I disagree. When I had a Tivo, there were ads we liked and ones we didn't. The masterful Tivo roommates (Ken and Benjamin) would stop the full speed fast forward to watch the most brilliant or interesting ones, and then go back to skipping through the annoying ones. I mean, if you look at Apple.com's movie trailer site, or Sportcenter's site, there is an interest in watching commercials. Just not ones for Bernie & Phil bickering about dinette sets.
I think this a good idea for Tivo. If a good show had all genuinely good commercials (My favorite - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh97oYCJ-Ok), I'd only skip things if I wanted to watch 2 hours of TV in one hour of time. In my deluded fantasies, commercials will get better when they see this research.
Just because someone has a patent on something doesn't mean its not freely available. IANAL, but I think that a patent holder may make something available for public use, by not requiring royalties. I think this is what Benjamin Franklin did with the efficient stove he invented, and other devices too, but I am not sure. A government patent could ensure that no one else patented the same idea, and thus save the public the ensuing royalty payments.
I'm not saying that the patent system is flawless, and I agree with the spirit of the parent. I'm saying that there might be a purpose to a government patent.
consumers who don't have (or want) a PC, but probably have (or wouldn't mind) a game console.
How many people are there who have a console but not a personal computer? I don't know anyone. The only possible market for an Xbox-Ipod would be people who really wanted it, or people with no iTunes compatable computer . . . Linux users. I don't really see the majority of Linux users going out and jumping on an MS product
I think they're just trying to get a slice of a very big consumer pie.
I find it very curious that an operating system REQUIRES me to have it.
I don't. The thing will have to phone home to do anything. I bet they're planning ahead to have something like registered media, like battlenet but for movies. You put in the DVD, WMP calls Sony, sees if the movie's serial is only being played on one machine, and then allows it to play. Or something like that. And it will be a godsent in the prevention of piracy of the OS itself. It either phones in the right code or it doesn't boot.
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While the Declaration of Independence is a nice bit of writing, it has no legal standing (nor does the Preamble), as I understand it. The power of law which you want is the less eloquent and actually legal Ammendment number nine:
Amendment IX The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Interestingly enough, I too had a presentation due the other day, and I don't use unpaid software either. I made a very lovely slideshow in Open Office Impress, and was finished well before the presentation. I burned the presentation to CD as both the Open Office file and the PowerPoint file. At the presentation, on opening the Powerpoint slides, my presentation was completely mangled in MS Powerpoint. When my professor asked about why it looked like trash, I said it was because I used Open Office and that it was not on the presentation computer. He did not care. I had to kill all my graphics, making my presentation very boring.
Then later, I had a spreadsheet due in the same class, and the OO Calc file, when converted to Excel, was loaded with errors. I had to send the professor a copy with values only, instead of the original intent of my work, which was to make it adaptive based on its equations.
Long story short, I think those calling for better compatibility are completely right. As long as MS Office is considered the default method of doing business, and the people who use Open Office are not able to move in and out of that world seamlessly, Open Office will remain unused for serious work.
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I disagree. When I had a Tivo, there were ads we liked and ones we didn't. The masterful Tivo roommates (Ken and Benjamin) would stop the full speed fast forward to watch the most brilliant or interesting ones, and then go back to skipping through the annoying ones. I mean, if you look at Apple.com's movie trailer site, or Sportcenter's site, there is an interest in watching commercials. Just not ones for Bernie & Phil bickering about dinette sets.
I think this a good idea for Tivo. If a good show had all genuinely good commercials (My favorite - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh97oYCJ-Ok), I'd only skip things if I wanted to watch 2 hours of TV in one hour of time. In my deluded fantasies, commercials will get better when they see this research.
At first, I thought they were talking about the evil bit.
I'm not saying that the patent system is flawless, and I agree with the spirit of the parent. I'm saying that there might be a purpose to a government patent.
I think they're just trying to get a slice of a very big consumer pie.
No sir, I don't like it.
I'm glad to see you did your part.
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Amendment IX
This is my personal favorite ammendment.The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
The patch will be made entirely of chocolate ice cream.
The male patch will consist of pornography and alcohol.
Interestingly enough, I too had a presentation due the other day, and I don't use unpaid software either. I made a very lovely slideshow in Open Office Impress, and was finished well before the presentation. I burned the presentation to CD as both the Open Office file and the PowerPoint file. At the presentation, on opening the Powerpoint slides, my presentation was completely mangled in MS Powerpoint. When my professor asked about why it looked like trash, I said it was because I used Open Office and that it was not on the presentation computer. He did not care. I had to kill all my graphics, making my presentation very boring.
Then later, I had a spreadsheet due in the same class, and the OO Calc file, when converted to Excel, was loaded with errors. I had to send the professor a copy with values only, instead of the original intent of my work, which was to make it adaptive based on its equations.
Long story short, I think those calling for better compatibility are completely right. As long as MS Office is considered the default method of doing business, and the people who use Open Office are not able to move in and out of that world seamlessly, Open Office will remain unused for serious work.
To get it right, the poster had to read his own link, which he had to take the time to find.
Sometimes I think about not reading Slashdot any more. It really has gotten terribly lazy