Anonymous Coward (is that you TAM?) is being exceptionally strange today. Its like he just decided to blather like an idiot. He normally blathers like an idiot, but he usually pretends to have more than two brain cells. Now he's not even trying.
...it gets 95 years of protection from the publication date...(assuming -- and it's probably a big assumption -- that there are no more copyright extensions).
Unfortunately, Life+95 years is only the current make believe equation for calculating length of copyright. The true formula that they use is actually: Age of Mickey Mouse + 20 years. Once Life+95 starts getting close to the age of Mickey, we will see the a new formula to prevent Mickey from entering public domain.
Chris, you apparently missed an important point that has been made by both myself, and a few others: The PS3 is not sold at a loss anymore
They used to be, but the cost of manufacturing them has come down significantly since then. They now make a profit on each console, and have been for at least a year (Estimated cost to manufacture was $240 as of July 2009).
Once more, to reiterate: The PS3 is not sold at a loss
I'm not sure why people keep trying to say thing like "it's not plagiarism if he wrote it himself". You can easily check the history of the article to see when and who added those paragraphs. They were written by a user who goes by HPRMedina. His user page states that he is a Computer engineer.
So can we please stop with the "he might have written it" line of comments.
Uh, it seems that a whole bunch of you guys are still under the impression that Sony sells the PS3 at a loss. I have news for you: While the PS3 was sold at a loss when it first came out, the manufacturing costs of the PS3 have come down dramatically since then. As of July 2009 the manufacturing cost of the PS3 was down to around $240, so Sony is actually making a profit on every console sold.
More hype yes. Except instead of "Wow, check out this Youtube video of the new Transformers, isn't that cool", the hype is "wow, those guys are jerks".
We would have a better sense of humor about comments like that, but there is a certain Anonymous Coward who constantly makes statements along those lines, as isn't joking. (comments 1 and 7)
Could it be because the never ceasing efforts of the ACLU made it illegal to search them or their visitors?
Definitely one of the most idiotic comment I've ever read. It isn't even slightly illegal to search an inmate after a visit. But they still get things inside because inmates are fairly creative at hiding things, and guards are notoriously easy to bribe.
They could easily have 1000 people per shift, 3 shifts, doing nothing but reviewing videos as they are submitted, but that would cost money, and they would honestly end up rejected 50% or more of what is uploaded.
This is completely ridiculous. On what criteria will these employees be able to identify an infringing vs non-infringing use? Not every infringing use is obvious, and many things that appear to be infringing may not be (i.e. When Viacom uploaded clips to youtube).
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I would stop going to Subway due to this, except that I never go there anyway. The bread is gross, the meat is very low quality, the veggies are tasteless.
Same story for me as with quite a few other people. I have a land-line, but the only reason I do is because standalone internet service would be more expensive than the bundle. If there were real broadband competition (as opposed to the pseudo competition in my area with the only choices being the phone company or the cable company) then I probably would have cut the landline long ago.
It's funny, despite his constant crying of "Youtube/Google needs to automatically take down all infringing content" and "It's too much of a burden on the rights holders to request takedowns" TAM (or whoever he might be) has never once stated how this would even be possible.
How could Youtube/Google/any other service provider have any possible clue what is infringing and what isn't if the copyright holder doesn't tell them?
I was under the impression that you could not trademark expressions that were already in common usage. Is that true? If so, is this a case of a trademark being granted beyond the bounds of law?
Unfortunately, there are quite a few common terms that companies and/or people have tried to claim. Simplistic, common phrases such as "3peat"(Pat Riley), "Super Sunday"(NFL Football), "Winter Games"(Olympics), "Vancouver 2010"(Olympics), and many other phrases that should not by any means be covered by trademark have been granted trademark protections.
You fail again TAM (You've been failing a lot today). Your analogy between open Wireless and a car is worse than Ted Stevens considering the internet "A bunch of tubes". There is no correlation between a car and a wireless access point. You are simply trying to derail the discussion with something completely irrelevant.
the coffee house is more than able to provide connection information to their patrons, in the same manner that you might grant someone use of your home network when they visit
You fail again TAM. I work at a place that is simply too large to conveniently "provide connection information" to our patrons. Unless we put signs up all over the place we would have tons of customers wasting staff time asking how to get on the wireless network. By leaving the connection open we make it much more convenient for our customers. Besides, putting a password on it still wouldn't prevent people from doing illegal things with that network connection.
SIA, you really are a complete retard. Okay, so the guy didn't realize his contract was up and 1GB of data was downloaded. In what reality is 1GB worth $18,000? I'm sure the guy wouldn't have had any issue paying the overage fee if the fee was somewhere in the realm of reasonable.
I'm sorry, I wrote CO2 emmissions, but I meant to write Greenhouse gases. Transportation only accounts for 14% of human produced Greenhouse gas emissions.
Also, going back a few comments to RDs comment about other greenhouse gases, Methane levels have increased from 770 ppb to 1745 ppb over pre-industrial levels.
"The recent eruption in Iceland blew more GHG's into the atmosphere in 1 week than the total output of all cars in North America in a year"
And the funny part is; it's insignificant when compared to the last time it went off.
All cars in North America? Quite selective there. You are apparently ignorant of the fact that transportation (which includes cars, planes, trains, and boats) only accounts for 14% of the human produced CO2 emissions.
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Unfortunately, Life+95 years is only the current make believe equation for calculating length of copyright. The true formula that they use is actually: Age of Mickey Mouse + 20 years. Once Life+95 starts getting close to the age of Mickey, we will see the a new formula to prevent Mickey from entering public domain.
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Re: Re: The PS3 is not sold at a loss anymore
They used to be, but the cost of manufacturing them has come down significantly since then. They now make a profit on each console, and have been for at least a year (Estimated cost to manufacture was $240 as of July 2009).
Once more, to reiterate:
The PS3 is not sold at a loss
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He didn't write the article
So can we please stop with the "he might have written it" line of comments.
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PS3 are no longer sold at a loss
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Definitely one of the most idiotic comment I've ever read. It isn't even slightly illegal to search an inmate after a visit. But they still get things inside because inmates are fairly creative at hiding things, and guards are notoriously easy to bribe.
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This is completely ridiculous. On what criteria will these employees be able to identify an infringing vs non-infringing use? Not every infringing use is obvious, and many things that appear to be infringing may not be (i.e. When Viacom uploaded clips to youtube).
Also, what about fair use?
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Another would-be cord cutter
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He still hasn't said....
How could Youtube/Google/any other service provider have any possible clue what is infringing and what isn't if the copyright holder doesn't tell them?
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Unfortunately, there are quite a few common terms that companies and/or people have tried to claim. Simplistic, common phrases such as "3peat"(Pat Riley), "Super Sunday"(NFL Football), "Winter Games"(Olympics), "Vancouver 2010"(Olympics), and many other phrases that should not by any means be covered by trademark have been granted trademark protections.
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You fail again TAM. I work at a place that is simply too large to conveniently "provide connection information" to our patrons. Unless we put signs up all over the place we would have tons of customers wasting staff time asking how to get on the wireless network. By leaving the connection open we make it much more convenient for our customers. Besides, putting a password on it still wouldn't prevent people from doing illegal things with that network connection.
TAM is such a miserable failure.
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Also, what the heck is "fecklessness"?
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Also, going back a few comments to RDs comment about other greenhouse gases, Methane levels have increased from 770 ppb to 1745 ppb over pre-industrial levels.
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And the funny part is; it's insignificant when compared to the last time it went off.
All cars in North America? Quite selective there. You are apparently ignorant of the fact that transportation (which includes cars, planes, trains, and boats) only accounts for 14% of the human produced CO2 emissions.
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You should try educating yourself a bit, you might sound less like a complete idiot.
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