allow duplicate names and checksums but include a quality value that is the result of a vote from people who have downloaded the files.
The crap will get low quality and then you sort lists by name + vote. People will tend to download only those files with high quality and the crap can be tossed.
OTOH, you could always support your bands by buying a CD occasionally.
If you are being taxed on the basis that you already are using blank CDRs to copy copyright materials then it follows like day after night that it cannot now be illegal to make copies.
If the media companies are being subsidised by the state because they are suffering from illegal copying, they cannot any longer complain that the are suffering from illegal copying.
and then they can be put into everybodies packet filters.
If the RIAA were stupid enough to do this their network connectivity would drop to nothing in a few days, and any ISP that continued to host them would also find it's packets directed to the bit bucket.
as every dvd player ever sold "decrypts" the dvd in order to show the images, how can anyone be accused of doing exactly what is supposed to happen?
if some people are so stupid as to miss use the keys they were allocated, leaving the data open for anybody who bothers to look for it, that's their problem, not some kid across the world's.
remember, MS had a man on the Sendo board. MS cannot now claim to not know the situation Sendo was in. If Sendo can show that the MS man acted against the interests of Sendo he's wide open to be sued by the shareholders. If Sendo can show that the MS man acted in bad faith on behalf of MS then MS is in deep s.h.i.t.
The xmas issue of new scientist had an article about some research on office desk layouts. The messy desks were more efficient than the clean desks as the user knew where things were. The tidy workers who always filed everything (or were forced to by policy) spent a lot of time looking for documents.
This is "of course" why you can drag&drop docs onto your "desktop". So why shouldn't there be a proper implementation of a messy filesystem:-)
Every time we bought and installed a US made supercomputer, part of the contract insisted that we prevent access by students from a list of countries provided by the DoD.
let's give MS access to all our customers!
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It died because _retailers_ realised that MS would be acting as agent between the customers and themselves. This worried a lot of people, not because of security or anything, just because it locked the business model into whatever MS was prepared to provide.
First hate your customers; then accuse them of stealing; then make it difficult for them to get your product; then force them to sit and watch at the time the broadcaster wants to show the program; then fill the screen with logos and constant promos (and fit the programs in the gaps.)
If I were a production company with a successful series (say Friends) I'd look very seriously at distributing the program via DVD possibly stuck to the front of a "Friends" monthly magazine. Then the production company would be free of the broadcasters commercial insanity. The advertisers would love the demographics of such a product.
We once insisted on source for a OS and the company agreed --- and supplied it on microfiche. It met the letter of the contract without actually being any use.
In addition, having the source is pointless unless you also have all the necessary build tools. I very much doubt that XP is built by running configure; make; make install.
Finally, although access to the source may be of some limited use to speciallist developers, I very much doubt that most programmers could learn anything useful that could not be learnt elsewhere from books and open sources.
A number of times I have attempted to subscribe to book publishers email list to get early warning of the release of books I may want to buy. If we eliminate all those publishers whose web sites plain didn't work, we are left all the rest that never sent out anything to their list. That's correct, not one of the publishers have ever announced anything on the lists I signed up for (and my email does work.)
I can't help but notice that more and more companies are losing the ability to sell to anything but a captive audience. Amazon sends me emails about Pratcett and Tolkein but nothing about the 10,000 other SciFi/Fantasy writers I may wish to read.
I'm here, I've got some cash, for Ghod's sake someone please try and sell me something new!!
There is very little new technology yet Sony and others must bring out radical "innovations" every 6 months. Of course, it's all marketing drival.
Fortunately, every 6 months the warehouses have to be cleared for the next batch of tat. So you can buy last years kit at a fraction of the orginal cost if you visit the right shops or web sites.
There is no real reason why the interface should be an integrated part of the application. This is not an unusual idea, after all we see it every day in the form of web pages front ending CGI scripts. The "look&feel" can and should be developed seperately from the code that actually does the work. All that is needed is a well defined interface (which could be a global "standard" using, for example XML, but there is no real need.)
This seperation also provides, almost for free, thin client versions of your application.
MS need the buyers of PCs not to understand how they work. There is a delibrate attempt by MS to blur the boundary between apps, OS and hardware so the public doesn't realise that it's the applications that they actually want to run. If Joe Public suddenly realises that they can run email, web, wp, calender etc on any platform without any important change to the user interface, MS will lose control of the market.
All the media companies are facing a horrible prospect - no longer can they control the path between the artist and the public. If they don't learn to cope with the new world they will die.
Judging what is currently happening in the courts between Walmart and FatWallet.com (http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/28429.html ) I would guess that anybody attempting to collate TV listing information and distribute it will rapidly find a DCMA warrent being served.
Got to love those legislators. The things they will do to protect us from our evil selves.
As someone already pointed out, the price information is actually a trade secret. Walmart's problem is that the secret has to be distributed to 1000's of stores, PR and advertising companies, newspapers and magazines before the start of the sales.
It's the responsibility of the owner of the trade secret to protect the information. By giving it to so many people outside Walmarts direct control, they have demonstrated that they are not protecting the trade secret.
I've often wondered if it were possible to get the live display to say something shocking, or possibly display an ASCII image, just by submitting a carefully timed stream of queries.
BT still thinks that the telephone is petty new fangled and probably keeps a supply of messenger boys in cold storage just in case the fad passes.
WE should be planning to put in fibre to every home, but without government support BT and others will not do it (in the UK the cable companies mostly went bust before a significant percentage of the population were wired up.)
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allow duplicate names and checksums but include a
quality value that is the result of a vote from people who have downloaded the files.
The crap will get low quality and then you sort lists by name + vote. People will tend to download only those files with high quality and the crap can be tossed.
OTOH, you could always support your bands by buying a CD occasionally.
If you are being taxed on the basis that you already are using blank CDRs to copy copyright materials then it follows like day after night that it cannot now be illegal to make copies.
If the media companies are being subsidised by the state because they are suffering from illegal copying, they cannot any longer complain that the are suffering from illegal copying.
and then they can be put into everybodies packet filters.
If the RIAA were stupid enough to do this their network connectivity would drop to nothing in a few days, and any ISP that continued to host them would also find it's packets directed to the bit bucket.
as every dvd player ever sold "decrypts" the dvd in order to show the images, how can anyone be accused of doing exactly what is supposed to happen?
if some people are so stupid as to miss use the keys they were allocated, leaving the data open for anybody who bothers to look for it, that's their problem, not some kid across the world's.
remember, MS had a man on the Sendo board. MS cannot now claim to not know the situation Sendo was in. If Sendo can show that the MS man acted against the interests of Sendo he's wide open to be sued by the shareholders. If Sendo can show that the MS man acted in bad faith on behalf of MS then MS is in deep s.h.i.t.
The xmas issue of new scientist had an article about some research on office desk layouts. The messy desks were more efficient than the clean desks as the user knew where things were. The tidy workers who always filed everything (or were forced to by policy) spent a lot of time looking for documents.
:-)
This is "of course" why you can drag&drop docs onto your "desktop". So why shouldn't there be a proper implementation of a messy filesystem
Every time we bought and installed a US made supercomputer, part of the contract insisted that we prevent access by students from a list of countries provided by the DoD.
It died because _retailers_ realised that MS would be acting as agent between the customers and themselves. This worried a lot of people, not because of security or anything, just because it locked the business model into whatever MS was prepared to provide.
First hate your customers; then accuse them of stealing; then make it difficult for them to get your product; then force them to sit and watch at the time the broadcaster wants to show the program; then fill the screen with logos and constant promos (and fit the programs in the gaps.)
If I were a production company with a successful series (say Friends) I'd look very seriously at distributing the program via DVD possibly stuck to the front of a "Friends" monthly magazine. Then the production company would be free of the broadcasters commercial insanity. The advertisers would love the demographics of such a product.
We once insisted on source for a OS and the company agreed --- and supplied it on microfiche. It met the letter of the contract without actually being any use.
In addition, having the source is pointless unless you also have all the necessary build tools. I very much doubt that XP is built by running configure; make; make install.
Finally, although access to the source may be of some limited use to speciallist developers, I very much doubt that most programmers could learn anything useful that could not be learnt elsewhere from books and open sources.
on my browser the referenced web pages were an unreadable mess and required flash - which is not available for my combination of OS/HW/Browser.
Lousy adverts kill commerce
Socialist?????
Compared to Blair, Bush is a raving communist.
A number of times I have attempted to subscribe to book publishers email list to get early warning of the release of books I may want to buy. If we eliminate all those publishers whose web sites plain didn't work, we are left all the rest that never sent out anything to their list. That's correct, not one of the publishers have ever announced anything on the lists I signed up for (and my email does work.)
I can't help but notice that more and more companies are losing the ability to sell to anything but a captive audience. Amazon sends me emails about Pratcett and Tolkein but nothing about the 10,000 other SciFi/Fantasy writers I may wish to read.
I'm here, I've got some cash, for Ghod's sake someone please try and sell me something new!!
because i've been burnt once too often.
There is very little new technology yet Sony and others must bring out radical "innovations" every 6 months. Of course, it's all marketing drival.
Fortunately, every 6 months the warehouses have to be cleared for the next batch of tat. So you can buy last years kit at a fraction of the orginal cost if you visit the right shops or web sites.
There is no real reason why the interface should be an integrated part of the application. This is not an unusual idea, after all we see it every day in the form of web pages front ending CGI scripts. The "look&feel" can and should be developed seperately from the code that actually does the work. All that is needed is a well defined interface (which could be a global "standard" using, for example XML, but there is no real need.)
This seperation also provides, almost for free, thin client versions of your application.
MS need the buyers of PCs not to understand how they work. There is a delibrate attempt by MS to blur the boundary between apps, OS and hardware so the public doesn't realise that it's the applications that they actually want to run. If Joe Public suddenly realises that they can run email, web, wp, calender etc on any platform without any important change to the user interface, MS will lose control of the market.
All the media companies are facing a horrible prospect - no longer can they control the path between the artist and the public. If they don't
learn to cope with the new world they will die.
I would guess that anybody attempting to collate TV listing information and distribute it will rapidly find a DCMA warrent being served.
Got to love those legislators. The things they will do to protect us from our evil selves.
It would be very useful to be able to control all the stuff that currently has a remote, from a computer.
It's the responsibility of the owner of the trade secret to protect the information. By giving it to so many people outside Walmarts direct control, they have demonstrated that they are not protecting the trade secret.
Walmart loses!
Another test would be to recost the current google TOC assuming their 10,000 machines were running a MS OS.
I doubt that in either case MS OS would be cheaper to run over 5 years.
I've often wondered if it were possible to get the live display to say something shocking, or possibly display an ASCII image, just by submitting a carefully timed stream of queries.
BT still thinks that the telephone is petty new fangled and probably keeps a supply of messenger boys in cold storage just in case the fad passes.
WE should be planning to put in fibre to every home, but without government support BT and others will not do it (in the UK the cable companies mostly went bust before a significant percentage of the population were wired up.)
If people really want to worry about govenment conspiracy they should look into the continued broadcasts of Barney The Dinosaur on TV
See
http://www.eff.org/Legal/Cases/SJG/
Looks like nobody has learnt a thing over the years.