or practically any other career politician. those who actually make use of their brains and/or express their own opinion rather than finding a solid poll position and sticking to it quickly get replaced by someone who does the latter.
Honestly, your bitching and whining post struck me like someone asking their computer to support dual layer DVDs and magtape at the same time. It's just lame and uneducated.
how is having DVDs and magtape unreasonable? magtape is still the best medium for backups in my opinion and also the opinion of most any sizable IT dept, though it's probably gross overkill for most any home user.
though then again, the IPTV box we use for HD service packs coax, component, HDMI, composite with RCA audio, and optical audio.
though what kind of length do you mean by "short distances" on composite? if you're meaning short as in "2 feet maximum" that's plenty for most any hookup and ought to be supported, though if you mean short as in "single-digit inches" it wouldn't be good for most people.
unless the artist releases the music under an explicit license (creative commons or something) this STILL applies to their music, due to the statutory licencing, which is what this whole thing is about.
hmm. must've missed that. but in any point, i can't shop there are they don't ship to canada. i'll have to look around some more, as it seems that things have changed since i was last purchasing stuff.
in which case it should be "patent it or copyright it. choose one"
They do, since when? I reviewed patents once, and you know what, most of them would've been damn hard to reproduce based solely on the patent items. Go look at some patents related to keyboards and mice (which along with monitors is what I reviewed). I think you will find that most patents give you very little detail on the actual circuitry used by the device. I have seen a few patents where they will discuss this great control chip used by the device, but all you see is the inputs and outputs (and probably not all of them) of the chip. You get no real schematic for it, no HDL or VLSI.
i certainly would hope that such content-free patents would be rejected. in the spirit of the law, patented items should able to be recreated from the patent.
well, some algorithms (particularly brilliant million-man-hours type ones) should be patentable. otherwise they remain trade secrets and will likely lost permanently at some point. isn't this discussion the original reason for patents and copyrights?
however patents like amazon's click-a-button-and-buy crap should fail obviousness tests.
i still feel patents and copyrights are a good idea, but they're been severely corrupted and need a serious overhaul. the original 7+7 flat-time copyright should be fine for most any reasonable purpose. a similar time for patents (starting on the date of patent approval or the first rejection of the patent (if they reapply and get it the 2nd or nth time), which would help prevent the current "ask for the world then compromise" application idea)
Bah... they keep rolling it out... and teens keep breaking it. Why do they bother? because the DRM makers have said that this new stuff is really, really impossible to break! for sure this time!
This one was written by lawyers, and it is long and very verbose.
the main intention, as i see it, is simply closing the loopholes in the license (TiVo, for example). naturally, that usually requires being very, very, specific.
depends. that would certainly seem to be the case with the higher-functioning end of the spectrum, but on the other end, they'd be interpreting the world in such a different manner that they have practically no way to have a meaningful interaction with anyone else in the world.
ah yes. i forgot about the rural concentrators. i can't remember what we have for backup power on those (presumably a relatively short battery backup), as the rural service is handled by a different department, though barring a very major storm or other catastrophe, we'd likely get a truck rolling and get a temporary generator running there before the backup ran out.
only time the phones ever went down here was a few years ago when they were doing highway work nearby. the road crew cut the (clearly marked) cable twice within a week.
This really does piss me off but even with the $30 a year it will cost me
$30? going by the numbers you've said, that comes to 131.4Kwhr per year ((365x24x15w)/1000). current power prices are $0.10/Kwhr, so it should be closer to $13.
Any outage that lasts more than a few hours usually results in a failure of the copper infrastructure as well.
nonsense. POTS over copper is centrally powered with sizable banks of batteries and 2 diesel generators the size of my car for backup power.
in the event of a total power grid failure, we have enough fuel in the tanks under the main office to keep the system running for roughly 2 weeks (and if we can't get more fuel in that time, the shit has really hit the fan). the batteries alone would power the system for about 8 hours, but the generator starts up automatically if the power is out for more than 20 minutes.
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you'd probabalely like one of the proggy fonts. several of those have that nice slashed zero.
not if you mistake the I's for L's, as a number of fonts don't differentiate between them. same with 0 and O. one of my pet peeves regarding fonts.
Live life by the polls, just like Billery.
or practically any other career politician. those who actually make use of their brains and/or express their own opinion rather than finding a solid poll position and sticking to it quickly get replaced by someone who does the latter.
Honestly, your bitching and whining post struck me like someone asking their computer to support dual layer DVDs and magtape at the same time. It's just lame and uneducated.
how is having DVDs and magtape unreasonable? magtape is still the best medium for backups in my opinion and also the opinion of most any sizable IT dept, though it's probably gross overkill for most any home user.
though then again, the IPTV box we use for HD service packs coax, component, HDMI, composite with RCA audio, and optical audio.
though what kind of length do you mean by "short distances" on composite? if you're meaning short as in "2 feet maximum" that's plenty for most any hookup and ought to be supported, though if you mean short as in "single-digit inches" it wouldn't be good for most people.
unless the artist releases the music under an explicit license (creative commons or something) this STILL applies to their music, due to the statutory licencing, which is what this whole thing is about.
That would be OK if you wanted calamari rings the size of tractor tires....with the chewability of tractor tire.
and if you like it in Windex flavor. those things contain a lot of ammonia.
hmm. must've missed that. but in any point, i can't shop there are they don't ship to canada. i'll have to look around some more, as it seems that things have changed since i was last purchasing stuff.
So long as the software can be copyrighted,
in which case it should be "patent it or copyright it. choose one"
They do, since when? I reviewed patents once, and you know what, most of them would've been damn hard to reproduce based solely on the patent items. Go look at some patents related to keyboards and mice (which along with monitors is what I reviewed). I think you will find that most patents give you very little detail on the actual circuitry used by the device. I have seen a few patents where they will discuss this great control chip used by the device, but all you see is the inputs and outputs (and probably not all of them) of the chip. You get no real schematic for it, no HDL or VLSI.
i certainly would hope that such content-free patents would be rejected. in the spirit of the law, patented items should able to be recreated from the patent.
if they're not being rejected, WHY ?
Sheesh, get with the times.
tell that to the optical drive manufacturers. it is still problematic to find SATA optical drives at reasonable cost.
Does heat piping work well in a case in which the motherboard is mounted upside down?
being as heatpipes have been used for cooling in zero gravity, i doubt it would make any differant at all what direction the tubing goes.
well, some algorithms (particularly brilliant million-man-hours type ones) should be patentable. otherwise they remain trade secrets and will likely lost permanently at some point. isn't this discussion the original reason for patents and copyrights?
however patents like amazon's click-a-button-and-buy crap should fail obviousness tests.
i still feel patents and copyrights are a good idea, but they're been severely corrupted and need a serious overhaul. the original 7+7 flat-time copyright should be fine for most any reasonable purpose. a similar time for patents (starting on the date of patent approval or the first rejection of the patent (if they reapply and get it the 2nd or nth time), which would help prevent the current "ask for the world then compromise" application idea)
please define "something suspicious" for me.
*starts stopwatch*
This one was written by lawyers, and it is long and very verbose.
the main intention, as i see it, is simply closing the loopholes in the license (TiVo, for example). naturally, that usually requires being very, very, specific.
and when exactly was the last time a terrorist on this continent did that sort of thing?
depends. that would certainly seem to be the case with the higher-functioning end of the spectrum, but on the other end, they'd be interpreting the world in such a different manner that they have practically no way to have a meaningful interaction with anyone else in the world.
ah yes. i forgot about the rural concentrators. i can't remember what we have for backup power on those (presumably a relatively short battery backup), as the rural service is handled by a different department, though barring a very major storm or other catastrophe, we'd likely get a truck rolling and get a temporary generator running there before the backup ran out.
only time the phones ever went down here was a few years ago when they were doing highway work nearby. the road crew cut the (clearly marked) cable twice within a week.
and one day a little-used, but very important program won't start. "how long has that file been corrupted for? we have backups back from then, right?"
ah. i must've missed that when i was looking up prices to check that. current price here is about 6c per kwhr.
I believe the agreed-upon fee is a set percentage of the profits of your recording.
and if your profit is 0...?
This really does piss me off but even with the $30 a year it will cost me
$30? going by the numbers you've said, that comes to 131.4Kwhr per year ((365x24x15w)/1000). current power prices are $0.10/Kwhr, so it should be closer to $13.
and yes, i do work for a phone company, namely, Sasktel.
Any outage that lasts more than a few hours usually results in a failure of the copper infrastructure as well.
nonsense. POTS over copper is centrally powered with sizable banks of batteries and 2 diesel generators the size of my car for backup power.
in the event of a total power grid failure, we have enough fuel in the tanks under the main office to keep the system running for roughly 2 weeks (and if we can't get more fuel in that time, the shit has really hit the fan). the batteries alone would power the system for about 8 hours, but the generator starts up automatically if the power is out for more than 20 minutes.
or in this case, a unit of volume, the fluid ounce.
or unless it is labeled as an "energy drink" or such, which is why we have mountain dew energy, which, AFAIK, is identical to normal US mountain dew.