Using "cyber" to thump the drum is pretty silly but the folks in DC think that they can't do no silly.
But tactical gets misused I relly like the tactical bra and thong.
Organic also gets misused. My favorites so far are: firewood, windshield washer fluid and vodka (in the US vodka is neutral grain spirits it can't contain any thing but water and ethanol;unless its flavored.
Anonymous Coward has nailed it. Under current copyright law it is impossible; as there is no way to know what is copyrighted nor not without a trial!! This is particularly true of photographs.
An obvious way out is to only screen for registered material, only allow OWNERS of registered coyrights to file for take downs and not allow photos to be screened or taken down.
Press + reminds me of the California Gold Rush. Almost all of the prospectors died broke. The guys who made out sold them food and jeans (Levis). Except they are like the saloons; they sell stuff that (in the long run)is bad for their clients and makes them objectionable to many folks.
If Oracle prevails in their copyright claims and gets big damages then Java is dead. Maybe they belatedly realized this and are trying to maneuver around it. That would let them claim copyrights over API and, in their tiny minds, not kill Java or require them to put the copyrights in the public domain—which would kill most of their case against Google. IMHO if the JAVA API is copyrighted and not in the Public domain I would never use JAVA!
One was downtown and not that easy to get to. They carried some stock that wasn't otherwise available but made ~30% of their profits from trail guides and maps. Between the rising use of GPS and digital maps (which they didn't support) and REI they went under. The other had a relatively small store near a large mall. In '99 they moved to a more remote location not as easy to get to and a much much larger nicer store. But when B&N and Borders moved into the mall their business declined and they went under.
The nearest bookstore to me now is B&N and yesterday I went in (its a 1 hour drive) because I had a 20% off coupon and because they are near Whole Foods where I needed to get some things. I wound up spending $45 on two books by authors that I really like. But not nearly as convent as Nook or Kindle. Maybe a hybrid model using downloads would make them some more money. Certainly its a promising approach combining physical books with eBooks; but the publishers must stop with their price gouging on eBooks for it to work. The physical books I bought at B&N were cheaper than on Nook or Kindle otherwise it would have been no sale. And in spite of the lies told by the publishers they make way more on an eBook than on a physical. There are a lot of publishers on Amazon who make good money at $2.99 to $5.99.
Bollywood is a huge source of income for India. It was built on sharing sites and many of the producers depend on Vimeo. This looks like the Indian government is penalizing their local industries to suit the US.
The Kindle and Nook are successful because they are consumption deices not PAD/Tablets. Their success has shown that a lot of folks want a quality consumption device and NOT an over priced, over complicated, want to be lap top replacement. This looks like a fail.
The us supreme Court recently ruled that methods patents are not valid. The Oracle patents all start with "A Method…" Further Java is simply a reprise of C and C++ with a little PERL and and XML thrown in.
This is a bunch of BS. Digital recorded at 16 bits and 44k is indistinguishable from live for most material (hammer dulcimer, pipe organ and orchestra being the exceptions). The guys who love analog are liking distortion provided by tape or vinyl not clear sound. If you like that distortion OK but you are not listening to the real thing. Yes the early digital sucked. Most A/D only really did 12 bits of resolution and until the millennium most A/D was 14 bits. 16 bits resolution can be differentiated from 24 bits on some difficult material. So 24 bits is preferable. Today there are no true 24 bit A/D (well except for for lab gadgets cooled to liquid nitrogen temperatures) but 22 bits sounds better than 16.
First I'd like to make a couple observations:
Most MP3s suck!
We already have vastly superior formats to the CD and they have gone no where.
SACD and DD-A haven't taken off because of two problems:
The old chicken and egg. There isn't enough good material because there aren't affordable players; there aren't affordable players because there isn't enough good material. In part because a lot of the stuff if just reformatted from material recorded at 44kHz and 14 bits.
Secondly most listening is done in unfaorable environments: subways, cars…. Even most home theater systems don't provide a good enough environment to allow the best DVA-A to sound any better than a CD.
As a long time audio editor and ex studio owner I would make one other observation; most music genres are crap and would not sound any better live under ideal conditions than on a low grade MP3. Classical and some world/folk are the exceptions.
Sarkozy's own web site and those of his party espouse discrimination, French racial purity and anti-immigrant hatred, will they be included?
Sarkozy is responsible in part for the recent violence by advocating expulsion of immigrants like the ROM and Islamist. His unhealthy totalitarian attitude is responsible for a lot of the opposition to his party.
BTW if Sakozy's anti-immigrant policies were in place he wouldn't be here—his father was an immigrant from Hungry, like the ROM he expelled.
There is no reason to connect SCADA systems to the internet except laziness, parsimony and convenience. AQ laqw that specifically address security of SCADA systems and of any vendor systems which can access them either over the 'net or out of band makes sense. A law that sets security standards for automotive and transportation systems including hardening makes sense. A separate law which requires that GPS sold in the US not be susceptible to off band interference makes sense. A single buckshot law with broad effect makes no sense.
One big lie here is that Amazon uses Kindle to subsidize eBooks. Its the other way around. Isuply estimates that a kindle Fire costs ~$10 more than Amazon sells it for and that they expect to make up on profit from content. While it can't br proven by Amazon's 10Q or 10K it's easy o estimate that Amazon sells about $1200/year to he average Kindle.
The idea of QR coding to track prostitution and individual prostitutes. This is for public health and tax collection reasons. It has been proposed several times unsuccessfully.
An eBook is far less expensive for the publisher than paper book, there is no bases for the greedy pricing except stupidity and Apple's incompetence.
The publishers make far far more on an eBook than a paper book. Yes there are constant costs of editing which is the same although it seems to be getting much sloppier recently. But there are huge costs that eBooks don't incur: the obvious is printing and the publishers aver that it is minor (given the low quality of even hard backs today that may be so), but there is transportation, promotion (extra discounts on best sellers etc.), cataloging and inventory, shrinkage; none of which apply to eBooks. Yes there is the cost of format conversion but there are apps for that and many are free.
Boycott Apple!
The publishers are hurting themselves and their authors. If I find an interesting eBook
NO but. Currently SCADA systems are unsecured or poorly secured as a matter of convenience. This needs to be addressed but only the SCADA systems need to be addressed. So far there haven't been verified cases of attacks on SCADA but that can change with large unpleasant consequences. This doesn't mean that there haven't been any attacks as most of the companies don't want to admit it. But to date the SCADA related outages appear to be stupidity not malice. A bill that narrowly addresses SCADA systems would make sense. The current bill doesn't make any sense. As a business owner its up to me to decide what my information is worth and how much to spend to protect it. Today Sarbanes–Oxley wastes millions of dollars a year as it is far too broad. Its tighter accounting controls were needed on the Big 8 Accounting firms. The controls on how automation is handled and IT is implemented waste billions a year, we don't need a repeat on a much border scale.
Ban Radios, CD players, and road maps. After all when cars were first invented those didn't exist. There were few if any accidents, OH but wait cars had to be accompanied by a man walking in front waving a lantern or blowing a horn. Lets put that regulation back!
I certainly agree that the owner of the property should be able to do as they please with it. If they decide to lock it in the basement they shouldn't whine that they aren't making money from it.
As for the Rollingsrone BS its more recycled same same junk. The studios killed the CD album through greed. When I pay $15 for an album I feel that I am entitled to more than 4 songs (I don't count recycled covers); maybe if all 4 were really great I wouldn't feel so ripped off but usually one is great, two are OK and one is a dud. In classical the CD is still healthy. Why? I get 60 o 70 minutes of high quality content for my money, yes its not as convenient as MP3 but the quality is far far better.
Speaking as a recording engineer the studios are more interested in ripping off the artists and public than anything else. I don't feel that its right to rip them off in turn; but can't find it in my heart to feel sorry for them when they ask for it.
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Cyber not the only silly
But tactical gets misused I relly like the tactical bra and thong.
Organic also gets misused. My favorites so far are: firewood, windshield washer fluid and vodka (in the US vodka is neutral grain spirits it can't contain any thing but water and ethanol;unless its flavored.
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Screen youtube video
An obvious way out is to only screen for registered material, only allow OWNERS of registered coyrights to file for take downs and not allow photos to be screened or taken down.
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Pawall nonsense
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Oracle Strategy?
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B&N Bookstores
The nearest bookstore to me now is B&N and yesterday I went in (its a 1 hour drive) because I had a 20% off coupon and because they are near Whole Foods where I needed to get some things. I wound up spending $45 on two books by authors that I really like. But not nearly as convent as Nook or Kindle. Maybe a hybrid model using downloads would make them some more money. Certainly its a promising approach combining physical books with eBooks; but the publishers must stop with their price gouging on eBooks for it to work. The physical books I bought at B&N were cheaper than on Nook or Kindle otherwise it would have been no sale. And in spite of the lies told by the publishers they make way more on an eBook than on a physical. There are a lot of publishers on Amazon who make good money at $2.99 to $5.99.
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Really stupid censorship
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Stupid ideas
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Baggage theft
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Patient frauid
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Digital versus analog
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Problems
Most MP3s suck!
We already have vastly superior formats to the CD and they have gone no where.
SACD and DD-A haven't taken off because of two problems:
The old chicken and egg. There isn't enough good material because there aren't affordable players; there aren't affordable players because there isn't enough good material. In part because a lot of the stuff if just reformatted from material recorded at 44kHz and 14 bits.
Secondly most listening is done in unfaorable environments: subways, cars…. Even most home theater systems don't provide a good enough environment to allow the best DVA-A to sound any better than a CD.
As a long time audio editor and ex studio owner I would make one other observation; most music genres are crap and would not sound any better live under ideal conditions than on a low grade MP3. Classical and some world/folk are the exceptions.
So where is the market?
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Ahow about Sarkozy's own web site?
Sarkozy is responsible in part for the recent violence by advocating expulsion of immigrants like the ROM and Islamist. His unhealthy totalitarian attitude is responsible for a lot of the opposition to his party.
BTW if Sakozy's anti-immigrant policies were in place he wouldn't be here—his father was an immigrant from Hungry, like the ROM he expelled.
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SCADA and the 'net
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eBook price fixing
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QR codes and prostitution
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eBook price fixing
The publishers make far far more on an eBook than a paper book. Yes there are constant costs of editing which is the same although it seems to be getting much sloppier recently. But there are huge costs that eBooks don't incur: the obvious is printing and the publishers aver that it is minor (given the low quality of even hard backs today that may be so), but there is transportation, promotion (extra discounts on best sellers etc.), cataloging and inventory, shrinkage; none of which apply to eBooks. Yes there is the cost of format conversion but there are apps for that and many are free.
Boycott Apple!
The publishers are hurting themselves and their authors. If I find an interesting eBook
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Do we need this law?
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Missred reason for complexity
I like the sunset everything idea but think that the period should be no longer than 5 years at most.
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Lets turn back the clock!
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Re: Jonothan Coulton is a good speaker buuuuut...
As for the Rollingsrone BS its more recycled same same junk. The studios killed the CD album through greed. When I pay $15 for an album I feel that I am entitled to more than 4 songs (I don't count recycled covers); maybe if all 4 were really great I wouldn't feel so ripped off but usually one is great, two are OK and one is a dud. In classical the CD is still healthy. Why? I get 60 o 70 minutes of high quality content for my money, yes its not as convenient as MP3 but the quality is far far better.
Speaking as a recording engineer the studios are more interested in ripping off the artists and public than anything else. I don't feel that its right to rip them off in turn; but can't find it in my heart to feel sorry for them when they ask for it.
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