I agree that Instant Messaging is definitely the wrong buzzword, but it's more like a portable video Flickr (or YouTube if they let you restrict viewing to certain users)
i'm not sure he needs a real example, as you said "I'm opposed to laws limiting ownership" and not "i'm opposed to these laws that we have now limiting ownership." he (and i) assumed that you were against any theoretical law, therefore he asked you a theoretical question. i'll ask you another:
if one company owned every TV station except one, and there was a law that prevented them from buying that one, how would that be silencing them?
Their strategy is brilliant though, by bundling the more attractive colors with larger amounts of memory they make it easier for people paying extra to justify the purchase to themselves. It's easy to see how a technophile who was only looking to spend $150 could be persuaded to put out another $100 for the black iPod they really want because it has four times the memory!
what about the technophile that wants an 8GB, but knows that they show scratches really easily? shouldn't you get more choices at each price level and not less?
there are a number of factors that make it unequal:
1. catering to a "buy your way to success" model may drive away more customers than it brings in, and even if the people you bring in spend more per-capita you might lose on volume.
2. selling items directly to customers places a real-life value on your virtual world, meaning that game downtime (or god forbid, hardware loss and incomplete data restore) may cause real-life damage to your customers, resulting in real-life lawsuits. as a result, most companies won't sell things to you directly, and phrase their ToS such that they forbid the attachment of real-life value to virtual property in their game. therefore, most post-purchase money exchange is not between the developer and the customer, but between a third-party and the customer and so there's no value in it to the developer. Second Life is a notable exception to this, but it'll be interesting to see what happens in that game if they have a significant outage or god-forbid they go to retire their game when less and less people are playing it (won't the remaining customers be owed a reimbursement for their property?)
Really? Most people I know despise touchpads and prefer real clicky buttons and even nipple-driven laptop mouses (Yes, you know what I mean).
i'm with you on the preference for mice over trackpads, but i sometimes wish that i could physically rip the little keyboard joystick out of my work laptop's keyboard. thankfully i use an external keyboard for work during the day, but when i use it at home i accidentally hit that damned joystick and change window focus in the middle of typing at least once during every session. that and the inability to turn off the trackpad "tap" functionality of this stupid HP notebook (i blame that on our PC admins, i think they misconfigured it when they reinstalled), make my home mac laptop far more friendly when there's no mouse available.
has any iPod advert ever mentioned that the music you buy to play on it has been restricted?
i can't remember seeing an iPod commercial that ever "mentioned" much of anything, and i'm not sure what sort of interpretive dance would convey the idea of DRM.
those kids are never going to be prepared for a ninja attack! we're raising an entire generation that is ripe pickings for shadowy assassins rappelling from above
I think most internet users still remember what it was like before spam filtering became common. Wait a few more years. Then users will take the filtering for granted.
actually, i think a lot of internet users will still have Hotmail at that point
i'm sure load difference is part of the picture. but load can't be a dominating factor, because while i'm sure there is a load difference it doesn't seem likely that it even approaches the same 50x difference that the performance gap has (if a non-Folding CPU averaged only 2% of its cycles unused, the GPU would have to be used 0% of the time to get a 50x difference).
i'm guessing that the better parallelization in the GPU together with the fact that the average GPU participating in Folding is much more modern than the average CPU makes up the bulk of the difference.
i guess if you can roll the meat into swedish meatballs and rig a system whereby the cannons can keep large numbers of the meatballs aloft at the same time...
the failure to have good translators is already a serious problem. at least this allows them to have some sort of translation of stuff that they wouldn't have even been able to get around to looking at before, or provide a rough translation that someone with the language skill could polish up more quickly than they could starting from scratch.
Libel is libel, and while you can defend yourself by demonstrating that your statements are true, you better have some decent evidence if you are goiing to call someone who runs a buisness a crook, theif, and con-artist.
Besides making distinctions between public and private figures, American courts also have ruled that various kinds of published information are generally immune from libel charges. For example, it is almost impossible for a writer to be found guilty of libel if the writing deals with opinions rather than facts. "Under the First Amendment, there is no such thing as a false idea," the Supreme Court said in a 1974 libel ruling.
Not long ago, the owner of a restaurant in New Orleans sued a food critic for writing unflattering things about his eating establishment. Too bad, the Louisiana Supreme Court told the restaurant owner, before sending him back to his kitchen empty-handed.
it also features this gem about jury determinations in these cases:
Floyd Abrams, a New York lawyer who specializes in representing media organizations, estimates that individuals who sue for libel win about 75 percent of the cases that end up before a jury. But the media succeed in reversing jury verdicts most of the time after they appeal to higher courts. Abrams says the reason is that jurors often do not fully understand or apply the proper legal standards that cover libel cases. As a result, it is common for media organizations to carry libel cases to intermediate appellate courts if they lose at the first stage of a trial.
i think he read it. the GP says that Adobe is suing Microsoft over XPS (i.e. their "PDF-esque format"). he responded by saying that Adobe is instead suing over PDF creation not XPS, and as a result Microsoft is only including XPS in their Vista release and not PDF (presumably pending the result of the litigation)
you submit it to them for review. scientists aren't reading the BBC news website looking for new and interesting possible findings to review, things should be pretty polished before they make it out of the scientific journals. consult your local grocery store checkout aisle if you're looking for the type of "newspapers" that publish unreviewed materials
they're currently getting attacked over their book snippets, and they previously got attacked by that French newspaper company for including their articles in Google News. like the other responder said, you can find a good list by googling "google copyright lawsuit"
Slashdot Mirror
maybe he was thinking of "loo"
I agree that Instant Messaging is definitely the wrong buzzword, but it's more like a portable video Flickr (or YouTube if they let you restrict viewing to certain users)
i'm not sure he needs a real example, as you said "I'm opposed to laws limiting ownership" and not "i'm opposed to these laws that we have now limiting ownership." he (and i) assumed that you were against any theoretical law, therefore he asked you a theoretical question. i'll ask you another :
if one company owned every TV station except one, and there was a law that prevented them from buying that one, how would that be silencing them?
there are a number of factors that make it unequal :
1. catering to a "buy your way to success" model may drive away more customers than it brings in, and even if the people you bring in spend more per-capita you might lose on volume.
2. selling items directly to customers places a real-life value on your virtual world, meaning that game downtime (or god forbid, hardware loss and incomplete data restore) may cause real-life damage to your customers, resulting in real-life lawsuits. as a result, most companies won't sell things to you directly, and phrase their ToS such that they forbid the attachment of real-life value to virtual property in their game. therefore, most post-purchase money exchange is not between the developer and the customer, but between a third-party and the customer and so there's no value in it to the developer. Second Life is a notable exception to this, but it'll be interesting to see what happens in that game if they have a significant outage or god-forbid they go to retire their game when less and less people are playing it (won't the remaining customers be owed a reimbursement for their property?)
does that include the SCO royalty buyoff?
not all bugs are caused by poor design, taking time to "design things right" doesn't mean you're going to have 0 bugs
i see that you have replaced your EllenFeiss account with this new username
You get used to it. I-I don't even see the code. All I see is Blonde, Brunette, Redhead....
how about "i'm in the next stall and there's no toilet paper, can you spare a square?"
those kids are never going to be prepared for a ninja attack! we're raising an entire generation that is ripe pickings for shadowy assassins rappelling from above
why stop there?! my planned community development company, Habitrail for Humanity, is going to take it to the next level
not only that, but steroids can cause impotence...not a great way to build a gene pool
i'm sure load difference is part of the picture. but load can't be a dominating factor, because while i'm sure there is a load difference it doesn't seem likely that it even approaches the same 50x difference that the performance gap has (if a non-Folding CPU averaged only 2% of its cycles unused, the GPU would have to be used 0% of the time to get a 50x difference).
i'm guessing that the better parallelization in the GPU together with the fact that the average GPU participating in Folding is much more modern than the average CPU makes up the bulk of the difference.
i guess if you can roll the meat into swedish meatballs and rig a system whereby the cannons can keep large numbers of the meatballs aloft at the same time...
the failure to have good translators is already a serious problem. at least this allows them to have some sort of translation of stuff that they wouldn't have even been able to get around to looking at before, or provide a rough translation that someone with the language skill could polish up more quickly than they could starting from scratch.
to anyone replying to this thread:
if you're arguing on Slashdot about how to increase productivity, you've already lost
i think he read it. the GP says that Adobe is suing Microsoft over XPS (i.e. their "PDF-esque format"). he responded by saying that Adobe is instead suing over PDF creation not XPS, and as a result Microsoft is only including XPS in their Vista release and not PDF (presumably pending the result of the litigation)
you submit it to them for review. scientists aren't reading the BBC news website looking for new and interesting possible findings to review, things should be pretty polished before they make it out of the scientific journals. consult your local grocery store checkout aisle if you're looking for the type of "newspapers" that publish unreviewed materials
they're currently getting attacked over their book snippets, and they previously got attacked by that French newspaper company for including their articles in Google News. like the other responder said, you can find a good list by googling "google copyright lawsuit"