Now, this is what gets me thinking. The big issue of past months has been webcasting fees. I notice a link from that first page to a set of webcasting fees. But the wording is interesting:
Commercial (i.e., revenue-generating) use of mp3 / mp3PRO in real time broadcasting (terrestrial, satellite, cable and/or any other media), broadcasting / streaming via Internet, intranets and/or other networks or in other electronic content distribution systems, such as pay-audio or audio-on-demand applications.
The first part, that explicitly says "Commercial" uses, is what gets me thinking. Which tells me free radio stations (like the ones run by schools, net groups, etc) don't have to pay. But then there's the note at the bottom of the page:
Note: No license is needed for private, non-commercial activities (e.g., home-entertainment, receiving broadcasts and creating a personal music library), not generating revenue or other consideration of any kind or for entities with an annual gross revenue less than US$ 100 000.00.
This explicitly says that if you don't make 100k per year, you don't have to pay anything. So if your college "runs" the webcasting station, they have to pay. Whereas if Joe Musik-piratt (all names are purely fictional, of course) runs a webcast out of his dorm room, with a box that he owns, no fees are needed.
But the part I'm really itching on is whether that clause applies to JUST webcasting or to the whole license scheme. It does say "no fees" and not "no fees for webcasting", but IANAL. Anyone got some insight?
Even a high-gain antenna which would normally be visible can be completely concealed or contained within another object, as long as that object won't absorb or reflect electromagnetic waves in the microwave range. To quote Dragorn during the talk on 802.11b at H2K2, "If you put it in the microwave and it comes out hot, don't use it."
Public library card. Free book. Paid 10 cents for overdue book. Show library card to librarian, allowed into computer lab. Free T1 internet. And I didn't even have to pay for shipping.
I have a ThinkNIC that myself and several friends bought a year ago to tinker around with. It's actually quite the capable little machine. It runs Linux, comes with a basic TWM based X11 setup, Netscape (with proper plugins, etc), a terminal emulator, and a few other neat little things. It boots off a combination of an NVRAM chip and a CD. The CD they give you is the basic system, but we asked them for some information and they gave us the ISO for that same boot CD. They were even polite about it. We hacked it up a little bit without difficulty, so the machine is slightly configurable.
The downside is that yes, it lacks a harddrive. Personal preferences, like Netscape bookmarks, etc, get stored in the NVRAM, so you don't lose everything. But it's alot like web tv, where you get to surf, use basic email, but don't have the full complications of a complete computer. I admit, I wouldn't use one of them for my home system, but I'd easily give one to my grandmother if she ever changed her mind and decided that the internet was not in some manner connected with Satan.
This is one of the ways musicians can boost sales and get more CD's out: include special features in the encoding. This a) doesnt hurt people who just want the music and/or get screwed over by copy protection, b) doesn't force the consumer to buy anything specific (i.e. hardware, or even the CD in the not-as-legal sense of it) and c) adds something cosmetic, pointless, but nonetheless cool.
Yes, I recall my task for a full week (several years ago) was analyzing Napster's network traffic and discovering exactly which ports needed to be allowed through the firewall in order to let the boss download Frank Zappa.
Since Outlook is propogating virii, it is responsible for electronic havoc. According to the new legislation, that classifies Outlook as an electronic terrorism program. Ok, so I'm dreaming, but wouldn't you love to see SWAT teams breaking down doors to sieze copies of Outlook?
I fully agree. I don't entirely disagree with GNU, but last I checked, no one elected RMS as head of the free democratic open-source yadda yadda yadda movement.
Why pay? Because people think that if it costs more, it's better. It's like in corporate meetings, the guy that gets paid the most generally has the most listened to opinion. It's why pay-per-view is still making just as much if not more money than video stores (yes I know pay-per-view generally gets movies first, but it's still at least double or triple rental price, and you only get to watch it once).
And someone forgot that "=" is the variable set operator, not the comparison operator, which is "==", so suddenly the cheating detector gave a lot of people F's...
Put someone elses screen name (i.e. "admin") in the dropdown list for AOL by default. 99% of users won't be able to figure out how to change it so they can use their own screen name. And the ones that do, are smart enough not to download thousands of MP3's via a 56k AOL connection:)
I don't know very many places that don't require a driver's license as the standard form of identification. State sponsored photo ID's are basically the only form of ID that is accepted everywhere (i.e. using personal checks at stores, getting into nightclubs, etc). Making em national isn't going to be much of a change, except for 2 things. 1) Your less likely to be thrown out of a club in another state for having an ID they don't recognize, and 2) You can't get away with speeding in another state quite as easily, because now the state trooper has access to ALL the state databases:)
One other great thing about a free country is that I can express that I think you are absolutely wrong about the Microsoft issue and that anyone against your opinion is either a socialist or a democrat. Fact: I don't like microsoft. Fact: I don't like gun control. Fact: I support the war in afghanistan. Fact: You didn't even read the damn list and find out that the breakup didn't even make the top ten vaporware.
This doesn't just outdate M.A.N., but it at the same time implements new protocols which it is fully aware M.A.N. is incapable of understanding. M.A.N. has tried to overcome this and merge networks with W.O.M.A.N., but has failed miserably due to communications errors.
No money at all compared to the thousands you will spend on the actual machine itself. It's completely true considering the price of cables these days.
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What do you think of that T-Shirt on Wil Wheaton 's site, with the name tag, "Hello, my name is William Fucking Shatner".
Now, this is what gets me thinking. The big issue of past months has been webcasting fees. I notice a link from that first page to a set of webcasting fees. But the wording is interesting:
Commercial (i.e., revenue-generating) use of mp3 / mp3PRO in real time broadcasting (terrestrial, satellite, cable and/or any other media), broadcasting / streaming via Internet, intranets and/or other networks or in other electronic content distribution systems, such as pay-audio or audio-on-demand applications.
The first part, that explicitly says "Commercial" uses, is what gets me thinking. Which tells me free radio stations (like the ones run by schools, net groups, etc) don't have to pay. But then there's the note at the bottom of the page:
Note: No license is needed for private, non-commercial activities (e.g., home-entertainment, receiving broadcasts and creating a personal music library), not generating revenue or other consideration of any kind or for entities with an annual gross revenue less than US$ 100 000.00.
This explicitly says that if you don't make 100k per year, you don't have to pay anything. So if your college "runs" the webcasting station, they have to pay. Whereas if Joe Musik-piratt (all names are purely fictional, of course) runs a webcast out of his dorm room, with a box that he owns, no fees are needed.
But the part I'm really itching on is whether that clause applies to JUST webcasting or to the whole license scheme. It does say "no fees" and not "no fees for webcasting", but IANAL. Anyone got some insight?
Even a high-gain antenna which would normally be visible can be completely concealed or contained within another object, as long as that object won't absorb or reflect electromagnetic waves in the microwave range. To quote Dragorn during the talk on 802.11b at H2K2, "If you put it in the microwave and it comes out hot, don't use it."
Public library card. Free book. Paid 10 cents for overdue book. Show library card to librarian, allowed into computer lab. Free T1 internet. And I didn't even have to pay for shipping.
I have a ThinkNIC that myself and several friends bought a year ago to tinker around with. It's actually quite the capable little machine. It runs Linux, comes with a basic TWM based X11 setup, Netscape (with proper plugins, etc), a terminal emulator, and a few other neat little things. It boots off a combination of an NVRAM chip and a CD. The CD they give you is the basic system, but we asked them for some information and they gave us the ISO for that same boot CD. They were even polite about it. We hacked it up a little bit without difficulty, so the machine is slightly configurable.
The downside is that yes, it lacks a harddrive. Personal preferences, like Netscape bookmarks, etc, get stored in the NVRAM, so you don't lose everything. But it's alot like web tv, where you get to surf, use basic email, but don't have the full complications of a complete computer. I admit, I wouldn't use one of them for my home system, but I'd easily give one to my grandmother if she ever changed her mind and decided that the internet was not in some manner connected with Satan.
Yes, those are nice, but when you wear one, you have to watch out for those nasty Grabites.
--End Bad Sci-fi movie reference--
This is one of the ways musicians can boost sales and get more CD's out: include special features in the encoding. This a) doesnt hurt people who just want the music and/or get screwed over by copy protection, b) doesn't force the consumer to buy anything specific (i.e. hardware, or even the CD in the not-as-legal sense of it) and c) adds something cosmetic, pointless, but nonetheless cool.
Yes, I recall my task for a full week (several years ago) was analyzing Napster's network traffic and discovering exactly which ports needed to be allowed through the firewall in order to let the boss download Frank Zappa.
Since Outlook is propogating virii, it is responsible for electronic havoc. According to the new legislation, that classifies Outlook as an electronic terrorism program. Ok, so I'm dreaming, but wouldn't you love to see SWAT teams breaking down doors to sieze copies of Outlook?
I guess all those people from my CS classes that were mailbombing congress with "SCREW THE CBDTPA" weren't JUST trolls...
I fully agree. I don't entirely disagree with GNU, but last I checked, no one elected RMS as head of the free democratic open-source yadda yadda yadda movement.
Why pay? Because people think that if it costs more, it's better. It's like in corporate meetings, the guy that gets paid the most generally has the most listened to opinion. It's why pay-per-view is still making just as much if not more money than video stores (yes I know pay-per-view generally gets movies first, but it's still at least double or triple rental price, and you only get to watch it once).
I had the same thing starting to happen this morning. I can't even create a new account. I don't see a linux download available anymore either...
China is communist, not fascist :)
It's supposed to be a punishment, which implies it's something you DON'T like. If he likes computers, this makes sense...
And someone forgot that "=" is the variable set operator, not the comparison operator, which is "==", so suddenly the cheating detector gave a lot of people F's...
Put someone elses screen name (i.e. "admin") in the dropdown list for AOL by default. 99% of users won't be able to figure out how to change it so they can use their own screen name. And the ones that do, are smart enough not to download thousands of MP3's via a 56k AOL connection :)
The real reason N*Sync's cameo was dropped was because Natalie Portman can't keep up with the dance steps.
But the character's name is Harry, not Hugo.
I don't know very many places that don't require a driver's license as the standard form of identification. State sponsored photo ID's are basically the only form of ID that is accepted everywhere (i.e. using personal checks at stores, getting into nightclubs, etc). Making em national isn't going to be much of a change, except for 2 things. 1) Your less likely to be thrown out of a club in another state for having an ID they don't recognize, and 2) You can't get away with speeding in another state quite as easily, because now the state trooper has access to ALL the state databases :)
One other great thing about a free country is that I can express that I think you are absolutely wrong about the Microsoft issue and that anyone against your opinion is either a socialist or a democrat. Fact: I don't like microsoft. Fact: I don't like gun control. Fact: I support the war in afghanistan. Fact: You didn't even read the damn list and find out that the breakup didn't even make the top ten vaporware.
This doesn't just outdate M.A.N., but it at the same time implements new protocols which it is fully aware M.A.N. is incapable of understanding. M.A.N. has tried to overcome this and merge networks with W.O.M.A.N., but has failed miserably due to communications errors.
No money at all compared to the thousands you will spend on the actual machine itself. It's completely true considering the price of cables these days.
RPMS ARE EVIL, APT GET OWNS J00!!!
Oh, wait, my bad, this is a REAL discussion, with a POINT to it...
*walks away in shame*
Now if they only got CHEAPER at the same time...
($369 for a 1Gig drive is not exactly what I call a new MP3 jukebox in the making)