the newtons biggest problem was the time in which it was launched.
these days pda's are a lot better served especially with the rise in wireless networking.
to give an example the mdaIII is a pda phone with built in wireless now for my money gprs is expensive but with wireless built in it just takes finding a wireless hotspot and all of a sudden you have cheap calls and full net access
with skype for pocket pc you can call all over for 2p a minute (more for mobile calls) it will play mp3's streaming media play movies with sd cards getting cheaper its practical to put a movie on a card for long trips and the battery will last. most pda's can charge off a car ciggerette lighter socket. anyone with autoroute should have pocket streets which on the latest map can locate postcodes shops cinema's ect. never get lost in a strange city again.
whats still not right is the lack of external monitor/ composite video on most pda's and usb in. The toshiba 740e has this but the monitor resolution is low. (actually there is a linux port being developed for it).
sdcards offer huge amounts of storage now so its possible to have almost everything you want sat on an sdcard find a hotspot and your net connected in seconds in most citys these days
one nice thing is the phone companys are offering some pretty good deals i got my mdaIII on a pretty cheap contract.
if apple developed a pda phone with usb and composite video and or vga support then they would make a killing my pda plays music plays films and all in 210 grams and pocket sized.
combine it with gps and you have the ultimate mobile companion.
best of all is when the phone companies subsidise it for you:)
well at least you could use the demo... on an 800*600 laptop screen no possibility of using any of the buttons. Really The site appears to be designed by a half wit.
Can anyone take this site seriously with such poor design of the site?
just reminded me of the mouse down mouse up arguement I had with a former boss
It was for a scada system (I don't think there was a mouse click event which would have stopped the arguement) basically his view was to click down on the button should be the event to do something. Mine was that mouse up was the better event to act on. since a user could click on the wrong button and then move away realising this and thus avoid carrying out the wrong action.
I bet few users realise they do this regularly. I think a verb convention could be clearer, do this , dont do this, get me out of here. or yes no dunno(how did i get here) perhaps pop up help bubbles could be useful to add greater explanation when needed. yes button (this will save the file and the old version will be erased) ect.
You dont need to tell all the users all the time but some guidance could be useful if your confident you know what the button does its no hinderance, if your unsure the first time or the 100th time. Its nice that the program writer will hold your hand.
admittedly its bloated but can't we afford some bloat to help the users out a little.
I get cablemodem access for 24.99 a month 2 meg download 3 gig cap a day. ntl did offer me a phoneline with 12 months free line rental which i accepted (why not) but then they ran out of lines... I like my nice regular monthly bill no variation no worries.
I still might get a landline but pretty much for incoming calls only. I dont want cable tv i have 800 satellite channels (some are english). NTL would like to sell me more I am sure but understand I am paying for what i want.
isn't that a debit card and comes of your money ie they can clear your account and break your overdraft limit in the process?
you know what would be real nice and pretty safe. a voucher like you can get for prepay phones. you go to your local outlet these days for phones its a printed till reciept with a code number on it. Buy from there a voucher and spend that online the voucher has a maximum value so your risk is limited to the voucher value - what you bought with it.
Basically a one time credit card if you can do it for phone time why not for buying other goods and services the vendor is happy gets his money instantly wired to his account you get the security of a one time transaction and dont have to wait for a cheque to clear before being sent your goods.
ok folks can you answer me this one in all seriousness how do you know when your pc has been owned.
Is there a site which will scan for probems originating from your Pc. something simple that anyone could run and be able to say yes there is a problem heres how to fix it?
I don't think anyone wants their pc to be used as a spam bot dos bot so for all the guys who know how to stop this problem, educate and inform please.
Actually I don't have an Ipod I don't want an Ipod and an IpodService.exe is no use to me on a laptop with a 400mhz processor and a maximum of 192 meg of ram giving away nearly 2 meg of it to a service I will never use is a waste of limited resources.
Portable media serial number (retreives the serial number of any portable music player connected to my system) also started and unneeded. remote registry editor whats that doing enabled.
Thanks Grandparent and parent for alerting me to the option of turning off a lot of useless services.
The strangest notion grammar and spelling nazi's have is that English is one language with one set of rules.
English is a set of languages with regional and cultural sets of rules. When English first came to be printed an east anglian variation was used not because it was the correct form but because it was the form spoken and written by the printer.
English is a living language, that is it evolves and mutates as it is being used. That mutations occur is nothing new, which is why older written records in English can be difficult to comprehend.
Your form of English usage maybe correct to you and it might be the case that for you to accept me as a member of your social group I should form my words in the manner to which you are familiar with, but since I am not aspiring to join your social group I am not in error, you are. Since you seem to believe I wish to speak and write the same English variant as you.
If you were to compare two structured precise languages such as C++ and Java you might see a simularity in the code but java is not badly written C++ nor is C++ badly written java.
I can understand how distressing it must be for people, who are trained and write in a language with a precise syntax such as C++ or Java. People who find bueaty in the precise elegant expression of Idea's within a programming environment to have to come to grips with a language which has no such constraints.
"In our global economy, Smith said, countries should have similar standards and laws for patents -- and he said that in some cases, the United States should change its laws to mirror those of Europe and Japan. For example, he said the United States should adopt the "first-to-file" standard for granting patents; current law awards the patent to the first inventor."
Come on guys rtfa, I can't believe nobody saw this line.
Doesn't this mean that if you don't get in to the patent game, a company like microsoft is free to patent your idea and use the patent against you.
Say goodbye to prior art if they ever got this one pushed through.
"The public ministry had required a fine of 5.000 euros before the Court of Appeal, following the example parquet floor of Rodez which had made call of the decision of release."
seems to me you can only apply the tax to something with a monnetery value depends what you download I guess itunes you can hit that with sales tax but the big legal and free linux distro they can tax 5% of nothing.
guess when election time comes he will be out of a job
The perfect article and the perfect first comment thanks commander taco and stanistani,
I emailed the MEP's for my part of the UK and seem to have spent the week so far trying to answer the questions of Bill Newton Dunn wnewton@europarl.eu.int
who has had questions such as
If the EU does nothing, will that leave the USA, which already has such laws, free to hoover up all Europe's freely available software and patent it for themselves, leaving us obliged to pay royalties to Bill Gates and co for work that Europeans did ?
(in short I said no)
If I understand you then correctly, you seee all patents as unnecessary ?
(again I answered no and it wasn't relevent to the issue of software patents)
How come the American software industry is so innovative and flourishing when they DO have legislation ? Bill Gates has gone a long way further since his 1991 quote.
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today." Bill Gates (1991)
Here I really could do with some help, I really need a good list of examples of the damage that software patents are doing / have done to the american Companies which have to live with this now. Any first hand experience would be great.
What might happen is not going to convince him to vote against this directive.
lets try and make a difference , hit the reply button guys and gals and give me some ammunition please. If anyone wants to email me directly blackest_knight AT hotmail.com will reach me.
I picked up a little hand crank charger for a mobile phone and it works yes but it takes at least 10 minutes cranking for 2 minutes phone on time.
nice toy but to all intents a waste of time and a little money
on the otherhand a small wind generator supplying a lead acid battery that you could later hook up to your battery powered device. not such a bad idea, mount it in your garden, balcony doubles as a bird scarer. might even be able to power your garden lights too. or use it to charge a spare battery pack or two.
Artistic works and I think you can include software in that definition have a value which is determined by the user.
As a content producer or copyright holder or patent holder your attitude to this ranges from I couldnt careless to sue the dead granny.
The big problem in reality is corperate greed, any exchange of files that they originally produced they see as a lost sale that they should have made. This only makes sense if people have the morals of a corperation.
What it means as a corperation is that your suppliers have no value to you. In physical trade thats seen as footwear manufacturers pay children 50p to produce footwear sold for £50 in supermarkets fixing a milk price below the cost of production, farmers being forced into contracts to supply one supermarket chain then being told the product isn't wanted and it gets left to rot in the fields, At least with our morning coffee we have an idea of how badly the producers are exploited. These are the morals of a corperate world- none what so ever and these are the standards by which we are being judged.
We will never pay for anything which we can get for free only if punitive damages are made against individuals is there any hope for the copyright holders to scare individuals into paying for copyrighted products.
Is this true are we just prepared to take and never pay for anything if we can get it for free or near free if we were corperations not people the answer is yes but we are not.
lets take a look at a legal method of obtaining books software and music and films for free or near free the public libarary should the public libary be sued for damages for the millions of books it regularly distributes to millions if not billions, look at all the lost sales there, or TV perhaps millions of viewers watching films instead of buying them. Lets shut the TV Stations down lets shut the libarys down. These blatent leachers of corperate property.
The reality is that TV Radio and libarys do in fact generate sales for the copyright holders and so does peer to peer file sharing.
Artistic works have no value in themselves, what value has a sound or an image perhaps the sound of me breaking wind is mine copyrightable for all eternity it is mine I produced it you heard its exquisite tones its delicate textures. so pay me for it then! no perhaps it has no value for you.
People pay for things they value and can afford simple as that the reality is that human beings have an appreciation of an artists labour and will pay for it without being sued if it has enough value for them.
If your making a living using someone elses work and you do not pay them for it then punitive actions are reasonable, What is crazy is that the people who make money from selling fake products, selling 'pirated' copies of movies and cd's are operating freely the mpaa will not come after me for buying a copy of a movie from a guy in a market but will if i download it myself.
Lets just look to the future where copyright is enforced vigourously everything i look at listen too I pay for. well whats going to happen then is i listen to and view a lot less.
See p2p as a marketing tool that actually increases sales not a method of reducing sales.
Does an author see a libary as a threat to sales or a method to gain a following a buying readership if the later what is p2p file sharing other than i big libary.
Dark Matter:
A super-dense substance used as a space ship fuel. It was mined in large amounts on the Vergon 6 until the whole planet was hollowed and on the verge of imploding in [1ACV04].
Also, the feces of a species called the Nibblonians.
How much is a film or piece of music worth to an individual, Well the recording industry seem to think lets say £15 is the value of a CD, but whats it take for somebody to earn that money maybe 4 hours of thier life perhaps cleaning toilets.
now somebody will agree to this exchange and presumably they find the enrichment of their life from purchasing said CD worth the Exchange of their time and labour
certainly we all make this decision when we decide to purchase a CD.
Now if this CD disapoints and its actual value is not worth the time and effort expended to the individual to buy it, what recourse does this individual have, none what so ever. You do not get the opportunity to return an item of music or film period.
However the internet makes it possible for the individual to listen to and evaluate a potential purchase. In the 21st century we are all patrons of the Arts, and we get to choose who we reward for enriching our lives and how much by
lets put it this way, how long should britany spears expect someone to clean toilets to enable her to have a far better standard of living than the people buying her music.
should the artists feel any guilt for what their fans have to go through to reward them for their music?
downloading p2p might be considered by some to be immoral but the true value of music and film is in a hard to measure thing- the value of the experience to the individual. Is a CD of music worth a tenth of somebodys weekly income ? Also for somebody extremely rich are they rewarding an artist enough for the enjoyment that the artists work brings to them.
because when it comes down to it an artist wouldn't be able to pursue a career as an artist if people were not prepared to sacrifice some of thier lives for the artists benefit.
It makes far more sense for a centralised block list, regularly updated, hosted by a reputible body.
A small change in functionality to your web browser so that when you attempt to connect to a site on your blocklist. your browser informs you and the reason why and then asks you if you want to proceed anyway.
its a much more economic use of resources and could be added to by local police agencys as victims become known or perhaps a phishing notify button added to our browsers.
when we wander upon a site thats dodgy that url can be passed on to the hosts of the blocking lists, a site would be verified to prevent malicious use and if checked out as being ok, it wouldnt be reexamined till a certain number of other referals took place.
No waste of bandwidth, no denial of service attack on any site just a hazard warning in your browser that the site may be harmful.
perhaps the banking sites might even care to host such a list.
um while it seems a good idea at first, there are problems, languages are more than just equivilent ways of representing the same thing.
for example in japanese the choice of word for you actually denotes how you view the relationship between you and the other person and how they view you.
Languages also express different ways of thinking about the world and more importantly reflect the culture of the people using it. Even english a common language to most readers of slashdot, is localised to a greater or lesser extent.
A monolingual world wouldnt be an improvement, However if you really meant to say everyone should learn to speak at least a second language then i would agree because in learning your second language you will enjoy empathy with speakers of this language and your life will be enriched as a result.
we have diversity in every other aspect of our life why should we limit ourselves to one language
We lost a few minutes of telemetry when the windows printer driver crashed, taking down the ground software. Note that the ground-commanded photo excursion to the north and northwest occurred after the glider had arrived overhead, and was at all times above 30,000 feet.
Perhaps the ground software should be rewritten to work under a different operating system. While this was a relatively safe failure, would you want windows to be controlling any real time system when a printer driver can bring down the system. It would be interesting to know which version of windows suffered this fault.
This design has a couple of really nice points in its favour. The built in fm transmitter which means its a doddle to tune in your car radio to listen to your mp3's or your passengers MP3's
2ndly because its designed to work with Cf cards it is ata compatable which means you could run a hard drive instead which would allow you to go direct from pc to player with a drive in one of those quick release players.
thirdly Its diy aspect means you could easily remotely wire the controls where you want them.
Ever tried hooking an mp3 cd player to a car never a good place to stick it and even if you get it in the cubby hole the controls are inaccessable.
the memory stick players are better due to size but you are kinda limited in storage space unless you pay a lot for a decent capacity.
I guess my ideal player would read from dvd with a fm wireless connector and a remote keypad. 4.3 gig will cover the first couple of days driving.
actually when it comes to it this project could be adapted to do this. dvd drive is fairly cheap. the psu would be a little more complicated to do and it wouldnt be out of this world to be able to fit the electronics inside the dvd drive case. Add a couple of buttons to the front of the drive or a small remote keypad and you could have a superb in dash dvd mp3 player.
think this article might be worth looking at a little closer.
A great comment it expresses nearly all my concerns.
but why do people not see the potential problems of privacy with mobile phones
where were you at 8pm last night? watching a film at the local cinema. phone records show that you were or werenot located in the cell covering the cinema at that particular time.
who was active enough to attend a hyde park demonstration against the routine logging of ordinary citizens movements. the following list of telephone numbers reistered to x at an address y were present in hyde park for a period of not less than one hour during the couse of the rally. this list can also be cross referenced against several other events at other locations to refine a list of potentially dangerous activists.
of course just because your phone was in a particular place at a particular time doesnt mean you were or that you were in hyde park to do anything more sinister than walk your dog on a saturday morning.
but you see how fishing for potential security threats has got easier.
you might believe in a united ireland but it doesn't mean you would take part in a bombing campain...
should your movements employment be restricted because a security service see's you as a potential threat?
in the 70's perhaps you could be fairly annonymous but not now.
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the newtons biggest problem was the time in which it was launched.
:)
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these days pda's are a lot better served especially with the rise in wireless networking.
to give an example the mdaIII is a pda phone with built in wireless now for my money gprs is expensive but with wireless built in it just takes finding a wireless hotspot and all of a sudden you have cheap calls and full net access
with skype for pocket pc you can call all over for 2p a minute (more for mobile calls) it will play mp3's streaming media play movies with sd cards getting cheaper its practical to put a movie on a card for long trips and the battery will last. most pda's can charge off a car ciggerette lighter socket. anyone with autoroute should have pocket streets which on the latest map can locate postcodes shops cinema's ect. never get lost in a strange city again.
whats still not right is the lack of external monitor/ composite video on most pda's and usb in. The toshiba 740e has this but the monitor resolution is low.
(actually there is a linux port being developed for it).
sdcards offer huge amounts of storage now so its possible to have almost everything you want sat on an sdcard find a hotspot and your net connected in seconds in most citys these days
one nice thing is the phone companys are offering some pretty good deals i got my mdaIII on a pretty cheap contract.
if apple developed a pda phone with usb and composite video and or vga support then they would make a killing my pda plays music plays films and all in 210 grams and pocket sized.
combine it with gps and you have the ultimate mobile companion.
best of all is when the phone companies subsidise it for you
life is good
http://www.tigerdirect.com/sectors/help/contactus. asp ;)
feel free to give them feed back, you know they deserve it
demolition manA CV09/
referenced in an episode of futurama
http://www.gotfuturama.com/Information/Capsules/3
wonder if benders antenna is for city wide wifi...
it looks about the right sort of size
well at least you could use the demo...
on an 800*600 laptop screen no possibility of using any of the buttons.
Really The site appears to be designed by a half wit.
Can anyone take this site seriously with such poor design of the site?
http://www.ecdl.com/main/index.php European Computing Driving Licience
Similar aims but a better site.
just reminded me of the mouse down mouse up arguement I had with a former boss
It was for a scada system (I don't think there was a mouse click event which would have stopped the arguement) basically his view was to click down on the button should be the event to do something. Mine was that mouse up was the better event to act on. since a user could click on the wrong button and then move away realising this and thus avoid carrying out the wrong action.
I bet few users realise they do this regularly.
I think a verb convention could be clearer, do this , dont do this, get me out of here. or yes no dunno(how did i get here)
perhaps pop up help bubbles could be useful to add greater explanation when needed. yes button (this will save the file and the old version will be erased)
ect.
You dont need to tell all the users all the time but some guidance could be useful if your confident you know what the button does its no hinderance, if your unsure the first time or the 100th time. Its nice that the program writer will hold your hand.
admittedly its bloated but can't we afford some bloat to help the users out a little.
I get cablemodem access for 24.99 a month 2 meg download 3 gig cap a day.
ntl did offer me a phoneline with 12 months free line rental which i accepted (why not) but then they ran out of lines...
I like my nice regular monthly bill no variation no worries.
I still might get a landline but pretty much for incoming calls only.
I dont want cable tv i have 800 satellite channels (some are english).
NTL would like to sell me more I am sure but understand I am paying for what i want.
isn't that a debit card and comes of your money ie they can clear your account and break your overdraft limit in the process?
you know what would be real nice and pretty safe. a voucher like you can get for prepay phones. you go to your local outlet these days for phones its a printed till reciept with a code number on it. Buy from there a voucher and spend that online the voucher has a maximum value so your risk is limited to the voucher value - what you bought with it.
Basically a one time credit card if you can do it for phone time why not for buying other goods and services the vendor is happy gets his money instantly wired to his account you get the security of a one time transaction and dont have to wait for a cheque to clear before being sent your goods.
cool idea no identy fraud no waiting.
http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?date=2004-10-11
a few hints to identify whats going on in a particular system.
ok folks can you answer me this one in all seriousness how do you know
when your pc has been owned.
Is there a site which will scan for probems originating from your Pc.
something simple that anyone could run and be able to say yes there is
a problem heres how to fix it?
I don't think anyone wants their pc to be used as a spam bot dos bot
so for all the guys who know how to stop this problem, educate and inform
please.
Actually I don't have an Ipod I don't want an Ipod and an IpodService.exe is no use to me on a laptop with a 400mhz processor and a maximum of 192 meg of ram giving away nearly 2 meg of it to a service I will never use is a waste of limited resources.
Portable media serial number (retreives the serial number of any portable music player connected to my system) also started and unneeded.
remote registry editor whats that doing enabled.
Thanks Grandparent and parent for alerting me to the option of turning off a lot of useless services.
The strangest notion grammar and spelling nazi's have is that English is one language with one set of rules.
English is a set of languages with regional and cultural sets of rules. When English first came to be printed an east anglian variation was used not because it was the correct form but because it was the form spoken and written by the printer.
English is a living language, that is it evolves and mutates as it is being used. That mutations occur is nothing new, which is why older written records in English can be difficult to comprehend.
Your form of English usage maybe correct to you and it might be the case that for you to accept me as a member of your social group I should form my words in the manner to which you are familiar with, but since I am not aspiring to join your social group I am not in error, you are. Since you seem to believe I wish to speak and write the same English variant as you.
If you were to compare two structured precise languages such as C++ and Java you might see a simularity in the code but java is not badly written C++ nor is C++ badly written java.
I can understand how distressing it must be for people, who are trained and write in a language with a precise syntax such as C++ or Java. People who find bueaty in the precise elegant expression of Idea's within a programming environment to have to come to grips with a language which has no such constraints.
English is buggy code gentlemen, Live with it.
"In our global economy, Smith said, countries should have similar standards and laws for patents -- and he said that in some cases, the United States should change its laws to mirror those of Europe and Japan. For example, he said the United States should adopt the "first-to-file" standard for granting patents; current law awards the patent to the first inventor."
Come on guys rtfa, I can't believe nobody saw this line.
Doesn't this mean that if you don't get in to the patent game, a company like microsoft is free to patent your idea and use the patent against you.
Say goodbye to prior art if they ever got this one pushed through.
Google translation procecution case flawed
"The public ministry had required a fine of 5.000 euros before the Court of Appeal, following the example parquet floor of Rodez which had made call of the decision of release."
seems to me you can only apply the tax to something with a monnetery value
depends what you download I guess itunes you can hit that with sales tax but the big legal and free linux distro they can tax 5% of nothing.
guess when election time comes he will be out of a job
political suicide i think its called
The perfect article and the perfect first comment thanks commander taco and stanistani,
I emailed the MEP's for my part of the UK and seem to have spent the week so far
trying to answer the questions of Bill Newton Dunn wnewton@europarl.eu.int
who has had questions such as
If the EU does nothing, will that leave the USA, which already has such laws, free to hoover up all Europe's freely available software and patent it for themselves, leaving us obliged to pay royalties to Bill Gates and co for work that Europeans did ?
(in short I said no)
If I understand you then correctly, you seee all patents as unnecessary ?
(again I answered no and it wasn't relevent to the issue of software patents)
How come the American software industry is so innovative and flourishing when they DO have legislation ? Bill Gates has gone a long way further since his 1991 quote.
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today."
Bill Gates (1991)
Here I really could do with some help, I really need a good list of examples of the damage that software patents are doing / have done to the american Companies which have to live with this now. Any first hand experience would be great.
What might happen is not going to convince him to vote against this directive.
lets try and make a difference , hit the reply button guys and gals and give me some ammunition please.
If anyone wants to email me directly blackest_knight AT hotmail.com will reach me.
I picked up a little hand crank charger for a mobile phone and it works yes
but it takes at least 10 minutes cranking for 2 minutes phone on time.
nice toy but to all intents a waste of time and a little money
on the otherhand a small wind generator supplying a lead acid battery that you could later hook up to your battery powered device. not such a bad idea, mount it in your garden, balcony doubles as a bird scarer. might even be able to power your garden lights too.
or use it to charge a spare battery pack or two.
someone must be making something like this.
Artistic works and I think you can include software in that definition have a value which is determined by the user.
As a content producer or copyright holder or patent holder your attitude to this ranges from I couldnt careless to sue the dead granny.
The big problem in reality is corperate greed, any exchange of files that they originally produced they see as a lost sale that they should have made. This only makes sense if people have the morals of a corperation.
What it means as a corperation is that your suppliers have no value to you. In physical trade thats seen as footwear manufacturers pay children 50p to produce footwear sold for £50 in supermarkets fixing a milk price below the cost of production, farmers being forced into contracts to supply one supermarket chain then being told the product isn't wanted and it gets left to rot in the fields, At least with our morning coffee we have an idea of how badly the producers are exploited. These are the morals of a corperate world- none what so ever and these are the standards by which we are being judged.
We will never pay for anything which we can get for free only if punitive damages are made against individuals is there any hope for the copyright holders to scare individuals into paying for copyrighted products.
Is this true are we just prepared to take and never pay for anything if we can get it for free or near free if we were corperations not people the answer is yes but we are not.
lets take a look at a legal method of obtaining books software and music and films for free or near free the public libarary should the public libary be sued for damages for the millions of books it regularly distributes to millions if not billions, look at all the lost sales there, or TV perhaps millions of viewers watching films instead of buying them. Lets shut the TV Stations down lets shut the libarys down. These blatent leachers of corperate property.
The reality is that TV Radio and libarys do in fact generate sales for the copyright holders and so does peer to peer file sharing.
Artistic works have no value in themselves, what value has a sound or an image
perhaps the sound of me breaking wind is mine copyrightable for all eternity it is mine I produced it you heard its exquisite tones its delicate textures. so pay me for it then! no perhaps it has no value for you.
People pay for things they value and can afford simple as that the reality is that human beings have an appreciation of an artists labour and will pay for it without being sued if it has enough value for them.
If your making a living using someone elses work and you do not pay them for it then punitive actions are reasonable, What is crazy is that the people who make money from selling fake products, selling 'pirated' copies of movies and cd's are operating freely the mpaa will not come after me for buying a copy of a movie from a guy in a market but will if i download it myself.
Lets just look to the future where copyright is enforced vigourously everything i look at listen too I pay for. well whats going to happen then is i listen to and view a lot less.
See p2p as a marketing tool that actually increases sales not a method of reducing sales.
Does an author see a libary as a threat to sales or a method to gain a following a buying readership if the later what is p2p file sharing other than i big libary.
obviously you were moderated by some one who doesnt know about futurama
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http://www.peelified.com/cgi-bin/Futurama/1-001
Dark Matter:
A super-dense substance used as a space ship fuel. It was mined in large amounts on the Vergon 6 until the whole planet was hollowed and on the verge of imploding in [1ACV04].
Also, the feces of a species called the Nibblonians.
simple search on google found me that
when i read your post I laughed, If i hadn't I would have cried
How much is a film or piece of music worth to an individual, Well the recording industry seem to think lets say £15 is the value of a CD, but whats it take for somebody to earn that money maybe 4 hours of thier life perhaps cleaning toilets.
now somebody will agree to this exchange and presumably they find the enrichment of their life from purchasing said CD worth the Exchange of their time and labour
certainly we all make this decision when we decide to purchase a CD.
Now if this CD disapoints and its actual value is not worth the time and effort expended to the individual to buy it, what recourse does this individual have, none what so ever. You do not get the opportunity to return an item of music or film period.
However the internet makes it possible for the individual to listen to and evaluate a potential purchase. In the 21st century we are all patrons of the Arts, and we get to choose who we reward for enriching our lives and how much by
lets put it this way, how long should britany spears expect someone to clean toilets to enable her to have a far better standard of living than the people buying her music.
should the artists feel any guilt for what their fans have to go through to reward them for their music?
downloading p2p might be considered by some to be immoral but the true value of music and film is in a hard to measure thing- the value of the experience to the individual. Is a CD of music worth a tenth of somebodys weekly income ? Also for somebody extremely rich are they rewarding an artist enough for the enjoyment that the artists work brings to them.
because when it comes down to it an artist wouldn't be able to pursue a career as an artist if people were not prepared to sacrifice some of thier lives for the artists benefit.
It makes far more sense for a centralised block list, regularly updated, hosted by a reputible body.
A small change in functionality to your web browser so that when you attempt to connect to a site on your blocklist. your browser informs you and the reason why and then asks you if you want to proceed anyway.
its a much more economic use of resources and could be added to by local police agencys as victims become known or perhaps a phishing notify button added to our browsers.
when we wander upon a site thats dodgy that url can be passed on to the hosts of the blocking lists, a site would be verified to prevent malicious use and if checked out as being ok, it wouldnt be reexamined till a certain number of other referals took place.
No waste of bandwidth, no denial of service attack on any site just a hazard warning in your browser that the site may be harmful.
perhaps the banking sites might even care to host such a list.
um while it seems a good idea at first, there are problems, languages are more than just equivilent ways of representing the same thing.
for example in japanese the choice of word for you actually denotes how you view the relationship between you and the other person and how they view you.
Languages also express different ways of thinking about the world and more importantly reflect the culture of the people using it. Even english a common language to most readers of slashdot, is localised to a greater or lesser extent.
A monolingual world wouldnt be an improvement, However if you really meant to say everyone should learn to speak at least a second language then i would agree because in learning your second language you will enjoy empathy with speakers of this language and your life will be enriched as a result.
we have diversity in every other aspect of our life why should we limit ourselves to one language
This design has a couple of really nice points in its favour.
The built in fm transmitter which means its a doddle to tune in your car radio to listen to your mp3's or your passengers MP3's
2ndly because its designed to work with Cf cards it is ata compatable which means you could run a hard drive instead which would allow you to go direct from pc to player with a drive in one of those quick release players.
thirdly Its diy aspect means you could easily remotely wire the controls where you want them.
Ever tried hooking an mp3 cd player to a car never a good place to stick it and even if you get it in the cubby hole the controls are inaccessable.
the memory stick players are better due to size but you are kinda limited in storage space unless you pay a lot for a decent capacity.
I guess my ideal player would read from dvd with a fm wireless connector and a remote keypad.
4.3 gig will cover the first couple of days driving.
actually when it comes to it this project could be adapted to do this.
dvd drive is fairly cheap. the psu would be a little more complicated to do and it wouldnt be out of this world to be able to fit the electronics inside the dvd drive case. Add a couple of buttons to the front of the drive or a small remote keypad and you could have a superb in dash dvd mp3 player.
think this article might be worth looking at a little closer.
A great comment it expresses nearly all my concerns.
but why do people not see the potential problems of privacy with mobile phones
where were you at 8pm last night?
watching a film at the local cinema.
phone records show that you were or werenot located in the cell covering the cinema at that particular time.
who was active enough to attend a hyde park demonstration against the routine
logging of ordinary citizens movements.
the following list of telephone numbers reistered to x at an address y were present in hyde park for a period of not less than one hour during the couse of the rally.
this list can also be cross referenced against several other events at other locations to refine a list of potentially dangerous activists.
of course just because your phone was in a particular place at a particular time doesnt mean you were or that you were in hyde park to do anything more sinister than walk your dog on a saturday morning.
but you see how fishing for potential security threats has got easier.
you might believe in a united ireland but it doesn't mean you would take part in a bombing campain...
should your movements employment be restricted because a security service see's you as a potential threat?
in the 70's perhaps you could be fairly annonymous but not now.