they're basically asking for a lawsuit here. I can see questions going up about first sale and the magnuson-moss warranty act, and an unenforceable EULA. Many companies who try the "we may change this without permission and without notice" have been slapped down by the courts before.
There's also no taking the thing with you in a new car, either.
Buy a $300 GPS unit? Take it with you.
Although most people these days call that a cellphone, and leaving it in the car would be a bad idea.
I agree that factory integration could be substantially more productive, but don't expect auto mfr's to care about that as they don't understand that it can add business.
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If Apple acquires ARM, a lot of people are going to reverse their investments in ARM. I doubt that 8BN will buy ARM though, I suspect they will now request 4-5x that at a minimum.
so lets see here, nobody else is gathering this information? Have you ever even heard of cookies? do you even know what they are?
mediaplex, as a single company, could probably profile you down to your address, sexual preferences, religious preferences, and common websites in a matter of seconds.
I never said Ipad was a good choice in any stretch. I'm just saying getting that dealer installed is the worst decision you can make. Doing it aftermarket usually enables better options, saves money, and still is a bad decision.
Just because they won't get carsick from looking down doesn't mean people won't get nautious from staring at that tiny ass screen.
Okay, lets see. give them a dvd player, tell them to put in the DVD and press play. You think that's harder for them to understand than paying $2000 for something you can't even take with you in 5 years?
good grief. Money buys choices but it can't save you from making a poor choice.
to clarify, avira will help, but so can clamwin. it's up to you as to when you use what. Honestly anything other than symantec or mcafee is a better decision for the most part.
I think your first mistake was looking at Mcafee. Your second is looking at Avira. The proper solution is to look at Clamwin, as it's free and will enable you to have more flexibility in making it do what you want.
no, it's a bunch of crap. All phones have a battery-less location feature but it's only turned on if you dial 911. Otherwise, having the battery in your phone or not doesn't affect whether or not you can be tracked.
Batteries will naturally dissipate on their own, usually to the tune of 3-30% per day depending on the capacity of the battery. Higher %age on smaller batteries. Have you never heard of that?
they were. some people are stupid enough to buy the dvd systems in the car. I used to sell cars and seeing someone buy one of these meant a: they were stupid and b: you were making a major profit.
ps: the $2000 ish units? They cost around $300 including installation.
really? Ads define a site? When did I get that backwards? I thought it was the sites allow ads, not the ads allow sites?
oh right, publishers crying foul waaaah waaaah how can we live without monetizing people who come to a site for free but we're actually making money off them.
it's easy to get around the content filter really.
how do people not bother? Just change the audio pitch by...I think it's 1 half step? Or 1.1 half steps? Once you do that, the automated scanner will not be able to find your video at all. It will sound practically identical, as well.
Just shows how pitiful the attempts by copyright groups are, since they don't even review the videos.
For video that relies on the graphic, you just have to create a single vertical line (maybe green or something, 1 pixel wide) going down the entire frame of the video, and then the graphic filter won't find it either.
Just shows ya, the more you try to stifle, less it works.
you're completely off because manufacturing cost has a cost floor, and the minimum price is not even remotely near that cost.
The $1000+ hard drives that exist today realistically don't even cost $100 to make in materials, assembly, marketing and packaging.
The resistance to downward push is just resisting existing market influences. Market demand will ALWAYS push cost towards zero on a product. Basic economics proves that.
your view is quote narrow here. How did you not realize they're doing it with non-SSD hard drives as well? They've been almost the same price for more than 2 years. It's 100% price fixing all around. Yes, densities are getting higher, yes its harder to make, but all these things actually drive the cost down. Meanwhile, 2 years ago? $70/TB. Today? $70/TB. That is no accident.
as it has been shown before, when it comes to software it's better to innovate than waste time on patents. Unfortunately a lot of people think it's a great idea to get something patented and don't even consider that hundreds of other people may have done the same thing before.
I work in an industry where I hear the phrase "I'm applying for a patent on my product" all day long. It doesn't mean shit, and you can get sued for claiming a patent on a product that doesn't get approved. You're applying for a patent for x? guess what, so are the other 25 people for doing the same thing. This goes double or triple for anything involving software in any form.
I believe there are ways you can be asked to answer questions anyway, right? Such as when the evidence is presented? Or is that when they can put you in for contempt of court?
I'm not a lawyer so maybe someone else can help clarify, but I thought fifth amendment has situations where you can't simply invoke it?
honestly, I read it on some sites I came across when the ban was pushed again, but I'll see if I can find it. From a read of wiki, maybe the sites were a bit biased, since wikipedia at least claims that there have been no conclusive studies.
Hmm.
I don't know, I don't have the expertise to reliably cite the studies, so someone please mod down my OPs.
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they're basically asking for a lawsuit here. I can see questions going up about first sale and the magnuson-moss warranty act, and an unenforceable EULA. Many companies who try the "we may change this without permission and without notice" have been slapped down by the courts before.
There's also no taking the thing with you in a new car, either.
Buy a $300 GPS unit? Take it with you.
Although most people these days call that a cellphone, and leaving it in the car would be a bad idea.
I agree that factory integration could be substantially more productive, but don't expect auto mfr's to care about that as they don't understand that it can add business.
If Apple acquires ARM, a lot of people are going to reverse their investments in ARM. I doubt that 8BN will buy ARM though, I suspect they will now request 4-5x that at a minimum.
ARM knows they have a very powerful future.
so lets see here, nobody else is gathering this information? Have you ever even heard of cookies? do you even know what they are?
mediaplex, as a single company, could probably profile you down to your address, sexual preferences, religious preferences, and common websites in a matter of seconds.
sad but true.
apparently nobody paid attention to the fact that every android phone runs on arm, aka google is already investing in ARM.
I never said Ipad was a good choice in any stretch. I'm just saying getting that dealer installed is the worst decision you can make. Doing it aftermarket usually enables better options, saves money, and still is a bad decision.
Just because they won't get carsick from looking down doesn't mean people won't get nautious from staring at that tiny ass screen.
Okay, lets see. give them a dvd player, tell them to put in the DVD and press play. You think that's harder for them to understand than paying $2000 for something you can't even take with you in 5 years?
good grief. Money buys choices but it can't save you from making a poor choice.
to clarify, avira will help, but so can clamwin. it's up to you as to when you use what. Honestly anything other than symantec or mcafee is a better decision for the most part.
I think your first mistake was looking at Mcafee. Your second is looking at Avira. The proper solution is to look at Clamwin, as it's free and will enable you to have more flexibility in making it do what you want.
no, it's a bunch of crap. All phones have a battery-less location feature but it's only turned on if you dial 911. Otherwise, having the battery in your phone or not doesn't affect whether or not you can be tracked.
Batteries will naturally dissipate on their own, usually to the tune of 3-30% per day depending on the capacity of the battery. Higher %age on smaller batteries. Have you never heard of that?
really? I don't see any ads on slashdot.
they were. some people are stupid enough to buy the dvd systems in the car. I used to sell cars and seeing someone buy one of these meant a: they were stupid and b: you were making a major profit.
ps: the $2000 ish units? They cost around $300 including installation.
really? Ads define a site? When did I get that backwards? I thought it was the sites allow ads, not the ads allow sites?
oh right, publishers crying foul waaaah waaaah how can we live without monetizing people who come to a site for free but we're actually making money off them.
I couldn't help but wonder if they bought it out to squash the free model, although it sounds like the theatrical interests are there too.
those videos were up for more than a year. You could repost them and they still pass the filter *today* with the pitch change.
ahh, here it is. The how-to.
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~parallax/
it's easy to get around the content filter really.
how do people not bother? Just change the audio pitch by...I think it's 1 half step? Or 1.1 half steps? Once you do that, the automated scanner will not be able to find your video at all. It will sound practically identical, as well.
Just shows how pitiful the attempts by copyright groups are, since they don't even review the videos.
For video that relies on the graphic, you just have to create a single vertical line (maybe green or something, 1 pixel wide) going down the entire frame of the video, and then the graphic filter won't find it either.
Just shows ya, the more you try to stifle, less it works.
It still won't run flash well or be cross platform.
you're completely off because manufacturing cost has a cost floor, and the minimum price is not even remotely near that cost.
The $1000+ hard drives that exist today realistically don't even cost $100 to make in materials, assembly, marketing and packaging.
The resistance to downward push is just resisting existing market influences. Market demand will ALWAYS push cost towards zero on a product. Basic economics proves that.
your view is quote narrow here. How did you not realize they're doing it with non-SSD hard drives as well? They've been almost the same price for more than 2 years. It's 100% price fixing all around. Yes, densities are getting higher, yes its harder to make, but all these things actually drive the cost down. Meanwhile, 2 years ago? $70/TB. Today? $70/TB. That is no accident.
as it has been shown before, when it comes to software it's better to innovate than waste time on patents. Unfortunately a lot of people think it's a great idea to get something patented and don't even consider that hundreds of other people may have done the same thing before.
I work in an industry where I hear the phrase "I'm applying for a patent on my product" all day long. It doesn't mean shit, and you can get sued for claiming a patent on a product that doesn't get approved. You're applying for a patent for x? guess what, so are the other 25 people for doing the same thing. This goes double or triple for anything involving software in any form.
ah, I didn't catch that even when I read wikipedia. Thanks.
they still can anyway.
I believe there are ways you can be asked to answer questions anyway, right? Such as when the evidence is presented? Or is that when they can put you in for contempt of court?
I'm not a lawyer so maybe someone else can help clarify, but I thought fifth amendment has situations where you can't simply invoke it?
honestly, I read it on some sites I came across when the ban was pushed again, but I'll see if I can find it. From a read of wiki, maybe the sites were a bit biased, since wikipedia at least claims that there have been no conclusive studies.
Hmm.
I don't know, I don't have the expertise to reliably cite the studies, so someone please mod down my OPs.