Nobody said it had to be the first 30 sec. Actually I think that under fair use, you can do this now without any special licenses, but it was only an example. You get into problems when you try and offer a crappy version, since people's level of what's crap varies. Also the labels say that doing this is bad since they don't want their artists' music to be "misrepresented". When you get into this kind of licensing, you open a huge can of worms, and that labels aren't exatly logical in most respects.
is probably not going to be Internet radio. While personalized radio stations will continue to exist and are attractive to people. The future of digital music (at least the future the labels envision), revolves around subscription services empowered by a huge catalog.
To this end, two major groups have been formed. MusicNet and pressplay. MusicNet has support from RealNetworks, AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann AG, EMI Group plc, and Zomba. Pressplay is supported by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group.
MusicNet says: Our record label partners, BMG, EMI, Warner, and Zomba provide the music that the platform delivers, and RealNetworks, America Online, and Napster will distribute the platform to their subscribers nationwide. MusicNet plans to expand its offerings and is in ongoing discussions with both major and independent labels.
While pressplay claims: The service, which will be available in the U.S. by late summer through a broad array of affiliates, announced its first affiliate relationship in April of this year, joining together with Yahoo! Inc. to form an alliance through which the pressplay service will be marketed to users of Yahoo! network and Yahoo! Music. pressplay is a stand-alone joint venture equally held by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group.
It's clear that the "future of digital music", will most likely start with the subscription services offered by these two groups. Of course it may take some time for them to refine their business model into something people are eager to pay money for. None the less, the potential is staggering. In the future people are apt to get exactly what they want for a price that's reasonable.
With digital music you can be a lot more flexible in your product offerings. You can sell things on a track level, and you can group these tracks in any way you want. It's not clear what the pricing model for this would be, but what if you only had to pay $0.5 for a digital track. You could get the latest music you actually listen to, instead of getting the latest CD and skipping the tracks that suck. What if you could play a 30 second sound sample of every track in the Sony catalog? This could be huge for music discovery (possibly even more so than radio). What if you belonged to a record club and every piece of music you bought from them was available in digital form for $5/mo. How much would you pay for a subscription to the Pop Top 40?
These are all possibilites for the future, and IMHO show tremendous potential. It's up to them to provide these services at a reasonable price. The problem with Internet radio is that they haven't been able to figure out an attractive pricing model (for users, or advertisers). So while Internet radio may have problems, the future of digital music is very bright indeed.
I noticed that Mandrake 8.0 support is now available (I'm DLing now). Thank you Ximian team!
Has anyone tried to install Ximian on the latest 8.1 beta? Since both should be released around the same time it would be nice if Ximian would support Mandrake 8.1 out of the box, instead of having to wait as long as we did for 8.0 support. Also eventhough Mandrake 8.0 is supported it doesn't seem that the mirror sites have support for it. I got an error when running the installer that Mandrake 8.0 was not a supported platform when I went to any mirror besides the Ximain one (which is pretty busy right now).
So not really a bug (ok maybe it is, since the installer detected I was running Mandrake 8.0 and gave me a list of mirrors that didn't work), but support for Mandrake 8.0 and 8.1 should be improved before the final Ximian and Evolution releases.
Looks like despite everyone's hopes, this case won't go away. It's too bad. Everyone thought the DMCA would be challenged one day, but nobody wanted it to come at Dimitry's expense.
But shoulda, woulda, coulda, the fact is he was indicted and could spend 5 years in jail if convicted. What does this say for the future? If Dimitry is convicted I don't think we realize the amount of trouble a wide range of people could be in. This case has far reaching implications in many areas including cryptography, DVD, music (digital and CD), who knows even Samba and Wine could be effected depending on what some people consider to be a proprietary protection system.
ET and all the Roswell aliens. Years of space travel has caused teeth and hair loss, and either body mass compacting (under it's own weight and lessened bone strength), or body elongation due to uncontrolled juvenile growth spurts in microgravity.
I'm interested in getting a PVR. I'd like it to be able to record two shows at the same time, or at lease let me watch something and record something else at the same time. I'd also like it to be able to use my existing cable modem/Ethernet connection. I know of products that use a modem and my phone line, but my phone line isn't near my TV, and I'd really like it to use my existing high speed internet connection. Other than the above product, are there any other PVRs that will do that?
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How many students can actually add/subtract/multiply/divide without having to turn to a calculator? Very few, and sticking more computers and PDA's into the classroom won't solve anything.
I've taught math classes using graphing calculators. Yes, they can do things nice and pretty and quick. There are two problems. The first is a practical one -- every single class the students have to be shown over again how to use the calculator. Second, they may know how to produce a box-and-whisker plot by pressing the right buttons, but do they have any deeper understanding of what they're doing and why they're doing it? Not really.
I agree that there is a time to learn math without the calculator. Students should learn to add/subtract/multiply/divide without the aid of a mechanical device. But these times give way to levels of math (Algebra and some Geometry) where calculators are of no real use and then on to areas of math where calculators are very useful.
This is where graphing calculators can really shine. At this point the student has already learned how to add, and if not the point is irrelevant, since you aren't teaching addition any more, you're teaching Geometry or Calculus. At this point I think it's very helpful for students to be able to play with equations and see the results. Take the a simple line formula (y=mx+b). It's very hard for students to understand this equation and it's application until they see the graph. Sure you could have the kids plot things out by hand, but this is the kind of redundant busy work that tends to loose them. But with a calculator they can easily understand what happens if b changes or if m is a fraction. This is a very hard concept to learn if it can't be seen. This holds true for many other things as well. Understanding the interaction between sin and cos is very difficult until they understand the unit circle. Understanding the properties of these waves and of phase is also very difficult unless they can see the interaction. With a good graphing calculator as a tool students can learn more faster with, than without.
Suppose we've got every student plugging away at their PDAs. Where's the collaboration? Group learning? Student-led learning? All I can see are a bunch of solitary students going through the motions on a device.
There's no disadvantage to having students work with (gasp!) pencil and paper and to work in groups, without depending on these external devices. Confidence (and academic performance) increases when students realize that they have knowledge and ability beyond a device.
Take another look at your class. There will always be students who are better at using calculators or PDAs than others. Many students are afraid of math, others hate school but love technology. Use the students that know how to operate these tools and have them teach the others. This is where you can have your collaboration, group learning and student-led learning. Students take great pride in being good at things. Often they'll be able to operate (a range of) PDAs and calculators better than the teacher. Teach to what they're good at, and allow the gifted to help the rest. The class confidance will impove, as well as grades.
And lastly, you have to realize that as an incoming teacher your teaching style, methods and attitudes will need to adapt to the learning needs of your students. You obviously feel strongly about the use of technology in a math class (guess I do too). With the pace of technology these days there's a good chance you'll learn as much from your students as they from you.
Wireless networks provide near-blanket coverage of Europe, the United States, and metro areas on the other continents.
Unfortunatly these are the nations which have the money to spend on infastructure and sales. If most industrialized nations already have 'near-blanket' coverage you'll only be able to sell this service to people living in the Poles and the Amazon. At a rate of $100/mo and $2.50 a minute, it's just not feasable for most people. Certainly not enough to cover the cost of a bunch of satellites.
That's not very much at all for a company. Especially if it will optimize enough to give a measurable performance increase. If you get a 10-20% increase for free (ok $500), it's well worth it. Compare this cost to what it would cost you to pay an engineer to optimize his code.
Software like dictionaries, graphing calculators, e-books and thermometers can be downloaded onto the Palms and used to simplify studying and classroom participation.
That's why English was so tough. I never remembered to bring my thermometer!:)
Slashdot has been a little flaky lately
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I realize I my be wrong about the law, most of my info was paraphrased from web sites who got it from somewhere else. Thanks for the clarification.
What is the time period for an indictment then? It doesn't seem like this should be allowed to go on indefinatly either. For instance would it be possible to hold Mr. Sklyarov on bail in the US for 10 years before his indictment? This of course is an exaduration, but the theory is the same. In the end, bail for this guy isn't the same as for someone who lives and has his family in the US.
It's my understanding that under the 6th amendment one has the right to a speedy trial. And that this was further defined by the Speedy Trial Act 18 U.S.C. 3161(c)(1) to be within 70 days.
Under these guidelines Sklyarov should be having his trial any day now, rather than an arraignment. Unless he waived his right to a speedy trial. Was this the case? Does his "side" need additional time to prepare or should this be something that is pushed through sooner rather than later to get this guy home?
INAL but as far as I can see there is a lot of talk about getting Sklyarov home ASAP and what seems to be very little getting done.
NASA builds this huge ball that can roll over anything. Packs it with cameras and sensors. Launches the thing from way behind the three point line, and gets it to Mars. Only then do they realize the ball is opaque!
The City of Houston is getting ready to roll out 'free' email and web-hosted word processing.
So you mean the residents who payed for this system can use it in their local library? No kidding.
Being realistic though. The article didn't mention the cost of this new system. Many "free" ISP/E-mail providers are loosing a lot of money and have started charging users. This could lead to higher taxes. Not to mention the legal ramifications of this system. Is it legal to view pronografic E-mail attachments to your free government account at your library access point? What level of MS Office support is offered by this web interface? If there isn't any, what good is this product for resumes?
I know a few people who are running non-infected Web Servers and they're still getting a fair amount of traffic related to the Code Red (and variants) virus.
To them this is an annoyance (cuz it smears the access log) at worse and a conversation piece at best. But what actions should be taken to eliminate this? Because most of these people are Windows 2k or XP users and have a web server turned on be default (thanks again MS), they spew out these requests whenever they're online. These users have no idea they're infected and may not even know they were at risk in the first place. It seems pretty harsh to kill their connection just for running a buggy OS. But they should be notified by someone.
If the ISPs can't or won't notify these users, is there some legal and moral middle ground others could take? We've kicked around the idea of sending winpopups to these users with instructions on how to clean their systems. Someone could write a nice virus that would close this hole for them and reboot their systems.
Any other suggestions? Have people really been successful at getting support from ISPs regarding this issue?
their migration path has been less than perfect for me in the past. In short when I upgraded to 8.0 there were many problems with KDE related to a previous KDE 2.1 install. There were strange glibc problems which caused crashes in bitkeeper and other programs. Their installer had problems figuring out which programs to "upgrade" as well.
My solution to these problems was to wipe and reinstall. Most settings were stored in my home dir which I did not wipe and the rest of the programs were upgraded as a side effect. My RiserFS partitions were uneffected and when I was finished the strage problems I had went away.
I enjoy my Mandrake dist. but I'd caution those who are looking to "upgrade" via their installer.
I realize there are families that have a hard time making ends meet. I realize that being a single mother can be very difficult. I also know that this country spends billions each year on programs designed to help feed, educate and provide medical care to children and families in need. As a tax payer I too contribute to these programs. There are TV commercials that bring this problem to light, it's debated in Presidential campaigns, and advocated by people like you.
I'm also very aware that the job market in California is very poor right now. Especially for game programmers. And while the job market is down, housing prices haven't fallen that much. Also when companies go under like this, any money left over usually goes to pay off investors, leaving little or no money for the departing employees. With the high cost of living in Silicon Valley there is a very real chance that after a few months of unemployment these programmers (especially the younger ones) will be in financial trouble.
I'm trying to do my part to help these people and to support an industry which I value. Please do not slam me for doing so. Who know's someone at Loki may even be a single mother.
Sure buying games is great, but even if everyone who posted saying "Oh this is terrible", bought a game, it would only be a small blip for the year and nowhere near the amount of capital needed to turn a company around.
With that said, is there anything we can do to help Loki? Anything to help possible investors get interested in the company? Anything to help those working at Loki who may be out of a job soon?
I may not have the $$ to bring the company back to life. But if it was to go under, I'd be willing to contribute to a severance fund for the employees. Would anyone else show their support in this way? Any other ideas?
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Nobody said it had to be the first 30 sec. Actually I think that under fair use, you can do this now without any special licenses, but it was only an example. You get into problems when you try and offer a crappy version, since people's level of what's crap varies. Also the labels say that doing this is bad since they don't want their artists' music to be "misrepresented". When you get into this kind of licensing, you open a huge can of worms, and that labels aren't exatly logical in most respects.
So how do you ship a 50 pound slab of butter? In any case I'd get it insured. :)
To this end, two major groups have been formed. MusicNet and pressplay. MusicNet has support from RealNetworks, AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann AG, EMI Group plc, and Zomba. Pressplay is supported by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group.
MusicNet says: Our record label partners, BMG, EMI, Warner, and Zomba provide the music that the platform delivers, and RealNetworks, America Online, and Napster will distribute the platform to their subscribers nationwide. MusicNet plans to expand its offerings and is in ongoing discussions with both major and independent labels.
While pressplay claims: The service, which will be available in the U.S. by late summer through a broad array of affiliates, announced its first affiliate relationship in April of this year, joining together with Yahoo! Inc. to form an alliance through which the pressplay service will be marketed to users of Yahoo! network and Yahoo! Music. pressplay is a stand-alone joint venture equally held by Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group.
It's clear that the "future of digital music", will most likely start with the subscription services offered by these two groups. Of course it may take some time for them to refine their business model into something people are eager to pay money for. None the less, the potential is staggering. In the future people are apt to get exactly what they want for a price that's reasonable.
With digital music you can be a lot more flexible in your product offerings. You can sell things on a track level, and you can group these tracks in any way you want. It's not clear what the pricing model for this would be, but what if you only had to pay $0.5 for a digital track. You could get the latest music you actually listen to, instead of getting the latest CD and skipping the tracks that suck. What if you could play a 30 second sound sample of every track in the Sony catalog? This could be huge for music discovery (possibly even more so than radio). What if you belonged to a record club and every piece of music you bought from them was available in digital form for $5/mo. How much would you pay for a subscription to the Pop Top 40?
These are all possibilites for the future, and IMHO show tremendous potential. It's up to them to provide these services at a reasonable price. The problem with Internet radio is that they haven't been able to figure out an attractive pricing model (for users, or advertisers). So while Internet radio may have problems, the future of digital music is very bright indeed.
So not really a bug (ok maybe it is, since the installer detected I was running Mandrake 8.0 and gave me a list of mirrors that didn't work), but support for Mandrake 8.0 and 8.1 should be improved before the final Ximian and Evolution releases.
But shoulda, woulda, coulda, the fact is he was indicted and could spend 5 years in jail if convicted. What does this say for the future? If Dimitry is convicted I don't think we realize the amount of trouble a wide range of people could be in. This case has far reaching implications in many areas including cryptography, DVD, music (digital and CD), who knows even Samba and Wine could be effected depending on what some people consider to be a proprietary protection system.
Be afraid, and be sure not to lose this one.
Many Open Source projects are run successfully with programmers distributed all over the globe.
ET and all the Roswell aliens. Years of space travel has caused teeth and hair loss, and either body mass compacting (under it's own weight and lessened bone strength), or body elongation due to uncontrolled juvenile growth spurts in microgravity.
I'm interested in getting a PVR. I'd like it to be able to record two shows at the same time, or at lease let me watch something and record something else at the same time. I'd also like it to be able to use my existing cable modem/Ethernet connection. I know of products that use a modem and my phone line, but my phone line isn't near my TV, and I'd really like it to use my existing high speed internet connection. Other than the above product, are there any other PVRs that will do that?
I agree that there is a time to learn math without the calculator. Students should learn to add/subtract/multiply/divide without the aid of a mechanical device. But these times give way to levels of math (Algebra and some Geometry) where calculators are of no real use and then on to areas of math where calculators are very useful.
This is where graphing calculators can really shine. At this point the student has already learned how to add, and if not the point is irrelevant, since you aren't teaching addition any more, you're teaching Geometry or Calculus. At this point I think it's very helpful for students to be able to play with equations and see the results. Take the a simple line formula (y=mx+b). It's very hard for students to understand this equation and it's application until they see the graph. Sure you could have the kids plot things out by hand, but this is the kind of redundant busy work that tends to loose them. But with a calculator they can easily understand what happens if b changes or if m is a fraction. This is a very hard concept to learn if it can't be seen. This holds true for many other things as well. Understanding the interaction between sin and cos is very difficult until they understand the unit circle. Understanding the properties of these waves and of phase is also very difficult unless they can see the interaction. With a good graphing calculator as a tool students can learn more faster with, than without.
Take another look at your class. There will always be students who are better at using calculators or PDAs than others. Many students are afraid of math, others hate school but love technology. Use the students that know how to operate these tools and have them teach the others. This is where you can have your collaboration, group learning and student-led learning. Students take great pride in being good at things. Often they'll be able to operate (a range of) PDAs and calculators better than the teacher. Teach to what they're good at, and allow the gifted to help the rest. The class confidance will impove, as well as grades.
And lastly, you have to realize that as an incoming teacher your teaching style, methods and attitudes will need to adapt to the learning needs of your students. You obviously feel strongly about the use of technology in a math class (guess I do too). With the pace of technology these days there's a good chance you'll learn as much from your students as they from you.
Unfortunatly these are the nations which have the money to spend on infastructure and sales. If most industrialized nations already have 'near-blanket' coverage you'll only be able to sell this service to people living in the Poles and the Amazon. At a rate of $100/mo and $2.50 a minute, it's just not feasable for most people. Certainly not enough to cover the cost of a bunch of satellites.
That's not very much at all for a company. Especially if it will optimize enough to give a measurable performance increase. If you get a 10-20% increase for free (ok $500), it's well worth it. Compare this cost to what it would cost you to pay an engineer to optimize his code.
The topic is Slashback: Memory, Constancy, Triumph. Yet there isn't any mention about memory. Maybe they forgot. :)
That's why English was so tough. I never remembered to bring my thermometer! :)
maybe we should all whine for a little karma. :)
the music industry for producing the music being encoded into MP3s without their license. They should definitely go for per track damages.
What is the time period for an indictment then? It doesn't seem like this should be allowed to go on indefinatly either. For instance would it be possible to hold Mr. Sklyarov on bail in the US for 10 years before his indictment? This of course is an exaduration, but the theory is the same. In the end, bail for this guy isn't the same as for someone who lives and has his family in the US.
Under these guidelines Sklyarov should be having his trial any day now, rather than an arraignment. Unless he waived his right to a speedy trial. Was this the case? Does his "side" need additional time to prepare or should this be something that is pushed through sooner rather than later to get this guy home?
INAL but as far as I can see there is a lot of talk about getting Sklyarov home ASAP and what seems to be very little getting done.
DMCA violator or not, it seems that this guy should not have been in jail anywhere near this long.
NASA builds this huge ball that can roll over anything. Packs it with cameras and sensors. Launches the thing from way behind the three point line, and gets it to Mars. Only then do they realize the ball is opaque!
So you mean the residents who payed for this system can use it in their local library? No kidding.
Being realistic though. The article didn't mention the cost of this new system. Many "free" ISP/E-mail providers are loosing a lot of money and have started charging users. This could lead to higher taxes. Not to mention the legal ramifications of this system. Is it legal to view pronografic E-mail attachments to your free government account at your library access point? What level of MS Office support is offered by this web interface? If there isn't any, what good is this product for resumes?
To them this is an annoyance (cuz it smears the access log) at worse and a conversation piece at best. But what actions should be taken to eliminate this? Because most of these people are Windows 2k or XP users and have a web server turned on be default (thanks again MS), they spew out these requests whenever they're online. These users have no idea they're infected and may not even know they were at risk in the first place. It seems pretty harsh to kill their connection just for running a buggy OS. But they should be notified by someone.
If the ISPs can't or won't notify these users, is there some legal and moral middle ground others could take? We've kicked around the idea of sending winpopups to these users with instructions on how to clean their systems. Someone could write a nice virus that would close this hole for them and reboot their systems.
Any other suggestions? Have people really been successful at getting support from ISPs regarding this issue?
My solution to these problems was to wipe and reinstall. Most settings were stored in my home dir which I did not wipe and the rest of the programs were upgraded as a side effect. My RiserFS partitions were uneffected and when I was finished the strage problems I had went away.
I enjoy my Mandrake dist. but I'd caution those who are looking to "upgrade" via their installer.
Of course even if students were able to crack the voting system. I'm sure people will use the DMCA to prevent the publishing of their results. Or suspend them. Or possibly send them to jail.
I'm also very aware that the job market in California is very poor right now. Especially for game programmers. And while the job market is down, housing prices haven't fallen that much. Also when companies go under like this, any money left over usually goes to pay off investors, leaving little or no money for the departing employees. With the high cost of living in Silicon Valley there is a very real chance that after a few months of unemployment these programmers (especially the younger ones) will be in financial trouble.
I'm trying to do my part to help these people and to support an industry which I value. Please do not slam me for doing so. Who know's someone at Loki may even be a single mother.
Sure buying games is great, but even if everyone who posted saying "Oh this is terrible", bought a game, it would only be a small blip for the year and nowhere near the amount of capital needed to turn a company around.
With that said, is there anything we can do to help Loki? Anything to help possible investors get interested in the company? Anything to help those working at Loki who may be out of a job soon?
I may not have the $$ to bring the company back to life. But if it was to go under, I'd be willing to contribute to a severance fund for the employees. Would anyone else show their support in this way? Any other ideas?