oh the Feds are probably just ticked that he pissed in their wheaties. I bet the judge throws the charges out, slaps the FBI's hands and tells them to stop wasteing his time.
In the meantime far more people get injured playing or by fights or even killed over their constant passion for Monday Night Football and yet we see no articles about it because "oh that's normal..." It's just more of the "us vs. those weirdos" mentality.
It's simply MPAA's turn to turn to government to try to justify their existance and the standard quo instead of changing the way they do biz with the demands of consumers. It's already been proven in numerous studies anyway that advertising doesn't work. Oh it does for introducing a new product but that's short turn anyway which is why we don't see "Tide" or Hinky Dinky grocery store commercials on prime time anymore. PT is now the time slot for Car commercials and big ticket items only which is a constant battle for time slots and available commercials which causes shows to get dumped that in the past would have remained (ABC's Invasion for example where the network's constant tampering with it killed it).
Screw the Big 3 (4 now when you count Fox). They don't have the patience for programs to build viewership anyway because of this lust over the high ticket ads. They either have to change with the technology - shows on demand and drop commercials during a show or fold. There is no other choice, trying to legislate the technology is something they've tried to do since the Radio and it always backfires when they fight the tech. instead of working with it because what they are really fighting is their own customers.
"For them, shifting from a like-minded audience of peers to an intergenerational, hierarchical workplace can be jarring."...
Serves the companies right for anything that gets spilled on blogs. Perhaps their employees are sick and tired of being the last one to know anything about their company.
One morning on the bus:
Pete: Hey, Joe how do you like the new company?
Joe: What are you mean?
Pete: Well the Wall Street J here says Company X bought yours out.
Joe: ehhhhh.... hmmm I wonder if I have a job to go to today????
end analogy.
Seriously, its about time someone turned the tables on them for once.
great, another thing that's the parents jobs being shoved onto the school district. There's one easy solution to school violence, gangs in schools etc... - BUST it up! Go back to many small schools vs. these giant ones where the students outnumber the staff 50+ to 1. My state did the stupidest thing ever by getting rid of the class I schools and merging into big schools. Stupid stupid stupid.
yea there you go RIAA, instead of admitting that you're the dinosour keep sueing all other new models so you can stay the same. Their cry baby ways are exactly as if the Telegraph companies would have lobbied congress to outlaw the telephone.
"(I know, I know, Windows doesn't play DVDs either. But it's a lot easier to set that up in Windows.)"
I completely disagree. In Linspire, it's one click to get dvd playback going. In ubuntu it's one sentence to type in the command line or a couple clicks using automatix tool. In windows its several clicks, accept a "licence", click several more times, fill out a registration form and then after its finally installed over half the dvd movies you try to play prompt you to install their stupid player that comes with the movie making you realize you wasted a lot of money for dvd software since most of the movies have one on the disc!
Note: because the vast majority of dvd drives come with dvd playback software I consider it completely legal to use dvdcss in Linux, its not my fault the software maker is one of Gates' cronies, the DRIVE is what should make playback legal anyway.
obsessivemathfreaks said: "I have yet to meet an off the shelf, home consumer piece of hardware that would not work with a Windows system. They are all designed and constructed for the purposes of usage on Windows."
The same can be said for the computers sold with Xandros and Linspire certified computers.
In both the Windows and Linux case they work out of the box when purchased off the shelf because the OEM has pre-installed the proper drivers/modules. It has little to nothing to do with the OS.
What I'm curious about though is what type of CS are there supposedly not enough students in? I assume that's programming and engineering and NOT network admin types. If this is the case then I agree with it because we are also lacking in the medical field and other high math/science fields as well. Maybe people are scared to death of the enormous debt they'll have after they finish grad school so they go for the undergrad fields or AA degree plus certifications instead.
The textbook market is such a racket. So many classes have a "required" textbook that you never use anyway. At the end of the semester you can open it and still feel and hear the crackle of the newness of it. Their biz is such a sanctioned scam its ridiculous. But so is the whole "good ole boy" educational system anyway.
last I checked the Bill of Rights was inalienable rights and Apple wasn't the interpreter of it nor was there a governing body to say "this is the press, and this isn't" - to do that would be akin to what Communism does and Hitler did with state run press.
from burst's website: "burst.com began as an R&D partnership in 1988; its initial activities focused upon technical investigations, patent development and research pertaining to the viability of transmitting and receiving video and audio programming in Faster-Than-Real-Time(TM) over a variety of networks. The Company filed its first U.S. patent application in 1988, followed by its second U.S. patent application and international patents in 1989."
IOW: "we don't actually make anything or bring anything to market, we just come up with ideas, patent them, then sue anyone that does something similar and actually does something with it."
oh and don't forget his claim that "I remember my mother singing the union songs as she rocked me."
LOL yea right!
The guy was so book smart that it ruined him. Gore's tall tales was a form of speaking called "creative licence". But that only works when your audience knows that's what you are doing ie... same kind/class/educated group of people. To a general audience and in the age of sound bites it was just flat out stupid to do.
Yea there's a market, albeit small. I can see small companies with only a handful of computers using it. I'm thinking of real estate offices, optical shops and so on. Not Big Name Insurance company with 70,000 computers to serve to.
the rebuttel stated: "Apple only has to design for hardware configurations that it itself has built. Were Apple to ship OS X for "bog-standard 32-bit PC hardware", it would be just as frustrating as Windows."
I hear that argument made against Apple selling the OS for PC's all the time and its BUNK. Apple doesn't have to design for the hardware, it merely has to provide (which it already does btw) the api to hardware vendors so they can write drivers for it - just like Windows does. MSFT doesn't make drivers for your NVIDIA card, NVIDIA does, the same thing goes with add-on mac hardware.
Apple would be foolish to NOT decide to ship OS-X for pc's. And I don't think it would hurt at all their computer hardware sales just like buying a copy of Windows to build a PC with doesn't hurt DELL. There are those who buy a whole rig and those who cannabalize old rigs and build a new one with, Apple would benefit from both worlds. All they'd have to do is only sell Retail copies and not licence it for OEM so that there aren't clone business' again. Even that IMO would be a good thing anyway, the model works for MSFT afterall. The only reason it didn't work before is because of mismanagement which is entirely changed now.
stupid, simply stupid. Patents used to mean a tangible invention, not an idea, not a process but a physical thing you can hold. What their saying really is "no one else should get to have a monthly rental service".
I think they'll have to add a subscription fee in the long run or access to the feed comes from being a registered giver. Of course there should be a trial period. The great thing about these podcasts is that people who ordinarily wouldn't listen to them may stumble into them (I'm one but I am a PBS watcher so maybe I don't count in this category).
The d/load would still be able to be spread across p2p networks of course but by and large i wager most will get it as a subscriber. The problem of course is this adds another layer of administrative costs on, handling the auto-billing and unsubscribing, sending the right amounts to the proper stations etc... these administrative costs is what would probably drive the cost up for the subscription to where people won'tbother to get it.
the theatre companies are correct. "Piracy" had nothing to do at all with sales slumps what caused it was stinkers in 2005. Expensive big budget stinkers at that!
But at the same time they are to blame too. I'm not going to pay $10 for a movie that doesn't have expensive special effects and top notch acting. But I may have been willing to watch ones that cost $3 that aren't all that. So in a way the theatres slit their own throats with their price hikes over the years.
I liked the idea when it was first brought up several years ago by the king of porn in Seattle because you could simply instruct your browser to never allow.xxx to open. BUT what's to keep anyone from breaking the rule and still putting them on.com? I mean they do it now anyway and last as long as they can until their host shuts them down but then they pop up on another one. Typically their job is lure you to the real pay site.
heh i like your answer.
The conclusions are false imo. We are bombarded by much higher doses of energy from space than we are electronic devices. For that matter the cause of depression and many "psychological" problems are now KNOWN - a reduction of serotonin in the brain see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin
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oh the Feds are probably just ticked that he pissed in their wheaties. I bet the judge throws the charges out, slaps the FBI's hands and tells them to stop wasteing his time.
what's scary isn't that these hackers broke into lexis-nexis but that lexis-nexis has that much information about us to obtain!
In the meantime far more people get injured playing or by fights or even killed over their constant passion for Monday Night Football and yet we see no articles about it because "oh that's normal..." It's just more of the "us vs. those weirdos" mentality.
It's simply MPAA's turn to turn to government to try to justify their existance and the standard quo instead of changing the way they do biz with the demands of consumers. It's already been proven in numerous studies anyway that advertising doesn't work. Oh it does for introducing a new product but that's short turn anyway which is why we don't see "Tide" or Hinky Dinky grocery store commercials on prime time anymore. PT is now the time slot for Car commercials and big ticket items only which is a constant battle for time slots and available commercials which causes shows to get dumped that in the past would have remained (ABC's Invasion for example where the network's constant tampering with it killed it). Screw the Big 3 (4 now when you count Fox). They don't have the patience for programs to build viewership anyway because of this lust over the high ticket ads. They either have to change with the technology - shows on demand and drop commercials during a show or fold. There is no other choice, trying to legislate the technology is something they've tried to do since the Radio and it always backfires when they fight the tech. instead of working with it because what they are really fighting is their own customers.
"For them, shifting from a like-minded audience of peers to an intergenerational, hierarchical workplace can be jarring."... Serves the companies right for anything that gets spilled on blogs. Perhaps their employees are sick and tired of being the last one to know anything about their company. One morning on the bus: Pete: Hey, Joe how do you like the new company? Joe: What are you mean? Pete: Well the Wall Street J here says Company X bought yours out. Joe: ehhhhh.... hmmm I wonder if I have a job to go to today???? end analogy. Seriously, its about time someone turned the tables on them for once.
great, another thing that's the parents jobs being shoved onto the school district. There's one easy solution to school violence, gangs in schools etc... - BUST it up! Go back to many small schools vs. these giant ones where the students outnumber the staff 50+ to 1. My state did the stupidest thing ever by getting rid of the class I schools and merging into big schools. Stupid stupid stupid.
yea there you go RIAA, instead of admitting that you're the dinosour keep sueing all other new models so you can stay the same. Their cry baby ways are exactly as if the Telegraph companies would have lobbied congress to outlaw the telephone.
"(I know, I know, Windows doesn't play DVDs either. But it's a lot easier to set that up in Windows.)" I completely disagree. In Linspire, it's one click to get dvd playback going. In ubuntu it's one sentence to type in the command line or a couple clicks using automatix tool. In windows its several clicks, accept a "licence", click several more times, fill out a registration form and then after its finally installed over half the dvd movies you try to play prompt you to install their stupid player that comes with the movie making you realize you wasted a lot of money for dvd software since most of the movies have one on the disc! Note: because the vast majority of dvd drives come with dvd playback software I consider it completely legal to use dvdcss in Linux, its not my fault the software maker is one of Gates' cronies, the DRIVE is what should make playback legal anyway.
obsessivemathfreaks said: "I have yet to meet an off the shelf, home consumer piece of hardware that would not work with a Windows system. They are all designed and constructed for the purposes of usage on Windows." The same can be said for the computers sold with Xandros and Linspire certified computers. In both the Windows and Linux case they work out of the box when purchased off the shelf because the OEM has pre-installed the proper drivers/modules. It has little to nothing to do with the OS.
What I'm curious about though is what type of CS are there supposedly not enough students in? I assume that's programming and engineering and NOT network admin types. If this is the case then I agree with it because we are also lacking in the medical field and other high math/science fields as well. Maybe people are scared to death of the enormous debt they'll have after they finish grad school so they go for the undergrad fields or AA degree plus certifications instead.
yup so true. ---- Think of the kittens! Every time you mast--ate god kills a kitten!
and how many hours of tax payer time and paper was wasted on this which should be common sense by all computer users?
The textbook market is such a racket. So many classes have a "required" textbook that you never use anyway. At the end of the semester you can open it and still feel and hear the crackle of the newness of it. Their biz is such a sanctioned scam its ridiculous. But so is the whole "good ole boy" educational system anyway.
last I checked the Bill of Rights was inalienable rights and Apple wasn't the interpreter of it nor was there a governing body to say "this is the press, and this isn't" - to do that would be akin to what Communism does and Hitler did with state run press.
from burst's website: "burst.com began as an R&D partnership in 1988; its initial activities focused upon technical investigations, patent development and research pertaining to the viability of transmitting and receiving video and audio programming in Faster-Than-Real-Time(TM) over a variety of networks. The Company filed its first U.S. patent application in 1988, followed by its second U.S. patent application and international patents in 1989." IOW: "we don't actually make anything or bring anything to market, we just come up with ideas, patent them, then sue anyone that does something similar and actually does something with it."
I want to agree with the assessment but this "study" isn't from a neutral third party so it must be taken with a grain of salt.
oh and don't forget his claim that "I remember my mother singing the union songs as she rocked me." LOL yea right! The guy was so book smart that it ruined him. Gore's tall tales was a form of speaking called "creative licence". But that only works when your audience knows that's what you are doing ie... same kind/class/educated group of people. To a general audience and in the age of sound bites it was just flat out stupid to do.
Yea there's a market, albeit small. I can see small companies with only a handful of computers using it. I'm thinking of real estate offices, optical shops and so on. Not Big Name Insurance company with 70,000 computers to serve to.
the rebuttel stated: "Apple only has to design for hardware configurations that it itself has built. Were Apple to ship OS X for "bog-standard 32-bit PC hardware", it would be just as frustrating as Windows." I hear that argument made against Apple selling the OS for PC's all the time and its BUNK. Apple doesn't have to design for the hardware, it merely has to provide (which it already does btw) the api to hardware vendors so they can write drivers for it - just like Windows does. MSFT doesn't make drivers for your NVIDIA card, NVIDIA does, the same thing goes with add-on mac hardware. Apple would be foolish to NOT decide to ship OS-X for pc's. And I don't think it would hurt at all their computer hardware sales just like buying a copy of Windows to build a PC with doesn't hurt DELL. There are those who buy a whole rig and those who cannabalize old rigs and build a new one with, Apple would benefit from both worlds. All they'd have to do is only sell Retail copies and not licence it for OEM so that there aren't clone business' again. Even that IMO would be a good thing anyway, the model works for MSFT afterall. The only reason it didn't work before is because of mismanagement which is entirely changed now.
stupid, simply stupid. Patents used to mean a tangible invention, not an idea, not a process but a physical thing you can hold. What their saying really is "no one else should get to have a monthly rental service".
I think they'll have to add a subscription fee in the long run or access to the feed comes from being a registered giver. Of course there should be a trial period. The great thing about these podcasts is that people who ordinarily wouldn't listen to them may stumble into them (I'm one but I am a PBS watcher so maybe I don't count in this category). The d/load would still be able to be spread across p2p networks of course but by and large i wager most will get it as a subscriber. The problem of course is this adds another layer of administrative costs on, handling the auto-billing and unsubscribing, sending the right amounts to the proper stations etc... these administrative costs is what would probably drive the cost up for the subscription to where people won'tbother to get it.
the theatre companies are correct. "Piracy" had nothing to do at all with sales slumps what caused it was stinkers in 2005. Expensive big budget stinkers at that! But at the same time they are to blame too. I'm not going to pay $10 for a movie that doesn't have expensive special effects and top notch acting. But I may have been willing to watch ones that cost $3 that aren't all that. So in a way the theatres slit their own throats with their price hikes over the years.
I liked the idea when it was first brought up several years ago by the king of porn in Seattle because you could simply instruct your browser to never allow .xxx to open. BUT what's to keep anyone from breaking the rule and still putting them on .com? I mean they do it now anyway and last as long as they can until their host shuts them down but then they pop up on another one. Typically their job is lure you to the real pay site.
also note the article is nothing more than anecdotes. No research, no peer review etc...
heh i like your answer. The conclusions are false imo. We are bombarded by much higher doses of energy from space than we are electronic devices. For that matter the cause of depression and many "psychological" problems are now KNOWN - a reduction of serotonin in the brain see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serotonin