They have always said that the Zune was a "long term Strategy". The biggest reason their sales are down is because of last years 30GB zune Price chopping.
Even CNet said that they met their internal numbers. Fact is that Microsoft isn't trying to replace the ipod, and even if they are, so what? at least Apple has a competent competitor for their products instead of just a bunch of $29.99 Coby MP3 crappers from walgreens.
and utter disappointment. why doesn't somebody just staple a 'fro to a wooden plank and let that be Spike. micheal clark duncan can be miscast as Jet and the hot chick from transformers and try acting as Faye. Ein will be CG and Ed will be any female actress...using CG to reduce their size.
and dont get me started on what a catastrophe the soundtrack will be.
AMD also says that the supercomputer will 'enable remote real-time rendering of film and visual effects graphics on an unprecedented scale.' Meanwhile, game developers would be able to use the supercomputer to quickly develop games, and also 'serve up virtual world games with unlimited photo-realistic detail.'
they have this in the future. don't they call it the matrix?
as far as i know it does not set a precedent. If the RIAA dropped the case then it never met a full conclusion. it just means they gave up and no conclusion was reached.
they did this so it doesnt set a precedent, keeping future and current lawsuits open to litigation.
...if it was free, or paid for itself. and google paid me for the info they gleaned from my network traffic. Ultimately its nothing but a data-mining tool for google, so it is only fair that they pay me for the bandwidth and my data...
100TB seems like a lot, but can you imagine how much data the Obama administration might leave? Considering that they seem more 'connected' then most other politicians.
there is always talk of obsolete formats here on/. but can you imagine the baggage left by some of these administrations?
nothing will ever replace my desktop....ever. I think thats a good thing though. it will make a good desktop set up more of a status symbol for the true geek.
not to say that they haven't always been, but the REAL customizers will move more towards the hardcore and away from the Casual. I love my 17" laptop, it supports two hard drives, its nice, i love it. but i will never surrender my desktop. not until my laptop can support 4 hard drives.
yeah, really. even if that tank or are delisted on the NYSE, i plan buy about 300 share (thats just a little more the $30 before trading fees). i Don't have a ton of cash, and it would great awesome if they made it up to $5 a share. and if i lose in the market with them, its only a $30, i spend that much candy every week.
if you make a backup of your harddrive then that is for utilitarian purpose. It is for emergencies, not for regular use. Your coy of a copy should only be used by you and should only be used once. Are you make bootable backups that you can run on other machines just so you can access your backup movies? That would violate this exception.
and in all fairness, thats like coming after people for backing up The OS on the computer in that fashion.
You don't need an exception for that whole "public trade' thing. The DMCA censors free speech in that aspect. The problem the "public" part. I think one should be able to speak as much code as they want...so long as everyone understands it. If you want to do that, then you should (in all fairness) allow DMCA regulators access to your source code.
it comes down to the fact that you can't have Falstaff, and have him thin.
Touche, however that would be a single copy at a time for personal use. In respect to fair use, it allows you to make backups and emergency copies, not create new formats for use on multiple devices. The second you start moving media around to unrestricted and unmonitored devices you end up scaring the MAFIAA. That why CD piracy is so rampant because anybody can do it and WAV can be convert to so many different containers.
the real point is to satisfy the need to make accessible digital backup, maintaining the "artists vision", for the media and make the copy secure and fixed to a device
of course, that doesn't mean that you can't ACCESS said copy from multiple devices. And that is where this kind of Exception would shine because it would allow you to backup a full media library and LEGALLY access it over a network for PERSONAL USE.
well it can be open source, but thats when you start making people accountable, because at that point the are circumventing the "first copy" rule. And thats the key thing, is allowing an exception that allows people to create and examine the code, but not "ruin it for everyone". to be fair, even a solution like this would never satisfy everyone, but at least it would make people with media servers and large collection of media not look like criminals, because that is where most provisions of the DMCA will take people.
not to say that i actually support Real Media, but for once they made a useful application for people. so lets add this exception:
"Software circumvention of protection can be allowed for personal use in the event that no more then one copy is made and the new copy adds a new and at least equivalent layer of protection. This added protection must not be obsolete and must allow for an identical and identifiable copy."
I dont think that is TOO opened ended, and it would give legit dvd-decryption a boost, as well as make "overcopying" identifiable, at least to a piece of software, a particular DVD or CD, or a user or computer.
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...think.
that is all.
They have always said that the Zune was a "long term Strategy". The biggest reason their sales are down is because of last years 30GB zune Price chopping. Even CNet said that they met their internal numbers. Fact is that Microsoft isn't trying to replace the ipod, and even if they are, so what? at least Apple has a competent competitor for their products instead of just a bunch of $29.99 Coby MP3 crappers from walgreens.
to bad warner music wont see the effect on their album sales like this because youtube busy using the content ID system to remove their content.
Now can we please live in a world where companies think of these websites as place to "preview" and not "pirate".
what was the school administration doing by looking through the phone in the first place?
hey, if Fred Astaire can sell me a vacuum from beyond the grave, then Dangerfield can be reanimated for great justice.
and utter disappointment. why doesn't somebody just staple a 'fro to a wooden plank and let that be Spike. micheal clark duncan can be miscast as Jet and the hot chick from transformers and try acting as Faye. Ein will be CG and Ed will be any female actress...using CG to reduce their size.
and dont get me started on what a catastrophe the soundtrack will be.
i lol'd
AMD also says that the supercomputer will 'enable remote real-time rendering of film and visual effects graphics on an unprecedented scale.' Meanwhile, game developers would be able to use the supercomputer to quickly develop games, and also 'serve up virtual world games with unlimited photo-realistic detail.'
they have this in the future. don't they call it the matrix?
as far as i know it does not set a precedent. If the RIAA dropped the case then it never met a full conclusion. it just means they gave up and no conclusion was reached.
they did this so it doesnt set a precedent, keeping future and current lawsuits open to litigation.
...if it was free, or paid for itself. and google paid me for the info they gleaned from my network traffic. Ultimately its nothing but a data-mining tool for google, so it is only fair that they pay me for the bandwidth and my data...
i know, i'm just hilarious!
100TB seems like a lot, but can you imagine how much data the Obama administration might leave? Considering that they seem more 'connected' then most other politicians.
/. but can you imagine the baggage left by some of these administrations?
there is always talk of obsolete formats here on
they just work!
this is about REDISTRIBUTOR, not a blank VHS producer or publishing house. really the whole snippet is very misleading.
desktops = real independence
nothing will ever replace my desktop....ever. I think thats a good thing though. it will make a good desktop set up more of a status symbol for the true geek.
not to say that they haven't always been, but the REAL customizers will move more towards the hardcore and away from the Casual. I love my 17" laptop, it supports two hard drives, its nice, i love it. but i will never surrender my desktop. not until my laptop can support 4 hard drives.
PRONKING amazing!
they might be able to sue Microsoft back to the stone age.
I didn't realize the Pentagon was a LOCAL office...thanks Army guy!
yeah, really. even if that tank or are delisted on the NYSE, i plan buy about 300 share (thats just a little more the $30 before trading fees). i Don't have a ton of cash, and it would great awesome if they made it up to $5 a share. and if i lose in the market with them, its only a $30, i spend that much candy every week.
Copy of a copy
if you make a backup of your harddrive then that is for utilitarian purpose. It is for emergencies, not for regular use. Your coy of a copy should only be used by you and should only be used once. Are you make bootable backups that you can run on other machines just so you can access your backup movies? That would violate this exception.
and in all fairness, thats like coming after people for backing up The OS on the computer in that fashion.
You don't need an exception for that whole "public trade' thing. The DMCA censors free speech in that aspect. The problem the "public" part. I think one should be able to speak as much code as they want...so long as everyone understands it. If you want to do that, then you should (in all fairness) allow DMCA regulators access to your source code.
it comes down to the fact that you can't have Falstaff, and have him thin.
Touche, however that would be a single copy at a time for personal use. In respect to fair use, it allows you to make backups and emergency copies, not create new formats for use on multiple devices. The second you start moving media around to unrestricted and unmonitored devices you end up scaring the MAFIAA. That why CD piracy is so rampant because anybody can do it and WAV can be convert to so many different containers.
the real point is to satisfy the need to make accessible digital backup, maintaining the "artists vision", for the media and make the copy secure and fixed to a device
of course, that doesn't mean that you can't ACCESS said copy from multiple devices. And that is where this kind of Exception would shine because it would allow you to backup a full media library and LEGALLY access it over a network for PERSONAL USE.
well it can be open source, but thats when you start making people accountable, because at that point the are circumventing the "first copy" rule. And thats the key thing, is allowing an exception that allows people to create and examine the code, but not "ruin it for everyone". to be fair, even a solution like this would never satisfy everyone, but at least it would make people with media servers and large collection of media not look like criminals, because that is where most provisions of the DMCA will take people.
not to say that i actually support Real Media, but for once they made a useful application for people. so lets add this exception:
"Software circumvention of protection can be allowed for personal use in the event that no more then one copy is made and the new copy adds a new and at least equivalent layer of protection. This added protection must not be obsolete and must allow for an identical and identifiable copy."
I dont think that is TOO opened ended, and it would give legit dvd-decryption a boost, as well as make "overcopying" identifiable, at least to a piece of software, a particular DVD or CD, or a user or computer.
They do. When you stop seeing ads for luxury goods, it means something. Ads are a reflection of the culture at the moment.
If that's the case, then with the economy the way it is we will be seeing ads for toilet paper and suicide pills shortly.