It shouldn't take that long to find out fraud is going on with a company with a charge-back rate higher then 25%. Why the heck wouldn't the credit cards cut off the tap and mitigate their damages? It seems sort of foolish to me.
Sorry, but the disposable cameras take better pictures than cell phones.
I never said they didn't, but it's not because of their optics. Even the cheapest film will blow away a 1-2 megapixel camera. The point is that people were happy with the absolute lowest quality of camera because it was good enough and was convent. Cell phones fall under the same umbrella.
You can't fit great optics in the size of a typical mobile phone, so the camera is a toy.
So what? Quality is actually not all that important to the vast majority of the population as you make it out to be. The optics used in cell phone cameras are certainly a lot better then disposable cameras cheap plastic optics yet those cameras were extremely popular before, cameras on cell phones and the price of digital cameras bottomed out. They certainly aren't "professional" quality but very few cameras are.
I'm willing to bet that somewhere in the user agreement, there's a provision that lets them do exactly this, and abusive hard-to-read* EULAs that no one really expects people will read, are just as much the problem.
I am no lawyer but selling someone something and delivering something entirely different is fraud. When you start marketing the videos in the same manner as you do DVDs it's not unreasonable for the customer to expect the same lifespan of the product. I just don't see however much wrangling is done in the EULA could overcome that expectation in the sale.
By the way tivoization only applies to hardware that uses opensource software yet institutes hardware lockouts that prevent change to be made to the software even though they comply to the letter of GPL by releasing the source. Video game consoles certainly don't fall under that term.
Well that is all well and good but those have absolutely nothing to do with the Government. And it makes not business sense for a silicon vendor restrict who can develop on a certain MCU whereas on a product sold as a loss leader or under a restrictive contract there is plenty of incentive to try to control it. As a matter of fact silicon vendors lately have become far more accommodating to hobbyists and small business.
Somehow I don't think the goal of this project was to build a processor to compete with commercially available processors. A small hint might be the fact that there isn't likely a huge market for a processor pushing 5lbs.
If I can get out of a red-light camera ticket by making them prove I was in the drivers seat, how come the same doesn't hold for a computer that many people may have access to?
Put simply there are two different burdens of proof for civil and criminal cases. Criminal you need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, and not being at the wheel is entirely possible but perhaps unlikely. A civil case however the burden is it being more likely then not, while it is possible that someone else used your computer it probably is not going to be assumed likely unless you have compelling evidence to the contrary.
Or cheaper yet if it's a relatively a short distance (within a city) you can get a dry pair. You can throw a DSLAM on one end and get DSL speeds. Best part is that the cost is really reasonable, the ones I had used cost around $100-$200 a month.
It's not so much the stuff you can leave out that is the problem. It's the stuff that is clearly different that you would run into problems. The scheduler for example could benefit a lot from a split between versions. There are different ways of optimizing it when the use is known that can have significant impact on performance. Granted I don't really believe this warrants a fork, particularity when most of the modules, and a good chunk of the kernel code would stay the same.
I really doubt that the prices of payers has dropped this much since the person wrote the headline but HD-DVD players on the low end start at just over $200. More then likely by the time you are likely to see one of these in a store the Christmas and post Christmas price drops will likely push things within spitting distance of the price point if not beat it. There is absolutely nothing in these players holding them up to the current price points that ASIC, specialized processors and further integration will bring down considerably.
Japan has about 40 gun crimes per year. That includes misdemeanors like possession. They have less than ten gun deaths per year. You really think nobody there has "motive" to commit random mass murder? (And what possible "motive" could there be for such an action?)
...And Switzerland has one of the lowest crime rates in Europe despite requiring most citizens to have an assault rifle. What does it mean? Nothing. Comparing countries on one variable particularity cherry picked ones with relatively little in common both in culture and geography and then expecting to get something meaninful from it is at best useless and at worst dangerous as it distracts from possible real solutions that may not be a sensational.
What works for Japan is simply not possible in the US for many reasons. - Japan has a much larger population density resulting in better emergency services coverage - Japan is free of rabies, the us is not. - Japan has far less agriculture then the US. - Japan has far less dangerous predators then the US.
Let me put it another way - which would you rather lose, your guns or your privacy? Losing your guns only affects gun owners; losing privacy affects everyone. And I don't want to give up my privacy so some caveman in Virginia can keep his guns.
Honestly if I had to chose I would have to say guns as I wouldn't be alive without them (animal attack not human). But forcing a choice between privacy and freedom just so people can look like they are doing something is just plain stupid.
Arguments like yours are the way gun owners try to pretend they don't have blood on their hands.
...and half-baked arguments like your's is the reason this country has so many stupid laws that do far more damage then a gun ever could. Don't think your hands are without blood themselves.
"It may have a digital output but it is not a digital output microphone! No more than there is any such a thing as digital headphones."
It has a MEMS based sensor on die. It's closer to digital then you think. At least about as close as a CCD in a digital cameras and camcorders is digital under the philosophy that because no analog leaves the die it's digital school of thought. This may sound like a lot of bullshit, but they are marketing these to system designers which as one, not having to deal with analog parts makes this digital in their (and my) eyes.
They get away with the headphone thing because PWM is used in class D audio amps and since PWM is digital under the literal use of the word, technically the speakers are playing "digital" sound. It has no sound advantage but marketing weasels the way they are took that and ran, quite far.
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There ain't enough power in America to power that many electric chairs.
It shouldn't take that long to find out fraud is going on with a company with a charge-back rate higher then 25%. Why the heck wouldn't the credit cards cut off the tap and mitigate their damages? It seems sort of foolish to me.
Are you suggesting the BBC killed him or are you just concerned that BBC doesn't air conspiracy theories on the news?
I bet they would start if that sign was posted on a 12' reinforced concrete truss spanning the road.
How the heck you you expect the police to fill their tase quota without picking off a trucker or two? Sheesh people these days.
I never said they didn't, but it's not because of their optics. Even the cheapest film will blow away a 1-2 megapixel camera. The point is that people were happy with the absolute lowest quality of camera because it was good enough and was convent. Cell phones fall under the same umbrella.
Check your version of Flash. Some versions had some sleep problems that caused the lockup you describe after restore.
So what? Quality is actually not all that important to the vast majority of the population as you make it out to be. The optics used in cell phone cameras are certainly a lot better then disposable cameras cheap plastic optics yet those cameras were extremely popular before, cameras on cell phones and the price of digital cameras bottomed out. They certainly aren't "professional" quality but very few cameras are.
I am no lawyer but selling someone something and delivering something entirely different is fraud. When you start marketing the videos in the same manner as you do DVDs it's not unreasonable for the customer to expect the same lifespan of the product. I just don't see however much wrangling is done in the EULA could overcome that expectation in the sale.
By the way tivoization only applies to hardware that uses opensource software yet institutes hardware lockouts that prevent change to be made to the software even though they comply to the letter of GPL by releasing the source. Video game consoles certainly don't fall under that term.
Well that is all well and good but those have absolutely nothing to do with the Government. And it makes not business sense for a silicon vendor restrict who can develop on a certain MCU whereas on a product sold as a loss leader or under a restrictive contract there is plenty of incentive to try to control it. As a matter of fact silicon vendors lately have become far more accommodating to hobbyists and small business.
Where is the "+1 Deliciously Paraniod" moderation option when you need it.
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Somehow I don't think the goal of this project was to build a processor to compete with commercially available processors. A small hint might be the fact that there isn't likely a huge market for a processor pushing 5lbs.
I distinctly remember that the saying goes:
"fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again."
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Put simply there are two different burdens of proof for civil and criminal cases. Criminal you need to prove beyond a reasonable doubt, and not being at the wheel is entirely possible but perhaps unlikely. A civil case however the burden is it being more likely then not, while it is possible that someone else used your computer it probably is not going to be assumed likely unless you have compelling evidence to the contrary.
Or cheaper yet if it's a relatively a short distance (within a city) you can get a dry pair. You can throw a DSLAM on one end and get DSL speeds. Best part is that the cost is really reasonable, the ones I had used cost around $100-$200 a month.
You still have to pay to list things on ebay. As far as I know the only way to do that is by giving ebay a CC number.
It's not so much the stuff you can leave out that is the problem. It's the stuff that is clearly different that you would run into problems. The scheduler for example could benefit a lot from a split between versions. There are different ways of optimizing it when the use is known that can have significant impact on performance. Granted I don't really believe this warrants a fork, particularity when most of the modules, and a good chunk of the kernel code would stay the same.
I really doubt that the prices of payers has dropped this much since the person wrote the headline but HD-DVD players on the low end start at just over $200. More then likely by the time you are likely to see one of these in a store the Christmas and post Christmas price drops will likely push things within spitting distance of the price point if not beat it. There is absolutely nothing in these players holding them up to the current price points that ASIC, specialized processors and further integration will bring down considerably.
What works for Japan is simply not possible in the US for many reasons.
- Japan has a much larger population density resulting in better emergency services coverage
- Japan is free of rabies, the us is not.
- Japan has far less agriculture then the US.
- Japan has far less dangerous predators then the US.
Honestly if I had to chose I would have to say guns as I wouldn't be alive without them (animal attack not human). But forcing a choice between privacy and freedom just so people can look like they are doing something is just plain stupid.
"It may have a digital output but it is not a digital output microphone! No more than there is any such a thing as digital headphones."
It has a MEMS based sensor on die. It's closer to digital then you think. At least about as close as a CCD in a digital cameras and camcorders is digital under the philosophy that because no analog leaves the die it's digital school of thought. This may sound like a lot of bullshit, but they are marketing these to system designers which as one, not having to deal with analog parts makes this digital in their (and my) eyes.
They get away with the headphone thing because PWM is used in class D audio amps and since PWM is digital under the literal use of the word, technically the speakers are playing "digital" sound. It has no sound advantage but marketing weasels the way they are took that and ran, quite far.
"At any rate it doesn't even say what type of microphone it is (condenser, dynamic?)"
It's on-die MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical System).
Forgot to post this in my last one but here is a site with a bit more technical details on the mic.h tm
http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2007/05/31/2679217.