Ok, it is wrong, but i think nobody thought that the guys from PB could get out of the court covered in flowers. There is too much pressure by the lobby on the political structure to admit that a sentence such in opposition with the actual views on IP could pass. Remember that the eyes of the world were on that court. Heck, it even made the frontpage of Italian newspapers.
What do we have to learn is that, even if wrong, it is a MINOR fault. It is not the unforgivable sin nor it does not cause the economical losses major would want us to believe. It is less then a cent per download. Hey, i'd be more than willing to pay even 10 or 50 cent for every movie/album i were to download! How would you behave if your uncorrect parking fines were 1$ each?
Ok, everybody was dreaming thet they were going to be considered "innocent" and such. But i personally see this outcome as a *big* win. If the so colled four "bosses" of the Internet file sharing, accused by the industry of Billion dollars of losses and working as a team, can get away with first verdict of a year in jail and a fine of 750k $ each, this means that the court perfectly recognized the extreme differences between the Industry concept of damages due to not buying the records and the real thing ("Not every downloaded copy is a copy non sold")
From this verdict, we should think that a single individual, with a normal downloading activity, will be never hold responsible for any damage to the music/video industry.
Very few file-sharers have the capacity to buy the stuff they download, they are just tagging along in what is a part of their culture, a culture which the media conglomerate has built very effectively.
This could be true for poor countries, but i completely doubt that a twentysomething who spends 200 $ for a pair of shoes or goes to a club where entry and drink is 30 $ cannot shell out 10 $ twice a month for a DVD or a record (consider also that you can have old cd/dvd for a couple of bucks through ebay/online sellers).
Faster PCR is to Dna Techniques what Overcloking is to hardware performance.
Sometimes it could be a solution, sometimes it's just a buzzword, sometimes it's the door to your nightmares. In a lot of applications, PCR speed it's not the bottleneck.
They might have merged the Emotion Engine chip with the Graphic Syntethizer. It was a step previously anticipated, supposed to go on production on the first size reduction but it didn't. Objective: cost-cutting. Remember that PS2 will still be selling when PS3 launches. PSone sold a LOT of units (30/40 millions, equivalent to 50% of the installed base) after the last price cut, coincident with the PS2 launch.
mmm... babelfish? Btw, the translation is wrong, it's "In fascist Italy, they publish notebooks" Well, I'm Italian, so i understand the grammar of the message but I don't understand the meaning. Most "italian misteries" (murders, bombs and so on) would be resolved if someone was to publish politician's notebooks.
The opposite of this tech-no-food is the Slow Food movement; seek out the farmers, stores and restaurants that support there ideals.
Still, Slow Food is a solution for western and rich people. They pick good restaurants, good farmer, good winemakers. But they don't come cheap.
A meal in a Slow Food restaurant is equivalent to a couple of monthly wages for the 70% of the world population.
Filling up your guts is still a big problem in some part of the world.
Well, being a food science graduate (but from Milan University) i can understand your thoughts, but i think that our point of view is a little bit biased.
A lot of things are happening now in the food world; this molecular gastronomy is just a piece of the puzzle, as the quest for organic foods, or the "experience eating" and the continual research for new ethnic foods.
I see this kind of "experiments" (meat ice cream, low temperature/low pressure cooking) as some kind of social event, more than a scientific demonstration.
With a risky confrontation, molecular gastronomy is for food science what psycology is for psychiatry.
How would they attach tags to things like plastic bags (frozen/fresh veggies) individual pieces of produce (they're now starting to use lasers to etch barcodes onto the skin of fruits), and other small or unusually shaped items? Barcodes can be put on almost anything no matter what the shape or size. Can the same be done with RFID tags?
No, and it won't. Because that's not the target, I think.
Cheap items, small pieces will still carry the barcode, at least in the next years.
RFID will take over in warehouses (useful in tracking a pallet of bags) and in high added value objects (think about a sweater that interacts with your washing machine).
And what about boxes that have multiple barcodes?
The RFID broadcasts a signal, is up to the operator (or the receiver) to decode the signal and pick the important part of the message.
I know some RFID implementations in the food supply. Each different operator needs differen type of informations (the producer needs warehouse informations, the distributor needs the destination address, the customer needs expiry date and storage conditions). All these info can be stored on a single RFID. Each element of the chain can catch the signal and get his info.
The most important thing is still the community: you have to give people way to interact beyond the game, else it's only a ten day love and nothing else. Creating bonds between players creates resident players (I've been playing hattrick for a couple of years and I NEVER thought about quitting, even after sore defeats.)
The reference site for extension and themes is now http://update.mozilla.org/ .
I even binded it to the throbber button.
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Ok, it is wrong, but i think nobody thought that the guys from PB could get out of the court covered in flowers.
There is too much pressure by the lobby on the political structure to admit that a sentence such in opposition with the actual views on IP could pass.
Remember that the eyes of the world were on that court.
Heck, it even made the frontpage of Italian newspapers.
What do we have to learn is that, even if wrong, it is a MINOR fault. It is not the unforgivable sin nor it does not cause the economical losses major would want us to believe.
It is less then a cent per download. Hey, i'd be more than willing to pay even 10 or 50 cent for every movie/album i were to download!
How would you behave if your uncorrect parking fines were 1$ each?
The second one. Give me something to talk about, a pair of trainers and a shower and next time she'll be mine!
Ok, everybody was dreaming thet they were going to be considered "innocent" and such.
But i personally see this outcome as a *big* win.
If the so colled four "bosses" of the Internet file sharing, accused by the industry of Billion dollars of losses and working as a team, can get away with first verdict of a year in jail and a fine of 750k $ each, this means that the court perfectly recognized the extreme differences between the Industry concept of damages due to not buying the records and the real thing ("Not every downloaded copy is a copy non sold")
From this verdict, we should think that a single individual, with a normal downloading activity, will be never hold responsible for any damage to the music/video industry.
Very few file-sharers have the capacity to buy the stuff they download, they are just tagging along in what is a part of their culture, a culture which the media conglomerate has built very effectively.
This could be true for poor countries, but i completely doubt that a twentysomething who spends 200 $ for a pair of shoes or goes to a club where entry and drink is 30 $ cannot shell out 10 $ twice a month for a DVD or a record (consider also that you can have old cd/dvd for a couple of bucks through ebay/online sellers).
All we need is an AJAX box that blips and says "Achievement Unlocked - 5G The Comedian"
A new Firefox extension appears!
Faster PCR is to Dna Techniques what Overcloking is to hardware performance.
Sometimes it could be a solution, sometimes it's just a buzzword, sometimes it's the door to your nightmares.
In a lot of applications, PCR speed it's not the bottleneck.
They might have merged the Emotion Engine chip with the Graphic Syntethizer. It was a step previously anticipated, supposed to go on production on the first size reduction but it didn't.
Objective: cost-cutting. Remember that PS2 will still be selling when PS3 launches. PSone sold a LOT of units (30/40 millions, equivalent to 50% of the installed base) after the last price cut, coincident with the PS2 launch.
national pride
National pride in Italy? oh my God...
For the Mods: I'm Italian, or so my id-card says
mmm... babelfish?
Btw, the translation is wrong, it's "In fascist Italy, they publish notebooks"
Well, I'm Italian, so i understand the grammar of the message but I don't understand the meaning.
Most "italian misteries" (murders, bombs and so on) would be resolved if someone was to publish politician's notebooks.
What do you mean?
"It's amazing that at least one of his earlier drafts of his work at the Sistine Chapel survived."
It's even more amazing when you think that Michelangelo did the Decorations of the Sistine Chapel!
FP!
The opposite of this tech-no-food is the Slow Food movement; seek out the farmers, stores and restaurants that support there ideals.
Still, Slow Food is a solution for western and rich people. They pick good restaurants, good farmer, good winemakers. But they don't come cheap. A meal in a Slow Food restaurant is equivalent to a couple of monthly wages for the 70% of the world population. Filling up your guts is still a big problem in some part of the world.
Well, being a food science graduate (but from Milan University) i can understand your thoughts, but i think that our point of view is a little bit biased.
A lot of things are happening now in the food world; this molecular gastronomy is just a piece of the puzzle, as the quest for organic foods, or the "experience eating" and the continual research for new ethnic foods.
I see this kind of "experiments" (meat ice cream, low temperature/low pressure cooking) as some kind of social event, more than a scientific demonstration.
With a risky confrontation, molecular gastronomy is for food science what psycology is for psychiatry.
How would they attach tags to things like plastic bags (frozen/fresh veggies) individual pieces of produce (they're now starting to use lasers to etch barcodes onto the skin of fruits), and other small or unusually shaped items? Barcodes can be put on almost anything no matter what the shape or size. Can the same be done with RFID tags?
No, and it won't. Because that's not the target, I think. Cheap items, small pieces will still carry the barcode, at least in the next years. RFID will take over in warehouses (useful in tracking a pallet of bags) and in high added value objects (think about a sweater that interacts with your washing machine).
And what about boxes that have multiple barcodes?
The RFID broadcasts a signal, is up to the operator (or the receiver) to decode the signal and pick the important part of the message.
I know some RFID implementations in the food supply. Each different operator needs differen type of informations (the producer needs warehouse informations, the distributor needs the destination address, the customer needs expiry date and storage conditions). All these info can be stored on a single RFID. Each element of the chain can catch the signal and get his info.
From a different point of view, they already did.
see http://hattrick.org/ as a very good soccer MMO, or http://www.charazay.com/ for a b-ball equivalent
The most important thing is still the community: you have to give people way to interact beyond the game, else it's only a ten day love and nothing else.
Creating bonds between players creates resident players (I've been playing hattrick for a couple of years and I NEVER thought about quitting, even after sore defeats.)
The reference site for extension and themes is now http://update.mozilla.org/ . I even binded it to the throbber button. [Sorry for the double post, HTML issues]
The reference site for extension and themes is now I even binded it to the trobber button
And then the admin goes mad, trying to catch up unlocking all account blocked by "someone" who just wanted to make a little joke...