I'd suggest the same with facebook too. I'm not too sure the legality of presenting 12 year old with changes to user agreements, misleading games that collect your info, etc.
I don't know about neuroscience, but I do know that 3d movies give me headaches and eye fatigue, mainly because my brain *thinks* the objects I'm looking at are in 3d space, and therefore when an object is out of focus (as in extreme foreground) my eyes move to it and try and focus on it to get a better image. Since the object isn't real, my eyes strain and nothing happens. 15 minutes later, eye fatigue, headaches.
no idea about long term effects, but short term effects are bad enough that I avoid 3d movies.
How could they possibly be selling this at a loss?
The only cost associated with creating the ebooks is software (laughable), serving them (bandwidth is cheap, itunes makes money of 3-4 mb songs for $1). If you say setting up the infrastructure to do so costs them, well ya, but think of that over the entire lifetime of that equipment (ie, pennies per file).
Yet at the same time, they can retail books for me for $9.99, making a hearty profit, with the same cuts to retailer, distributor, author, plus shipping and warehousing expenses.
$9.99 is a bullshit price, and ebooks wont become popular until they go the way of the mp3 and become reasonably priced.
1) eInk is currently new, so high resolution is expensive and technically difficult.
2) Again, the display by itself would cost the same as the entire device.
3) eInk is not touchscreen, and this device is not a PDA but a handheld made specifically to read. If you want a PDA, go buy one.
4) They also said there is some local memory and and SD card slot.
5) It's not a PDA - the typing is for simple purposes only. the main time spent on the device - reading, uses a two large buttons on each side.
6) So ask.
7) New tech display, EVDO wireless, and the device itself does not come for free. I agree the price is prohibitive, but that is true of all new tech devices. wait a few years and devices like this will come down in price, or cell phones will match their featuresets.
Actually, they are charging money for connecting you to those blogs, since the net connection doesnt require any sort of login.
It makes sense to let me browse their store for free, but to pay the data fees (even big discount fees) for me to read a blog and not charge anything is just stupid. I wouldn't expect that of any company. Does apple give free internet service with their handhelds? Does anyone?
1) So you had to change the format to the 2003 style. I get it. It's a hassle , but now its second nature. I do it because
2) Even though it me a whole hour to figure out where everything was in word, I find that I can now do things faster. I like the look as well as the groupings of the new UI. To complain that you are "extremely literate in word" but couldn't figure out the UI in a day or two sounds like you didn't even try.
The issue here isn't whether he did or did not distribute the music, or his intention to do so or not.
The issue here is that he was spied upon on the basis of having music available (which is not proof positive of copyright infringement) without any actual evidence of the alleged infringement. Since doing so would be an invasion of privacy any evidence, even if it definitively proved he was guilty, was obtained through illegal means and thus is inadmissible.
So the question becomes not did he distribute, etc, but can the RIAA invade the privacy of anyone they feel might be infringing, even without any evidence of infringement?
for larceny, which this is not. Larceny is the taking away of property from its rightful owner. Since their is no 'taking away' in any screwball definition of copyright infringement, this does not count.
"can be liable for up to $5,000 in damages for the willful and malicious damage, destruction, concealment, or theft of property (whether publicly or privately owned) by their child, if between 10 and 18 years old."
The lawsuit is not about willful and malicious damage, destruction, concealment, or theft of property. So I guess the law, which you so wonderfully quote, is quite against you.
It seems to me that students who are interested in learning succeed. Students who are interested in learning come to class. therefore students who come to class, succeed.
That being said, you have no guarantee that even without you putting up the notes those students would have come to class. Its possible that those are simply the students who werent committed enough to educating themselves, and failed regardless of your actions.
When I was in first year, I had Comp Sci 101 first thing in the morning twice a week. It was the most boring class I have ever attended, being not only review but taught by a jaded prof who could barely speak english. I still attended every class and lab, even though I knew all the material and learned absolutely nothing. I got an A+, and its likely I would have recieved that anyways even missing the lectures.
Should the prof of that class attribute my mark to my attendance? Personally I wouldnt, but how would he know that I already knew the material?
Do you blame car thefts on the awesomeness of a car? How about rape on the attractiveness of the victim?
Why then would you blame ipods for getting stolen? Blame the criminals.
That really depends on what kind of work you do. I do many many all night modeling and drawing sessions for next-day presentations. If I could focus hard for 24 or 32 hours at a time without any health side effects I would try it. I'm sure the quality of my work would improve because I'd have more time to finish it.
Perhaps I am wrong (please correct me if I am), but I thought that recording something from the radio to tape was legal. If that's true, why is this any different? Or will they require that radio have DRM now too?
Sadly, games like WoW (which I played in the beta, but not now) require a massive amount of time investment to get any serious "cool" game returns.
After donating 100 hours of your life, nay, your leisure time, to WoW you are reluctant to simply walk away because of server issues that "might possibly someday not to far into the future maybe soon" be fixed on blizzard's end. If I had a project that I had already put 100 hours into I wouldn't want to walk away from it either.
Worse MMORPGs are like crack to begin with, so you can factor the addiction issue into that as well. Large percentages of people who begin to play often, become hardcore psychos that can't possible countenance the idea of leaving because of network issues. I suppose you can call it dependency issues.
Not every company sells all their products at a premium, using their "high quality and great service" as well as "ease of use" to assist in customer productivity.A pple has such great reputation for realiability because of its consolidated hardware platform, but that platform has to work flawlessly to allow OSX to shine through.
If apple did not own up to these qualities no one would feel the need spend the extra on them.
Well thats a pretty ignorant attitude. There are alot of students (like myself) who are required to buy laptops with the adobe design suite and/or CAD programs for design courses.
actually fairly large HDDs are relatively cheap atm. You can get a 160 gb drive for $100 CAD retail, so I imagine sony themselves would be paying less than half of that. another $40 CAD is not a dealbreaker if it adds 160gb of storage to the machine.
ya unfortunately ATI cards have long had problems with opengl in their drivers, and the superfly ati cards inside these macbooks wont run quite as super when processing it.
I'm a shaw user in manitoba.
Download still has ok capabilities, but upload is now restricted almost to the point of idiocy. It will take me muuuuuuch longer to seed than to download. So much for the line upgrade (officially from 5mbs/1mbs to 7/3. Doesnt do anyone any good with packet shaping. might as well advertise the line as possibly being able to allow 20gbps, but unfortunately its all shaped to much slower than that.
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obviously you don't understand jews. We'd still us it, we'd just feel guilty. Our mothers would bring it up everytime we saw them.
I'd suggest the same with facebook too. I'm not too sure the legality of presenting 12 year old with changes to user agreements, misleading games that collect your info, etc.
I don't know about neuroscience, but I do know that 3d movies give me headaches and eye fatigue, mainly because my brain *thinks* the objects I'm looking at are in 3d space, and therefore when an object is out of focus (as in extreme foreground) my eyes move to it and try and focus on it to get a better image. Since the object isn't real, my eyes strain and nothing happens. 15 minutes later, eye fatigue, headaches. no idea about long term effects, but short term effects are bad enough that I avoid 3d movies.
skip ars technica and go straight to groklaw http://www.groklaw.net/
How could they possibly be selling this at a loss? The only cost associated with creating the ebooks is software (laughable), serving them (bandwidth is cheap, itunes makes money of 3-4 mb songs for $1). If you say setting up the infrastructure to do so costs them, well ya, but think of that over the entire lifetime of that equipment (ie, pennies per file). Yet at the same time, they can retail books for me for $9.99, making a hearty profit, with the same cuts to retailer, distributor, author, plus shipping and warehousing expenses. $9.99 is a bullshit price, and ebooks wont become popular until they go the way of the mp3 and become reasonably priced.
1) eInk is currently new, so high resolution is expensive and technically difficult. 2) Again, the display by itself would cost the same as the entire device. 3) eInk is not touchscreen, and this device is not a PDA but a handheld made specifically to read. If you want a PDA, go buy one. 4) They also said there is some local memory and and SD card slot. 5) It's not a PDA - the typing is for simple purposes only. the main time spent on the device - reading, uses a two large buttons on each side. 6) So ask. 7) New tech display, EVDO wireless, and the device itself does not come for free. I agree the price is prohibitive, but that is true of all new tech devices. wait a few years and devices like this will come down in price, or cell phones will match their featuresets.
Actually, they are charging money for connecting you to those blogs, since the net connection doesnt require any sort of login. It makes sense to let me browse their store for free, but to pay the data fees (even big discount fees) for me to read a blog and not charge anything is just stupid. I wouldn't expect that of any company. Does apple give free internet service with their handhelds? Does anyone?
1) So you had to change the format to the 2003 style. I get it. It's a hassle , but now its second nature. I do it because 2) Even though it me a whole hour to figure out where everything was in word, I find that I can now do things faster. I like the look as well as the groupings of the new UI. To complain that you are "extremely literate in word" but couldn't figure out the UI in a day or two sounds like you didn't even try.
The issue here isn't whether he did or did not distribute the music, or his intention to do so or not. The issue here is that he was spied upon on the basis of having music available (which is not proof positive of copyright infringement) without any actual evidence of the alleged infringement. Since doing so would be an invasion of privacy any evidence, even if it definitively proved he was guilty, was obtained through illegal means and thus is inadmissible. So the question becomes not did he distribute, etc, but can the RIAA invade the privacy of anyone they feel might be infringing, even without any evidence of infringement?
for larceny, which this is not. Larceny is the taking away of property from its rightful owner. Since their is no 'taking away' in any screwball definition of copyright infringement, this does not count.
"can be liable for up to $5,000 in damages for the willful and malicious damage, destruction, concealment, or theft of property (whether publicly or privately owned) by their child, if between 10 and 18 years old."
The lawsuit is not about willful and malicious damage, destruction, concealment, or theft of property. So I guess the law, which you so wonderfully quote, is quite against you.
External HDDs are getting cheaper all the time. Sure its slower than an internal one, but for web data storage its pretty decent.
It seems to me that students who are interested in learning succeed.
Students who are interested in learning come to class.
therefore students who come to class, succeed.
That being said, you have no guarantee that even without you putting up the notes those students would have come to class. Its possible that those are simply the students who werent committed enough to educating themselves, and failed regardless of your actions.
When I was in first year, I had Comp Sci 101 first thing in the morning twice a week. It was the most boring class I have ever attended, being not only review but taught by a jaded prof who could barely speak english. I still attended every class and lab, even though I knew all the material and learned absolutely nothing. I got an A+, and its likely I would have recieved that anyways even missing the lectures.
Should the prof of that class attribute my mark to my attendance? Personally I wouldnt, but how would he know that I already knew the material?
The headline is blaming not the user of the ipod, but the ipod itself. Can you blame an inanimate object?
Do you blame car thefts on the awesomeness of a car? How about rape on the attractiveness of the victim? Why then would you blame ipods for getting stolen? Blame the criminals.
That really depends on what kind of work you do. I do many many all night modeling and drawing sessions for next-day presentations. If I could focus hard for 24 or 32 hours at a time without any health side effects I would try it. I'm sure the quality of my work would improve because I'd have more time to finish it.
actually ilife is another $89 if you go to the purchase page. OSX is of course not present in a dell.
Perhaps I am wrong (please correct me if I am), but I thought that recording something from the radio to tape was legal. If that's true, why is this any different? Or will they require that radio have DRM now too?
Sadly, games like WoW (which I played in the beta, but not now) require a massive amount of time investment to get any serious "cool" game returns.
After donating 100 hours of your life, nay, your leisure time, to WoW you are reluctant to simply walk away because of server issues that "might possibly someday not to far into the future maybe soon" be fixed on blizzard's end. If I had a project that I had already put 100 hours into I wouldn't want to walk away from it either.
Worse MMORPGs are like crack to begin with, so you can factor the addiction issue into that as well. Large percentages of people who begin to play often, become hardcore psychos that can't possible countenance the idea of leaving because of network issues. I suppose you can call it dependency issues.
Not every company sells all their products at a premium, using their "high quality and great service" as well as "ease of use" to assist in customer productivity.A pple has such great reputation for realiability because of its consolidated hardware platform, but that platform has to work flawlessly to allow OSX to shine through. If apple did not own up to these qualities no one would feel the need spend the extra on them.
Well thats a pretty ignorant attitude. There are alot of students (like myself) who are required to buy laptops with the adobe design suite and/or CAD programs for design courses.
actually fairly large HDDs are relatively cheap atm. You can get a 160 gb drive for $100 CAD retail, so I imagine sony themselves would be paying less than half of that. another $40 CAD is not a dealbreaker if it adds 160gb of storage to the machine.
ya unfortunately ATI cards have long had problems with opengl in their drivers, and the superfly ati cards inside these macbooks wont run quite as super when processing it.
Now instead of the megahertz battles, we have the core battles! My dad has your cores than your dad!
I'm a shaw user in manitoba. Download still has ok capabilities, but upload is now restricted almost to the point of idiocy. It will take me muuuuuuch longer to seed than to download. So much for the line upgrade (officially from 5mbs/1mbs to 7/3. Doesnt do anyone any good with packet shaping. might as well advertise the line as possibly being able to allow 20gbps, but unfortunately its all shaped to much slower than that.