But it's only in the past few years they've become retailers, like Apple. It's as if Walmart suddenly became a publisher and sold only its own books through its stores.
Such vertical integration can, and does, lead to monopoly.
There is no president, not Obama, not his successor, that will extract us from Afghanistan now. Now it's about real money. To leave would be to cede everything to the Chinese, who would march in *tomorrow* and annex Afghanistan as "West China." And there would be *fuck all* anyone would be able to do about it. And the Taliban would not survive either. The Chinese will not give quarter/tolerate that bullshit. They will not play fair.
A self-hosted file, if it becomes popular, even if it's free, will cost you.02 per download.
There are many people on YouTube with more than 1,000,000 viewers per title, so this is not some figure I pulled out of my ass. Since YouTube absorbs these costs because they host, it doesn't matter to the people who upload videos like KeyboardCat. However, you are completely unprotected if you self-host. Should you be creative enough that something go viral, you are on the hook for $20,000 if you are "lucky enough" to have 1,000,000 downloads.
I don't know about you, but $20,000 to me is not chump change.
If you have enough "subscribers" if you do not charge per download (over 100,000) you MUST PAY A LICENSE FEE. And these fees are much steeper than Over-The-Air video, because the Internet is somehow special.
If you make video LONGER THAN 12 MINUTES and distribute it you must pay 2% royalties *or* 2 cents per movie, whichever is greater. If your home movie becomes popular and is more than 12 minutes and you have not paid your two cents per download (even if you do not charge for it!) and they take notice of it, you will soon see the sky blacken with lawyers.
Beyond participation fees for indirect revenue (revenue not directly from the user), MPEG LA also sets out amounts for title-by-title (rental or per-view). For videos less than 12 minutes long, there is no royalty; but for videos beyond 12 minutes in length, the amounts are decided at 2% of the retail price paid to the licensee or 2 cents per title. The retail price is specifically noted as a "first arms length" transaction, specifically between the end user and the seller of on-demand, pay-per-view, and electronic downloads to end users.
If your video is longer than 12 minutes, MPEG-LA has its hooks in your content whether you like it or not. Even if it's a home movie of your kids that is 13 minutes long, you owe MPEG-LA money if you "broadcast" it over the Internet. Even if you give it away, the minimum charge is 2 cents per download as described above.
I cut off the end to demonstrate the *actual* reason.
Read it again.
Active avoidance of peer review is the first red flag that should pop up for anyone looking for kooks with unreproducible results. The "cuz the terrorists might see it" stuff is a red herring. I didn't fall off the kielbasa wagon yesterday.
Real science gets peer review. Junk science and pseudoscience gets press releases, c.f., cold fusion.
Basically, Ms Weinberger suggests, they made the whole thing up. Some other scientists have been unable to replicate some of the work of Paul Ekman, the psychology professor on whose work the SPOT program (and the television series Lie to Me) is based. Most of Ekman's peer-reviewed work was published decades ago. He says he now avoids peer-reviewed journals because they're read closely by scientists in countries that America considers to be threats.
And:
But he's opposed to anyone actually trying to test SPOT scientifically. That would be "totally bogus,"
You have got to be kidding me.
This is the new phrenology.
I'll state his real reason for avoiding peer review, it's taken from the above quote:
He says he now avoids peer-reviewed journals because they're read closely by scientists
Soon, someone is going to revive the phlogiston theory of fire.
I'm going to patent making obvious claims in patents. And then I am never going to license it.
"Oh, let's patent auction signals with a computer, because, it's a COMPUTER"
It's a good thing Jeff wasn't in charge of building the first computers. We'd still be supplicating to the high priests of ENIAC to please run our computations, pretty please, and we'll get you coffee.
Maybe someone should patent "Impacting the face of Jeff Bezos with a rectilinear lump of fired red clay" and implement it.
Birds and animals love fermented berries and fruits.
In my parents' yard, there used to be this berry bush. I can't tell you what it was, but the flowers were always pretty and the berries inedible (for humans) and sometimes the yard would have drunken birds from the overripe berries.
When you finally get rid of "hurr, this file is a program because it ends in.exe" and stripping executability from incoming files, then maybe you can start talking about security with the grown-ups.
But until then, go back to the kiddie-table with CP/M.
For others, it's only loyalty in the sense of battered wife syndrome
You mean like Windows "loyalty"?
Indeed, the whole "it's the user's fault" attitude Microsoft has towards people who have problems with its software is surely blaming the victim, isn't it?
Go ahead, ask your typical Windows user how much he "loves windows" and Microsoft applications.
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Now, this being the typical corporate fuck up, everyone will be pointing fingers at the others stating "We told them so!" but the were: too stupid, political, arrogant, or didn't listen and therefore the disaster happened. If only they listened to us.
Then we need to start plugging the well with BP executives. From what we've all seen, they are largely worthless and incapable of making the decisions for which they supposedly earn their astronomical rock-star pay.
And then we need to regulate their sorry asses. Incapable of doing the right thing? You've earned onerous regulation. BP was arguing in front of the Canadian parliament that they don't need to drill relief wells in the same season as the production wells *after* this disaster started. They are obviously fucking nuts and need to be *told* what to do - with teeth. There needs to be fines targeting not just the company but the executives themselves. Jail time would be nice too, but then the only people who really serve jail time are those who are poor or of color, so that appears to be asking for too much.
The LaRouchians are within your ranks. Get to know them.
If this is not obvious to you, YOU SHOULD BE MORE OBSERVANT.
>Its rallies have actually be characterized by being peaceful and resulting in less damage to property and shared services than Obama political rallies.
Not when you ransack classrooms when you don't like the New Deal collage on the wall.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes because Crocheting & Knitting RPGs would sell so well.
Bitches don't know about my cross-stitch porn.
--
BMO
It's not libel or slander if it's true.
In the United States, truth is an *absolute defense*
e360 is a spammer. Period.
They should be blackholed at the backbone level.
--
BMO
When was the last time someone waited in line for a Microsoft product?
15 years ago? Yeah that's about right.
--
BMO
But it's only in the past few years they've become retailers, like Apple. It's as if Walmart suddenly became a publisher and sold only its own books through its stores.
Such vertical integration can, and does, lead to monopoly.
--
BMO
There is no president, not Obama, not his successor, that will extract us from Afghanistan now. Now it's about real money. To leave would be to cede everything to the Chinese, who would march in *tomorrow* and annex Afghanistan as "West China." And there would be *fuck all* anyone would be able to do about it. And the Taliban would not survive either. The Chinese will not give quarter/tolerate that bullshit. They will not play fair.
The Great Game never died.
--
BMO
Out of curiosity I went to read your previous posts.
You're a fucking moron. The only fucking moron I know of with a low digit slashdot ID.
Have a nice day.
*plonk*
--
BMO
ACTA is going to fix that.
So bend over and take it, just like the rest of us.
--
BMO
How does that refute anything I've said?
A self-hosted file, if it becomes popular, even if it's free, will cost you .02 per download.
There are many people on YouTube with more than 1,000,000 viewers per title, so this is not some figure I pulled out of my ass. Since YouTube absorbs these costs because they host, it doesn't matter to the people who upload videos like KeyboardCat. However, you are completely unprotected if you self-host. Should you be creative enough that something go viral, you are on the hook for $20,000 if you are "lucky enough" to have 1,000,000 downloads.
I don't know about you, but $20,000 to me is not chump change.
--
BMO
>For fuck sake, editors.
"Trolling is a art" - Anonymous
--
BMO
What is certain is holders of 4 digit UIDs with a Sensayoomah(TM) are a myth.
--
BMO
>just convert the file to a format not owned by MPEG LA
That's not how it works.
--
BMO
>MPEG LA doesn't forbid sharing of anything.
Yes, it DOES.
If you have enough "subscribers" if you do not charge per download (over 100,000) you MUST PAY A LICENSE FEE. And these fees are much steeper than Over-The-Air video, because the Internet is somehow special.
If you make video LONGER THAN 12 MINUTES and distribute it you must pay 2% royalties *or* 2 cents per movie, whichever is greater. If your home movie becomes popular and is more than 12 minutes and you have not paid your two cents per download (even if you do not charge for it!) and they take notice of it, you will soon see the sky blacken with lawyers.
If your video is longer than 12 minutes, MPEG-LA has its hooks in your content whether you like it or not. Even if it's a home movie of your kids that is 13 minutes long, you owe MPEG-LA money if you "broadcast" it over the Internet. Even if you give it away, the minimum charge is 2 cents per download as described above.
http://www.streamingmedia.com/Articles/Editorial/Featured-Articles/The-H.264-Licensing-Labyrinth-65403.aspx
--
BMO
You don't know how thick it is?
If they said .00762mm, you still wouldn't have been able to visualize it anyway.
This is how you visualize it:
It's 1/10 the thickness of a human hair. Now get out.
--
BMO
No, I quoted in full in the top.
I cut off the end to demonstrate the *actual* reason.
Read it again.
Active avoidance of peer review is the first red flag that should pop up for anyone looking for kooks with unreproducible results. The "cuz the terrorists might see it" stuff is a red herring. I didn't fall off the kielbasa wagon yesterday.
Real science gets peer review. Junk science and pseudoscience gets press releases, c.f., cold fusion.
--
BMO
From the fine article:
And:
But he's opposed to anyone actually trying to test SPOT scientifically. That would be "totally bogus,"
You have got to be kidding me.
This is the new phrenology.
I'll state his real reason for avoiding peer review, it's taken from the above quote:
He says he now avoids peer-reviewed journals because they're read closely by scientists
Soon, someone is going to revive the phlogiston theory of fire.
--
BMO
I'm going to patent making obvious claims in patents. And then I am never going to license it.
"Oh, let's patent auction signals with a computer, because, it's a COMPUTER"
It's a good thing Jeff wasn't in charge of building the first computers. We'd still be supplicating to the high priests of ENIAC to please run our computations, pretty please, and we'll get you coffee.
Maybe someone should patent "Impacting the face of Jeff Bezos with a rectilinear lump of fired red clay" and implement it.
--
BMO
Birds and animals love fermented berries and fruits.
In my parents' yard, there used to be this berry bush. I can't tell you what it was, but the flowers were always pretty and the berries inedible (for humans) and sometimes the yard would have drunken birds from the overripe berries.
Not news. Interesting, but not news.
--
BMO
When you finally get rid of "hurr, this file is a program because it ends in .exe" and stripping executability from incoming files, then maybe you can start talking about security with the grown-ups.
But until then, go back to the kiddie-table with CP/M.
--
BMO
So... Focalin is the drug of one hand clapping to Ritalin's two,
No, Focalin and Ritalin is the sound of two hands clapping, and Thalidomide is the sound of two flippers waving in the air.
I've got a lay-away account for some air conditioners in Hell.
--
BMO
It's called crisis fatigue. This is what they're counting on.
--
BMO
>Exxon's fuckup only lasted a few days (no live video.)
I don't think you're old enough to remember it being in the news for months.
--
BMO
For others, it's only loyalty in the sense of battered wife syndrome
You mean like Windows "loyalty"?
Indeed, the whole "it's the user's fault" attitude Microsoft has towards people who have problems with its software is surely blaming the victim, isn't it?
Go ahead, ask your typical Windows user how much he "loves windows" and Microsoft applications.
--
BMO
"HP *WILL NOT* come out of this unscathed,"
Exxon did. Their fine was a drop in the bucket.
--
BMO
Don't confuse malice with corporate bureaucracy,
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
Now, this being the typical corporate fuck up, everyone will be pointing fingers at the others stating "We told them so!" but the were: too stupid, political, arrogant, or didn't listen and therefore the disaster happened. If only they listened to us.
Then we need to start plugging the well with BP executives. From what we've all seen, they are largely worthless and incapable of making the decisions for which they supposedly earn their astronomical rock-star pay.
And then we need to regulate their sorry asses. Incapable of doing the right thing? You've earned onerous regulation. BP was arguing in front of the Canadian parliament that they don't need to drill relief wells in the same season as the production wells *after* this disaster started. They are obviously fucking nuts and need to be *told* what to do - with teeth. There needs to be fines targeting not just the company but the executives themselves. Jail time would be nice too, but then the only people who really serve jail time are those who are poor or of color, so that appears to be asking for too much.
Stop excusing BP.
--
BMO
>What does LaRouche have to do with the TeaParty?
The LaRouchians are within your ranks. Get to know them.
If this is not obvious to you, YOU SHOULD BE MORE OBSERVANT.
>Its rallies have actually be characterized by being peaceful and resulting in less damage to property and shared services than Obama political rallies.
Not when you ransack classrooms when you don't like the New Deal collage on the wall.
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joan_walsh/politics/2010/05/14/maine_tea_party_worse_than_you_thought
Posting with no karma bonus, because it's off topic.
--
BMO