Yes, for the same reason I want criminals to be able to vote. Every nation should be represented in a fair and democratic Internet administration, not just the people we like.
Ah, yes. This would be the reason for the oligarchy that is the UN... because only good things can happen when you give power to an appointed body that is represented by over two-thirds non-democractic countries.
Because open-source software is so easy to modify and use
Yeah... that's why I've spent the last four days at my work simply documenting the include tree of Cacti so that I could write a script that can authenticate and crawl to grab an image.
OSS currently is absolutely hell to integrate, and the only thing that makes it easy to modify is that the source is free.
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Sorry, my job has just been hell with this particular piece of OSS.
It's the end of story... untill a root DNS server in some country starts regulating free speech. You want to keep the internet a fairly open market? Then keep it out of the UN.
This will only lead to further "regulation" of free speech around the world.
The editors should talk to each other more. I mean, I don't mind seeing two different takes on the same story, but I'd be pissed if I had bought the rights to see a story early.... only to find out it was a dupe.
Yeah, but they need it to pay for the studio time and production costs, which labels charge artists for, (which I would think defeats the purpose of a label anyways).
Perhaps because the cost of litigation in this country is so high and so prevelant that it actually is part of the barrier to entry into a market? I'm sorry, that isn't Capitalism.
No reasonable person can claim anything except that his plan to achieve popularity with eDonkey was through facilitating illegal file-sharing.
Way to completely ignor the entire legal concept of burden of proof which this entire country and all of our freedoms are based on.
If the best the Blu-Ray consortium and bring is a computer vendor like Apple who have sub 5% of the PC market (Which itself is only a fraction of the overall dvd player market), and a handful of struggling Japanese electronics dinosaurs, they won't be going far.
First, most of the technologies you have were made by those companies. Second, most of the product shipped is also from those companies.
But unless something has drastically changed, Sharp and Phillips are in fact not Japanese companies, and neither are they dinosaurs.
MS is a big crad to play, but your basic montra that MS owns all and that marketshare = standard is just plain wrong. Look at XNA, or even the XBox for that matter. A lot of good Microsofts weight did them in that market. They had a product that was percieved as inferior, and suffered no matter how much they put behind it. To consumers it won't be able production prices or anything of that nature. They will already have a BluRay player, and the thing will hold nearly 20G more than an HD-DVD. And that, will be the end of the story.
At the end of the day, the deciding factor is when it's ready. You could build a HD-DVD player from the specs this very day, while Blu-Ray is still up there with Cell in terms of of mythical market penetration.
Mythical? Unless Sony completely screws up they'll have 100+ million Blu-Ray units around the world in PS3s within 3.5 years of launch.
72.5% of all Japanese console owners surveyed said they would buy a PS3 compared to 5% who said they would buy an XBox 360... so unless the giant media conglomerates want to sell in seperate formats in the two largest media markets, they'll be selling in the most cross-compatable format across the Pacific, and that will undeniably be Blu-Ray.
It looks like Mitsubishi and Hitachi swing both ways.
But the big difference between the two lists is that the BluRay consortum is full of companies which can actually push a standard throught he marketplace. The second list is full of followers, not innovators.
They won't be able to squash the BluRay Consortum... look at their board of directors...
Apple Computer, Inc. Dell Inc. Hewlett Packard Company Hitachi, Ltd. LG Electronics Inc. Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. Mitsubishi Electric Corporation Pioneer Corporation Royal Philips Electronics Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. Sharp Corporation Sony Corporation TDK Corporation Thomson Multimedia Twentieth Century Fox Walt Disney Pictures
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It wouldn't kill you to check your damn spelling.
Oh but it would. Just about as much as it would kill MS to make Word load quickly.
You shouldn't be able to patent a concept of data. Data perhaps, but a type of data? Wouldn't any open standard be a 'neutral form'?
Yes, for the same reason I want criminals to be able to vote. Every nation should be represented in a fair and democratic Internet administration, not just the people we like.
Ah, yes. This would be the reason for the oligarchy that is the UN... because only good things can happen when you give power to an appointed body that is represented by over two-thirds non-democractic countries.
He also said some very.. odd things about OSS..
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Because open-source software is so easy to modify and use
Yeah... that's why I've spent the last four days at my work simply documenting the include tree of Cacti so that I could write a script that can authenticate and crawl to grab an image.
OSS currently is absolutely hell to integrate, and the only thing that makes it easy to modify is that the source is free.
Sorry, my job has just been hell with this particular piece of OSS.
I have made my own version based off yours with the information footnoted and pasted:
http://www.thepoliticker.net/jt.html
Kudos to MS for actually implementing something no one ever has before.
That wouldn't help online fraud.
I seriously doubt the innovation of criminals with technology will fail simply because banks require additional information.
I'll take that, (seeing as we haven't done it so far on the internet).
But at the moment, that doesn't affect anyone outside of China.
It's the end of story... untill a root DNS server in some country starts regulating free speech. You want to keep the internet a fairly open market? Then keep it out of the UN.
This will only lead to further "regulation" of free speech around the world.
It's pretty bad when a company that lost $8 billion breaking into the gaming industry says you're charging too much.
I got five points ATM, but unfortunately I responded to this article. :( So i can't mod.
lol...
If I hadn't posted in this article I'd mod you up on that post...
Wow... I never checked out the pricing... I retract that. Quite the bargain actually.
The editors should talk to each other more. I mean, I don't mind seeing two different takes on the same story, but I'd be pissed if I had bought the rights to see a story early.... only to find out it was a dupe.
Yeah, but they need it to pay for the studio time and production costs, which labels charge artists for, (which I would think defeats the purpose of a label anyways).
I put forth that if it is obvious to me but not someone else, then that person is not reasonable.
I put forth that you are now qualified to be a SCOTUS Justice.
Why shouldn't he be sued?
Perhaps because the cost of litigation in this country is so high and so prevelant that it actually is part of the barrier to entry into a market? I'm sorry, that isn't Capitalism.
No reasonable person can claim anything except that his plan to achieve popularity with eDonkey was through facilitating illegal file-sharing.
Way to completely ignor the entire legal concept of burden of proof which this entire country and all of our freedoms are based on.
First, most of the technologies you have were made by those companies. Second, most of the product shipped is also from those companies.
But unless something has drastically changed, Sharp and Phillips are in fact not Japanese companies, and neither are they dinosaurs.
MS is a big crad to play, but your basic montra that MS owns all and that marketshare = standard is just plain wrong. Look at XNA, or even the XBox for that matter. A lot of good Microsofts weight did them in that market. They had a product that was percieved as inferior, and suffered no matter how much they put behind it. To consumers it won't be able production prices or anything of that nature. They will already have a BluRay player, and the thing will hold nearly 20G more than an HD-DVD. And that, will be the end of the story.
Mythical? Unless Sony completely screws up they'll have 100+ million Blu-Ray units around the world in PS3s within 3.5 years of launch.
72.5% of all Japanese console owners surveyed said they would buy a PS3 compared to 5% who said they would buy an XBox 360... so unless the giant media conglomerates want to sell in seperate formats in the two largest media markets, they'll be selling in the most cross-compatable format across the Pacific, and that will undeniably be Blu-Ray.
Since when has Apple ever decided to change its opinion based soley on another companies opinion.
Try telling Microsoft that Intel isn't a follower.
Unless they are in their element, Intel making new chips, Canon new cameras, etc., these companies just follow the flow of the market.
:P
It looks like Mitsubishi and Hitachi swing both ways.
But the big difference between the two lists is that the BluRay consortum is full of companies which can actually push a standard throught he marketplace. The second list is full of followers, not innovators.
They won't be able to squash the BluRay Consortum... look at their board of directors...
Apple Computer, Inc.
Dell Inc.
Hewlett Packard Company
Hitachi, Ltd.
LG Electronics Inc.
Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Pioneer Corporation
Royal Philips Electronics
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Sharp Corporation
Sony Corporation
TDK Corporation
Thomson Multimedia
Twentieth Century Fox
Walt Disney Pictures