Just imagine how it could turn back against them, if someone who lost all their titles because of a defective PS3 actually sued them and winned. Now imagine the flood of other users suing them, the class action... That would be wonderful...
You are assuming the patent holder will not realize this and will be desperate enough to sell the patent for a low price. More realistically, the patent owner for such a technology would likely not sell it. Instead he (and his happy VC friends) would start a licensing based business for his new technology.
Well... In that case soon the media industry will push for some kind of legislation that makes it utterly illegal to store discs in fridges, and guess what? they will start selling you content on that kind of discs, and when you say that the new Britney Spears' VHD-DVD your daughter bought last week stinks, well... for the first time, your daughter will agree with you about it.
Well. She is a manager or works with metodologies, right?
(Sorry for the machist joke - I really don't think this way, it's perfectly possible for a beautiful woman to like real bare hands coding, though, unfortunatelly, it's still not very common)
Errr... Sorry Guys.
But you can't make this kind of comparison. Apple is registered trademark of Apple Computer Inc. Or would it be Apple Records?.......
I strongly agree with it. Over the last 15 years or so I've been buying CDs. Last year I've bought my first iPod that was robbed (yes, I live in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) and last month a new 60GB iPOd. Now, imagine the trouble I would have ripping my huge CD collection to my IPod if audio cds were designed with the same DRM "features" that are being designed for Bluray and HD?
If CDs had the same DRM sh***T I would be left with tons of music in my CDs, legally bought, that I could not listen to on my portable device. Would that be fair?
I never, ever buy music from iTunes (And I can't from Brasil), and all my music is ripped from my CDs or CDs from my friends (and this also qualifies as fair use). So DRM on audio CDs would have deprived innovative companies from a very valuable market, and also would deprive the consumer (me) to fully exert my rights upon things I paid for.
Basically, a dictatorship doesn't care too much about sub-meter precision for their bombs. If the miss a target and destroy a child hospital instead of a command center, they have no media to complain about it and make them risk loosing an election (which, by definition, are also non-existent or fake in a dictatorship)
And for atom bombs, well.... Do you think it really makes a difference it you miss the target even for 1 or two kilometers. Of course we are not talking about the kind of atom bombs designed to blast underground bunkers, but also, in that case, the north-korean death doctors still have a lot of more pressing developments to acchieve before they have to care about sub-meter precision.
How easily Microsoft gets media attention for products that basically don't even exist yet. And then there will be a lot of rumor around wall street, some nervous people will start selling their apple stock, and the, 2 years after the promised date, Microsoft will come with a clumsy product with a blueish screen, hard to use, with lots of useless features, with lots of DRM, incompatibilities and various glitches.
Come on guys, Microsoft should concentrate on delivering Vista. Even cutting most of the promised features, Vista is delayed beyond the point where it becomes ridiculous. How can someone believe that a company that isn't even able to deliver what used to be their main product has some chance with a product in a market they don't know, and where consumer's perception about then is definitelly bad, as they are seen as the bad guys.
Too bad the media is stupid enough to give voice to such spin.
Let's wait for them to show us a product, and then, and only then, let's discuss if it's really an iPod killer.
Well, I am a Brazilian, English is a second language for me, so I may be wrong, but....
Jobs' Movie Plan = Movie Plan of/from Steven Jobs, right?
Where's the typo?
If a US *SPY* plane, costing probably hundreds of millions of dollars generates only a handful of gigabytes when flying over china... well... errr... I think that you, US tax payers, are being screwed big time by your lovely defense contractors.
It may sound tough and cruel and vile. But the sad fact is that the A-bomb stoped a war that would cost more lives if continued than the ones sadly lost at hiroshima. Please remember that at that time, it was considered normal practice to bomb civillian populations in a war (the japanese did that, UK did that, germans did that, well, everybody used to do that), and it's a tribute to us that our minds have changed since that age.
Likewise, the cold war prevented, with all its risks, a bloodly war between US and USSR, a war for which the death toll would probably lie in the tens of millions house.
I am not telling its nice to have a-bombs, but instead of blaming the scientists who have build it, you should blame the politicians that make wars happen, specially the totalitarian ones like Hitler that started all the WWII mess.
My point is that this law came into effect only after most families and business could aford not having kids working because they were affluent enough to do this. Like slavery. The law was needed only to stop those last mavericks from a past age that refused to change. The market market changes came first, and that's how it always happen. Although children working on factories may be an outraging idea nowadays, please remember that THIS was the reality throughout the history, and only industrialization and its need to more skilled workers was able to change that, Go to any rural area in a under-developed country and you will see kids not going to school and working (I am from Brasil, and although this is not very common here on the more developed areas, there are some places where you still can see it). Too bad to see a kid in a factory, but I do prefer it to a kid starving to death.
One problem with China is not having free unions (isn't it ironical?), because unions are an important market player in those moments of fast industrialization, as they help breaking the information assimetry between employers and know-nothing peasants that went to the city for a job. But this is not an issue for Apple or Nike, it's not their responsibility and they are doing, as cruel as it may sound, the right thing: The best thing that can happen to chinese people right now, is the improvement of their lives from international trade, as they become richer they will be able to demand more rights, a starving man is usually a miserable negotiatior when it comes to his wages.
If you are comparing Solaris with a linux distro as a plain Desktop OS, the bare truth is that, no, you didn't have a clue about what you were doing.
And sorry, but remember that you were the first fool here, as you called a superb piece of engineering "crap".
This is just a cover for something bigger.
Their Vista Project is a failure, and no ammount of effort seems to be enough to make it to be released.
If they are smart they are quitting on vista, and starting a MS Linux version, that will be built upon a Open Source venture, appropriadelly called... "Lamarck.org":-)
The commie do-gooders would have accomplished nothing if it weren't for the market system. People started seeing this (child labor) as immoral only when they were at the point when they would not starve if they children didn't work.
The worse thing that can happen to third-world country worker is when some "charitable" activist group tries starts this kind of lobby.
Have you ever thought that in country with over 1 billion people, and a GDP which is barely higher than Brazil (less than 200 million people) it's very difficult to find a job?
People usually forget that pre-capitalistic societies were none of the paradise they imagine. People had a life expectancy of no much more than 30 years, famine was common place, plagues abounded.
China is like that, and yes, it's sad that their standards of living are so low, that they eagerly see receiving 50 bucks a month as a blessing, but the fact is that they do. They have one billion people to feed man, and it's going to take a lot of economical growth till the market move to a higher-standards equilibrium. Companies like apple are doing what is supposed for a company to do: lower their costs as much as they can, so they can have a competitive edge in the market.
50 bucks may be shamefully little money, but it's more than most of those people ever dreamed of, they came from rural areas, where famine is everywhere, and they see it as a raise on their standards of living, preciselly because it is. Denying it for them is just a hypocrital form of protectionism, that disguise itself on supposedly well intentioned ideas.
If there's someone to blame here, are their overlords who kept the misery for a so long time because of their inneficient economic system.
Denying them access to global markets is only going to take the last hope they can have of improving things for them.
I am not an electronic engineer, but surely having three gates in a FET doesn't qualify a transistor as Three-Dimensional. If Intel had created a cube chip with connections along all the three dimensional axes, we could call the transistor 3D, and that's not the case here.
Just remember that a fraud doesn't require an internet dating site involved to happen. While I agree that rich bitches sometimes are too snob, you should remember that honesty levels probably follow a normal distribution across all the spectrum of social classes. Then, just because a girl is poorer than you, that doesn't turns her automatically into some kind of saint.
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Cable TV was originally meant to be ad-free.
Cable TV used to have good content, now you need to pay heavy pay-per-view for some of the most interesting things.
I don't see what is the right of forcing me to watch ads that suposedly pay what I already have paid.
If they want me to see their ads, they need to give me some incentive. Otherwise I will continue using my favourite ad-skipping techiniques: Coffee break, Coke break, toillete, and, of course, remote control zapping.
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Really, Microsoft still is evil, and I know that they happily jumped into the DRM wagon too. But when I compare today's news with the past I get a chill. Our rights are being ripped in a astonishing fast pace, and hollywood is suceeding in making things that even Microsoft never dreamed off. The sad part is that they are likely to succeed; The average people don't understand the ramifications of those laws, and when they question their representatives, they are easily convinced by some crappy explanation in the line that this kind of laws helps to prevent terrorism, or save americans jobs or something like that. But the truth is that RIAA are a threat to capitalism and free market. They are blocking inovation, subverting the law, and turning law-abiding citizens into criminals without they even knowing that. We have to stop them. Know! Maybe it's time for another Boston Tea's party.
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Just imagine how it could turn back against them, if someone who lost all their titles because of a defective PS3 actually sued them and winned. Now imagine the flood of other users suing them, the class action... That would be wonderful...
6.1 KB/Sec only :-(. Anyway, brave servers, slow but still serving the file.... let's see how much time they can stand the horde of /.ers.
You are assuming the patent holder will not realize this and will be desperate enough to sell the patent for a low price. More realistically, the patent owner for such a technology would likely not sell it. Instead he (and his happy VC friends) would start a licensing based business for his new technology.
Well... In that case soon the media industry will push for some kind of legislation that makes it utterly illegal to store discs in fridges, and guess what? they will start selling you content on that kind of discs, and when you say that the new Britney Spears' VHD-DVD your daughter bought last week stinks, well... for the first time, your daughter will agree with you about it.
Well. She is a manager or works with metodologies, right? (Sorry for the machist joke - I really don't think this way, it's perfectly possible for a beautiful woman to like real bare hands coding, though, unfortunatelly, it's still not very common)
Errr... Sorry Guys. But you can't make this kind of comparison. Apple is registered trademark of Apple Computer Inc. Or would it be Apple Records? .......
... When all your friends sound like Darth Vader over a mobile call.
I strongly agree with it. Over the last 15 years or so I've been buying CDs. Last year I've bought my first iPod that was robbed (yes, I live in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil) and last month a new 60GB iPOd. Now, imagine the trouble I would have ripping my huge CD collection to my IPod if audio cds were designed with the same DRM "features" that are being designed for Bluray and HD? If CDs had the same DRM sh***T I would be left with tons of music in my CDs, legally bought, that I could not listen to on my portable device. Would that be fair? I never, ever buy music from iTunes (And I can't from Brasil), and all my music is ripped from my CDs or CDs from my friends (and this also qualifies as fair use). So DRM on audio CDs would have deprived innovative companies from a very valuable market, and also would deprive the consumer (me) to fully exert my rights upon things I paid for.
Basically, a dictatorship doesn't care too much about sub-meter precision for their bombs. If the miss a target and destroy a child hospital instead of a command center, they have no media to complain about it and make them risk loosing an election (which, by definition, are also non-existent or fake in a dictatorship) And for atom bombs, well.... Do you think it really makes a difference it you miss the target even for 1 or two kilometers. Of course we are not talking about the kind of atom bombs designed to blast underground bunkers, but also, in that case, the north-korean death doctors still have a lot of more pressing developments to acchieve before they have to care about sub-meter precision.
Having only hibrids instead of hummers would also solve the super-population problem, as the suicide rate would skyrocket out of pure boredom.
How easily Microsoft gets media attention for products that basically don't even exist yet. And then there will be a lot of rumor around wall street, some nervous people will start selling their apple stock, and the, 2 years after the promised date, Microsoft will come with a clumsy product with a blueish screen, hard to use, with lots of useless features, with lots of DRM, incompatibilities and various glitches. Come on guys, Microsoft should concentrate on delivering Vista. Even cutting most of the promised features, Vista is delayed beyond the point where it becomes ridiculous. How can someone believe that a company that isn't even able to deliver what used to be their main product has some chance with a product in a market they don't know, and where consumer's perception about then is definitelly bad, as they are seen as the bad guys. Too bad the media is stupid enough to give voice to such spin. Let's wait for them to show us a product, and then, and only then, let's discuss if it's really an iPod killer.
Well, I am a Brazilian, English is a second language for me, so I may be wrong, but.... Jobs' Movie Plan = Movie Plan of/from Steven Jobs, right? Where's the typo?
If a US *SPY* plane, costing probably hundreds of millions of dollars generates only a handful of gigabytes when flying over china... well... errr... I think that you, US tax payers, are being screwed big time by your lovely defense contractors.
It may sound tough and cruel and vile. But the sad fact is that the A-bomb stoped a war that would cost more lives if continued than the ones sadly lost at hiroshima. Please remember that at that time, it was considered normal practice to bomb civillian populations in a war (the japanese did that, UK did that, germans did that, well, everybody used to do that), and it's a tribute to us that our minds have changed since that age. Likewise, the cold war prevented, with all its risks, a bloodly war between US and USSR, a war for which the death toll would probably lie in the tens of millions house. I am not telling its nice to have a-bombs, but instead of blaming the scientists who have build it, you should blame the politicians that make wars happen, specially the totalitarian ones like Hitler that started all the WWII mess.
My point is that this law came into effect only after most families and business could aford not having kids working because they were affluent enough to do this. Like slavery. The law was needed only to stop those last mavericks from a past age that refused to change. The market market changes came first, and that's how it always happen. Although children working on factories may be an outraging idea nowadays, please remember that THIS was the reality throughout the history, and only industrialization and its need to more skilled workers was able to change that, Go to any rural area in a under-developed country and you will see kids not going to school and working (I am from Brasil, and although this is not very common here on the more developed areas, there are some places where you still can see it). Too bad to see a kid in a factory, but I do prefer it to a kid starving to death. One problem with China is not having free unions (isn't it ironical?), because unions are an important market player in those moments of fast industrialization, as they help breaking the information assimetry between employers and know-nothing peasants that went to the city for a job. But this is not an issue for Apple or Nike, it's not their responsibility and they are doing, as cruel as it may sound, the right thing: The best thing that can happen to chinese people right now, is the improvement of their lives from international trade, as they become richer they will be able to demand more rights, a starving man is usually a miserable negotiatior when it comes to his wages.
If you are comparing Solaris with a linux distro as a plain Desktop OS, the bare truth is that, no, you didn't have a clue about what you were doing. And sorry, but remember that you were the first fool here, as you called a superb piece of engineering "crap".
This is just a cover for something bigger. Their Vista Project is a failure, and no ammount of effort seems to be enough to make it to be released. If they are smart they are quitting on vista, and starting a MS Linux version, that will be built upon a Open Source venture, appropriadelly called ... "Lamarck.org" :-)
The commie do-gooders would have accomplished nothing if it weren't for the market system. People started seeing this (child labor) as immoral only when they were at the point when they would not starve if they children didn't work.
The worse thing that can happen to third-world country worker is when some "charitable" activist group tries starts this kind of lobby. Have you ever thought that in country with over 1 billion people, and a GDP which is barely higher than Brazil (less than 200 million people) it's very difficult to find a job? People usually forget that pre-capitalistic societies were none of the paradise they imagine. People had a life expectancy of no much more than 30 years, famine was common place, plagues abounded. China is like that, and yes, it's sad that their standards of living are so low, that they eagerly see receiving 50 bucks a month as a blessing, but the fact is that they do. They have one billion people to feed man, and it's going to take a lot of economical growth till the market move to a higher-standards equilibrium. Companies like apple are doing what is supposed for a company to do: lower their costs as much as they can, so they can have a competitive edge in the market. 50 bucks may be shamefully little money, but it's more than most of those people ever dreamed of, they came from rural areas, where famine is everywhere, and they see it as a raise on their standards of living, preciselly because it is. Denying it for them is just a hypocrital form of protectionism, that disguise itself on supposedly well intentioned ideas. If there's someone to blame here, are their overlords who kept the misery for a so long time because of their inneficient economic system. Denying them access to global markets is only going to take the last hope they can have of improving things for them.
I am not an electronic engineer, but surely having three gates in a FET doesn't qualify a transistor as Three-Dimensional. If Intel had created a cube chip with connections along all the three dimensional axes, we could call the transistor 3D, and that's not the case here.
Just remember that a fraud doesn't require an internet dating site involved to happen. While I agree that rich bitches sometimes are too snob, you should remember that honesty levels probably follow a normal distribution across all the spectrum of social classes. Then, just because a girl is poorer than you, that doesn't turns her automatically into some kind of saint.
Cable TV was originally meant to be ad-free. Cable TV used to have good content, now you need to pay heavy pay-per-view for some of the most interesting things. I don't see what is the right of forcing me to watch ads that suposedly pay what I already have paid. If they want me to see their ads, they need to give me some incentive. Otherwise I will continue using my favourite ad-skipping techiniques: Coffee break, Coke break, toillete, and, of course, remote control zapping.
Really,
Microsoft still is evil, and I know that they happily jumped into the DRM wagon too. But when I compare today's news with the past I get a chill. Our rights are being ripped in a astonishing fast pace, and hollywood is suceeding in making things that even Microsoft never dreamed off.
The sad part is that they are likely to succeed; The average people don't understand the ramifications of those laws, and when they question their representatives, they are easily convinced by some crappy explanation in the line that this kind of laws helps to prevent terrorism, or save americans jobs or something like that.
But the truth is that RIAA are a threat to capitalism and free market. They are blocking inovation, subverting the law, and turning law-abiding citizens into criminals without they even knowing that.
We have to stop them. Know! Maybe it's time for another Boston Tea's party.
Nah.... There's already a black hole on Sun. I am from Brasil, and I can't tell you that their marketing department here *IS* a black hole.