i'm sure there are plenty of law enforcement organizations in the US that would also tell you that they "have no spare manpower for petty things like computer crimes", it's not purely an Eastern Bloc problem
"more for computational-heavy usage, including digital content creation, engineering analysis, such as CAD"
that's a polite way to say "it's for stuff that does a lot of work on a little data, because those 4 processors are clogged on the same data pipes", in other words "not most games"
i'm sure that happens a lot. i'm also sure that when we can only get 64% of the eligible voters to go and vote when it's only once every 2 years (setting aside primaries) and a ballot that takes up a couple sheets of paper, we'd see a vanishingly small number who would go to vote daily/weekly on 500 page budgets and laws.
But you're not paying for the music. Copyright over the music belongs to the record label or artist.
the fact that they retain copyright means that i can't burn copies of my disc and sell them to other people, it doesn't mean that i don't in fact own the disc/music that i walked out of the store with. that notion is a result of this crazy new theory of "licenses" for consumer products, but it has nothing to do with copyright.
think of any of the rights that you would associate with ownership, and ask yourself if it makes sense that the author retained them : can they come into my house and take "their music" back? can they object that i am using "their CD" as a coaster? can they insist that i not play "their disc" immediately after playing some other music that they don't like?
i'm not saying that taking their stuff is right, i'm just curious if The Colbert Report had to (and did) contact the rights holder for that clip before using it. that show is not exactly a news program so they don't have that excuse to bypass copyright, and i don't think people posting things to YouTube are automatically surrendering the rights to their content
it's interesting that no one was batting an eye when the Colbert report freely used the Youtube clip of the guy riding his bike down the hill on fire. TV is free to "borrow" from us, but they don't want us to do the same?
There is genuine confusion here, between the two names -- if you just pheonetically say "You Tube dot com", the listener can't tell the difference. The proper party for Utube.com to be sold to use Youtube.com, then it can just be made to point to the main site.
it's not even any better in the south, every time they type in yalltube.com it gets them to an equally useless tube-related site
the problem is that while google.com is working with the CIA, google.ru is working with the KGB and google.co.uk is working with MI-5...it's a conflict of interest thing
i thought that looked strange as well, but i think the reason they're trying to block Sirius and XM from broadcasting these new types of content is because they're trying to broadcast it and still remain unregulated. everyone else that has this content is regulated much more stringently, XM and Sirius are trying to be special and ignore all the overhead of rules compliance that everyone else has. if the system is broken, XM/Sirius should lobby to fix it for everybody rather than trying to get special treatment
Thanks for pointing out that HD radio isn't a pay-as-you-go service -- I admit to little curiosity about it, since, for me, FM radio works just fine. I realize that's partly because of where I live. Does HD radio offer anything useful to those who live too far from FM radio stations they'd like to hear, or who live in mountainous regions where reception is poor even for nearby stations?
i'm just learning about HD Radio myself, i've just heard a few stations around me mention that they're using it now and i had heard a simple outline of it. it looks like the manufacturer claims that it improves reception:
# The most common form of interference, multipath distortion, occurs when part of a signal bounces off an object and arrives at the receiver at a different time than the main signal. HD Radio receivers are designed to sort through the reflected signals and reduce static, hiss, pops and fades.
i just hope the precision on this is really, really high. that way i can find my !#^!^ phone when i lay it down somewhere randomly (and the ringer is off!)
maybe i'm not understanding your comment, but RDS isn't a pay-as-you-go service. as such, as long as the startup costs (the stereos that support it) aren't ridiculous, they gets averaged out over the life of the stereo. that's the ideal anyway, in reality when i looked at after-market car radio catalogs two years ago it seemed like only Blaupunkt (sp?) radios had that feature and they were fairly expensive (it seems like XM/Sirius came along at the same time as RDS was gaining traction, and everyone supports that instead).
i don't see how a marketer could be behind any plan that causes them to sell less of something. less quality? certainly! less volume? no way. unless they're going with the Cartmanland exclusivity strategy
i found RDS really useful for finding stations by genre. i had a rental car for a week while mine was repaired, and i found 2-3 new stations that i hadn't found with a simple scan of the channel lists (there's tons of crappy channels in Chicago that make scanning slowly a pain to do). besides, the names of the songs are not necessarily announced after the song, sometimes they come before (which is useless if you just flipped in) or not at all.
isn't RDS basically getting replaced with HD radio though?
this is basically what they do during the World Cup broadcast or other football/soccer coverage, but in that case they're doing it because the action is continuous and they can't force TV timeouts
i doubt he is getting cut by the electric razor, he's probably just like me and an electric razor takes several passes to cut his whiskers so i have a tendency to press the razor in closer and still have to drag it around quite a bit...by the end your face is raw from just the contact with the razor's face. i think my whiskers are slightly tough, but also the electric can't make it stand up so it'll just glide over the whisker unless you press it down a bit.
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i'm sure there are plenty of law enforcement organizations in the US that would also tell you that they "have no spare manpower for petty things like computer crimes", it's not purely an Eastern Bloc problem
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i don't even own a stand-alone DVD player. PS2 in the front room, XBox in the bedroom, 3 computers that have a DVD-ROM
"you dont see many laptops out there with the intel core 2 duo yet"
i'm sure that happens a lot. i'm also sure that when we can only get 64% of the eligible voters to go and vote when it's only once every 2 years (setting aside primaries) and a ballot that takes up a couple sheets of paper, we'd see a vanishingly small number who would go to vote daily/weekly on 500 page budgets and laws.
think of any of the rights that you would associate with ownership, and ask yourself if it makes sense that the author retained them : can they come into my house and take "their music" back? can they object that i am using "their CD" as a coaster? can they insist that i not play "their disc" immediately after playing some other music that they don't like?
i'm not saying that taking their stuff is right, i'm just curious if The Colbert Report had to (and did) contact the rights holder for that clip before using it. that show is not exactly a news program so they don't have that excuse to bypass copyright, and i don't think people posting things to YouTube are automatically surrendering the rights to their content
it's interesting that no one was batting an eye when the Colbert report freely used the Youtube clip of the guy riding his bike down the hill on fire. TV is free to "borrow" from us, but they don't want us to do the same?
seriously, who would wonder this?
every man, woman, and child in China has $1billion+
the problem is that while google.com is working with the CIA, google.ru is working with the KGB and google.co.uk is working with MI-5...it's a conflict of interest thing
i thought that looked strange as well, but i think the reason they're trying to block Sirius and XM from broadcasting these new types of content is because they're trying to broadcast it and still remain unregulated. everyone else that has this content is regulated much more stringently, XM and Sirius are trying to be special and ignore all the overhead of rules compliance that everyone else has. if the system is broken, XM/Sirius should lobby to fix it for everybody rather than trying to get special treatment
# The most common form of interference, multipath distortion, occurs when part of a signal bounces off an object and arrives at the receiver at a different time than the main signal. HD Radio receivers are designed to sort through the reflected signals and reduce static, hiss, pops and fades.
i just hope the precision on this is really, really high. that way i can find my !#^!^ phone when i lay it down somewhere randomly (and the ringer is off!)
maybe i'm not understanding your comment, but RDS isn't a pay-as-you-go service. as such, as long as the startup costs (the stereos that support it) aren't ridiculous, they gets averaged out over the life of the stereo. that's the ideal anyway, in reality when i looked at after-market car radio catalogs two years ago it seemed like only Blaupunkt (sp?) radios had that feature and they were fairly expensive (it seems like XM/Sirius came along at the same time as RDS was gaining traction, and everyone supports that instead).
also, HD Radio is not the same as satellite radio, it's not a pay service so again it just depends on how expensive the entry-level radios are that support it.
i don't see how a marketer could be behind any plan that causes them to sell less of something. less quality? certainly! less volume? no way. unless they're going with the Cartmanland exclusivity strategy
i found RDS really useful for finding stations by genre. i had a rental car for a week while mine was repaired, and i found 2-3 new stations that i hadn't found with a simple scan of the channel lists (there's tons of crappy channels in Chicago that make scanning slowly a pain to do). besides, the names of the songs are not necessarily announced after the song, sometimes they come before (which is useless if you just flipped in) or not at all.
isn't RDS basically getting replaced with HD radio though?
that clip gives me RainMan flashbacks "97X...BAM...the future of rock and roll"
this is basically what they do during the World Cup broadcast or other football/soccer coverage, but in that case they're doing it because the action is continuous and they can't force TV timeouts
if you think AJAX requests are bad on asynchronous bandwidth, take a look at the viewstate explosion going on in the MS VisualStudio.NET world.
i'm not sure that he would have answered anyway, that's just passing on ideas to the competition isn't it?
i doubt he is getting cut by the electric razor, he's probably just like me and an electric razor takes several passes to cut his whiskers so i have a tendency to press the razor in closer and still have to drag it around quite a bit...by the end your face is raw from just the contact with the razor's face. i think my whiskers are slightly tough, but also the electric can't make it stand up so it'll just glide over the whisker unless you press it down a bit.