Perhaps this is why MTV rarely plays videos now. It may be cheaper to produce their own content than to play videos that they have to pay for. You would think some record companies would let MTV play their tunes for free. It definately boosts sales.
"If you have to buy an XBOX360 (400) + nextgen dvd player (200-300, maybe more) vs buying a ps3 (500, price is a guess, but I can't see it costing more than that. If it does its dead before it ships) people are SAVING money by buying the ps3. "
Guess What? You don't HAVE to buy any of that stuff. You could SAVE more money buy being happy with what you have.
I can't believe someone hasn't tried something like that already. They could load up a PC with 1000 mp3 with popular song titles. They could all be the same file of that same person reading the Constitution. When the RIAA scans the network and sees that person sharing 5000 mp3s they will send them a notice. The person can then fight it and say they were sharing nothing that violated copyrights. When the PC is submitted to court the RIAA will look foolish. After that, the RIAA will have to do a lot more legwork to be sure someone is a legitamite violator and not someone screwing with them.
It would be like me giving away flour on the street corner and getting busted for distributing cocaine.
The Nano is too easy to damage. I found that a 3 year old with a $0.49 Exacto knife can make the screen nearly unreadable. How is the average user supposed to use a device that can be so easily damaged. I think that if they used 2" bulletproff glass for the screen that it would be more scratch resistant and buff out more easily.
BTW: Back in my day, scratching was done with two turntables and a microphone!
I'm sure the US is getting a great return on investment! That's probably why they build roads. That helps sell cars that they can tax. NASA probably invented velcro so Nike could use it for kids shoes that could be taxed.
Why is it that the people who seem to complain about this are the ones who also complain about there being nothing good to watch on TV? If there isn't anything good, then why do you care if they put in a flag that prevents you from doing something with someone else's content that they paid to create and distribute?
Is the problem that you could do whatever you wanted in the past with that content, and now that the owner is technically capable of excerising their right to control the distribution of their works it isn't fair?
"The government is now competing with Europe's Galileo system"
It is also competing with the gps system I am building in my garage and will launch from my backyard in 2015.
The European system hasn't left the ground yet. Let's not call it competing until it is functioning. Also, how are they competing? Does the US system make money?
Yes, you are. I don't want a multiuse item that doesn't do anything well, but there is no reason you can't merge several products into one and have them all work well.
For work I currently carry a cell phone and a blackberry. I also carry a personal cell phone. If I want to listen to music then I have another item strapped to me. I feel like I am wearing the Bat-Belt when I am walking around with all the stuff I'm toting. It would be nice if I could combine all those items into one device.
Yes, I know the blackberry has a phone built in, but it uses a different service than my work or personal provider. Wouldn't it be great if it could play music/video, support 3-4 SIM cards from different providers, take 5MP pictures, be an IR remote control, and pump my gas?
Good god man! After all these suggestions, am I the first one to suggest beer? I saw the minifridge posts, but for all I know that could be for some kind of hippie yogurt or something? What kind of world are we living in?
That does it!! I'm boycotting HP from now on! My future PC purchases will be from Compaq! That will show them!
I will also be boycotting Mercury in favor of Ford, Tru-Green in favor of Chemlawn, and finally I will only drink Budweizer! Busch will no longer get my business.
If everyone would follow, corporate America would see who they are dealing with!
I once saw a documentary about a comet that was made completely from garbage. It was nearly impossible to destroy because it was such a loose collection of items. This comet seems very similar.
" I think we all can concur that it was a damn good thing that we landed on Mars and scouted the area"
I agree. Just the other day I was hungry and with the technology and science learned from the Mars rovers I was able to have a great sandwich.
NASA is cool and all, but don't kid yourself. It is a cool toy. What has it really done to help mankind? Tang? Velcro? The great feeling that we had a handful of people walk on the moon 30 years ago?
Satellite communications is the only real item of value I can think of and the technology to do that was available 40 years ago.
I like NASA and think they should be funded, but they don't really add much to the national bottom line.
Before we mine the moon, Mars, asteroids, or Uranus it seems like we still have lots of unexplored territory here. It was also be way easier to set up a colony of people 1000 feet deep in the ocean than to put that same group on Mars. Think how many more people the world could comfortably hold if people could live under our oceans.
What if I make/have a browser that only supports text. No java, graphics, flash, or any other plugins. Should they be forced to make a site that works for me too? If not, they wouldn't have their 100% compatability.
Its also not fair that the only other option is by using a phone that has to be connected to the pstn. Some people could have their own home brewed phone system and want to be able to use it to make a claim.
Then next think you know, they will require you to speak English! All the Cajan only speaking home-brewed phone Mac/Linux users will be left in the cold.
I bet its because George Bush doesn't like Cajan only speaking home-brewed phone Mac/Linux users.
As far as I can tell, everyone that posts here wins nearly everytime they plan. Most say they could will $50000+ if they made it their full time job.
Actually, rarely do I ever hear of anyone going to a casino and losing. It must be great for those nice casinos to let nearly everyone win. I guess they make up the losses in volume.
"(NOTE - never use the term "energy source" when referring to hydrogen because it only carries energy that has to come from somewhere else)"
Does oil count as an energy source or a carrier? It is merely a compound that contains energy derived from somewhere else. While that "somewhere else" may be millions of years of pressuse, it still comes from somewhere else.
It is true that we can't pump hydrogen from the ground like oil, but it still would be the source of energy for whatever used it.
Is the sun an energy source or an energy carrier? Doesn't the high gravity cause the sun to cause nuclear reactions and emit energy. Perhaps the only real energy source is gravity. Everything else is a carrier.
I've taken a logic class or two myself and that is a legitamite argument. The GPL2 as stated in the original post implies that all software patents are bad.
Why should I create something useful but easily reproducable if I can't gain any benefit? I shouldn't. That's why the constitution gives me the ability to patents ideas. Society will eventually gain ownership of my idea, but in the meantime I have a legally enforcable monopoly to payback and possibly profit from my great idea.
Its easy to say that if its so useful someone else will invent it. Do you think a cure for AIDS, flying cars, boneless chickens,etc will come about because someone has some free time? No. Many big companies will spend millions of pesos to solve those problems. They need to be assured that they will be able to make their inventment money back if they do hit on a solution. Otherwise, why should they even try?
Even if someone would eventually invent product x, there is a clear value that it could benefit society if that product were invented at an earlier date. Just think how much more advanced we would be if someone would have invented the printing press 500 years earlier? Obviously patents wouldn't have motivated that, but what if today's equlivent of the printing press was not being sought because it cost a lot of money and there was no was to recoup that investment without some sort of protection?
I didn't know there was something wrong with creating a product and trying to protect the investment you made in it.
It looks like if you ever tried to make a living creating new software techniques you should sign your innovations over to the masses. That sounds like the communist ethos to me.
I'm all for shareware/freeware. This technique will do anything but encourage people to share and will make it impossible for most packages using it to gain widespread acceptance. My understanding is that if I own ANY software patents I won't be able to use any GPL2 software. That implies that if I don't own any not but some day will, I will have to discontinue using that software. That sounds like a big hassle if I choose a software package that is distributed around my corporation. If somehow we develop a 50kb 3 hour HDVD compression algorythm and plan on protecting that discovery via the patent process, we could have to change out all of our email, OS, x software because it was licensed under the GPL2. Great idea!
I've had several email accounts, private and work related, and never really had spam problems. I have gotten spam and still do, but it doesn't take more than 5 seconds of my day to weed out. I don't post my email address on the net and I'm sure that helpds, but I would think most people here would be just as tech savvy.
Do the people here really get so much spam that they need to create sophisticated control lists to block large chunks of the Internet?
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"Well, TV channels had to pay anyway."
Perhaps this is why MTV rarely plays videos now. It may be cheaper to produce their own content than to play videos that they have to pay for. You would think some record companies would let MTV play their tunes for free. It definately boosts sales.
"If you have to buy an XBOX360 (400) + nextgen dvd player (200-300, maybe more) vs buying a ps3 (500, price is a guess, but I can't see it costing more than that. If it does its dead before it ships) people are SAVING money by buying the ps3. " Guess What? You don't HAVE to buy any of that stuff. You could SAVE more money buy being happy with what you have.
How's he going to get the 2 year old to follow orders without some kind of incentive?
I can't believe someone hasn't tried something like that already. They could load up a PC with 1000 mp3 with popular song titles. They could all be the same file of that same person reading the Constitution. When the RIAA scans the network and sees that person sharing 5000 mp3s they will send them a notice. The person can then fight it and say they were sharing nothing that violated copyrights. When the PC is submitted to court the RIAA will look foolish. After that, the RIAA will have to do a lot more legwork to be sure someone is a legitamite violator and not someone screwing with them.
It would be like me giving away flour on the street corner and getting busted for distributing cocaine.
What is the point of this article? To lists ways you can carry data? That is news?
What about books(printed material), CDs, tatoos, etc?
The Nano is too easy to damage. I found that a 3 year old with a $0.49 Exacto knife can make the screen nearly unreadable. How is the average user supposed to use a device that can be so easily damaged. I think that if they used 2" bulletproff glass for the screen that it would be more scratch resistant and buff out more easily.
BTW: Back in my day, scratching was done with two turntables and a microphone!
"Maybe Apple is just waiting for the death rattle and they will buy Sony up"
That could prove difficult since Sony's market cap is 75% of Apple. They may merge, but Sony isn't exactly a small company compared to Apple.
I'm sure the US is getting a great return on investment! That's probably why they build roads. That helps sell cars that they can tax. NASA probably invented velcro so Nike could use it for kids shoes that could be taxed.
Why is it that the people who seem to complain about this are the ones who also complain about there being nothing good to watch on TV? If there isn't anything good, then why do you care if they put in a flag that prevents you from doing something with someone else's content that they paid to create and distribute?
Is the problem that you could do whatever you wanted in the past with that content, and now that the owner is technically capable of excerising their right to control the distribution of their works it isn't fair?
"The government is now competing with Europe's Galileo system"
It is also competing with the gps system I am building in my garage and will launch from my backyard in 2015.
The European system hasn't left the ground yet. Let's not call it competing until it is functioning. Also, how are they competing? Does the US system make money?
I believe those types would be classified as greyhats.
If you can get a mike that close to a keyboard to listen to the keystrokes, then you can probably place a micro camera and get the same results.
"Maybe I'm in the minority"
Yes, you are. I don't want a multiuse item that doesn't do anything well, but there is no reason you can't merge several products into one and have them all work well.
For work I currently carry a cell phone and a blackberry. I also carry a personal cell phone. If I want to listen to music then I have another item strapped to me. I feel like I am wearing the Bat-Belt when I am walking around with all the stuff I'm toting. It would be nice if I could combine all those items into one device.
Yes, I know the blackberry has a phone built in, but it uses a different service than my work or personal provider. Wouldn't it be great if it could play music/video, support 3-4 SIM cards from different providers, take 5MP pictures, be an IR remote control, and pump my gas?
Good god man! After all these suggestions, am I the first one to suggest beer? I saw the minifridge posts, but for all I know that could be for some kind of hippie yogurt or something? What kind of world are we living in?
That does it!! I'm boycotting HP from now on! My future PC purchases will be from Compaq! That will show them!
I will also be boycotting Mercury in favor of Ford, Tru-Green in favor of Chemlawn, and finally I will only drink Budweizer! Busch will no longer get my business.
If everyone would follow, corporate America would see who they are dealing with!
I once saw a documentary about a comet that was made completely from garbage. It was nearly impossible to destroy because it was such a loose collection of items. This comet seems very similar.
" I think we all can concur that it was a damn good thing that we landed on Mars and scouted the area"
I agree. Just the other day I was hungry and with the technology and science learned from the Mars rovers I was able to have a great sandwich.
NASA is cool and all, but don't kid yourself. It is a cool toy. What has it really done to help mankind? Tang? Velcro? The great feeling that we had a handful of people walk on the moon 30 years ago?
Satellite communications is the only real item of value I can think of and the technology to do that was available 40 years ago.
I like NASA and think they should be funded, but they don't really add much to the national bottom line.
Before we mine the moon, Mars, asteroids, or Uranus it seems like we still have lots of unexplored territory here. It was also be way easier to set up a colony of people 1000 feet deep in the ocean than to put that same group on Mars. Think how many more people the world could comfortably hold if people could live under our oceans.
What if I make/have a browser that only supports text. No java, graphics, flash, or any other plugins. Should they be forced to make a site that works for me too? If not, they wouldn't have their 100% compatability.
Its also not fair that the only other option is by using a phone that has to be connected to the pstn. Some people could have their own home brewed phone system and want to be able to use it to make a claim.
Then next think you know, they will require you to speak English! All the Cajan only speaking home-brewed phone Mac/Linux users will be left in the cold.
I bet its because George Bush doesn't like Cajan only speaking home-brewed phone Mac/Linux users.
As far as I can tell, everyone that posts here wins nearly everytime they plan. Most say they could will $50000+ if they made it their full time job.
Actually, rarely do I ever hear of anyone going to a casino and losing. It must be great for those nice casinos to let nearly everyone win. I guess they make up the losses in volume.
"(NOTE - never use the term "energy source" when referring to hydrogen because it only carries energy that has to come from somewhere else)"
Does oil count as an energy source or a carrier? It is merely a compound that contains energy derived from somewhere else. While that
"somewhere else" may be millions of years of pressuse, it still comes from somewhere else.
It is true that we can't pump hydrogen from the ground like oil, but it still would be the source of energy for whatever used it.
Is the sun an energy source or an energy carrier? Doesn't the high gravity cause the sun to cause nuclear reactions and emit energy. Perhaps the only real energy source is gravity. Everything else is a carrier.
They have a lot of good info in there!
I've taken a logic class or two myself and that is a legitamite argument. The GPL2 as stated in the original post implies that all software patents are bad. Why should I create something useful but easily reproducable if I can't gain any benefit? I shouldn't. That's why the constitution gives me the ability to patents ideas. Society will eventually gain ownership of my idea, but in the meantime I have a legally enforcable monopoly to payback and possibly profit from my great idea. Its easy to say that if its so useful someone else will invent it. Do you think a cure for AIDS, flying cars, boneless chickens,etc will come about because someone has some free time? No. Many big companies will spend millions of pesos to solve those problems. They need to be assured that they will be able to make their inventment money back if they do hit on a solution. Otherwise, why should they even try? Even if someone would eventually invent product x, there is a clear value that it could benefit society if that product were invented at an earlier date. Just think how much more advanced we would be if someone would have invented the printing press 500 years earlier? Obviously patents wouldn't have motivated that, but what if today's equlivent of the printing press was not being sought because it cost a lot of money and there was no was to recoup that investment without some sort of protection?
I didn't know there was something wrong with creating a product and trying to protect the investment you made in it.
It looks like if you ever tried to make a living creating new software techniques you should sign your innovations over to the masses. That sounds like the communist ethos to me.
I'm all for shareware/freeware. This technique will do anything but encourage people to share and will make it impossible for most packages using it to gain widespread acceptance. My understanding is that if I own ANY software patents I won't be able to use any GPL2 software. That implies that if I don't own any not but some day will, I will have to discontinue using that software. That sounds like a big hassle if I choose a software package that is distributed around my corporation. If somehow we develop a 50kb 3 hour HDVD compression algorythm and plan on protecting that discovery via the patent process, we could have to change out all of our email, OS, x software because it was licensed under the GPL2. Great idea!
"Did you know I get paid $20 an hour, and you have already used up $2 of my employers time just talking to me?"
They make closer to $50/hour. By the time they pick up the phone and say hello you just cost the govt the $0.25 you lost.
I've had several email accounts, private and work related, and never really had spam problems. I have gotten spam and still do, but it doesn't take more than 5 seconds of my day to weed out. I don't post my email address on the net and I'm sure that helpds, but I would think most people here would be just as tech savvy.
Do the people here really get so much spam that they need to create sophisticated control lists to block large chunks of the Internet?