I run firefox on an ubuntu 9.04 computer. I monitor power consumption with powertop. Firefox is the worst culprit when it comes to battery waste. Sometimes, out of the blue, it keeps running at >90% CPU utilization. At least that is easy to detect because the computer gets hot.
But more often than not, Firefox keeps the CPU busy in state C0, and even if its CPU usage is small, the CPU just can't go into power savings mode. Firefox can account for 3-10 watts of usage on a regular session.
The problem is, even if I close all the windows/tabs and leave only a static document in the only window left, firefox keeps using the CPU. The only solution is to kill it and restart it. It is frustrating.
Whenever I want maximum battery life, Firefox is killed first, followed by the wireless card (using the physical switch). By doing these two things I can expand battery life by 50% (assuming Firefox is not misbehaving my laptop uses ~ 15 watts, 10 without firefox and wireless, and screen at 30% brightness).
* gnus. The _best_ email reader. * remember, along with org make your life simpler * flyspell, for those times my fingers misbehave * auc-tex mode for writing latex * w3 for those times you have to cut and past nicely formatted web pages into a buffer * org-mode again, for table editing * calc, for a very powerful calculator * tetris to kill time * dired mode for browsing directories and acting upon files * edit-env for modifying environment variables in the running process (and future children) * mpg123 to play your mp3 collection * igrep: very nice grep, better than default one. * yasb: switch buffers via regular expression.
Some nice tricks:
* make-frame-on-display. Start a window of a running process in another Xserver (including a remote one) * emacs-client -n. Load file in running emacs (in server mode) without waiting
* Being able to run emacs in a Nokia N810! With remember and org this is a killer application.
I once put a copy of the textbook for my course in our library (on reserve). The book got stolen. Few weeks later the univ police busted a "textbook thieves" ring that was reselling them to the university library (yes, this at the level of a Darwin Award:)
This tells you how valuable/expensive textbooks are to some students.
One of the main problems of the textbook market is that the buyer has usually no choice but to buy the book.
The real choice is made by the instructor, who has NO incentive to choose a cheaper textbook. Intructors (I am one of them) are heavily sought by the publishing houses (in my experience once exception is O'Reilly, the worse Pearson Education).
The second hand market is one of the few attempts to lower prices. Publishes counter-act it by dropping frequent updates (usually needless).
The only way to counter act this inflation is with the help of the instructors who have little motivation (except ethical) to help.
One of the few ways I think this can change is if instructors ask for an old version of the textbook. The problem of course, is availability. And you really want to make sure everybody has the same textbook
It explains that editorials are now free. That some (but not all) the archives are free. That the decision is driven by the importance of search engines and the traffic that they generate. That they see readers of the archives as potential opportunities that should not be turned away.
Parking spaces serve one main purpose: to allow people to park. As some others have already stated, placing a parking meter in a parking space forces turn over. You want turn over: people coming to a downtown for a short period of time, then leaving, so the new shoppers who are arriving will find a place to park. That is the main reason few parking spaces allow for long term parking (even if you were willing to pay the price).
The secondary effect, of course, is city revenue.
Overall, the city has a duty to maintain a business place, not to provide parking.
Let us assume that all stores do the same, and buy their storefront parking spots. The income for the city will remain the same, but the number of potential customers might be reduced, having secondary consequences for the stores themselves.
I am not sure I approve or disapprove on Apple's idea. What I am sure is that it is not as simple as the posting (and some replies) argue.
Now we have a direct competitor to the N800, and the "Touch" is actually cheaper (at least in Canada) than the N800.
I am not suggesting a "Touch" will have an open platform, ready for hacking. But for the regular folk, who just want Wifi, and an agenda/calendar, the Touch will be enough. Wifi, in my opinion, is the killer app for those who don't want a cell phone (yes, we exist) but want an agenda. Others will prefer to continue to use a phone as a phone and get an ipod for its wifi. The greymarket of iphones being shipped overseas (even before the hacks) are evidence that there is a market for this.
Also, I own a N800 and an Ipod video, and in my opinion the sound quality of the N800 is lower than the ipod. But that is just my opinion.
"I mean Cuban, Puerto Rican, they are all very hot," the governor says on the recording. "They have the, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them that together makes it."
the article continues...
'Garcia, who is Puerto Rican and the only Latina Republican in the assembly, appeared with Schwarzenegger yesterday and said she was not offended by the governor's comments. Garcia earlier told the Times that she refers to herself a "hot-blooded Latina."
"I love the governor because he is a straight talker just like I am," she said.'
Pelican Cases have a good reputation, but they don't look as chick as the Halliburton. LowePro also makes some hard cases for cameras, but they don't take a computer (yet, I am sure it will very soon); they are a hardcase and a matching bag inside it.
The reality is that you don't want attention on your bag, as it might be stolen. I just recommended a person to take the Styrofoam that came with the laptop to get to Heathrow. At least the laptop arrived in a working condition.
I think the optimal solution is to find something that looks like regular luggage. Perhaps buying a cheap, beaten up luggage bag (garage sale?) to put the computer inside. Use duct tape and dirt for extra effect, and geek chicness.
Some time ago I bought a book of copyright free images. I was surprised to find that most of the O'Reilly animal images were part of it.
O'Reilly acknowledges that they are public domain in this page:
While looking for imagery, she came across the Dover Pictorial Archives, a series of books (and now CD-ROMs) containing copyright-free collections of 18th- and 19th-century wood and copperplate engravings of animals. She encountered a pair of slender lorises and had an epiphany. "That's sed and awk!"
This is totally non-sense. I shoot in the order of 20k photos a year, on average I use photoshop several hours a day (see http://silvernegative.com/ and I have looked at the Apple materials on Aperture.
I can assure you that Photoshop is not equivalent to Aperture. I would instead, say that Adobe Bridge is (which is a part of Adobe Photoshop CS2).
Many of the features present in Aperture are available in Photoshop's bridge (easy import of RAW, non-destructive editing, RAW processing). One of the great benefits of Aperture entering the market is healthy competion.
I will not, with what I have seen, replace photoshop with Aperture. Will I be happy using Aperture? Probably yes. Will I pay for it? US$500 is a lot of money for those extra features, and I will probably not buy it. But then again, I don't think that pro-am photographers are the intended market. We are more worried about buying glass than buying software to do our hobby.
Unless Aperture seriously competes with photoshop, it will end as a fringe application similar to Impress (who only Apple drones buy). There is already talk on the f-spot mailing list about Apereture features, so you might see them in a free software application soon.
Film will make you a better photographer than shooting digital, specially if you are always evaluating your results. Yes, you might miss that photo opportunity, but in return you have huge resolution that can only be matched with cameras more than US$5k. You will think twice before pressing the shutter, and you will kick yourself for every wasted frame. These concepts are never an issue in the digital world.
When the day comes and you finally buy that desired SLR digital body, you will realise that the ability to shoot hundreds of photos is not what is important. Good photographers "capture the decisive moment", they don't "random sample" it.
If you really read the article you would have noticed the text box in the second page titled "Bottom's up for iPod":
"In some cases, whole classes of products won't work, such as the voice recorders and remote controls that plugged into the iPod's headphone jack and accompanying port. With other add-ons, such as the transmitters that send the iPod's tunes to a car stereo, the accessory market is divided into winners and losers.
Devices like the original Griffin iTrip won't work, because they require the top port, while others, such as Monster Cable's iCarPlay, are in the clear.
Griffin and others are responding quickly though. Griffin on Monday announced a new version of its AirClick remote that connects to the bottom of the iPod, rather than the top."
That is something that annoys me tremendously about apple and its ipods. You buy an accessory and it might not work with the next line of products. Have you noticed how many accessorises have the label: "Made for ipod generation 1, 2 or 3 or 4". They (apple and the manufacturer of the accessory) expect you to buy it again every few years.
And besides, every single one of them it tremendously overpriced. It seems that white paint has become the new gold.
Of course should reflect the level of the audience. My course was research oriented.
There are, however, 4 areas that I would stress they are covered in a OS SEng course:
* Intellectual property and licensing * Social aspects
* Motivation
* Organization.. * SENG Issues (tools, methods, etc). * Economics issues
* Why to use OSS, how to make money, etc.
On thing that I introduced in this course was an etnographic study: students had to participate in a project, and submit a contribution. That was one of the parts that students liked the most because the were able to experience OSS first hand. I strongly recommend doing it.
My materials are available if anybody is interested.
Do you want to eavesdrop on conversations? Put bad, cheap headphones (those that let _all_ noise in) and then pretend to be listening to music (move your head, your body, tap), while instead you are listening to their (sometimes) entertaining conversation. It works best in coffee shops. Of course this assumes you are in the light of sight of your target making them feel comfortable.
The etymotics are useless for this, even when they are not conneted to a source, they block the conversation "too much".
According to a letter sent by Fedex layers to Ms Granick, from the Cyberlaw clinic Fedex claims copyright infringement because, I quote:
* "Fedex owns the copyright of its packaging"
ergo:
* "Fedex has the exclusive right [...] to create derivative works, to distribute copies to the public by sale [...] rental, lease, or lending and to publicly display its copyrighted works".
* "By posting photographs of works derived from Fedex packaging materials [...] Mr Avila is inducing, causing or materially contributing to the infringement conduct of others, and could be held liable as a contributory infringement".
There are other issues, but not related to copyright (trademark, unlawful access to the packaging materials).
I believe the fedex lawyer has a very weak argument: that the copyright of the design on the box extends to the box as a physical object. This is non-sense. If this was the case, any built product that uses material that has a copyrighted logo printed on it will become a "derivative work". That will mean that we will require a "license" from the material supplier to be able to use it. Non sense
Nobody has mentioned fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net). They are a "Linux" distribution to run on top of OS X. I quoted "Linux" because they have almost everything but the kernel (it uses the OS X kernel). Fink was the reason I decided it was time to use OS X as a Free/OPen source friendly laptop. None of the two authors even mentioned it!
Fink uses a packaging system similar to Debian, and it includes most of the apps people use under Linux. Many of them require X11, which is now distributed with OS X 10.3
Yes, I wrote to them and they acted very quickly. I give them a lot of credit for it.
I am still concerned with the fact that images are easy to detach from their creators names. I am wondering what is the best alternative. I think it is to embed metadata in the image that can be displayed along with it, so if the text is detached from the photo, it is still possible to know who created it.
Thank you for taking the time to reply to my post. You raise very interesting issues, and at the core, in my opinion, is the issue of credit to the author. I checked the GFDL and it seems to imply that the user of the content should give credit to the author of the work. The wikipedia does this very well by allowing is to check the history of a document or an image.
But answers.com does not do it at all. They copy the content without giving any indication of who the author is. I would believe that this is contradictory to the spirit of the GFDL.
I agree with you that there is a potential issue of the value of this image as derivative work. But I have other images in the wikipedia that do not have this problem (see for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Straig_of_georg ia.jpg).
Answers.com is giving credit to the Wikipedia, but no the original creator.
What is your opinion?
Violation of license of content of the wikipedia
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Answers.com is violating the license in which some content (particularly photographs) are included in the wikipedia. For instance, the I gave a license to the following image Lemonade to the Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons share alike license. It is used in the article Lemonade.
This image is reproduced in answers.com: lemonade without any mention of the author (me). That is against the license I placed on the image. It is linked from the article Lemonade.
" Hollywood has begun lining up on both sides of the battle as they have watched the growth of DVDs slow. They will want a new standard in place soon, to accelerate again."
What everybody in the movie industry wants is a way to "resell" you content. We are the losers, but it is self inflicted pain. After all, we "buy" their sale speeches. We go an buy that movie once more! The new movies will probably be no cheaper than the current ones, even if their cost is cheaper to manufacture.
The new Music formats have not been very successful. I for one will not buy my music again (I replaced around 40 vynil albums).
The movie industry is very foolish by not embracing one format. They are spreading FUD to the movie buyer. People will not know that format will be the winner and will be reluctant to buy any. If they had a gram of brain, they will align with Sony (SOny will not alinn with anybody else) and say, screw the other. Let us unity against those stupid idiots (the consumers) who will buy "whatever" we feed them (after all how do you explain that movies such as "Dude where is my car" can even sell a copy!
What I find interesting is that some people use google to go ebay, cnn, bbc. Many people are using google not as a search engine, but as a quicker way to get to a site than typing www.cnn.com (or even cnn.com). I find it hard to believe that sooo many people don't know the URL for ebay or cnn. Even the BBC has a.com domain!
It might have to do with the fact that many people use google as their home page (or have a google search box in the browser).
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I run firefox on an ubuntu 9.04 computer. I monitor power consumption with powertop. Firefox is the worst culprit when it comes to battery waste. Sometimes, out of the blue, it keeps running at >90% CPU utilization. At least that is easy to detect because the computer gets hot.
But more often than not, Firefox keeps the CPU busy in state C0, and even if its CPU usage is small, the CPU just can't go into power savings mode. Firefox can account for 3-10 watts of usage on a regular session.
The problem is, even if I close all the windows/tabs and leave only a static document in the only window left, firefox keeps using the CPU. The only solution is to kill it and restart it. It is frustrating.
Whenever I want maximum battery life, Firefox is killed first, followed by the wireless card (using the physical switch). By doing these two things I can expand battery life by 50% (assuming Firefox is not misbehaving my laptop uses ~ 15 watts, 10 without firefox and wireless, and screen at 30% brightness).
-dmg
* gnus. The _best_ email reader.
* remember, along with org make your life simpler
* flyspell, for those times my fingers misbehave
* auc-tex mode for writing latex
* w3 for those times you have to cut and past nicely formatted web pages into a buffer
* org-mode again, for table editing
* calc, for a very powerful calculator
* tetris to kill time
* dired mode for browsing directories and acting upon files
* edit-env for modifying environment variables in the running process (and future children)
* mpg123 to play your mp3 collection
* igrep: very nice grep, better than default one.
* yasb: switch buffers via regular expression.
Some nice tricks:
* make-frame-on-display. Start a window of a running process in another Xserver (including a remote one)
* emacs-client -n. Load file in running emacs (in server mode) without waiting
* Being able to run emacs in a Nokia N810! With remember and org this is a killer application.
--dmg
I once put a copy of the textbook for my course in our library (on reserve). The book got stolen. :)
Few weeks later the univ police busted a "textbook thieves" ring that was reselling them to the
university library (yes, this at the level of a Darwin Award
This tells you how valuable/expensive textbooks are to some students.
--dmg
You are assuming the prof who _asks_ you to buy the book for his/her course makes money from that. That is not true unless he/she authored it too.
The prof gets perks (free copies of books) though.
--dmg
One of the main problems of the textbook market is that the buyer has usually no choice but to buy the book.
The real choice is made by the instructor, who has NO incentive to choose a cheaper textbook. Intructors (I am one of them) are heavily sought by the publishing houses (in my experience once exception is O'Reilly, the worse Pearson Education).
The second hand market is one of the few attempts to lower prices. Publishes counter-act it by dropping frequent updates (usually needless).
The only way to counter act this inflation is with the help of the instructors who have little motivation (except ethical) to help.
One of the few ways I think this can change is if instructors ask for an old version of the textbook. The problem of course, is availability. And you really want to make sure everybody has the same textbook
--dmg
His long lasting legacy is that he taught many computer sciences (and electrical engineers) how to dream.
many of those dreams became a relaity.
And we are still pursuing some of them.
--dmg
This will probably be most (it is more than 12 hrs that the story was posted, so the likelihood of this being read diminishes exponentially inverse).
Why are the Slashdot editors so lame and lazy? Instead of pointing to Reuters for the story go a link to the original editorial by the New York Times!
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/business/media/18times.html
It explains that editorials are now free. That some (but not all) the archives are free.
That the decision is driven by the importance of search engines and the traffic that they generate. That
they see readers of the archives as potential opportunities that should not be turned away.
Edit the story, lazy slashdot editors!
dmg
Parking spaces serve one main purpose: to allow people to park. As some others have already stated, placing a parking meter in a parking space forces turn over. You want turn over: people coming to a downtown for a short period of time, then leaving, so the new shoppers who are arriving will find a place to park. That is the main reason few parking spaces allow for long term parking (even if you were willing to pay the price).
The secondary effect, of course, is city revenue.
Overall, the city has a duty to maintain a business place, not to provide parking.
Let us assume that all stores do the same, and buy their storefront parking spots. The income for the city will remain the same, but the number of potential customers might be reduced, having secondary consequences for the stores themselves.
I am not sure I approve or disapprove on Apple's idea. What I am sure is that it is not as simple as the posting (and some replies) argue.
Now we have a direct competitor to the N800, and the "Touch" is actually cheaper (at least in Canada) than the N800.
I am not suggesting a "Touch" will have an open platform, ready for hacking. But for the regular folk, who just
want Wifi, and an agenda/calendar, the Touch will be enough. Wifi, in my opinion, is the killer app for those who
don't want a cell phone (yes, we exist) but want an agenda. Others will prefer to continue to use a phone as a phone
and get an ipod for its wifi. The greymarket of iphones being shipped overseas (even before the hacks) are evidence
that there is a market for this.
Also, I own a N800 and an Ipod video, and in my opinion the sound quality of the N800 is lower than the ipod. But that is just my opinion.
--dmg
This is insane. The edge of the plate travels 3km a minute:
2.5 inches diameter => ~20cm perimeter at 15k RPMs => 3km/Minute => 50m/s => 180 km/hr.
Disparaging? hardly. This is just a sensationalist way to report the news. Here is the actual comment (from the Washington Post http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic le/2006/09/08/AR2006090800599.html):
"I mean Cuban, Puerto Rican, they are all very hot," the governor says on the recording. "They have the, you know, part of the black blood in them and part of the Latino blood in them that together makes it."
the article continues...
'Garcia, who is Puerto Rican and the only Latina Republican in the assembly, appeared with Schwarzenegger yesterday and said she was not offended by the governor's comments. Garcia earlier told the Times that she refers to herself a "hot-blooded Latina."
"I love the governor because he is a straight talker just like I am," she said.'
Pelican Cases have a good reputation, but they don't look as chick as the Halliburton. LowePro also makes some hard cases for cameras, but they don't take a computer (yet, I am sure it will very soon); they are a hardcase and a matching bag inside it.
The reality is that you don't want attention on your bag, as it might be stolen. I just recommended a person
to take the Styrofoam that came with the laptop to get to Heathrow. At least the laptop arrived in a working
condition.
I think the optimal solution is to find something that looks like regular luggage. Perhaps buying a cheap, beaten up luggage bag (garage sale?) to put the computer inside. Use duct tape and dirt for extra effect, and geek chicness.
Some time ago I bought a book of copyright free images. I was surprised to find that most of the O'Reilly animal images were part of it.
O'Reilly acknowledges that they are public domain in this page:
While looking for imagery, she came across the Dover Pictorial Archives, a series of books (and now CD-ROMs) containing copyright-free collections of 18th- and 19th-century wood and copperplate engravings of animals. She encountered a pair of slender lorises and had an epiphany. "That's sed and awk!"
This is totally non-sense. I shoot in the order of 20k photos a year, on average I use photoshop several hours a day (see http://silvernegative.com/ and I have looked at the Apple materials on Aperture.
I can assure you that Photoshop is not equivalent to Aperture. I would instead, say that Adobe Bridge is (which is a part of Adobe Photoshop CS2).
Many of the features present in Aperture are available in Photoshop's bridge (easy import of RAW, non-destructive editing, RAW processing). One of the great benefits of Aperture entering the market is healthy competion.
I will not, with what I have seen, replace photoshop with Aperture. Will I be happy using Aperture? Probably yes. Will I pay for it? US$500 is a lot of money for those extra features, and I will probably not buy it. But then again, I don't think that pro-am photographers are the intended market. We are more worried about buying glass than buying software to do our hobby.
Unless Aperture seriously competes with photoshop, it will end as a fringe application similar to Impress (who only Apple drones buy). There is already talk on the f-spot mailing list about Apereture features, so you might see them in a free software application soon.
Film will make you a better photographer than shooting digital, specially if you are always evaluating your results. Yes, you might miss that photo opportunity, but in return you have huge resolution that can only be matched with cameras more than US$5k. You will think twice before pressing the shutter, and you will kick yourself for every wasted frame.
These concepts are never an issue in the digital world.
When the day comes and you finally buy that desired SLR digital body, you will realise that the ability to shoot hundreds of photos is not what is important. Good photographers "capture the decisive moment", they don't "random sample" it.
If you really read the article you would have noticed the text box in the second page titled "Bottom's up for iPod":
"In some cases, whole classes of products won't work, such as the voice recorders and remote controls that plugged into the iPod's headphone jack and accompanying port. With other add-ons, such as the transmitters that send the iPod's tunes to a car stereo, the accessory market is divided into winners and losers.
Devices like the original Griffin iTrip won't work, because they require the top port, while others, such as Monster Cable's iCarPlay, are in the clear.
Griffin and others are responding quickly though. Griffin on Monday announced a new version of its AirClick remote that connects to the bottom of the iPod, rather than the top."
That is something that annoys me tremendously about apple and its ipods. You buy an accessory and it might not work with the next line of products. Have you noticed how many accessorises have the label: "Made for ipod generation 1, 2 or 3 or 4". They (apple and the manufacturer of the accessory) expect you to buy it again every few years.
And besides, every single one of them it tremendously overpriced. It seems that white paint has become the new gold.
I recently taught a course in OSS at the graduate level. I wrote a small summary which is available here: http://turingmachine.org/~dmg/temp/ossEd.pdf, and a presentation here: http://turingmachine.org/~dmg/temp/ossEd.pdf
Of course should reflect the level of the audience. My course was research oriented.
There are, however, 4 areas that I would stress they are covered in a OS SEng course:
* Intellectual property and licensing
* Social aspects
* Motivation
* Organization..
* SENG Issues (tools, methods, etc).
* Economics issues
* Why to use OSS, how to make money, etc.
On thing that I introduced in this course was an etnographic study: students had to participate in a project, and submit a contribution. That was one of the parts that
students liked the most because the were able to experience OSS first hand. I strongly
recommend doing it.
My materials are available if anybody is interested.
dmg
Do you want to eavesdrop on conversations? Put bad, cheap headphones (those that let _all_ noise in) and then pretend to be listening to music (move your head, your body, tap), while instead you are listening to their (sometimes) entertaining conversation. It works best in coffee shops. Of course this assumes you are in the light of sight of your target making them feel comfortable.
The etymotics are useless for this, even when they are not conneted to a source, they block the conversation "too much".
According to a letter sent by Fedex layers to Ms Granick, from the Cyberlaw clinic Fedex claims copyright infringement because, I quote:
* "Fedex owns the copyright of its packaging"
ergo:
* "Fedex has the exclusive right [...] to create derivative works, to distribute copies to the public by sale [...] rental, lease, or lending and to publicly display its copyrighted works".
* "By posting photographs of works derived from Fedex packaging materials [...] Mr Avila is inducing, causing or materially contributing to the infringement conduct of others, and could be held liable as a contributory infringement".
There are other issues, but not related to copyright (trademark, unlawful access to the packaging materials).
I believe the fedex lawyer has a very weak argument: that the copyright of the design on the box extends to the box as a physical object. This is non-sense. If this was the case, any built product that uses material that has a copyrighted logo printed on it will become a "derivative work". That will mean that we will require a "license" from the material supplier to be able to use it. Non sense
Nobody has mentioned fink (http://fink.sourceforge.net). They are a "Linux" distribution to run on top of OS X. I quoted "Linux" because they have almost everything but the kernel (it uses the OS X kernel). Fink was the reason I decided it was time to use OS X as a Free/OPen source friendly laptop. None of the two authors even mentioned it!
Fink uses a packaging system similar to Debian, and it includes most of the apps people use under Linux. Many of them require X11, which is now distributed with OS X 10.3
Yes, I wrote to them and they acted very quickly. I give them a lot of credit for it.
I am still concerned with the fact that images are easy to detach from their creators names. I am wondering what is the best alternative. I think it is to embed metadata in the image that can be displayed along with it, so if the text is detached from the photo, it is still possible to know who created it.
James,
g ia.jpg).
Thank you for taking the time to reply to my post. You raise very interesting issues, and at the core, in my opinion, is the issue of credit to the author. I checked the GFDL and it seems to imply that the user of the content should give credit to the author of the work. The wikipedia does this very well by allowing is to check the history of a document or an image.
But answers.com does not do it at all. They copy the content without giving any indication of who the author is. I would believe that this is contradictory to the spirit of the GFDL.
I agree with you that there is a potential issue of the value of this image as derivative work. But I have other images in the wikipedia that do not have this problem (see for example http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Straig_of_geor
Answers.com is giving credit to the Wikipedia, but no the original creator.
What is your opinion?
Answers.com is violating the license in which some content (particularly photographs) are included in the wikipedia. For instance, the I gave a license to the following image Lemonade to the Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons share alike license. It is used in the article Lemonade.
This image is reproduced in answers.com: lemonade without any mention of the author (me). That is against the license I placed on the image. It is linked from the article Lemonade.
From the article:
" Hollywood has begun lining up on both sides of the battle as they have watched the growth of DVDs slow. They will want a new standard in place soon, to accelerate again."
What everybody in the movie industry wants is a way to "resell" you content. We are the losers, but it is self inflicted pain. After all, we "buy" their sale speeches. We go an buy that movie once more! The new movies will probably be no cheaper than the current ones, even if their cost is cheaper to manufacture.
The new Music formats have not been very successful. I for one will not buy my music again (I replaced around 40 vynil albums).
The movie industry is very foolish by not embracing one format. They are spreading FUD to the movie buyer. People will not know that format will be the winner and will be reluctant to buy any. If they had a gram of brain, they will align with Sony (SOny will not alinn with anybody else) and say, screw the other. Let us unity against those stupid idiots (the consumers) who will buy "whatever" we feed them (after all how do you explain that movies such as "Dude where is my car" can even sell a copy!
What I find interesting is that some people use google to go ebay, cnn, bbc. Many people are using google not as a search engine, but as a quicker way to get to a site than typing www.cnn.com (or even cnn.com). I find it hard to believe that sooo many people don't know the URL for ebay or cnn. Even the BBC has a .com domain!
It might have to do with the fact that many people use google as their home page (or have a google search box in the browser).