google are going to pwn oracle on patents, and could probably pwn the MPEG-LA if it came to that.
MPEG-LA wont touch web-m because they would like to keep their patents... challenging google on them will just lead to free video for everyone and they don't want that at all.
i think the UK badly needs a 1st amendment equivalent. they also need to clear out the remnants of the hereditary (inbred) peer system before they can do any more damage.
fleet street also could do well to fall into a giant sinkhole.
it's really a bit sadder than that - the government is quickly losing relevance and is trying to flex it's idealogical muscle.
this happened years ago with the office of film and literature classification. they changed all their graphics and included "consumer advice" on DVDs and movie posters.
they did this retrospectively. you had to re-classify your entire back-catalogue, and if you didn't comply they threatened to shut you down.
sry, i work for a DVD distributor. those were fun times, considering the new regime means waiting a month for a title to be classified. meaning the public get their discs a month late.
these same people complain about piracy... i mean if you can download it the moment it comes out versus waiting a month for it to be released on DVD, what would you do?
australia doesn't really do the campaign contribution thing.
voting is compulsory, meaning that not much advertising is needed - i gather half the job in the US is getting people to vote at all.
also, donations and whatnot must be disclosed. something like your hypothetical would not happen without a big serve in the local rag the next day, several TV interviews and ultimately a retraction, or a voting out of the incumbents.
of course, there's still corruption, but it's more underhanded.
this proposal is stupid for other reasons. i can't see what possible benefit either side can get from this. if it's to allow more effective government spying, they'll need to come out and pass a law allowing them to spy before they attempt to regulate the infrastructure to allow something that's currently illegal.
those figures would be foolish to rely on... sales figures don't tell anywhere near the full story (as anyone who's sold, say, 40,000 units to resellers only to have 30,000 returned next quarter can tell you).
i'm sure xbox live would be able to send a little packet saying "hey, wow, this 360 has a kinect plugged into it!" every time it's used.
TM had the privileges to stop Sophos fucking this guy's shit up. Sophos should probably have been aware of the existence of Time Machine and perhaps had a specific behavior or at least prompt for it (as TM comes with the OS IIRC - i'm not a mac guy and never use TM when i'm on one).
i'm sort of wondering how you'd fare in a county where the government stepped back and let the free market reign do the government's job.
some essential services simply can't run at a profit - that's why government exists and why it collects taxes. looking at privatization, sometimes it works beautifully, but often running costs exceed reasonable expectations of profit.
i'm not advocating any particular point of view, just saying that yours is misguided, at least as i understand it.
But there is hope that we may some day be able to measure quantities that small, similarly to how physicists can measure individual elementary particles. This may lead to some interesting results in the study of intelligence.
i welcome the construction of the Large Hardline Collider.
fundamentalists are accelerated at near light-speed over 14 kilometres each and steered into each other, then the results analyzed.
while i agree somewhat, cause -> effect is not the same as a belief system. in order to survive, we don't need to know the earth is round, and we can attribute the sun coming up every morning to either God or physics if we like - our ability to survive is not really affected, at least on a day to day level.
it's like the difference between common sense and logic. usually they are in agreement, but often they aren't. common sense is how we survive. logic is how we understand.
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godWIN!
how many times can you say the same thing?
butthurt much?
those scientists didn't find it because their methodology was wrong...
retirement?
that's not how it works with henchmen.
google are going to pwn oracle on patents, and could probably pwn the MPEG-LA if it came to that.
MPEG-LA wont touch web-m because they would like to keep their patents... challenging google on them will just lead to free video for everyone and they don't want that at all.
you'd never see it on the app store, so how can you know it's 10x power use?
the Lord Steve Jobs said, did he?
how was this modded flamebait?
apart from misspelling "squabbles"?
i think the UK badly needs a 1st amendment equivalent. they also need to clear out the remnants of the hereditary (inbred) peer system before they can do any more damage.
fleet street also could do well to fall into a giant sinkhole.
just selective information.
it's really a bit sadder than that - the government is quickly losing relevance and is trying to flex it's idealogical muscle.
this happened years ago with the office of film and literature classification. they changed all their graphics and included "consumer advice" on DVDs and movie posters.
they did this retrospectively. you had to re-classify your entire back-catalogue, and if you didn't comply they threatened to shut you down.
sry, i work for a DVD distributor. those were fun times, considering the new regime means waiting a month for a title to be classified. meaning the public get their discs a month late.
these same people complain about piracy... i mean if you can download it the moment it comes out versus waiting a month for it to be released on DVD, what would you do?
australia doesn't really do the campaign contribution thing.
voting is compulsory, meaning that not much advertising is needed - i gather half the job in the US is getting people to vote at all.
also, donations and whatnot must be disclosed. something like your hypothetical would not happen without a big serve in the local rag the next day, several TV interviews and ultimately a retraction, or a voting out of the incumbents.
of course, there's still corruption, but it's more underhanded.
this proposal is stupid for other reasons. i can't see what possible benefit either side can get from this. if it's to allow more effective government spying, they'll need to come out and pass a law allowing them to spy before they attempt to regulate the infrastructure to allow something that's currently illegal.
it's arse-backwards.
Normally proprietary cables are bad news, but ubiquity always trumps universality.
so if Apple does it it's okay?
de-facto standard?
except that no doubt Apple would sue anyone who tried to use that same interface on their device. not really a standard, is it?
pics or it didn't happen
i'm all for that!
how cool would it be to have smoking sections on terror flights?
WAY MORE FUN than in-flight entertainment (unless it's "snakes on a plane", and it very well could be)
last time i went the customs guy jacked me off.
my wife was unamused. but a little turned on.
that was a startup wasn't it? not the guy who eventually got the prize
those figures would be foolish to rely on... sales figures don't tell anywhere near the full story (as anyone who's sold, say, 40,000 units to resellers only to have 30,000 returned next quarter can tell you).
i'm sure xbox live would be able to send a little packet saying "hey, wow, this 360 has a kinect plugged into it!" every time it's used.
if i had mod points...
you've got that sodding song in my head now.
and yet they have them...
as a legal entity they have the same rights as a person.
not conforming to society is like swimming upstream.
it can be done, but it takes a lot of energy and is a constant battle that others don't have to face.
i'm not sure what i'm saying here...
liberal bias! you don't count a right-leaning sad face?
Trash your preferences!
flash the P-ROM!
buy more RAM!
i can't help you! ...well, that's the usual order of responses i get from mac techies.
TM had the privileges to stop Sophos fucking this guy's shit up. Sophos should probably have been aware of the existence of Time Machine and perhaps had a specific behavior or at least prompt for it (as TM comes with the OS IIRC - i'm not a mac guy and never use TM when i'm on one).
blame sophos?
blame apple?
let the shitstorm begin.
comprehension fail.
i would say that good people tend to be a bit naive, but it doesn't hold that naive people are necessarily always good.
i'm sort of wondering how you'd fare in a county where the government stepped back and let the free market reign do the government's job.
some essential services simply can't run at a profit - that's why government exists and why it collects taxes. looking at privatization, sometimes it works beautifully, but often running costs exceed reasonable expectations of profit.
i'm not advocating any particular point of view, just saying that yours is misguided, at least as i understand it.
But there is hope that we may some day be able to measure quantities that small, similarly to how physicists can measure individual elementary particles. This may lead to some interesting results in the study of intelligence.
i welcome the construction of the Large Hardline Collider.
fundamentalists are accelerated at near light-speed over 14 kilometres each and steered into each other, then the results analyzed.
neutering sounds like more fun though.
while i agree somewhat, cause -> effect is not the same as a belief system. in order to survive, we don't need to know the earth is round, and we can attribute the sun coming up every morning to either God or physics if we like - our ability to survive is not really affected, at least on a day to day level.
it's like the difference between common sense and logic. usually they are in agreement, but often they aren't. common sense is how we survive. logic is how we understand.