ceramic fibers. I guess it's not popular to wear a $30 respirator when dealing with these exotic substances. For you though; if you feel like wearing one then do it - your not a bigger man breathing fiberglass than not.
Want a play on words? What about http://froogle.google.com/ that is a shopping page yet not related to Googlegear/Zipzoomfly, nor Froogles; good thing its not named froogles.google.com.
Slashdot Mirror
As I recall in the recent past, a well-known seller tried to limit viewing of movies by introducing the Divx technology whereby, the machine would connect to a server to get a key to view. Now if Replay or Tivo try this then there will be a backlash from the consumer. What would be ironic is if one of these PVR manufactures goes bully up than I suspect that the software community will pickup the fragments and produce code to do whatever the original community want.
On a side note, I watch a video program on my PVR from PBS that was for educational instructional use and it had a disclaimer at the beginning stating that copies could be used up until 2006 or so. I don't have any intent on keeping the program that long but why should I depend on a 3 party source to keep and maintain material. A distributed system where PVR owners share programs is just about to become a rally by certain. This peeves me - the thing that manufactures/groups worry about the most is usually good for them and the consumer.
To sum the two paragraphs together: the video material should be in an inter-dispersed local (PVRs) and not limited because of popularity (Fair use). In fact the material should only survive if it is popular enough to be wanted/distributed from enough people wanting to exchange the information - If no one wants it then it would disappear.
Netflix now forces all cancellations occur by phone
Could some inspiring Business Major retort the Uniform Consumer Rights for us? Off the top of my head, which will not be a good verbatim translation, it states that:
A cancellation of an order must be accepted as in the method original ordered in or in a manner that is faster in speed. Meaning that if signed up electronically than they have to accept an electronic cancellation or any means that would be faster. Like if I signed up via mail than if they have a means of electronic cancellation than they have to accept that too all the while accepting the mail as a cancellation method.
For those of you that followed Atari back in the day; you may be surprised to see the name rise from the grave. The name was bought by Infogrames:
On May 7, 2003, Infogrames officially announces its name change to Atari. The Company's U.S. operations became Atari, Inc. (formerly Infogrames, Inc.) and changed its trading symbol on the NASDAQ National Market to "ATAR." Although the holding company parent in France, Infogrames Entertainment SA, retained its current name and maintained its symbol on the Euronext under the code: 5257, all of the Company's worldwide operations were renamed Atari. The Company gained all rights to the Atari license when it acquired Hasbro Interactive, Inc. in December 2000.
I guess this is a re-re-re-release (I probably don't have enough res) of the old titles; it make me wonder how long will these games will be around?
Would you rather get shoot with by the BlueSniper with a virus-outy BlueSnarf dart? And we wonder why Ericsson is moving on to other projects - highlighted from the greedy bass-turd article ...so wireless carriers can charge people... Gotta get paid ya know.
And if you really want a blue tooth phone there is a nifty niche and free capitalist market called eBay.
I would sure hate to be cat when the VPs read the heading I am sure something was kicked. Sun needs to read the writing on the wall, newspaper, toilet paper, everywhere - consumers are seeking alternatives from proprietary. Sun's Blade should have been the one in this heading yet they are happy chugging along while companies move forward. Sun is growing Dim.
As for IBM and the RCA scandal, where is the OS/360 today. I wonder if it would have had deeper market penetration if IBM had extended the OS to RCA? Could basically going proprietary with the OS been less successful rather than opening it?
All the automatic meter readers I have seen look about like a metal detector a guy on the beach uses. It has a "head" that scans over the meter that works like a tollgate pass activating circuits and transmitting the necessary data back to the unit. A guy in a truck still has to go buy each house and get relatively close to the meter.
That's $2400 for reading 960 meters, or $2.50 per meter.
There is 661,958 households in Philadelphia
Lets say 80% have water ridiculously for a non poverty nation = 529,566 households
$529,566 * your $2.5 = $1,323,915
Well not millions but 1.3 > 1 so I can fudge an s into the mill. In addition, you did not calculate the synergy of the network; that was just one savings over the big picture.
That is quite brilliant and actually cheap. Think of it, the city could reduce costs in other areas such as, say water meter reading - instead of having guy go out with a scanner to each meter, it could transmit to the office when necessary. That alone would probably save a few million. Services could use spare bandwidth for other services such as easier deployment of traffic monitors, stoplight optimization, human control of high traffic stoplights during peak hours.
I know there is going to be many people that narrow mindedly say that the dollars could be spent on the poor or in some other avenue of no return. The city leaders have struck upon an idea that will actually revolve into a massive savings, data collection, data manipulation, data optimization threshold that will in turn benefit the entire population - it just wont be a direct "ME" benefit to everyone. I'm actually quite interested in seeing how this pans out.
It would be nice if the Internet cloud bubble dissolves when there are enough wireless devices to remove the necessary Internet link via the high-speed backbone.
Are you surprised that statistics can be bought and bartered? Everyone knows that the person paying for the data can make it show whatever they want.
I just did a realtime quote after the auction ended :
Security Name: GOOGLE INC CL A (GOOG)
Real-time Quote:
Bid: 1.70 Ask: 24.28
Last: N/A Chg: No Chg
Market: NASDAQ NM Tick: Down
I dont know if this will be the actuall price or what but interesting non-the-less?
The initial price per share for Google stocks has been lowered to $85-$95 down from speculative high of $130. This will create a market capital less than $26 billion down from $36 billion. Noted that the confounders, Sergey Brin and Larry Page, disclosed that they intended to sell 1 million shares each but will now sell 480,000 shares in the range of $90 per share valued at about $43 Million. In addition, the pre-ipo market will get 5.5 Million shares, half the originally anticipated. View the Complete prospectus.
Just because a court rules it's illegal doesn't mean the court will/can enforce the ruling. Case in point:
1) Who is going to search every web page to find incorrect meta tags
2) Who is going to decide that a given page has incorrect meta-keyword information
3) Define strong relation to a web page
4) Define Excessive use of meta-keywords in HTML
5) What about servers across national lines
6) Does anyone really use meta-keywords other than spammers
And no I couldn't RTFM in German - as you can see, the babelfish translation is so eloquent and can someone translate the keyword information in the linked page to determine if it's using excessive meta information:
meta NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="Gericht: Suchmaschinen-Spamming per HTML-Metatags wettbewerbswidrig"
Court: Search machine Spamming by HTML Metatags competition-adversely
Manual-like listing of many hundred HTML Metatags without each contentwise connection to an InterNet side f?e to a manipulation of search machines and is competition adverse after. 1 of the law against the mean competition (UWG). That decided the regional court meal in a judgement from 26 May 2004 (Az. 44 0 166/03), ver?entlichten now. Kl?rin of the procedure was a rechtsf?ger trade association.
After the Ausf?ungen of the court f?t a such use from search words to the fact that the InterNet sides of the deplored ones when using search machines at one of the front places designated and accordingly by the users more h?iger frequented w?en. When using hundreds encyclopedia-like together to gereihten terms, which do not exhibit also by far Verst?nis connection to the goods and services offered on the sides, k?e it the operator any longer around do not go pr?ntieren its offer optimally. Rather lie? this only the conclusion too that thereby the technical Schw?en should be used by search machines, in order to provide with the search results a competition advantage.
This does not apply in opinion of the judges from meals however f?jede use of HTML Metatags. So m?e it a competitor accept, if a Website with search words am gef?t, in the broadest sense still in a connection for the performance of the operator stand. Same applies f?die use of names to erm?ichen Gesch?sbezeichnungen or marks, if this "component from on the InterNet side switched are advertising on the left of", in order the operator Gesch?e with advertising partner.
The decision of the LG meal extends the anyway v?ig non-uniform iurisdiction of German courts about HTML Metatags, with which it went so far particularly around the use of strange characteristics into the Metas, by a further problem field. A?liche decision for the use of irrelevant terms in Metatage had in the M? 2002 the LG D?eldorf met. The judgement had been waived however sp?r by the OLG D?eldorf. Whether against the decision from meals redresses are inserted, is not yet admits (Joerg Heidrich)/(tol/c't)
MSIE 7 May Beat Longhorn Out The Gate... But I use Mozilla and the bell rang a long time ago.
Will the Ruling help Tivo owners across national boarders?
Shouldn't Katie Jones get royalties from Penguin for using her domain name? After all, in the interview, she stated that Katie.com can't be used as Katie Jones bought it for. She had her resume and pictures of her family and now it might draw pedophiles; therefore, she had to remove the pictures and contact information. A lawsuit should be drawn against Penguin for damages against her domain name and royalties should be paid for that domain; after all Katie Jones freely and fairly bought the domain.
comes a hefty boost in SCO's stock price
boost in perspective
SCO claims to have found internal IBM e-mails
This is a form of espionage which is illegal without a court order.
IBM does not have a license
IBM bought a the rights long before SCOX even created.
reporter's interview at SCOforum
The definitive source huh?
AIX yes one word
How about IBM drop AIX like a bad habit and go full swing into linux. Where's your lawsuit now?
Apple has seen sales of iPod boost its bottom line over
The article talks about Previously, iPod would only play digitally protected songs that carry restrictions and were purchased from Apple's own iTunes music store.
And Apple is complainig that sales have soared? Apple should see that more means more - more sales due to more formats being played. Now maybe apple should go back to the chain of command and figure out who stuffed in the DMCA trying to get more sales and question that person mangament ability.
The artcile continues by saying Apple has a variety of legal steps. Does this mean that once you own a piece of hardware you can't update the software? Hmm Sounds like they would like to go after the FOSS community if somoeone released an updated iPod OS. RealNetwork would put the legal team on ends if it released the updated source to the community.
This test is like a Kobayashi Maru test on star trek. You have to alter the conditions to win. You can't see the details in the hyper links nore the refer information in the header.
Linux must find a next-generation filesystem to keep pace
What are the winds of change saying? R..E..I..S..E..R...4...
I think I should to say thanks?
Understand the source perspective before you draw opinions. Green Hills is under threat from Linux due to the embedded software being integrated in more Government system. GreenHills is (was?) a large player in government based Embedded Operating Systems. I imagine you will see a similar stance by WindRiver maker of the popular Realtime Embedded OS VXWorks.
The threat comes from the length of time on some large government projects. Some systems have been around longer than you and me. In the proprietary world, your whole project is dependent on a set of companies staying in business for 30+ years. Now with Linux, you're no longer dependent on that string; you can leverage off the community providing updates or if necessary you as the developer can make the changes. Most people fail to say this with Linux; everyone just says hey it's free and cheap. But if you really want to sell Linux, try saying that your entire project doesn't fall on another proprietary solution, we will have the source code in hand - people will listen.
It's easy to retort GreenHills FUD by saying all changes will be baselined and a change control board will review any updates (easy enough huh).
[SNIP] Bachtell used X-Acto blades to cut the 3M Nextel fabric and then used an industrial sewing machine to stitch the off-white pieces together into an 8-by-9-foot quilt, using Teflon-coated fiberglass thread. It was a nasty job; the itchy, ceramic-fiber cloth sheds and is bad to inhale.
You see all these people working on these satellites wearing protective clothing, not to protect the people but to protect the equipment. If we have learned anything thing, it's to protect your lungs and eyes. Imagine breathing that fiberglass and some form of ceramic fibers. I guess it's not popular to wear a $30 respirator when dealing with these exotic substances. For you though; if you feel like wearing one then do it - your not a bigger man breathing fiberglass than not.
Anyone want wirte a whois script to see what other names are registered for [a-z]oogle.com?
[SNIP] former Googlegear, Froogles.com [/SNIP]
Want a play on words? What about http://froogle.google.com/ that is a shopping page yet not related to Googlegear/Zipzoomfly, nor Froogles; good thing its not named froogles.google.com.