She was a broke author who couldn't find the monetary might of Warner Bros, yet it is extremely easy to verify with the ISDN number that her books were in fact published before Harry Potter.
It is possible this is all one big coincidence. But it sure doesn't look like one.
Where exactly can we find a reasonable solution? One might contend the US produces no finer export that its IP, from music, movies, to books, software and video games.
I believe we should be able to protect IP, but that doesn't mean it should become this draconian institution. Where exactly is the compromise?
Even better, before Rowling ever started writing Harry Potter, there was a series of books years earlier called Larry Potter that featured a boy just like Harry with dark hair and glasses.
He went to a wizard school in a magical castle, and non-magic humans were called Muggles.
Yet Rowling tries to accuse everyone of stealing from her. And to date, she has never really come up with an idea outside of Harry Potter. Her new book coming out is a series of fairy tales from the Potter-verse, despite the promise she was going to write something completely new.
That's $799, and on NewEgg you can even find them cheaper from time to time.
>Moreover, there were lots of teething problems with DVD in the old days.
Which is why I say buy a PS3. Sony pushes out the latest BluRay updates to the PS3 first and foremost. With built-in wifi, it is quite easy to download and install new firmware. The PS3 was the world's first BluRay 2.0 player, and as the spec continues to evolve, the PS3 will probably remain the most future-proof.
Sorry, I'm terrified of clicking on links for fear of being phished. Perhaps I'll go search on MSN for how to prevent phishing. Oh wait, it says to exclusively use IE and then I'll be magically safe from all phishers!
Now I feel safe and secure!
(Yes, I'm being facetious).
I know I can Google for information on phishing, but why post this article on Slashdot? It seems like the only point of this article is to encourage theft of data. I didn't think that was the norm for the editors here.
I wish the article had good suggestions for how to prevent phishing attacks. Instead, it seems like this article is suggesting I can easily steal already stolen credit-card data.
Clearly you don't understand the statement. They steal IP from other countries all the time. The IP of other countries has nothing to do with the Olympics. It has everything to do with China not respecting IP.
China suddenly believes in IP when they have money at stake.
Most people don't have tape drives. Writing to tape is slow. New PCs are shipping with BluRay drives, and BluRay drives are getting cheaper every day.
Oh, and Sony said they thought BluRay will eventually reach 500 GB a disc. People doubted it, but I've already read about Toshiba or some company making a 200 GB BluRay disc. Sony believes the upper limit will be 10 layers at 50 GB each.
I'm seeing sub-$800 laptops shipping with BluRay drives. BluRay won't catch on as fast as DVD, because people didn't need new TV's to watch DVD, but in February the United States is switching to all digital TV signals. Even though people with cable boxes are going to be unaffected, people will spin this as "you need a new TV" and I believe by the end of next year, most US homes will have an HDTV.
The need to purchase a new TV will be eliminated, while at the same time, people will suddenly have a greater desire for a device that can take advantage of their new TV. Most new TVs for sale today support 1080p. BluRay will look more and more appealing in the next year or so.
Most people aren't convinced until they see it in person. When more and more people see it in other people's homes, it will eventually catch on.
I can verify that when I jumped to a new LCD (Sony Bravia 1080p 56") that SD TV looked pretty crappy, but you're talking a low res picture and blowing it up on a big screen.
Take low res video on your computer and blow it up on a large monitor.
My DirecTV box, and my PS3 upscale all SD content, and both get good reviews for up-scaling. I can't comment on how a DLP handles SD content, but it does look poor on my LCD.
The PS3 may still be the best BluRay player on the market. $400 is a decent price compared to most players, it has built-in wifi, and gets firmware upgrades faster than any other BluRay player. The quality is fantastic, it loads fast, and it beats my $250 up-scaling DVD player when it comes to up-scaling.
The BluRay portion of it is actually a really good value at $400, to the point that it is like getting a next-gen console for free.
I've also found that larger TVs seem to really hammer in the difference between HD and standard content.
I only have a 56" TV, but jumping from a 32" TV, suddenly standard resolution looked ugly. Yet, watching HD channels and BluRay movies look better than ever because I can really see fine details.
I'm sure if I had a 92" screen, the difference would be even more noticeable.
Anyone who bundles DVD playbook tools does so legally. The DCMA states that it is illegal to circumvent copyright technology for the purpose of pirating content. It isn't illegal to reverse engineer the ability to play your original DVDs that you legally own. Several lawyers have even spoken out on the subject, and no distro in the US has even been sued for including libdvdcss that I know of. Yet people are terrified of including it.
Portage allows you to install commercial software like crossover-office. You still need a license, but portage will pull in the installer through the standard install process, and keep track that it is installed for dependency purposes.
I'm just going to respond to you, though it seems several people were suggesting the same thing.
Ubuntu is a bad example largely because their fork features major changes. Mint basically just includes codecs. PCLinuxOS was originally largely just changing the defaults of the desktop. Then are hundreds of active distros, many of which offer minor changes at best, yet pull away tons of developer time to maintain different repos and such.
Frankly, I don't think Ubuntu is all that great of a distro. I think Shuttleworth does a great job selling and marketing his product, and I give him props for that. He is doing a much better job than I convincing people to try Linux.
My point still stands. The Ubuntu devs could have focused their efforts on Debian. Their distro today still is binary compatible with Debian. If they added their new features to the stock Debian, all Debian users benefit.
The other point is that while a few people make major forks and make major new features, it seems we have tons and tons of distros with nothing really unique to offer. So why pull away all those package maintainers, devs, support people, etc. away from other distros?
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She was a broke author who couldn't find the monetary might of Warner Bros, yet it is extremely easy to verify with the ISDN number that her books were in fact published before Harry Potter.
It is possible this is all one big coincidence. But it sure doesn't look like one.
Be careful or you'll get the Gigolo reputation.
Where exactly can we find a reasonable solution? One might contend the US produces no finer export that its IP, from music, movies, to books, software and video games.
I believe we should be able to protect IP, but that doesn't mean it should become this draconian institution. Where exactly is the compromise?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Potter#Nancy_Stouffer
Even better, before Rowling ever started writing Harry Potter, there was a series of books years earlier called Larry Potter that featured a boy just like Harry with dark hair and glasses.
He went to a wizard school in a magical castle, and non-magic humans were called Muggles.
Yet Rowling tries to accuse everyone of stealing from her. And to date, she has never really come up with an idea outside of Harry Potter. Her new book coming out is a series of fairy tales from the Potter-verse, despite the promise she was going to write something completely new.
Except China isn't exactly a small, new, fledgling country.
http://www.shopping.hp.com/webapp/shopping/computer_can_series.do?storeName=computer_store&category=notebooks&a1=Category&v1=Entertainment+powerhouse&series_name=dv7z_series
That's $799, and on NewEgg you can even find them cheaper from time to time.
>Moreover, there were lots of teething problems with DVD in the old days.
Which is why I say buy a PS3. Sony pushes out the latest BluRay updates to the PS3 first and foremost. With built-in wifi, it is quite easy to download and install new firmware. The PS3 was the world's first BluRay 2.0 player, and as the spec continues to evolve, the PS3 will probably remain the most future-proof.
Sorry, I'm terrified of clicking on links for fear of being phished. Perhaps I'll go search on MSN for how to prevent phishing. Oh wait, it says to exclusively use IE and then I'll be magically safe from all phishers!
Now I feel safe and secure!
(Yes, I'm being facetious).
I know I can Google for information on phishing, but why post this article on Slashdot? It seems like the only point of this article is to encourage theft of data. I didn't think that was the norm for the editors here.
I wish the article had good suggestions for how to prevent phishing attacks. Instead, it seems like this article is suggesting I can easily steal already stolen credit-card data.
Clearly you don't understand the statement. They steal IP from other countries all the time. The IP of other countries has nothing to do with the Olympics. It has everything to do with China not respecting IP.
China suddenly believes in IP when they have money at stake.
Not in the near future. I like my HD content. How fast can I download a HD movie to my box?
How long does it take my to put in the disc?
Eventually downloading will be fast enough, and HDD space large enough to store all my downloaded HD movies on it comfortably. We're not there yet.
Most people don't have tape drives. Writing to tape is slow. New PCs are shipping with BluRay drives, and BluRay drives are getting cheaper every day.
Oh, and Sony said they thought BluRay will eventually reach 500 GB a disc. People doubted it, but I've already read about Toshiba or some company making a 200 GB BluRay disc. Sony believes the upper limit will be 10 layers at 50 GB each.
I'm seeing sub-$800 laptops shipping with BluRay drives. BluRay won't catch on as fast as DVD, because people didn't need new TV's to watch DVD, but in February the United States is switching to all digital TV signals. Even though people with cable boxes are going to be unaffected, people will spin this as "you need a new TV" and I believe by the end of next year, most US homes will have an HDTV.
The need to purchase a new TV will be eliminated, while at the same time, people will suddenly have a greater desire for a device that can take advantage of their new TV. Most new TVs for sale today support 1080p. BluRay will look more and more appealing in the next year or so.
Most people aren't convinced until they see it in person. When more and more people see it in other people's homes, it will eventually catch on.
I can verify that when I jumped to a new LCD (Sony Bravia 1080p 56") that SD TV looked pretty crappy, but you're talking a low res picture and blowing it up on a big screen.
Take low res video on your computer and blow it up on a large monitor.
My DirecTV box, and my PS3 upscale all SD content, and both get good reviews for up-scaling. I can't comment on how a DLP handles SD content, but it does look poor on my LCD.
The PS3 may still be the best BluRay player on the market. $400 is a decent price compared to most players, it has built-in wifi, and gets firmware upgrades faster than any other BluRay player. The quality is fantastic, it loads fast, and it beats my $250 up-scaling DVD player when it comes to up-scaling.
The BluRay portion of it is actually a really good value at $400, to the point that it is like getting a next-gen console for free.
I've also found that larger TVs seem to really hammer in the difference between HD and standard content.
I only have a 56" TV, but jumping from a 32" TV, suddenly standard resolution looked ugly. Yet, watching HD channels and BluRay movies look better than ever because I can really see fine details.
I'm sure if I had a 92" screen, the difference would be even more noticeable.
A public notary is no doubt cheaper than a lawyer, and can verify a dated document just as well.
China is arguable the largest pirate nation on the planet, who has next to zero respect for intellectual property of other nations.
Now that their money is at stake here, they want to protect their content.
Funny, that.
Check my sig.
You can use a standard Wiimote with your computer.
Is this more accurate, cheaper, or neither?
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Anyone who bundles DVD playbook tools does so legally. The DCMA states that it is illegal to circumvent copyright technology for the purpose of pirating content. It isn't illegal to reverse engineer the ability to play your original DVDs that you legally own. Several lawyers have even spoken out on the subject, and no distro in the US has even been sued for including libdvdcss that I know of. Yet people are terrified of including it.
Portage allows you to install commercial software like crossover-office. You still need a license, but portage will pull in the installer through the standard install process, and keep track that it is installed for dependency purposes.
I'm just going to respond to you, though it seems several people were suggesting the same thing.
Ubuntu is a bad example largely because their fork features major changes. Mint basically just includes codecs. PCLinuxOS was originally largely just changing the defaults of the desktop. Then are hundreds of active distros, many of which offer minor changes at best, yet pull away tons of developer time to maintain different repos and such.
Sounds like portage.
And I thought commercial software has been added to Ubuntu's repositories before.
Frankly, I don't think Ubuntu is all that great of a distro. I think Shuttleworth does a great job selling and marketing his product, and I give him props for that. He is doing a much better job than I convincing people to try Linux.
My point still stands. The Ubuntu devs could have focused their efforts on Debian. Their distro today still is binary compatible with Debian. If they added their new features to the stock Debian, all Debian users benefit.
The other point is that while a few people make major forks and make major new features, it seems we have tons and tons of distros with nothing really unique to offer. So why pull away all those package maintainers, devs, support people, etc. away from other distros?