Hey, for people who never dealt with Chinese company on Chinese soil, taken this to heart: You can't win fighting a Chinese company in a lawsuit in China.
Now, I am hoping something good will come out from this, ie. Baidu gets a much favorable terms with the Labels than others in U.S. or else where in the world. After all, Baidu is the apparent winner in this case (the Labels will never admit to this).
Once this happens, we can all start getting our music from Baidu, thus effectively force Labels to realize that they need to give the same term to other companies, or they will risk create the next iTune Store in China with Baidu holding most of the customers base. The Labels will obviously make some kind of "Chinese customer in China only" restriction on this agreement. However, I believe Baidu will just ignore that (as per usual).
Of course, the above scenario assumes that Labels are smart enough to realize that. With their past record on intelligence...
looking most of the new junks that movie studios are pumping out, I don't think it's worth my gas and time to actually drive somewhere to rent a movie.
Sure, there will be ones that I must watch without the "delay", but that's only 2 or 3 a year, at most.
2 or 3 movies that makes ppl rent DVD is not going to be able to prop up a business.
Besides, the 2 or 3 really good ones are probably out in illegal channels withing 1 or 2 hours (sometimes even before) and I don't have to leave the house.
as far as I know, iTunes does NOT have this functionality.
The closes thing they have are preview codes issues to reviewers, and those are limited to 50 codes per version of the software I believe.
So yeah, it's quite irresponsible to say that it's not their problem while their platform does not offer this kind of function.
Especially for Apple, since there is only ONE store. Android on the other hand can use different markets. I am kind of wondering if you can actually create a separate, non-official market to handle this
what is the definition for disorderly conduct anyways.
I am starting to feel that this is some kind of loophole that the police can use to temporarily arrest anyone they don't approve. If they don't like you walking around the the street, they'll bust you with disorderly conduct, then let you go without a charge later after it hit the maximum holding time without a charge.
I mean, after all, walking in a zig-zag way on a side walk can be viewed as a disorderly conduct...
Hold on. Can you actually limit fair use by contract? I suppose the stations has signed a contract saying they won't do that, else they probably won't be allowed to broadcast this.
But how about a 3rd party taking the footage off the broadcast and do a non-commercial satire?
BTW, does the British has some law against making fun of the monarchy like in Thailand?
isn't it more disrespectful to ask someone to verify the information that's already available? ie. not reading/searching the website/faq and just send an email right away?
Safari has a "reader" function in which it strips out EVERY AD on the page and presents it in a nice and clean, article only view. When it first came out everyone speculated if websites that lives by ads will complain like no tomorrow.
Never hear a peep.
Guess all those news/content/media company don't have the guts to go up against Apple, but feel like they can crash small developer/firms into the ground.
I am not sure if this is a AC trolling. Someone enlighten me.
One farmer can be substituted for another but monstanto's tech is more unique... are you serious? I think Jojoyojimbi would disagree with you strongly. This is how little respect you show the people who grow your food?
Farming is a tough, tough work. I am sure 90% of us who hangs around here won't last 1/2 day on a farm. It takes a special kind of people to be farmers. I totally think it should be reversed, that anyone with that kind of money can do what monsanto is doing, but not everyone can be a good farmer.
look, I don't deny monsanto their accomplishment. Yeah, they did come up with new efficient way of doing agriculture. I am sure some ppl who worked for them truly believes this will increase food production and help solve issue. However, as a cooperation, they are one of the lowest common denominator to ever exists.
What is stopping Monsanto to secretly plan their seeds in fields of farmers that dare to oppose them. Thus later on crash those farmers with law suits?
Not only that, monoculture is kill the soil we rely on. Check on "humus" which is that dark soil we instinctively know as good soil.
By going monoculture, all those humus turn into those light yellow soil that we typically associate with desert. I remember once driving from Montana to Washington and besides the highway it's hills and hills of yellow dirt dunes that is blowing up in strong wind and looks like a sandstorm. I was totally shocked. It's really hard to describe without actually seeing it yourself.
It wasn't until later I realized those are farms that just had their crops harvested and every bit of the land is laying bare. Monoculture have essentially destroyed all that land which used to be rolling meadows. Absolutely nothing grows in these yellow dirt. No bacteria, earthworms, little bugs, no bird or small animal of any kind. The whole thing just look like silent hills of death. Now they are essentially just dirt that won't grow anything unless you water it everyday (no moisture is retained) and put in massive amounts of fertilizer.
I am a Canadian and I am a Shaw customer. This is the first question that comes on my mind when they tried to start metered broadband and enforce their data cap.
First, a bit of background. Before, what Shaw would do is to give out "warning" to people who are consistently over the "suggested" cap. There weren't any specific cap on the agreement, but internally there are (60GB/Mon for most cable modem users). For those people, they'll also turn on this internal application, which they claim to use internally, that shows Up/Down traffic for a 12 month period.
As someone who do heavy surfing, watch/dl lots of video etc online, I was concerned although personally I never was warned. I have DUMeter which tracks locally on my computer and a router that tracks usage. Out of curiosity (and caution), I asked customer service to turn on this internal application for me so I can track my own usage from their end.
It was never, ever, accurate.
We are not talking about 1-2GB difference. Those I would accept as margin of error on a 60GB theoretical limit. I am talking about double digit differences in GB, from month to month, constantly. During the 4 years I have this thing on, there was never a month that was accurate.
Now, with this kind of track record, how, if ever, can Shaw make me believe they can track my usage correctly and not charge me extra for data I've never used?
Now, margin of error is acceptable if this is only used to warn people, but what they were trying to do with the cap has money on the line. Shaw can probably get sued for charging for services that was never delivered.
On the post: Labels Finally Realize It's Better To License Music To Baidu Than To Fight It
Now, I am hoping something good will come out from this, ie. Baidu gets a much favorable terms with the Labels than others in U.S. or else where in the world. After all, Baidu is the apparent winner in this case (the Labels will never admit to this).
Once this happens, we can all start getting our music from Baidu, thus effectively force Labels to realize that they need to give the same term to other companies, or they will risk create the next iTune Store in China with Baidu holding most of the customers base. The Labels will obviously make some kind of "Chinese customer in China only" restriction on this agreement. However, I believe Baidu will just ignore that (as per usual).
Of course, the above scenario assumes that Labels are smart enough to realize that. With their past record on intelligence...
On the post: Photographer David Slater Claims That Because He Thought Monkeys Might Take Pictures, Copyright Is His
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1) He lied in the original story so it's a more interesting story, "The monkey took the picture not me, how amusing"
or
2) He lied later to claim that he set it up.
Either way, Mr. Slater, you lied. Haven't your parent taught you anything on integrity and ethics?
:)
On the post: Killing The Golden Goose: Is Hollywood To Blame For Netflix's Poorly Thought Out Massive Price Hike?
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Sure, there will be ones that I must watch without the "delay", but that's only 2 or 3 a year, at most.
2 or 3 movies that makes ppl rent DVD is not going to be able to prop up a business.
Besides, the 2 or 3 really good ones are probably out in illegal channels withing 1 or 2 hours (sometimes even before) and I don't have to leave the house.
On the post: Trolls: The Town Drunks Of The Internet
You shutdown the discussion by calling the other party troll or trolling.
Some people will use the accusation of trolling to basically tell you to STFU and I am going to ignore you, while others may still have valid points.
I guess every sword swings both ways... :)
On the post: Trolls: The Town Drunks Of The Internet
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On the post: Taipei Orders Google & Apple To Offer 7-Day Free Trials Of All Apps Offered Via App Markets
The closes thing they have are preview codes issues to reviewers, and those are limited to 50 codes per version of the software I believe.
So yeah, it's quite irresponsible to say that it's not their problem while their platform does not offer this kind of function.
Especially for Apple, since there is only ONE store. Android on the other hand can use different markets. I am kind of wondering if you can actually create a separate, non-official market to handle this
On the post: Teen Who Used Facebook Images To Rank Looks Of Female Classmates, Arrested For 'Disorderly Conduct'
I am starting to feel that this is some kind of loophole that the police can use to temporarily arrest anyone they don't approve. If they don't like you walking around the the street, they'll bust you with disorderly conduct, then let you go without a charge later after it hit the maximum holding time without a charge.
I mean, after all, walking in a zig-zag way on a side walk can be viewed as a disorderly conduct...
On the post: Royal Family Bans Satirical Coverage Of The Big Wedding
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On the post: Royal Family Bans Satirical Coverage Of The Big Wedding
But how about a 3rd party taking the footage off the broadcast and do a non-commercial satire?
BTW, does the British has some law against making fun of the monarchy like in Thailand?
On the post: Yes Means Yes
On the post: Yet Another Study Shows That Students Inherently Know That File Sharing Is Not Theft
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I like how you sneak in physical objects into a digital copyright infringement.
On the post: Big Media To Innovative App Maker: Stop Innovating Without Our Permission!
Never hear a peep.
Guess all those news/content/media company don't have the guts to go up against Apple, but feel like they can crash small developer/firms into the ground.
Now that's the American Way!
On the post: Monsanto Sued By Organic Farmers Who Don't Want To Be Accused Of Patent Infringement
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step 7. Viva La Revolucion
On the post: Monsanto Sued By Organic Farmers Who Don't Want To Be Accused Of Patent Infringement
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One farmer can be substituted for another but monstanto's tech is more unique... are you serious? I think Jojoyojimbi would disagree with you strongly. This is how little respect you show the people who grow your food?
Farming is a tough, tough work. I am sure 90% of us who hangs around here won't last 1/2 day on a farm. It takes a special kind of people to be farmers. I totally think it should be reversed, that anyone with that kind of money can do what monsanto is doing, but not everyone can be a good farmer.
look, I don't deny monsanto their accomplishment. Yeah, they did come up with new efficient way of doing agriculture. I am sure some ppl who worked for them truly believes this will increase food production and help solve issue. However, as a cooperation, they are one of the lowest common denominator to ever exists.
On the post: Monsanto Sued By Organic Farmers Who Don't Want To Be Accused Of Patent Infringement
Re: Re: Sue Monsanto
What is stopping Monsanto to secretly plan their seeds in fields of farmers that dare to oppose them. Thus later on crash those farmers with law suits?
On the post: Monsanto Sued By Organic Farmers Who Don't Want To Be Accused Of Patent Infringement
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By going monoculture, all those humus turn into those light yellow soil that we typically associate with desert. I remember once driving from Montana to Washington and besides the highway it's hills and hills of yellow dirt dunes that is blowing up in strong wind and looks like a sandstorm. I was totally shocked. It's really hard to describe without actually seeing it yourself.
It wasn't until later I realized those are farms that just had their crops harvested and every bit of the land is laying bare. Monoculture have essentially destroyed all that land which used to be rolling meadows. Absolutely nothing grows in these yellow dirt. No bacteria, earthworms, little bugs, no bird or small animal of any kind. The whole thing just look like silent hills of death. Now they are essentially just dirt that won't grow anything unless you water it everyday (no moisture is retained) and put in massive amounts of fertilizer.
It really makes me sick in the stomach.
On the post: Monsanto Sued By Organic Farmers Who Don't Want To Be Accused Of Patent Infringement
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But as a common folk who disagrees on GMO, I fear this will contaminate a whole bunch of non-GMO with GMO crops, on a massive scale...
On the post: If AT&T Puts A Meter On Your Broadband, But That Meter Is Grossly Inaccurate, Is That Meter Really There?
First, a bit of background. Before, what Shaw would do is to give out "warning" to people who are consistently over the "suggested" cap. There weren't any specific cap on the agreement, but internally there are (60GB/Mon for most cable modem users). For those people, they'll also turn on this internal application, which they claim to use internally, that shows Up/Down traffic for a 12 month period.
As someone who do heavy surfing, watch/dl lots of video etc online, I was concerned although personally I never was warned. I have DUMeter which tracks locally on my computer and a router that tracks usage. Out of curiosity (and caution), I asked customer service to turn on this internal application for me so I can track my own usage from their end.
It was never, ever, accurate.
We are not talking about 1-2GB difference. Those I would accept as margin of error on a 60GB theoretical limit. I am talking about double digit differences in GB, from month to month, constantly. During the 4 years I have this thing on, there was never a month that was accurate.
Now, with this kind of track record, how, if ever, can Shaw make me believe they can track my usage correctly and not charge me extra for data I've never used?
Now, margin of error is acceptable if this is only used to warn people, but what they were trying to do with the cap has money on the line. Shaw can probably get sued for charging for services that was never delivered.
On the post: Judge Says Mass Suing People For Infringement Is Perfectly Fine And Even 'Benefits' Defendants
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Nutcase: eating poison ivy is good for your immune system and has a lot of fiber!
AC: Boo-ya! Oh Mike, you poor little poison ivy hater. Want some Maalox?
On the post: Homeland Security Says They Could Strip Search Every Airline Passenger If They Wanted To
Because of the weaker level of the language, judges/politicians get to weasel out of it.
The constitution is like a dam holding a tide and now judges/politicians/government are punching holes everywhere with their assault rifle.
How long before the dam finally break and we are all swept away?
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