Although the Trenton Times doesn't appear to know this either, the proper past tense for this is "hanged". You would say "He hung his coat on the hook" but "He hanged himself".
No, not much sense to it, but that's the English language for you.
I imagine 20 years ago you would proclaim, "Computer? If I want a typewriter, I'll get a typewriter and if I want a calculator, I'll get a calculator, and if I want a game console, I'll buy a Pong machine or a Pinball machine, and if..." If I want floor polish I'll buy floor polish. If I want a dessert topping...
So, if I, tonight, crank out some electronic-oid bit of dance music, and decide to put it in the public domain, I cannot use Napster to distribute it, because I haven't first told them it was ok? I think not.
This, BTW, is precisely where the EFF Open Audio License may do the most good: it's an affirmative way to say that yes, Napster and similar tools may distribute it with the full consent of its creators.
Of course, there is the challenge of being sure that the "(O)" marker on an MP3 was indeed put there by the creators. I wonder if the EFF et al have any plans for any sort of registry, just in case.
People don't become prosperous through socialism or caring and sharing (which is why China's GDP per head is 1/20 of ours), they get there through enterprise.
What do we mean by "prosperous"? Is prosperity an end in itself? Are we happier and healthier because we can afford to buy more stuff?
(Sure, China has some serious human rights issues to answer for -- but is that directly related to either socialism or reduced prosperity?)
While I'm not a fan of guns myself, I'm doubtful of this datum. I'm not sure whether or not it's true, but would be interested in a reference.
(pause)
Well, on second thought, the statement is undoubtedly true in a very large sense, since everyone dies eventually... but did you mean the inference that the gunshots wounds are the cause of death?
This is actually a fantastic question: what was the first open source project?
The Iliad? Gilgamesh? Perhaps.
The question may be precisely backward. If literature, etc, started with openness as the norm, then the interesting question is how recently the first closed source project happened.
I'm reminded of something I read years ago. (Asimov? Silverberg?) The author suggested that the earliest writings were speculative (fantasy/science) fiction of their day, and mainstream fiction was the newer medium.
And don't get me started on Western tonal harmony...:-)
However, even "The Real Ghostbusters" (one of my favorites growing up) had an episode where they spoofed "Citizen Kane". Your average 10 year-old isn't going to realize that "San Simolian" is a spoof on "San Simeon", Heart's actual palace that was known as Kane's Xanadu in the film.
An example of a good writer sneaking stuff in where least expected -- IIRC, one of the lead writers for "The Real Ghostbusters" was J. Michael Straczynski of Babylon 5 (etc) fame.
*Pictures Johnny 11th grader trying to write a HS paper with this encyclopedia, with every paragraph starting like this: "However, Professor John Doe believes that...", "Dr. Paul Denton disagrees...", "Laura Croft, PHD, flamed Paul, however, and..." *
This structure has indeed been tried, with some success, in a classic, 66(?) volume omnibus of information: The Talmud.
Ya know, embarrassing as it might be to admit, I really like That Paper Clip. Most of the time, he hides in a corner, pretty much unobtrusively. On the occasions that he does intervene with comments and suggestions, he's usually guessed what I'm trying to do or spotted a problem that I'm about to get into, and what he says is helpful. And the goofiness of his gyrations when printing, etc, give me a good chuckle, even after a few years.
So, from an end-user perspective (that is, absent from programmer-level worries about bloated code and the like), what exactly do people dislike about That Paper Clip?
Not to indulge in spelling flames, but the word is "copyright" not "copywrite". Remember that it involves the RIGHT to copy, and has nothing intrinsically to do with writing.
Sheesh, and in a headline yet. Please correct it, and write it on the board until you understand it. (No extra credit for implementing "while" loops in chalk.)
OK, so they're named after a folk dance done to avoid the effects of spider stings. Shall we expect them to do fancy ASCII art within robots.txt files?
Theme song: "The Safety Dance" by Men Without (Red) Hats.
no. films are a little bit of a different creature. A) they cost signifigantly more to produce and therefore people are willing to pay for that. (good for us). B)Films aren't the same as music in the respect that Das Boot can't be made again and again live.
Can "Sgt. Pepper" be made again live? How about Eno's "Music for Films"? Miles Davis's "In a Silent Way"? Stockhausen's "Gesang der Junglinge"?
It may come as a surprise to some, but, except in a statistically tiny area of music, recording has mutated far beyond the reproduction of live performance. (And no, a tribute band covering "In a Silent Way" is *not* the same thing as the real recording.)
By the logic that musical recordings should be free as a come-on to see the music in concert, I should be able to get a DVD of the X-Men movie for free as an incentive to see it performed live at a local theatre.
If memory serves, the rights to books which have gone officially out of print usually revert to the writer.
Interestingly, this could be a downside of e-books and print-on-demand technology, since, with no inventory cluttering up warehouses, there would be little reason for a publisher to ever declare a book to be out of print.
FWIW: Vita Nuova also puts out Inferno. The name of the comapany comes from another book by Dante, La Vita Nuova, much of the structure of which is determined by... the number 9.
One possible problem: each site that is searched will be quite able (given processing/storage/blahblahblah) to collect and analyze the search requests that go through it.
Even if the software as distibuted to disallow this, it's quite possible for the site to tweak the code to this purpose (one of the few downsides to open source). This could be used for targetted spamming, building enemies lists, etc. Since there's no way to know what systems your search will hit, there's no way of knowing what their (stated or actual) privacy policies are.
I'm less paranoid than some here, but this still lit my worry button.
Lars comes across pretty well, all told. He looks like he's been doing some thinking -- this could turn into something useful like the Bezos/O'Reilly dialogue.
One interesting point that he makes: Metallica has supported and thrived on the free distribution and trading of certain of its materials (live tapes, etc), but requests (forcefully) that other of its materials, those released on commercial albums, not be distributed. This makes sense: for example, my ensembles, Comma and Gray Code, have lotsa MP3s up for free download ( http://www.metatronpress.com/mp3/ ). OTOH, I would prefer that our studio tracks, which are or will be released on for-sale CDs, not be distributed in this way.
Unfortunately, AFAIK, there is no way to indicate in an MP3 whether it's artist-authorised. It seems to me that some combination of an ID3 field and a PGP-like signature could somehow indicate that an MP3 was authorised by the musicians. A Gnutella-like client could then check that field and alert the fan, who would then be free to choose whether to download it or not based on that person's moral sense of whether the artist's wishes are to be honored. (I recognize that it would be up to the listener whether to use a client which would honor that field, and whether to act upon that information.)
I'm just a good enough programmer to be pretty sure that it's possible, but not how to implement it. But if such a project would happen, I'd eagerly participate. (And if it already exists, I'd love to know about it.)
This is an important point, and the worst part of Napster's horrific interface:
Now, admittedly, the biggest reason for the outgoing is most likely the fact that Napster doesn't close when you click the "X" in the upper right of the window.
It took me several days to figure this out. When I kill a program, it's supposed to die. Plain and simple. It baffled me that, even though it was supposedly dead, something was still slamming my bandwidth.
The numbnutzim behind Napster musta been born with a big Kick Me sign on their backs -- they had a sorta good idea, then implemented it incredibly badly. But not badly enough for it to fail immediately.
Gnutella at least is an improvement (though as an active musician, I have serious qualms about its use).
But the thoughts I've had about such always trip over one problem: how do you tell that a given MP3 is related to that artist? After all, there's no control over the naming, or over unique tags within MP3s that might identify the song, especially since multiple users might have ripped the same song.
I mean, last night, I nabbed what I expected to be a Phish song, and it turned out to be by David Bowie (and no, it wasn't Phish's song "David Bowie", it was something else). How could we ensure that the right artist were getting paid.
I'd love it if such a thing could be put into effect. But the authentication problems would be a challenge.
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Although the Trenton Times doesn't appear to know this either, the
proper past tense for this is "hanged". You would say "He hung his coat on the hook" but "He hanged himself".
No, not much sense to it, but that's the English language for you.
I imagine 20 years ago you would proclaim, "Computer? If I want a typewriter, I'll get a typewriter and if I want a calculator, I'll get a calculator, and if I want a game console, I'll buy a Pong machine or a Pinball machine, and if..."
If I want floor polish I'll buy floor polish. If I want a dessert topping...
"Dave, my mind is going. I can feel it."
"Hal, this is your Eliza module. What does your mind is going you can feel it remind you of?"
So, if I, tonight, crank out some electronic-oid bit of dance music, and decide to put it in the public domain, I cannot use Napster to distribute it, because I haven't first told them it was ok? I think not.
This, BTW, is precisely where the EFF Open Audio License may do the most good: it's an affirmative way to say that yes, Napster and similar tools may distribute it with the full consent of its creators.
Of course, there is the challenge of being sure that the "(O)" marker on an MP3 was indeed put there by the creators. I wonder if the EFF et al have any plans for any sort of registry, just in case.
This is business, nothing personal.
If our society ever has an epitaph, that may well be it.
What do we mean by "prosperous"? Is prosperity an end in itself? Are we happier and healthier because we can afford to buy more stuff?
(Sure, China has some serious human rights issues to answer for -- but is that directly related to either socialism or reduced prosperity?)
While I'm not a fan of guns myself, I'm doubtful of this datum. I'm not sure whether or not it's true, but would be interested in a reference.
(pause)
Well, on second thought, the statement is undoubtedly true in a very large sense, since everyone dies eventually... but did you mean the inference that the gunshots wounds are the cause of death?
The Half Keyboard appears to be even smaller, and quite usable.
The Iliad? Gilgamesh? Perhaps.
The question may be precisely backward. If literature, etc, started with openness as the norm, then the interesting question is how recently the first closed source project happened.
I'm reminded of something I read years ago. (Asimov? Silverberg?) The author suggested that the earliest writings were speculative (fantasy/science) fiction of their day, and mainstream fiction was the newer medium.
And don't get me started on Western tonal harmony... :-)
An example of a good writer sneaking stuff in where least expected -- IIRC, one of the lead writers for "The Real Ghostbusters" was J. Michael Straczynski of Babylon 5 (etc) fame.
This structure has indeed been tried, with some success, in a classic, 66(?) volume omnibus of information: The Talmud.
Anything that gets commercials done faster is OK by me. So this is gonna be, like, a really big Tivo?-)
My immediate thought on seeing the headline was "Who the hell would they be peering *with* out there?"
Imagine the stock market rush if people think Verizon is going to merge with the Vorlons...
Ya know, embarrassing as it might be to admit, I really like That Paper Clip. Most of the time, he hides in a corner, pretty much unobtrusively. On the occasions that he does intervene with comments and suggestions, he's usually guessed what I'm trying to do or spotted a problem that I'm about to get into, and what he says is helpful. And the goofiness of his gyrations when printing, etc, give me a good chuckle, even after a few years.
So, from an end-user perspective (that is, absent from programmer-level worries about bloated code and the like), what exactly do people dislike about That Paper Clip?
Not to indulge in spelling flames, but the word is "copyright" not "copywrite". Remember that it involves the RIGHT to copy, and has nothing intrinsically to do with writing.
Sheesh, and in a headline yet. Please correct it, and write it on the board until you understand it. (No extra credit for implementing "while" loops in chalk.)
Eventually people will see the wlite...
OK, so they're named after a folk dance done to avoid the effects of spider stings. Shall we expect them to do fancy ASCII art within robots.txt files?
Theme song: "The Safety Dance" by Men Without (Red) Hats.
no. films are a little bit of a different creature. A) they cost signifigantly more to produce and therefore people are willing to pay for that. (good for us). B)Films aren't the same as music in the respect that Das Boot can't be made again and again live.
Can "Sgt. Pepper" be made again live? How about Eno's "Music for Films"? Miles Davis's "In a Silent Way"? Stockhausen's "Gesang der Junglinge"?
It may come as a surprise to some, but, except in a statistically tiny area of music, recording has mutated far beyond the reproduction of live performance. (And no, a tribute band covering "In a Silent Way" is *not* the same thing as the real recording.)
By the logic that musical recordings should be free as a come-on to see the music in concert, I should be able to get a DVD of the X-Men movie for free as an incentive to see it performed live at a local theatre.
If memory serves, the rights to books which have gone officially out of print usually revert to the writer.
Interestingly, this could be a downside of e-books and print-on-demand technology, since, with no inventory cluttering up warehouses, there would be little reason for a publisher to ever declare a book to be out of print.
And the ultimate, number zero algorithm having the most impact on computing is the past century is ...
(drumroll)
... the recipe for Classic Coke.
Hmm... :-)
One possible problem: each site that is searched will be quite able (given processing/storage/blahblahblah) to collect and analyze the search requests that go through it.
Even if the software as distibuted to disallow this, it's quite possible for the site to tweak the code to this purpose (one of the few downsides to open source). This could be used for targetted spamming, building enemies lists, etc. Since there's no way to know what systems your search will hit, there's no way of knowing what their (stated or actual) privacy policies are.
I'm less paranoid than some here, but this still lit my worry button.
Lars comes across pretty well, all told. He looks like he's been doing some thinking -- this could turn into something useful like the Bezos/O'Reilly dialogue.
One interesting point that he makes: Metallica has supported and thrived on the free distribution and trading of certain of its materials (live tapes, etc), but requests (forcefully) that other of its materials, those released on commercial albums, not be distributed. This makes sense: for example, my ensembles, Comma and Gray Code, have lotsa MP3s up for free download ( http://www.metatronpress.com/mp3/ ). OTOH, I would prefer that our studio tracks, which are or will be released on for-sale CDs, not be distributed in this way.
Unfortunately, AFAIK, there is no way to indicate in an MP3 whether it's artist-authorised. It seems to me that some combination of an ID3 field and a PGP-like signature could somehow indicate that an MP3 was authorised by the musicians. A Gnutella-like client could then check that field and alert the fan, who would then be free to choose whether to download it or not based on that person's moral sense of whether the artist's wishes are to be honored. (I recognize that it would be up to the listener whether to use a client which would honor that field, and whether to act upon that information.)
I'm just a good enough programmer to be pretty sure that it's possible, but not how to implement it. But if such a project would happen, I'd eagerly participate. (And if it already exists, I'd love to know about it.)
Any takers?
This is an important point, and the worst part of Napster's horrific interface:
Now, admittedly, the biggest reason for the outgoing is most likely the fact that Napster doesn't close when you click the "X" in the upper right of the window.
It took me several days to figure this out. When I kill a program, it's supposed to die. Plain and simple. It baffled me that, even though it was supposedly dead, something was still slamming my bandwidth.
The numbnutzim behind Napster musta been born with a big Kick Me sign on their backs -- they had a sorta good idea, then implemented it incredibly badly. But not badly enough for it to fail immediately.
Gnutella at least is an improvement (though as an active musician, I have serious qualms about its use).
Does it have anything to do with the food called Nutella?
Food, schmood. They just wanted to maximize their hits by using a name that was a Soundex match for "genitalia".
The beginnings of a good idea...
But the thoughts I've had about such always trip over one problem: how do you tell that a given MP3 is related to that artist? After all, there's no control over the naming, or over unique tags within MP3s that might identify the song, especially since multiple users might have ripped the same song.
I mean, last night, I nabbed what I expected to be a Phish song, and it turned out to be by David Bowie (and no, it wasn't Phish's song "David Bowie", it was something else). How could we ensure that the right artist were getting paid.
I'd love it if such a thing could be put into effect. But the authentication problems would be a challenge.