Yes it might be a good deal for Cisco, I mean they'd be making a ton when TiVo wins this case, but what would TiVo get out of it? I mean it really isn't like the two are incrediblly compatible as far as a related products market goes (i.e. SBC DSL and Cingular (AT&T) Wireless), so there really wouldn't be any profit in that perspective.
Let us examine other possibilities:
Trying to raise capital? I don't really think so, at the rate that they have been gaining a hold on their market. Plus factor in this lawsuit, does it really seem plausible that they are having enough financial woes to sell out?
New technology?What are they gonna get out of it? Their system works. It doesn't exactly need Cisco.
Ahhh well, I don't see it happening. Just my view.
Exactly. Generally when you talk about programs having back door entrances, it's a program thats either been illegally modified or was built for the purpose of gaining access to your computer. It's the whole idea behind commercial malware.
So honestly I don't feel that MS was aware of this. If they were they were just trying to figure out how to solve the problem without alerting the public. I don't think that they built this in purposefully to gain access to users computers.
I think that you really hit the nail on the head with numbers 3-5. The fact that they are so focussed on stopping people from copying their music leads one to believe that they are not spending as many resources as they could on developing a quality product. When so-called "security" takes precedent over functionality and customer service, there may be a problem.
Another good point you make is that Sony really has seperated themselves from their customers. Once you show the consumer that you don't trust them or you feel that they aren't capable of performing the necessary actions required to use a product, you have alienated your source of income, which is always a poor business practice.
Again, #5 is another example of taking the security of the product too seriously. Apparently Sony is unable to comprehend the idea that the customers are buying their music and regardless of whether or not they are copying the CD, they still have sold at least one copy. Every customer that you turn away due to poor business practices, is another customer that is likely to download music illegaly. They again have alienated the customer and basically said that since they are absolutely going to illegally share the CD, Sony has decided to infect your computer.
That is a very true point, but then again we're importing quite a few of our doctors these days. There there will probably always be a greater demand for doctors than mathmaticians.
As for the outsourcing, again I think it's the product of our country being so ready to save a buck, that we become reliant on other nations (**coughs about oil**) and that higher efforts should be made to promote the hiring of Americans.
Honestly I do think that it would be a good career. I know that while I've always been more oriented toward the social studies/english aspect of school, the maths/sciences are something that hold great importance to advancing our technology as a whole. This is one of the main reasons that Japan has excelled in recent years. Their educational system is very effective in teaching the subjects related to math. In the US however, it seems that we go for every new educational fad that comes out. We spend so many of our resources on trying to promote the new political agendas to students that a lot of the focus is lost.
On the subject of mathmeticians always being told what to do by other people, well a lot of careers are like that. Doctors and lawyers both have to do as their clients want. Mathmaticians are a large part of ensuring accurate information without forcing other resources to be used on performing such calculations.
The way that I see it, I don't think that it would be such a bad job to have. Nor do I just think that it's a job where all you do is other people's dirty work.
I'm less interested in so-called "quality upgrades" going from DVD to HD-DVD, than I am the increased capacity of the discs. So honestly I don't care if it plays them or not. I'm thinking more along the lines of greater backup or transfer capabilities via dvd.
First of all, one of the best protections is to simply only chat with people that you know. I personally only allow people that are on my buddy list IM me. If anyone else really needs to IM me, they can just email me or what not and request that I add them. That way I cut back on the overall risk of being contacted by someone and catching a virus.
The second smart tip is just not accept attachments unless you know exactly who they are from, what it is, and its a smart idea to not open the full direct connection, just allow the transfer of the one file.
People just need to exercise common sense. Remember when your parents used to tell you "Don't take candy from strangers." The same principle applies here. If you don't know who someone is, why do you need to be clicking links or downloading attachments from them. And then, even if you do know who it is, try and ask yourself if the message is something that the person is known for sending. A lot of the times it won't logically fit the person.
Ahh well, everyone just needs to be on the lookout.
Mkay, AMD already IS more reliable than Intel. And as it has already been pointed out, it would really improve the lower end computers of dell that currently use Celerons. Honestly I do think that Dell would improve their standing in my book by switching. On that note, I still don't think I'm going to trust them due to their lower end chipsets. I have been very pleased with my VIA chipset on my Asus a7v133 board.
What exactly are you trying to accomplish with this post? You first off imply that people that read the Bible and get nothing out of it have closed minds. Secondly you insult the scientist by saying that he couldn't keep his word. Next you give no true reference to anything within the Bible that specifically deals with this issue of intelligent design.
Fourthly, although slightly unrelated, you're too cowardly to even sign in to post.
it looks like a) it gets all its metadata from the context in which it's found, not from examining the video itself
I think you're right about that. If it was actually crawling the video itself I believe that would be breaching the copyright violation since the crawler would be acessing information that would not be publicly available. I'm almost positive that there is no way that major movie corporations would agree to letting aol just search through their content and make it searchable that way. I mean we already have the metatag style system search for mp3's, so it's not exactly the newest idea. I mean plus, this company had been around before, just not through AOL.
Very true, very true, particularly the one about the statistics being made up on the spot. I mean I understand that it's not a research paper and giving a background report on where you got the numbers isn't necessary, but at least give a link to check out your source on the statistic. It's a must when it comes to reliable posting on the internet.
True that is one of the purposes...ok it's basically the major use of the site, but another feature that it holds is to put up music files of the bands that are listed there. Basically most of the time bands will put a couple of free songs up there to generate interest in them and hopefully actually sell some of their music.
As stupid as I think the censorship of the internet is, it IS the site of the corporation. They can limit what you do on the site.
Oh well, more reason for me to steer clear of the stupid community.
Exactly. I don't mind paying less, but at least tell me what I'm buying. Don't try and pass it off as something that it's not. And definently don't try and charge the same as a name brand for an inferior product.
Honestly a lot of the time the only thing you sacrifice with a lesser known company is that you don't get the reputation or customer service associated with major corporations. If you're cool without that stuff, then by all means buy the knock-off.
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Yes it might be a good deal for Cisco, I mean they'd be making a ton when TiVo wins this case, but what would TiVo get out of it? I mean it really isn't like the two are incrediblly compatible as far as a related products market goes (i.e. SBC DSL and Cingular (AT&T) Wireless), so there really wouldn't be any profit in that perspective.
Let us examine other possibilities:
Trying to raise capital?
I don't really think so, at the rate that they have been gaining a hold on their market. Plus factor in this lawsuit, does it really seem plausible that they are having enough financial woes to sell out?
New technology?What are they gonna get out of it? Their system works. It doesn't exactly need Cisco.
Ahhh well, I don't see it happening. Just my view.
Exactly. Generally when you talk about programs having back door entrances, it's a program thats either been illegally modified or was built for the purpose of gaining access to your computer. It's the whole idea behind commercial malware.
So honestly I don't feel that MS was aware of this. If they were they were just trying to figure out how to solve the problem without alerting the public. I don't think that they built this in purposefully to gain access to users computers.
I think that you really hit the nail on the head with numbers 3-5. The fact that they are so focussed on stopping people from copying their music leads one to believe that they are not spending as many resources as they could on developing a quality product. When so-called "security" takes precedent over functionality and customer service, there may be a problem.
Another good point you make is that Sony really has seperated themselves from their customers. Once you show the consumer that you don't trust them or you feel that they aren't capable of performing the necessary actions required to use a product, you have alienated your source of income, which is always a poor business practice.
Again, #5 is another example of taking the security of the product too seriously. Apparently Sony is unable to comprehend the idea that the customers are buying their music and regardless of whether or not they are copying the CD, they still have sold at least one copy. Every customer that you turn away due to poor business practices, is another customer that is likely to download music illegaly. They again have alienated the customer and basically said that since they are absolutely going to illegally share the CD, Sony has decided to infect your computer.
That is a very true point, but then again we're importing quite a few of our doctors these days. There there will probably always be a greater demand for doctors than mathmaticians.
As for the outsourcing, again I think it's the product of our country being so ready to save a buck, that we become reliant on other nations (**coughs about oil**) and that higher efforts should be made to promote the hiring of Americans.
Honestly I do think that it would be a good career. I know that while I've always been more oriented toward the social studies/english aspect of school, the maths/sciences are something that hold great importance to advancing our technology as a whole. This is one of the main reasons that Japan has excelled in recent years. Their educational system is very effective in teaching the subjects related to math. In the US however, it seems that we go for every new educational fad that comes out. We spend so many of our resources on trying to promote the new political agendas to students that a lot of the focus is lost.
On the subject of mathmeticians always being told what to do by other people, well a lot of careers are like that. Doctors and lawyers both have to do as their clients want. Mathmaticians are a large part of ensuring accurate information without forcing other resources to be used on performing such calculations.
The way that I see it, I don't think that it would be such a bad job to have. Nor do I just think that it's a job where all you do is other people's dirty work.
I'm less interested in so-called "quality upgrades" going from DVD to HD-DVD, than I am the increased capacity of the discs. So honestly I don't care if it plays them or not. I'm thinking more along the lines of greater backup or transfer capabilities via dvd.
First of all, one of the best protections is to simply only chat with people that you know. I personally only allow people that are on my buddy list IM me. If anyone else really needs to IM me, they can just email me or what not and request that I add them. That way I cut back on the overall risk of being contacted by someone and catching a virus.
The second smart tip is just not accept attachments unless you know exactly who they are from, what it is, and its a smart idea to not open the full direct connection, just allow the transfer of the one file.
People just need to exercise common sense. Remember when your parents used to tell you "Don't take candy from strangers." The same principle applies here. If you don't know who someone is, why do you need to be clicking links or downloading attachments from them. And then, even if you do know who it is, try and ask yourself if the message is something that the person is known for sending. A lot of the times it won't logically fit the person.
Ahh well, everyone just needs to be on the lookout.
Note to self: Get different headphones for the next time I'm in such a situation.
Mkay, AMD already IS more reliable than Intel. And as it has already been pointed out, it would really improve the lower end computers of dell that currently use Celerons. Honestly I do think that Dell would improve their standing in my book by switching. On that note, I still don't think I'm going to trust them due to their lower end chipsets. I have been very pleased with my VIA chipset on my Asus a7v133 board.
What exactly are you trying to accomplish with this post? You first off imply that people that read the Bible and get nothing out of it have closed minds. Secondly you insult the scientist by saying that he couldn't keep his word. Next you give no true reference to anything within the Bible that specifically deals with this issue of intelligent design.
Fourthly, although slightly unrelated, you're too cowardly to even sign in to post.
it looks like a) it gets all its metadata from the context in which it's found, not from examining the video itself
I think you're right about that. If it was actually crawling the video itself I believe that would be breaching the copyright violation since the crawler would be acessing information that would not be publicly available. I'm almost positive that there is no way that major movie corporations would agree to letting aol just search through their content and make it searchable that way. I mean we already have the metatag style system search for mp3's, so it's not exactly the newest idea. I mean plus, this company had been around before, just not through AOL.
Very true, very true, particularly the one about the statistics being made up on the spot. I mean I understand that it's not a research paper and giving a background report on where you got the numbers isn't necessary, but at least give a link to check out your source on the statistic. It's a must when it comes to reliable posting on the internet.
True that is one of the purposes...ok it's basically the major use of the site, but another feature that it holds is to put up music files of the bands that are listed there. Basically most of the time bands will put a couple of free songs up there to generate interest in them and hopefully actually sell some of their music.
As stupid as I think the censorship of the internet is, it IS the site of the corporation. They can limit what you do on the site.
Oh well, more reason for me to steer clear of the stupid community.
Exactly. I don't mind paying less, but at least tell me what I'm buying. Don't try and pass it off as something that it's not. And definently don't try and charge the same as a name brand for an inferior product. Honestly a lot of the time the only thing you sacrifice with a lesser known company is that you don't get the reputation or customer service associated with major corporations. If you're cool without that stuff, then by all means buy the knock-off.
very true, very true. Yah, I myself have used Asus for the last three systems I've built and I've been happy with all of them.