Three poorly worded, ill thought out replies to an intelligent reply to your flawed thought experiment. Perhaps you should work on your communication skills.
Re: This is really got to be irritating to the developers
I think it is absolutely a control move, not to mention the fact that in order to used an "approved" tool chain, you have to buy Apple hardware (Mac) in order to produce apps. Monotouch, and Flash CS5 were changing that, and Apple didn't like it.
I believe you are confusing patents and copyright. Patents are 20 years in the U.S. Though, imho software patents (even if they are to be given) should be limited to 5.
Firstly, why they didn't add .art over .museum a few years back is beyond me. I also wouldn't mind seeing a .bbs TLD, since there are a few of us left out here running them. :) Not enough to pay $200k for either though.
Nokia as a company has probably invested more into true R&D with physical production of product, combined with fair licensing than any other company listed (at least with regards to telephone tech, aside from maybe Motorola). I don't consider it trolling when for the most part a company has and continues to actually produce something, and is funding R&D. For the most part Nokia and others have cross licensing deals, but Nokia is leveraged into a few key areas of cellular tech that position it better on those terms.
@johnhac, regarding Palm, my guess is they are either cross-licensing or paying off those other companies as they present themselves. Given their very early successes within the PDA space, since absorbed by the cell phone market, it's a pretty safe bet that they have a strong portfolio for cross-licensing deals as well.
I do think that software patents are ridiculous, as are imho interface patents... But patents on physical devices, much less so. I do feel that the way technology evolves these days, patents should last for a shorter term, and copyright much shorter than it is.
In all fairness, MS went beyond promoting in terms of gaining its' browser dominance. If they hadn't done the free ISP packs, I think it'd be less of an issue. Including it in the OS is IMHO less of an issue to distributing via physical media at a loss, covered by your dominant OS, to push other vendors out.
Personally, up until after IE6 came out, aside from maybe Opera, it was hands down the best browser available at the time... at least IMHO. but getting to IE6 involved some underhanded maneuvering. Just the same, that doesn't necessarily mean it should be illegal. It's also not the same to provide a link, or bundle with a product being sold as it is to spend money on physical distribution to force a competitor out of the channel.
If they have a physical copy locked away per live stream, I don't see that they can do much... if they have timed presentations, where it's played at a certain time to any number of students, that could be fair too. I think that having one copy and then have multiple streams at different time points per that one copy is a bit over the top. It should probably be something in between... Though simply having 10 copies in a locked room, and limiting streams of a given movie to 10 at a time would do it, and be much stronger for fair use by UCLA. Even if those same terms haven't won in the past.
Well, I find it extra funny that Boxee was specifically targeted for filtering, but Hulu then comes up with their own Desktop app for a full-screen interface. I like Boxee a lot.
One thing I do find very interesting is you mention TVs being big Monitors, and they really are. The built in Tuner is mostly useless for most people these days, and a cost burden to boot. I also note that for the 32" size and up, it's a pretty good display option for a 1920x1080 resolution. My desk has a TV for a monitor because I wanted a larger display, but didn't need a super-high resolution. Works pretty well, except I went with a 42" which is actually too big in practicality sitting in front of it, but works well from the couch a few more feed away.
I am... Actually, as an organization, I'm pretty happy with it. My local branch has a history of mis-delivering and outright losing packages with no accountability. To the point where I won't order from any vendor that ships via USPS.
In 2 years, they'd lost 3 out of 5 packages I've ordered, and damaged one of the other two. Given my personal policy went into action three years ago, but neighbors and friends only confirm it's still as bad as ever.
I honestly stopped watching the Olympics when they shut down Olympic Pizza. It was a while ago, but that was when. I've disliked their bullying tactics, and absolutely refuse to watch anything related to them. I've been avoiding TV News in general since they started.
I'm actually considering not buying anything with an Olympics logo on their branding, at least while that logo is on their branding. Should probably note it somewhere.
I think it would be nice, if local municipalities offered fiber to the door, with a single switch/colo center that other services/vendors can offer feeds/connections into, in order to supply the client-side portion.
The municipality would run the fiber, maintain physical connectivity, and even provide the last mile infrastructure. The internet companies can then offer services, by either providing their own backbone trunk to that location, or by service contracts to the municipality. The city can then charge a per-node fee to the company, who then bills the customer. The services would mainly be feature adds, how good their infrastructure connection is to said city, dns, email, etc would be value adds. Instead of locking things down, as it is now.
There could be more feature-rich competitors (Earthlink with included AV services etc), to bare-bones (here's your network block). It's just a thought/hope.
If I'm the baker, and I choose to charge $10 a loaf for bread, and all the other bakers do the same, then change the laws so only professional bakers can legally buy yeast would you expect shop lifting rates to go up?
3G has very limited coverage, and hardly compares to broadband. Beyond this, the majority of the population lives in apartments, where satellite services are hardly an option.
Actually, it is faster than you can get/send to/from a single source. As most personal connections are asynchronous, it's far better to be able to pull from multiple sources for a single file than it is to try and transfer a single file between you and a single destination.
Honestly, there is a large difference between making a copy of a CD for a friend, and ripping the thing and putting it online for a few thousand of your closest personal friends. Just the same, the protocol itself isn't illegal. HTTP the most used protocol on the internet is used for illegal sharing. Part of torrent tracking uses HTTP, should we block that too?
Every device connected to the internet is a peer. P2P costs less for distributors than directly feeding each download. This is why it's fairly popular for large open-source distributions. Though you would rather cut them off as well, I would presume.
Providers should be agnostic and not care about the bytes they transport. They shouldn't inspect, rate or monitor as such. They shouldn't care that one set of packets is an email to my grandmother more than any other set of packets.
It's more like a star-trek replicator making a copy of a T-shirt at the shop, then the transporter relocating them home. Far less cost and interference on one's daily life. There is a difference between physical goods, and digital/virtual goods.
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Actually, radio stations weren't paying to play the music, they were given to the stations, and in some cases paid the stations to play their music. The listeners to radio stations aren't paying to hear it either.
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I'd be happy to see a couple new TLDs
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It's interesting...
@johnhac, regarding Palm, my guess is they are either cross-licensing or paying off those other companies as they present themselves. Given their very early successes within the PDA space, since absorbed by the cell phone market, it's a pretty safe bet that they have a strong portfolio for cross-licensing deals as well.
I do think that software patents are ridiculous, as are imho interface patents... But patents on physical devices, much less so. I do feel that the way technology evolves these days, patents should last for a shorter term, and copyright much shorter than it is.
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Personally, up until after IE6 came out, aside from maybe Opera, it was hands down the best browser available at the time... at least IMHO. but getting to IE6 involved some underhanded maneuvering. Just the same, that doesn't necessarily mean it should be illegal. It's also not the same to provide a link, or bundle with a product being sold as it is to spend money on physical distribution to force a competitor out of the channel.
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one copy per stream...
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One thing I do find very interesting is you mention TVs being big Monitors, and they really are. The built in Tuner is mostly useless for most people these days, and a cost burden to boot. I also note that for the 32" size and up, it's a pretty good display option for a 1920x1080 resolution. My desk has a TV for a monitor because I wanted a larger display, but didn't need a super-high resolution. Works pretty well, except I went with a 42" which is actually too big in practicality sitting in front of it, but works well from the couch a few more feed away.
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Re: Re: Government is never the answer
In 2 years, they'd lost 3 out of 5 packages I've ordered, and damaged one of the other two. Given my personal policy went into action three years ago, but neighbors and friends only confirm it's still as bad as ever.
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I stopped watching...
I'm actually considering not buying anything with an Olympics logo on their branding, at least while that logo is on their branding. Should probably note it somewhere.
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Re: Re: Forget the lawsuit, jail these people.
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fiber to the door.
The municipality would run the fiber, maintain physical connectivity, and even provide the last mile infrastructure. The internet companies can then offer services, by either providing their own backbone trunk to that location, or by service contracts to the municipality. The city can then charge a per-node fee to the company, who then bills the customer. The services would mainly be feature adds, how good their infrastructure connection is to said city, dns, email, etc would be value adds. Instead of locking things down, as it is now.
There could be more feature-rich competitors (Earthlink with included AV services etc), to bare-bones (here's your network block). It's just a thought/hope.
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Honestly, there is a large difference between making a copy of a CD for a friend, and ripping the thing and putting it online for a few thousand of your closest personal friends. Just the same, the protocol itself isn't illegal. HTTP the most used protocol on the internet is used for illegal sharing. Part of torrent tracking uses HTTP, should we block that too?
Every device connected to the internet is a peer. P2P costs less for distributors than directly feeding each download. This is why it's fairly popular for large open-source distributions. Though you would rather cut them off as well, I would presume.
Providers should be agnostic and not care about the bytes they transport. They shouldn't inspect, rate or monitor as such. They shouldn't care that one set of packets is an email to my grandmother more than any other set of packets.
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