I own a Nook, but I am a bit curious as to what this move means for Amazon. Up until now they've been the only ones using.mobi as a file format on their Kindle, and haven't added any support for epub at all, as far as I can tell.
It would be nice to be able to buy ebooks at amazon that have DRM, but not be stuck using a Kindle. Not that I think DRM is a great thing.
A large part of that has to do with the waste the comes from them not being able to accurately predict how many issues they're going to sell in a given month at the various news stands. Additionally, part of that extra charge goes to pay for the cost of the news stand staying in business.
It's not that hard to believe that the extra costs associated would end up being in that range.
The only time I ever do that is at the airport, and even then it's only been when I haven't though ahead to buy something at a cheaper store before heading out.
I think this was already known publicly. I don't think that we knew the specifics, but in recent times governments have been complaining about that sort of behavior.
Additionally, it doesn't take a genius to see that what the US negotiators are likely looking at is what we've got in the US or more, which pretty strongly suggests that other nations would have to change their laws to suit our interests.
However, it is worth noting that the US exports a lot of IP of various sorts, and we have been ripped off for quite a bit of it over the years. I don't think that justifies the particular provisions we're looking for, but it is hardly a shock that we'd want to deal with that problem.
Particularly in China where misappropriation of our IP is endemic and where the authorities seem to completely ignore the problem.
I'm guessing that they're comparing it to Blackberry and the iPhone for their value of many. Which really misses the point. The main reason for the Nexus One was that Google wasn't particularly thrilled by the sluggish pace at which the handset makers were going about things, and this gave Google a direct way of inserting some competition.
Admittedly, the phone is a bit dated now, compared to when it was released, but at that point it was just about the fastest thing out there in terms of computational power.
The usual problem is that the carrier will insist upon a custom UI. And because Google releases the firmware when it's deemed to be ready, rather than waiting for the carriers to have the new UI, those phones will always be behind the vanilla copy.
It's the price you pay for getting a non-custom interface. And it's one of the biggest reasons why I wanted the Nexus One rather than one of the alternatives.
Precisely, people wanting to buy a cell phone, even one that's unlocked, have to think about what carrier they want to use it with. And while my Nexus One will work with either T-Mobile or AT&T, I only get 3G with T-Mobile, with AT&T I just get the older standard.
At some point the FCC is going to have to step in and force a change. Probably when the real 4G makes it's debut in this country.
To be honest, the Gimp is getting closer and closer to the point where it's a legitimate replacement for Photoshop for. And it's been sufficient replacement for what most people really use Photoshop for for quite some time. It's not at the point where it's going to be a realistic replacement for professionals, but it's edging itself in that direction. At this point it even supports color managed environments.
It's still infringement. Doesn't matter where they're located. Unless the Vatican is seeding the copies, that doesn't apply. Plus it's the distribution that's the infringement not the downloads. Although, if they're using a torrent, most likely both are going on.
But, when all is said and done, good luck trying to enforce it on anybody in the Vatican.
Repeating the line about it being theft doesn't make it true. It's infringement and nothing more. Theft is a clearly defined offense and this isn't an example of it in any jurisdiction that I've ever heard of.
I've never had a "mom and pop" store install software illegally on any of the machines I bought there or had serviced. If they did install any, it was removed before I got my hands on it.
Most of them are more concerned with going out of business when they get caught doing it.
That beautiful music you hear, is the sound of Skynet coming to get you. Unfortunately, music makes it hard to sneak up on a person, so I'm guessing it'll go for the deaf first.
To be fair, I'm not sure that they bowed to the US government or all those morons that view Wikileaks as a threat to US national security on par with Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Ladin.
It's hard to say, but the latter probably can exert enough pressure that the US government wouldn't have to. Not that I have any idea which it is.
Yes, but is it actually something that's required by the field you work in? I think that's the point, a person who works in a field which doesn't require one to take, let alone pass, calculus as a part of the cost of admission can easily be forgiven for forgetting that sort of thing. But a person who works in a field that does require that sort of knowledge is just a complete idiot.
But, it's not just that he's apparently forgotten about it, it's that people have allowed him to apparently name the process after himself when it's at best a novel use of an old technique, and probably not even that.
Except that as a medical doctor he already knew that or should have known about using trapezoids to approximate the area under the curve as well as the rectangles that he did use.
Apart from the loans, you don't have much of a point. Just look at other countries and you'll see what I mean. It's not that unusual for doctors in other countries to make half or less what we pay our doctors.
It depends how accurate you need to be. The way you'd normally handle that via integral calculus is that you'd break the interval up into however many pieces it required. But at some point that becomes rather less accurate than just estimating it.
Of course there's situations where it can't be written in a form that can be integrated, but I'm not really sure how often that really comes up in cases like this where you need both exact and can't create a decent function to work with.
This isn't high school level math. This is first year college math. Around here they didn't even offer this in high school as a portion of the curriculum. You don't seen Simpson's rule until at least pre-calculus and more likely calculus.
Personally, if my doctor expressed that level of incompetence in calculus, I'd be looking for a new doctor before my next appointment. Way too much of the practice of being a doctor involves calculus to let that slide.
Unfortunately you really do need both. At least as far as ideas involving softare goes. iD software is probably one of the best examples out there. The main reason why we're talking about them 20 years later and that they're still relevant is that they've had good fortune in both areas.
It's unfortunate because it's much harder to pull off than if you just need one or the other.
Apple computers is another an idea guy plus somebody that knew the technical details really well.
Honestly, I'm willing to bet that somewhere there's a site devoted to women holding their iPhone in an unconventional way and waiting for a call to come in.
That's not entirely true, it depends on the handset. Some of the phones like the Motorola Backflip are incredibly locked down. And others like the Google Nexus One by HTC are completely open. Just about the easiest phone you'll ever unlock, all you have to do is boot into the loader and unlock it. There's even instruction as to how to do it. All Google asks is that you agree that they're no longer responsible for what goes wrong with the phone.
Try to insist the word hacker has absolutly nothing to do with breaking computer security and all those people using it are wrong
Actually, he's right about that. The preferred term for that is cracker. As in somebody that cracks security. And yes all the people that are saying otherwise are wrong.
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I own a Nook, but I am a bit curious as to what this move means for Amazon. Up until now they've been the only ones using .mobi as a file format on their Kindle, and haven't added any support for epub at all, as far as I can tell.
It would be nice to be able to buy ebooks at amazon that have DRM, but not be stuck using a Kindle. Not that I think DRM is a great thing.
A large part of that has to do with the waste the comes from them not being able to accurately predict how many issues they're going to sell in a given month at the various news stands. Additionally, part of that extra charge goes to pay for the cost of the news stand staying in business.
It's not that hard to believe that the extra costs associated would end up being in that range.
The only time I ever do that is at the airport, and even then it's only been when I haven't though ahead to buy something at a cheaper store before heading out.
I think this was already known publicly. I don't think that we knew the specifics, but in recent times governments have been complaining about that sort of behavior.
Additionally, it doesn't take a genius to see that what the US negotiators are likely looking at is what we've got in the US or more, which pretty strongly suggests that other nations would have to change their laws to suit our interests.
However, it is worth noting that the US exports a lot of IP of various sorts, and we have been ripped off for quite a bit of it over the years. I don't think that justifies the particular provisions we're looking for, but it is hardly a shock that we'd want to deal with that problem.
Particularly in China where misappropriation of our IP is endemic and where the authorities seem to completely ignore the problem.
It is, and unfortunately it makes little sense to learn on 2.4x, when 2.5x is bringing such high degree of change.
I'm guessing that they're comparing it to Blackberry and the iPhone for their value of many. Which really misses the point. The main reason for the Nexus One was that Google wasn't particularly thrilled by the sluggish pace at which the handset makers were going about things, and this gave Google a direct way of inserting some competition.
Admittedly, the phone is a bit dated now, compared to when it was released, but at that point it was just about the fastest thing out there in terms of computational power.
The usual problem is that the carrier will insist upon a custom UI. And because Google releases the firmware when it's deemed to be ready, rather than waiting for the carriers to have the new UI, those phones will always be behind the vanilla copy.
It's the price you pay for getting a non-custom interface. And it's one of the biggest reasons why I wanted the Nexus One rather than one of the alternatives.
Precisely, people wanting to buy a cell phone, even one that's unlocked, have to think about what carrier they want to use it with. And while my Nexus One will work with either T-Mobile or AT&T, I only get 3G with T-Mobile, with AT&T I just get the older standard.
At some point the FCC is going to have to step in and force a change. Probably when the real 4G makes it's debut in this country.
To be honest, the Gimp is getting closer and closer to the point where it's a legitimate replacement for Photoshop for. And it's been sufficient replacement for what most people really use Photoshop for for quite some time. It's not at the point where it's going to be a realistic replacement for professionals, but it's edging itself in that direction. At this point it even supports color managed environments.
It's still infringement. Doesn't matter where they're located. Unless the Vatican is seeding the copies, that doesn't apply. Plus it's the distribution that's the infringement not the downloads. Although, if they're using a torrent, most likely both are going on.
But, when all is said and done, good luck trying to enforce it on anybody in the Vatican.
Repeating the line about it being theft doesn't make it true. It's infringement and nothing more. Theft is a clearly defined offense and this isn't an example of it in any jurisdiction that I've ever heard of.
Better lobbyists.
I've never had a "mom and pop" store install software illegally on any of the machines I bought there or had serviced. If they did install any, it was removed before I got my hands on it.
Most of them are more concerned with going out of business when they get caught doing it.
That beautiful music you hear, is the sound of Skynet coming to get you. Unfortunately, music makes it hard to sneak up on a person, so I'm guessing it'll go for the deaf first.
To be fair, I'm not sure that they bowed to the US government or all those morons that view Wikileaks as a threat to US national security on par with Al Qaeda and Osama Bin Ladin.
It's hard to say, but the latter probably can exert enough pressure that the US government wouldn't have to. Not that I have any idea which it is.
Yes, but is it actually something that's required by the field you work in? I think that's the point, a person who works in a field which doesn't require one to take, let alone pass, calculus as a part of the cost of admission can easily be forgiven for forgetting that sort of thing. But a person who works in a field that does require that sort of knowledge is just a complete idiot.
But, it's not just that he's apparently forgotten about it, it's that people have allowed him to apparently name the process after himself when it's at best a novel use of an old technique, and probably not even that.
I see they also fail at grammar and/or spelling.
Except that as a medical doctor he already knew that or should have known about using trapezoids to approximate the area under the curve as well as the rectangles that he did use.
Apart from the loans, you don't have much of a point. Just look at other countries and you'll see what I mean. It's not that unusual for doctors in other countries to make half or less what we pay our doctors.
It depends how accurate you need to be. The way you'd normally handle that via integral calculus is that you'd break the interval up into however many pieces it required. But at some point that becomes rather less accurate than just estimating it.
Of course there's situations where it can't be written in a form that can be integrated, but I'm not really sure how often that really comes up in cases like this where you need both exact and can't create a decent function to work with.
This isn't high school level math. This is first year college math. Around here they didn't even offer this in high school as a portion of the curriculum. You don't seen Simpson's rule until at least pre-calculus and more likely calculus.
Personally, if my doctor expressed that level of incompetence in calculus, I'd be looking for a new doctor before my next appointment. Way too much of the practice of being a doctor involves calculus to let that slide.
Unfortunately you really do need both. At least as far as ideas involving softare goes. iD software is probably one of the best examples out there. The main reason why we're talking about them 20 years later and that they're still relevant is that they've had good fortune in both areas.
It's unfortunate because it's much harder to pull off than if you just need one or the other.
Apple computers is another an idea guy plus somebody that knew the technical details really well.
Honestly, I'm willing to bet that somewhere there's a site devoted to women holding their iPhone in an unconventional way and waiting for a call to come in.
That's not entirely true, it depends on the handset. Some of the phones like the Motorola Backflip are incredibly locked down. And others like the Google Nexus One by HTC are completely open. Just about the easiest phone you'll ever unlock, all you have to do is boot into the loader and unlock it. There's even instruction as to how to do it. All Google asks is that you agree that they're no longer responsible for what goes wrong with the phone.
Try to insist the word hacker has absolutly nothing to do with breaking computer security and all those people using it are wrong
Actually, he's right about that. The preferred term for that is cracker. As in somebody that cracks security. And yes all the people that are saying otherwise are wrong.