Sorry the american attitude of someone elses fault is going to kill this as soon as someone slips and falls on the floor. They will see someone making money off of it and sue.
I will be suprised if it ever actually gets the insurance coverage to be realy deployed.
"According to Net Applications, in June Windows Vista accounted for 4.52% of all systems that browsed the Web, up from January's 0.18%."
That would be systems that identify themselves in the http header as Vista increased. Any correlation between the actual number of systems with Vista and the number identifying themselves as such is simply an invention of the makers of the study.
One wonders on any real network analysist using systems that self identify themselves in the wilds of the internet.
So when will the army release the video game for this to give all those teenagers a head start on the training they need to be a part of the new military?
Your mount at level 40 costs ~100g. Your mount at level 60 costs ~600g. Your mount at level 70 costs ~1000g. Your fast mount at level 70 costs ~6000g. 6000g = 60,000,000 copper
The game is designed with a rudimentary economy that despite the unlimited gold from killing things is designed to eat up money for repairs and other equipment costs. It is easy to spend all your money on shiny objects.
If I play music over my speakers others can hear it. If I stream music off my hard drive, how is this different than playing it over the speakers? If people play it off my hard drive how is that different than playing it over the speakers.
The above assumes private playing of a valid music source.
There is a very fine distinction to be argued here. That will have to cover buffering, decoding and all sorts of stuff.
So how much would operating system vendors have to pay the firewall/viris scanner people to add a feature to the firewalls that clearly identified the operating system and web server of the site that was attempting to download a viris/keylogger.
Envision this pop up with appropriatly named guilty parties. --- Alert: WebServer: MosaicC64 running on AmigaOS_1.5.6 is attempting to infect your computer !! Anti-Viris-Firewall: Bad Application (XXPdeleteAllYourStuff) found in web stream from site all.bad.stuff.com: Blocked.
Looking at the video card update list I wonder if valve might want to put a front end filter to the database information that would email people with links to updated drivers for your cards.
"Valve collects statistics on your machine for analysis. Before this data reaches our database and is annonymized it is preprocessed to provide you with notices like this. For a look at the overall statistics we collect please visit Valve at VVV.
Your hardware, a XXX video card is using driver YYY. Please be advised the vendor ZZZ for this card has published an updated driver that will most likely increase your video card performance. This driver is available at WWWW. "
Taxes are already everywhere. Why more?
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I pay for access. My ISP pays taxes on their revenue. Does that not count? My ISP pays the owner of lines they lease. The line owner pays taxes on their revenue. Does that not count? My ISP pays other ISP's in access agreements. They all pay taxes. Does that not count? The service providers make revenue. They pay taxes on the revenue. Does that not count? On top of the services there are advertisers. They make revenues and pay taxes. Does that not count?
It seems to me the whole system is already covered.
Should a legislator vote for a law/bill later found by a court to be unconstitutional that legistlator shall immediatly be dismissed from their post having been essentially found to be "acting against the constitution". Such shall not apply to direct attempts to modify the constitution.
At some future time Microsoft will press an existing patent against someone. The first defence will be Estoppel. Microsoft is once company that cannot claim it did not have the resources to defend itself. If Microsoft fails to defend at this point, especially after making the pubclic claims it is effectively estopped from raising those claims in the future.
Face it ISPs have oversold their bandwidth. Basing their capacity on bursty web page loads by subscribers. Real use of bandwidth is not in the ISP's business model.
You can't really blame the ISP's as providing full bandwidth to all would be overly costly and ridiculous given the original traffic patterns but they are going to have to adapt to the new data patterns of their subscribers or lose to those who will provide it.
One current loss factor for the RIAA and ilk is independent artists who are able to home record and publish. With the current direction it will soon be impossible, or very difficult to home record and publish. I expect to see authoring tools require registration and be prohibited from the general public, or at least be made very expensive by limited distribution. This will push people back into the welcoming arms of the RIAA. I expect this to be all part of the plan.
The media revolution of making us all creators will be stifled in the name of control and profit by the media barons.
Microsoft and Sony find themselves out of the boat in pushing high end rendering machines as game consoles when what people really want is fun games.
Wii wins with a new way to interact with the machine making it fun and for having the standard Nintendo appeal of social games that involve a group of people vs the solo sniper approach.
Nintendo has a winner, Sony and Microsoft have dogs, very pretty dogs, but dogs. Of course Sony and Microsoft are going to point out their dogs are pretty. But they are not popular.
Things learned from this 1) group games have more mass appeal than solo games 2) interaction with the game can be fun 3) game play is more important than graphics 4) cheaper is better 5) make a console that is not a loss leader
A good example of why data integrity and checking of log files is needed. And why time is very very important in automatic logging systems.
If the RIAA says "We have a log of your assigned IP downloading this song at 12:31pm". They had better have some way of proving the clock on that system was correctly set.
This is a good example to show how incorrectly set clocks can go unnoticed and how the wrong results can be concluded.
Schools should start a wikipedia about their local area.
Step 1: accounts and passwords are created, additional account creation is blocked Step 2: demonstrate all edits are traceable to an account Step 3: you are responsible for your account security and all edits done by your account
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Sorry the american attitude of someone elses fault is going to kill this as soon as someone slips and falls on the floor. They will see someone making money off of it and sue.
I will be suprised if it ever actually gets the insurance coverage to be realy deployed.
"According to Net Applications, in June Windows Vista accounted for 4.52% of all systems that browsed the Web, up from January's 0.18%."
That would be systems that identify themselves in the http header as Vista increased. Any correlation between the actual number of systems with Vista and the number identifying themselves as such is simply an invention of the makers of the study.
One wonders on any real network analysist using systems that self identify themselves in the wilds of the internet.
So when will the army release the video game for this to give all those teenagers a head start on the training they need to be a part of the new military?
The problem is that they are releasing buggy hardware.
They should be respinning and correcting. Also their design process should adapt and catch these bugs next time.
What this speaks to is a rapid hardware churn and release cycle without proper testing and validation.
This is WoW related as WoW is the biggest game.
1g = 100silver = 10,000 copper
When you start. You start with copper coins.
Your mount at level 40 costs ~100g.
Your mount at level 60 costs ~600g.
Your mount at level 70 costs ~1000g.
Your fast mount at level 70 costs ~6000g.
6000g = 60,000,000 copper
The game is designed with a rudimentary economy that despite the unlimited gold from killing things is designed to eat up money for repairs and other equipment costs. It is easy to spend all your money on shiny objects.
Top end quests are worth 10-20g for completing.
> et he admits to having placed copyrighted works in public folders on a public university system,
How is that different than playing the music on his sound system in his room? Anyone next door or in the hall could have recorded it with a mic.
His actions did not amount to distribution. He should not be responsible for the actions of others.
If I play music over my speakers others can hear it.
If I stream music off my hard drive, how is this different than playing it over the speakers?
If people play it off my hard drive how is that different than playing it over the speakers.
The above assumes private playing of a valid music source.
There is a very fine distinction to be argued here. That will have to cover buffering, decoding and all sorts of stuff.
I would send him $5 for a share in the global win from next weeks lotto numbers
So how much would operating system vendors have to pay the firewall/viris scanner people to add a feature to the firewalls that clearly identified the operating system and web server of the site that was attempting to download a viris/keylogger.
Envision this pop up with appropriatly named guilty parties.
---
Alert: WebServer: MosaicC64 running on AmigaOS_1.5.6 is attempting to infect your computer !!
Anti-Viris-Firewall: Bad Application (XXPdeleteAllYourStuff) found in web stream from site
all.bad.stuff.com: Blocked.
Looking at the video card update list I wonder if valve might want to put a front end filter to the database information that would email people with links to updated drivers for your cards.
"Valve collects statistics on your machine for analysis. Before this data reaches our database and is annonymized it is preprocessed to provide you with notices like this. For a look at the overall statistics we collect please visit Valve at VVV.
Your hardware, a XXX video card is using driver YYY. Please be advised the vendor ZZZ for this card has published an updated driver that will most likely increase your video card performance. This driver is available at WWWW. "
I pay for access. My ISP pays taxes on their revenue. Does that not count?
My ISP pays the owner of lines they lease. The line owner pays taxes on their revenue. Does that not count?
My ISP pays other ISP's in access agreements. They all pay taxes. Does that not count?
The service providers make revenue. They pay taxes on the revenue. Does that not count?
On top of the services there are advertisers. They make revenues and pay taxes. Does that not count?
It seems to me the whole system is already covered.
When is the tea party?
Proposal:
Should a legislator vote for a law/bill later found by a court to be unconstitutional that legistlator shall immediatly be dismissed from their post having been essentially found to be "acting against the constitution". Such shall not apply to direct attempts to modify the constitution.
At some future time Microsoft will press an existing patent against someone. The first defence will be Estoppel. Microsoft is once company that cannot claim it did not have the resources to defend itself. If Microsoft fails to defend at this point, especially after making the pubclic claims it is effectively estopped from raising those claims in the future.
IANAL but I like to try on the hat
Why else would the machines with windows cost less. Linux is free, so windows must add negative value to the machines.
We just need to push this on the press and give it the publicity it deserves.
Looks like the firestorm even hit the other side of the world.
So if humans want to survive things like this in the future we should go back to living deep in caves rather than tall exposed buildings.
Face it ISPs have oversold their bandwidth. Basing their capacity on bursty web page loads by subscribers. Real use of bandwidth is not in the ISP's business model.
You can't really blame the ISP's as providing full bandwidth to all would be overly costly and ridiculous given the original traffic patterns but they are going to have to adapt to the new data patterns of their subscribers or lose to those who will provide it.
I will be "polite" until I encounter an in game add.
I will then become "profane" for a short period of time.
One current loss factor for the RIAA and ilk is independent artists who are able to home record and publish. With the current direction it will soon be impossible, or very difficult to home record and publish. I expect to see authoring tools require registration and be prohibited from the general public, or at least be made very expensive by limited distribution. This will push people back into the welcoming arms of the RIAA. I expect this to be all part of the plan.
The media revolution of making us all creators will be stifled in the name of control and profit by the media barons.
FTA: Require Homeland Security to alert the Recording Industry Association of America.
Sure that is what everyone intended the anti-terrorism money to go to.
Microsoft and Sony find themselves out of the boat in pushing high end rendering machines as game consoles when what people really want is fun games.
Wii wins with a new way to interact with the machine making it fun and for having the standard Nintendo appeal of social games that involve a group of people vs the solo sniper approach.
Nintendo has a winner, Sony and Microsoft have dogs, very pretty dogs, but dogs. Of course Sony and Microsoft are going to point out their dogs are pretty. But they are not popular.
Things learned from this
1) group games have more mass appeal than solo games
2) interaction with the game can be fun
3) game play is more important than graphics
4) cheaper is better
5) make a console that is not a loss leader
The nethack source is the real game.
A good example of why data integrity and checking of log files is needed. And why time is very very important in automatic logging systems.
If the RIAA says "We have a log of your assigned IP downloading this song at 12:31pm". They had better have some way of proving the clock on that system was correctly set.
This is a good example to show how incorrectly set clocks can go unnoticed and how the wrong results can be concluded.
Schools should start a wikipedia about their local area.
Step 1: accounts and passwords are created, additional account creation is blocked
Step 2: demonstrate all edits are traceable to an account
Step 3: you are responsible for your account security and all edits done by your account
Step 4: release
Step 5: edit and disipline
That will teach a lot.
"only if they also block FOX, CNN and MSNBC"
Seriously, is wikipedia any more correct or incorrect than any other source of information.
So I play WoW. My time investment becomes unrealized gains as I have not made a real world transaction.
Then my account gets hacked. All my stuff destroyed and definitly converted to real world market value.
Does this mean I get to declare a loss for tax purposes?
Also this means that online time is creating value.
This would mean your payments to play are deductable.