I use to have to support that piece of crap YEARS ago. From my friends still at the company that I use to work for, they'd GLADY trade up to Exchange from Notes.
That says something.
If its ANYWHERE near as bad as it use to be, I would not wish this on my worst competitor.
OWA2000 is STILL a pain in the ass on the Mac. On the PC (where I ALWAYS have Outlook installed), its actually nice as it integrates into IE pretty well.
Its a shame it uses IE components to do so, and can't work well on Safari...hell, it doesn't even work well under IE5 for the Mac.
Ok -- you've finally made sense. I was about the respond to the last message, and deleted it halfway though.
No -- Exchanges standards for how it operates and stores the messages does suck. I hate the fact I can't get to this stuff without using a crappy almost not supported web interface or having to remote desktop into a machine I reserve for this task on my iBook or G4.
Its got a horrible backend, BUT it does what us end users want it to do. I don't have to support these machines, so to me it works like magic. I know how to install Sendmail and all that, but as an end user the whole Exchange paradigm is exactly what we want and need.
"I just ripped Sting's newest CD, Sacred Love, to AAC at 224Kbps, absolutely excellent. I was getting ~14x ripping off a virtual CD driver"
Heh! Thats the first album I ripped as well...but I was only getting about 4-6x speeds off my Dell:(
Sadly, I've been meaning to download one of his exclusive tracks, and it showed up in a tenth of the time it took to rip a single track. Doh! I think Apple is trying to tell me something....
Microsoft, for once, identified a problem and made a solution around it.
For my personal business with 12 employees total, we use sendmail and use a web based group management software.
BUT the minute you are talking about 30k worth of employees, you need something like this.
Exchange does what it needs to do -- its a business solution that businesses need and have asked for. You either haven't used it to its advantage or too idealistic (or more to the point, way too fucking cool...yeah...geek attitude gets the chick) and will never understand this need.
Again, I have searched for a solution that works for a large group of peoples and I haven't found one yet. As one of the other posters mentioned, Kolab and Kontact might be potential competitors in the future -- but they have a LONG way to go right now.
Because Exchange is MUCH more than an email solution.
If you don't know this, you honestly shouldn't be making suggestions.
Microsoft *IS* insecure, but find a decent mail solution, that has scheduling and can also deal with groupware aspects such as Project in a single package...I'm not talking about individual packages...I'm talking ONE package that works seamlessly.
There are a lot of reason bosses ask for Exchange. The mail component is a small portion of this. With the new exchange server coming out later this year, it will be even better. I wish the Open Source community would get something better than this, but it hasn't happened yet -- even the individual packages as weak compared to what M$ can do.
And I say this as a certified M$ hater. I use their products at work, but I'm a Mac / Linux user at home (except when I pull up XP so I can play my video games).
Yeah -- unfortunately, I just signed a new contract 4 months ago...about 2 weeks before all of this started happening.
That and I'd prefer to keep my old number, thus I've been waiting for the number portability to go through. I've had the same number for about 5 years, and all my business coorespondance goes through this (I have customers that aren't web savy enough to find me there, but go a year or longer between coorespondances...)
It would cost too much to break the contract and if I did, it would be too much work to deal with all of this, and if I were simply to wait til November for the number portability to go through, I might be waiting yet another year because I'm certain someone will be filing a lawsuit with the FCC over this anyways as too cost prohibitive (more to the point, there are a few companies that generally rank at the bottom of the customer satisfaction stats that are going to be fighting this tooth and nail because they KNOW the only reason folks like me stick around is because our phone number is as important as our domain names).
Hmmm...who do we report for these sorts of things though?
I've had at least one call a day for the last month from Jack Price(???) Sports Entertainment offering me tips and all that with NO humans on the other end and no way to actually get in touch with someone. Sadly, by calling the number back TRYING to find someone there, thats when the calls actually started come EVERY DAY instead of just once every few days. I tried calling from my work number to do the same, and now I get a call on that number every few days (actually probably more...it never leaves a message, and I'm only in the office 30% of the time, thus, I don't know how often it calls). They probably consider the fact I called from a phone Prior Business Relationships and if called to in court would claim they only keep the last time I called them in record.
I tried the FCC and they actually refered me to my cell phone company stating that it may take 3 months to get off the no call list (after I FINALLY talked to someone) and while my cell provider - SprintPCS - is willing to charge me for these calls, they aren't willing to do anything about it.
Is there anyone we can refer to about this stuff? I swear that I will f'n beat the living shit out of this Jack Price guy at Sport Entertainment if I ever met him, so this is actually preventing a more serious crime:-)
I thought it was already discussed that they were using specially designed software that would deal with the memory errors and redundancy.
Just because its not in hardware doesn't mean it can't be handled in software. Personally, I would assume it be slower to do it in software, but ECC really only helps correct for 1 flipped bit and can only note 2 flipped bits (without error correction). Maybe the software is a bit slower, but all in all more robust than this.
I don't know...I'm just an ignorant mac user...don't accept this as the truth...
"Whoops! I forgot, the problems with Windows ensure permanent employment for techies"
Hell yeah man!!!
Do you think we would PURPOSELY kill our employment? Back when I started at my job, they were considering switching to the PC from Macs. I convinced them that was the right choice.
Now I don't have to worry that this was the right choice as its the right choice for me. I stay employed and they think I'm doing something because I'm running around like a mad man keeping my office together and now that we are a M$ office, I have put 3 other techies to work to help me out.
With the Mac office, it was ONLY me and I was doing nothing most of the day.
I do however run 2 OS X machines at home...I don't have the time to deal with PCs except for gameplay there (waiting to see how well Quake runs on the G5s before I switch up and finally get rid of my last Win Box and move it to being another Linux box....)
I called threatening to quit -- I haven't been on a contract since July of 2000, so I could have switched any time. I mentioned that I wanted to know about portability rules and was asking if Sprint had any intention of lawsuits to delay it.
The retention people offered me 750Minutes, Unlimited Night / Weekend (starting at 8PM) and free PCS2PCS...for the SAME money. Unlimited Wireless Web will be an extra $5 which I will get *IF* the SonyErikson T608 is ever released (and it PROBABLY will be released, just no one knows when...)
Hit one of the Sprint users groups and you will find your plans SUCK...could have EASILY gotten a LOT more:-)
"If a certain percentage of them recieve the same email in a specified amount of time then they can designate it as spam and delete it from all the mail servers."
Mailing Lists...
Thats the big problem. I run a few mailing lists and I'm on a few others. I was on a spam filter just like this.
You get idiots that don't know how to subscribe, so they just press THIS IS SPAM button and then it filters its headers and otherwise out to everyone else on this service telling them its spam, and then after a while that list is just blocked.
This sort of thing was easy for me to fix...I'm a geek. I would periodically (like every few hours...kinda mitigating the idea of a spam filter) check my deleted messages and click the THIS IS NOT SPAM button and I would get it again.
BUT every so often, folks would start complaining on the mailing lists...they might be good musicians or great psychologists (depending on which list I was admining), but piss poor geeks (which is why I'm around). I'd look and they'd be getting the messages. I'd throw in an hour or two of free support only to find out they are running a spam filter their wife / husband / son / secretary / whomever installed...and it was categorizing this stuff as spam.
Its a good idea, but until we can moderate the idiots that continually click on anything they don't want to deal with as Spam, then we will have a problem.
Yup -- the good guys always use Macs...and on the Mac mailing lists, some of the 24 geeks (I love that show...and occasionally look at the 24 spoiler sites...not sure if I'm at their level though). But several threads popped up when Nina started using the Dell in the first season...she started off using a Mac...they believed it was symbolic of her gradual move to the dark side.
Sooo...knowing Macs are used by the good guys, why shouldn't M$ go for the side of evil. Evil has a LOT more money and there are a lot more folks on that side of things than would be willing to be good because being good means making choices that most folks just really wouldn't want to take on...
M$ need to make a DeathStar PC. Something that looks evil incarnate. Something that says Bad Motherfucker on the side. Something that a goody goody wouldn't use. Something that impresses upon you that its YOUR job to keep it up to date, because their ain't no hand holding out in the fronteers and virus protection ain't our concern.
Microsoft needs to embrace its position in the world and stop trying to run to Jobs every few years to ask him for a little Karma. Microsoft needs to impress upon folks that they are not the best, but if you fucking want to get anywhere, you will pay the fucking $300 a year to keep your PC up to date. Its racketteering...but done right, they can do it -- as they are now -- but make those of us out there that feel we'd been slipped the Anal Ease and know the worst is yet to come, know that this is how it is, it might not be how it should be, but if you don't like it, you are welcome to join the pansies using wussie OSs like X.
I would respect them far more if they did this...maybe I'd not be typing this on a cute little iBook that always attracts chicks in the coffee houses but negates any cool points I might have with hard core geeks (even though if you looked at my screen, I'm probably in terminal SSH'd somewhere else)...
Back when I was helping a friend with his startup ISP, a few customers just decided they weren't going to pay. Our names were on the domain and the registration, and we were pretty nice about all of this until one of the guys let on that the others KNEW that we'd never turn them off because we were too nice to be in business and that they had all talked and decided if we were going to force them to pay, they'd go with one of the other guys (former friend) that had started an webhosting business himself.
I ended up redirecting those guys domains to porn sites and removing their names from the registration to ensure that it had to come though us.
That was my last task before I decided they were right...I don't like being a jerk and certain sectors in business were not what I wanted to deal with if thats what ya had to be, and I picked up my current university gig (as well as freeing me up for my other consulting gig -- see above URL).
Sadly, my former partner didn't agree with my opinion that he should keep those domain names current so they never could get them back. Joker is like $7 a year, and that would have been about $35 at most...well worth it...about 6 months after this, they started getting their domains back, but without the traffic they use to get.
There is always two sides to these stories...I don't know the other side of the story with the original poster, BUT there is probably something we aren't hearing (even if the guy IS morally correct).
"(a typical psychology study uses 10 college students for its sample)."
Really? Are you talking a psychological study from an undergrads perspective, a graduate perspective or a postgraduate?
My department does a LOT of psychological study at Indiana University...unless the study actively involves college students, we don't seek them out. Heck, I don't remember last time I did a study with 10 folks in our PILOT group (i.e., to work out bugs in administration and otherwise), let alone a full study. Heck, we were a little pissed a few weeks ago as we were contracted to do a pilot study and work up the methods and all that crap...unfortunately we WANTED to get 200 folks just for that pilot...we only got 186. Thats 186 pieces of information that will ultimately be discarded before the REAL study with at LEAST 10x that amount goes public.
Heck, for the last master's thesis I was helping with (the kiddies ask for my help since I do this daily) 200 students was a small amount...yeah...the ultimate goal of that is to get it published, but its more of a "Look What We Found -- Give Us Some Money To Prove This Is *REALLY* What My Hypothesis Says".
I always have trouble with folks that aren't involved with a field for their willingness to draw sweeping conclusions from their tiny, and generally imaginary, homogenious life experience.
Or you can get a QT Compliant player and do it just the same.
OR you can use RealPlayer that installs spyware even with the paid version. Or contribute to the Evil Empire.
Funny thing is, I don't know of ANY decent media streaming servers -- and note the qualifier -- that offers their server for free...and gives the source so you can build it for any OS.
So the payment method is shifted. Anyone that NEEDS fullscreen pays for it. Anyone that needs it but doesn't want to pay for it simply uses the codecs Apple provides and uses another container. Apple provides ALL the hooks for anyone that wants to do this and doesn't abstract something and then hide them like other companies.
So, you pay $30 for convience and for the ability to have a nice brushed metal environment on your windows and nothing else. Well, and the ability to edit in the window...and save from the window instead of digging the file out of cache (that too is free)...and several other things that I'm forgetting.
$30 isn't much. If you can't afford it, then don't bitch. Get a job and stop whining. We don't care. Even a job flipping burgers will pay for that $30 in aproximately 5 hours. Of course, that is only for those too lazy to do a little research to find out that Quicktime CAN play fullscreen...you just have to download other items. If you can download a 50Meg trailer, you've obviously gotten a fast pipe or some other form to obtain data. Use it.
I fucking hate whiners that throw bad arguements and then lack the logic to understand one's counterarguements are not correct and there has been no agreement. Maybe you should go work with Darl...he needs idiots that can see words that are not there and represent them to the public in sanitized form.
Of course it can. Either pay for QuicktimePro that allows you to do this ($30) or get an alternative player to do so. On the Mac, you can even send an AppleScript event to the player and it will force the override even if you haven't paid for it.
I think there is something similar on the PC, but whenever I've wanted to show off and show one of these vids...I've always gone to the Mac because it makes the presentation look nicer (read prettier machines:-).
True...I threw out bogus numbers in a rush. I guess I shouldn't complain about someone's $0.000000083 if I can't even write down a standard royalty rate:-)
Regardless, the point is -- the money is in the publishing. An artist who performs AND composes will get quite a bit more than just performing. Too many folks don't count this in with the $$$ the artist is making and it definately factors into the cash because as you say -- that DOESN'T come out of advances or otherwise. It comes out of the MSRP of every album sold (well at least until it becomes a cut out...but thats a different set of crap:-)
Thanks for setting me straight...too much crap to deal with at work, but the bullshit most/.'rs throw out on this subject never ceases to amaze me...
The law is the law and any decent musician will know that no matter what it is, if someone elses lawyer is better than yours you will have to pay up.
I've got a neighbor that is a lawyer...while he was gone for a week the city ripped up the sidewalks and put in safer sidewalks that weren't cracked and broken and otherwise. This asshole had a lot of time on his hands and sued because he claimed his greyed broken concrete walkway was historic (in front of a newish home) and eventually won when the city decided it wasn't worth the effort.
Most of these go before juries that are not experts in the law and have no clue and go with the guy that makes the best arguments and not the one that is actually in right of the law.
Several of the cases you've presented actually had the defendant pretty much give the case over upon crossexamination and thus dictated future rules. For instance, Harrison pretty much stated that he might have heard the song and expressed an idea that he occasionally worked others songs into his own and it went downhill from there.
Quite a few other cases listed that effected copyright rules because of the uninformed making rulings -- and then other rulings actually VERY informed such as the Luther Campbell (Luke Skyywalker and 2 Live Crew) that DID make a lot of sense.
Just because you put something down electronically and someone disagrees with your sentiments to the point of not wanting to even comment on them doesn't mean the folks on the other end of the screen didn't read the link.
By the logic of the US -- ANYONE can sue anyone and present a valid case...that doesn't mean that it truely is the intended spirit of the law. Personally, I think we need to get rid of the amature jury system and actually pay folks that know what they are doing (in a copyright case, one might expect a copyright lawyer in another non-connected field to sit in on the jury). It would definately have made differences in many cases...I can think of things like the OJ Simpson trial for one where folks didn't even know what REASONABLE GUILT meant. Hmmm...800Million : 1, but its possible so its probable, so he must be innocent.
Just because you know a Sonnet or Haiku both have specific formats and sometimes themes, doesn't mean you can't write something original.
Everything is based off something else. Its what YOU bring to it that makes it yours. How many '50s rock songs all have the same damn chord structure and riffs. I drove across country with my father and all he played with that stuff (and doowop)...every single song sounded exactly the same as the others. To him, they were all unique and special.
Does this mean one can never write an original piece of software either? They follow the same semantic guidlines and a lot of times the UI is the same (because they are using the same libraries as the OS offers).
Originality is really not that hard to come by. Proving that you are making an original thought, however, might be:-)
"I think the solution is for artists to make better music."
Of course it is...or its your duty as a listener not to buy music (or 'aquire it' by any means) from folks that refuse to write consistantly good music. I wouldn't buy a Steven King book if 70% of the pages were bullshit filler.
Oh wait...I think thats why I stopped buying them...
Heh! His short stories rock...its like reading his 500 Page Epics with the middle 400 Pages ripped out (which actually works pretty well if you do buy one of his epics...you really loose nothing of the plot).
"Also, they mention the 'Publishers Cut' on there, but forget to note that the label is usually the publisher (most will work very hard to keep the rights to any songs you write, they will also work hard to keep you from releasing covers of songs they didn't write"
Actually, if you look at most albums, you will see a publishing company next to the name of the song title...generally its some wierd name you've never heard of but always associated with that person.
For instance, as I strugle to think of one, I believe Nine Inch Nail's always uses the moniker of Leaving Hope Music as their publisher...its Reznor's personal publishing company. What do ya have to do to have a publishing company? Register it with Harry Fox or ASCAP or one of the others. I think its like $100 and they will collect the publishing fees for a small percentage. Hell, if you didn't have a publisher before and your songs were released, they will even look in places that collect these things and retrieve them for you...a friend did some work on an Anime series in the late 80s to get him through a dry spell. Payed up front BUT they released the music from the album after the series got popular. When he got his new record deal, he ended up starting up another publishing company and they went out and looked for uncollected royalties and found about $10k for him from the Asian Market from 10 years ago for stuff he'd completely forgotten about.
As I mentioned in another post, there is a reason most artists at least go for Co-Writting credit. Everyone knows Avril Lavine didn't write most of the songs off her last album, but anthing with her name on it is considered 50% her music (and the rest to 'The Matix' group) because she changed a word or a chord here or there...she was around this stuff before (I think her uncle was a MI attny or something) and wasn't stupid about this knowing that publishing is where the big bucks comes from a lot of times.
The publication royalties are VERY important and any musician that doesn't know this is an idiot. Any decent management would let the artist know this BEFORE they go into the studio...after all, the management generally gets 10% of the artists take (paid by the artist) and would be silly to let half the potential cash go unclaimed.
But you are right...in Country and Western and pop, its not uncommon for the artists to never write their own songs...if they were smart, they'd do like Elvis and Sinatra did and demand 50% cuts for putting the song on the album in the first place -- even if the song was written 10 years ago and sat in a catalogue unused. But then we'd have to complain about artists abusing their power the same way labels did...
People that don't like the artists will pay per song. I for one, use iTunes as a way to demo if I'm going to like an album and buy a song or two and THEN buy the album so I can have the liner notes and all that. I use to do the same with Napster -- great concept if people were honest. If I didn't like the song, it got deleted. If I liked it, the album was purchased.
People look at a single song as being only worth $1...honestly that is bullshit. Other songs are subsudized by the 'singles'. They might not be as good, but it would be a hard sell to price the single at $12 and the rest at $0.23. So they sell them equally, hoping the single will be a loss leader for the others.
Personally, if I were doing the iTunes thing, I would be pushing for my full albums to be purchased. Quite a few artists have it this way. I'd have a hard album that folks can buy with like 12 songs on it, but virtual albums of 3 or 4 songs for $4 each...it would be a compromise between spending $12 on an album that has one song I like and $1 where the artist gets screwed.
Then again, most of the artists I listen to are good songwritters and performers and thus whole albums make the best sense to me...the above example would be appropriate for flash in the pants pop divas and otherwise...
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Cripes!
I use to have to support that piece of crap YEARS ago. From my friends still at the company that I use to work for, they'd GLADY trade up to Exchange from Notes.
That says something.
If its ANYWHERE near as bad as it use to be, I would not wish this on my worst competitor.
OWA2000 is STILL a pain in the ass on the Mac. On the PC (where I ALWAYS have Outlook installed), its actually nice as it integrates into IE pretty well.
:-)
Its a shame it uses IE components to do so, and can't work well on Safari...hell, it doesn't even work well under IE5 for the Mac.
I will check this out though...thanks
Ok -- you've finally made sense. I was about the respond to the last message, and deleted it halfway though.
No -- Exchanges standards for how it operates and stores the messages does suck. I hate the fact I can't get to this stuff without using a crappy almost not supported web interface or having to remote desktop into a machine I reserve for this task on my iBook or G4.
Its got a horrible backend, BUT it does what us end users want it to do. I don't have to support these machines, so to me it works like magic. I know how to install Sendmail and all that, but as an end user the whole Exchange paradigm is exactly what we want and need.
"I just ripped Sting's newest CD, Sacred Love, to AAC at 224Kbps, absolutely excellent. I was getting ~14x ripping off a virtual CD driver"
:(
Heh! Thats the first album I ripped as well...but I was only getting about 4-6x speeds off my Dell
Sadly, I've been meaning to download one of his exclusive tracks, and it showed up in a tenth of the time it took to rip a single track. Doh! I think Apple is trying to tell me something....
I disagree --
Microsoft, for once, identified a problem and made a solution around it.
For my personal business with 12 employees total, we use sendmail and use a web based group management software.
BUT the minute you are talking about 30k worth of employees, you need something like this.
Exchange does what it needs to do -- its a business solution that businesses need and have asked for. You either haven't used it to its advantage or too idealistic (or more to the point, way too fucking cool...yeah...geek attitude gets the chick) and will never understand this need.
Again, I have searched for a solution that works for a large group of peoples and I haven't found one yet. As one of the other posters mentioned, Kolab and Kontact might be potential competitors in the future -- but they have a LONG way to go right now.
Because Exchange is MUCH more than an email solution.
If you don't know this, you honestly shouldn't be making suggestions.
Microsoft *IS* insecure, but find a decent mail solution, that has scheduling and can also deal with groupware aspects such as Project in a single package...I'm not talking about individual packages...I'm talking ONE package that works seamlessly.
There are a lot of reason bosses ask for Exchange. The mail component is a small portion of this. With the new exchange server coming out later this year, it will be even better. I wish the Open Source community would get something better than this, but it hasn't happened yet -- even the individual packages as weak compared to what M$ can do.
And I say this as a certified M$ hater. I use their products at work, but I'm a Mac / Linux user at home (except when I pull up XP so I can play my video games).
Yeah -- unfortunately, I just signed a new contract 4 months ago...about 2 weeks before all of this started happening.
That and I'd prefer to keep my old number, thus I've been waiting for the number portability to go through. I've had the same number for about 5 years, and all my business coorespondance goes through this (I have customers that aren't web savy enough to find me there, but go a year or longer between coorespondances...)
It would cost too much to break the contract and if I did, it would be too much work to deal with all of this, and if I were simply to wait til November for the number portability to go through, I might be waiting yet another year because I'm certain someone will be filing a lawsuit with the FCC over this anyways as too cost prohibitive (more to the point, there are a few companies that generally rank at the bottom of the customer satisfaction stats that are going to be fighting this tooth and nail because they KNOW the only reason folks like me stick around is because our phone number is as important as our domain names).
Hmmm...who do we report for these sorts of things though?
:-)
I've had at least one call a day for the last month from Jack Price(???) Sports Entertainment offering me tips and all that with NO humans on the other end and no way to actually get in touch with someone. Sadly, by calling the number back TRYING to find someone there, thats when the calls actually started come EVERY DAY instead of just once every few days. I tried calling from my work number to do the same, and now I get a call on that number every few days (actually probably more...it never leaves a message, and I'm only in the office 30% of the time, thus, I don't know how often it calls). They probably consider the fact I called from a phone Prior Business Relationships and if called to in court would claim they only keep the last time I called them in record.
I tried the FCC and they actually refered me to my cell phone company stating that it may take 3 months to get off the no call list (after I FINALLY talked to someone) and while my cell provider - SprintPCS - is willing to charge me for these calls, they aren't willing to do anything about it.
Is there anyone we can refer to about this stuff? I swear that I will f'n beat the living shit out of this Jack Price guy at Sport Entertainment if I ever met him, so this is actually preventing a more serious crime
I thought it was already discussed that they were using specially designed software that would deal with the memory errors and redundancy.
Just because its not in hardware doesn't mean it can't be handled in software. Personally, I would assume it be slower to do it in software, but ECC really only helps correct for 1 flipped bit and can only note 2 flipped bits (without error correction). Maybe the software is a bit slower, but all in all more robust than this.
I don't know...I'm just an ignorant mac user...don't accept this as the truth...
"Whoops! I forgot, the problems with Windows ensure permanent employment for techies"
Hell yeah man!!!
Do you think we would PURPOSELY kill our employment? Back when I started at my job, they were considering switching to the PC from Macs. I convinced them that was the right choice.
Now I don't have to worry that this was the right choice as its the right choice for me. I stay employed and they think I'm doing something because I'm running around like a mad man keeping my office together and now that we are a M$ office, I have put 3 other techies to work to help me out.
With the Mac office, it was ONLY me and I was doing nothing most of the day.
I do however run 2 OS X machines at home...I don't have the time to deal with PCs except for gameplay there (waiting to see how well Quake runs on the G5s before I switch up and finally get rid of my last Win Box and move it to being another Linux box....)
No Macs For Businesses!!!!
Thats it?
:-)
I called threatening to quit -- I haven't been on a contract since July of 2000, so I could have switched any time. I mentioned that I wanted to know about portability rules and was asking if Sprint had any intention of lawsuits to delay it.
The retention people offered me 750Minutes, Unlimited Night / Weekend (starting at 8PM) and free PCS2PCS...for the SAME money. Unlimited Wireless Web will be an extra $5 which I will get *IF* the SonyErikson T608 is ever released (and it PROBABLY will be released, just no one knows when...)
Hit one of the Sprint users groups and you will find your plans SUCK...could have EASILY gotten a LOT more
You are VERY right.
The original poster should edit his post to say 94.5%.
"If a certain percentage of them recieve the same email in a specified amount of time then they can designate it as spam and delete it from all the mail servers."
Mailing Lists...
Thats the big problem. I run a few mailing lists and I'm on a few others. I was on a spam filter just like this.
You get idiots that don't know how to subscribe, so they just press THIS IS SPAM button and then it filters its headers and otherwise out to everyone else on this service telling them its spam, and then after a while that list is just blocked.
This sort of thing was easy for me to fix...I'm a geek. I would periodically (like every few hours...kinda mitigating the idea of a spam filter) check my deleted messages and click the THIS IS NOT SPAM button and I would get it again.
BUT every so often, folks would start complaining on the mailing lists...they might be good musicians or great psychologists (depending on which list I was admining), but piss poor geeks (which is why I'm around). I'd look and they'd be getting the messages. I'd throw in an hour or two of free support only to find out they are running a spam filter their wife / husband / son / secretary / whomever installed...and it was categorizing this stuff as spam.
Its a good idea, but until we can moderate the idiots that continually click on anything they don't want to deal with as Spam, then we will have a problem.
Yup -- the good guys always use Macs...and on the Mac mailing lists, some of the 24 geeks (I love that show...and occasionally look at the 24 spoiler sites...not sure if I'm at their level though). But several threads popped up when Nina started using the Dell in the first season...she started off using a Mac...they believed it was symbolic of her gradual move to the dark side.
Sooo...knowing Macs are used by the good guys, why shouldn't M$ go for the side of evil. Evil has a LOT more money and there are a lot more folks on that side of things than would be willing to be good because being good means making choices that most folks just really wouldn't want to take on...
M$ need to make a DeathStar PC. Something that looks evil incarnate. Something that says Bad Motherfucker on the side. Something that a goody goody wouldn't use. Something that impresses upon you that its YOUR job to keep it up to date, because their ain't no hand holding out in the fronteers and virus protection ain't our concern.
Microsoft needs to embrace its position in the world and stop trying to run to Jobs every few years to ask him for a little Karma. Microsoft needs to impress upon folks that they are not the best, but if you fucking want to get anywhere, you will pay the fucking $300 a year to keep your PC up to date. Its racketteering...but done right, they can do it -- as they are now -- but make those of us out there that feel we'd been slipped the Anal Ease and know the worst is yet to come, know that this is how it is, it might not be how it should be, but if you don't like it, you are welcome to join the pansies using wussie OSs like X.
I would respect them far more if they did this...maybe I'd not be typing this on a cute little iBook that always attracts chicks in the coffee houses but negates any cool points I might have with hard core geeks (even though if you looked at my screen, I'm probably in terminal SSH'd somewhere else)...
Back when I was helping a friend with his startup ISP, a few customers just decided they weren't going to pay. Our names were on the domain and the registration, and we were pretty nice about all of this until one of the guys let on that the others KNEW that we'd never turn them off because we were too nice to be in business and that they had all talked and decided if we were going to force them to pay, they'd go with one of the other guys (former friend) that had started an webhosting business himself.
I ended up redirecting those guys domains to porn sites and removing their names from the registration to ensure that it had to come though us.
That was my last task before I decided they were right...I don't like being a jerk and certain sectors in business were not what I wanted to deal with if thats what ya had to be, and I picked up my current university gig (as well as freeing me up for my other consulting gig -- see above URL).
Sadly, my former partner didn't agree with my opinion that he should keep those domain names current so they never could get them back. Joker is like $7 a year, and that would have been about $35 at most...well worth it...about 6 months after this, they started getting their domains back, but without the traffic they use to get.
There is always two sides to these stories...I don't know the other side of the story with the original poster, BUT there is probably something we aren't hearing (even if the guy IS morally correct).
"(a typical psychology study uses 10 college students for its sample)."
Really? Are you talking a psychological study from an undergrads perspective, a graduate perspective or a postgraduate?
My department does a LOT of psychological study at Indiana University...unless the study actively involves college students, we don't seek them out. Heck, I don't remember last time I did a study with 10 folks in our PILOT group (i.e., to work out bugs in administration and otherwise), let alone a full study. Heck, we were a little pissed a few weeks ago as we were contracted to do a pilot study and work up the methods and all that crap...unfortunately we WANTED to get 200 folks just for that pilot...we only got 186. Thats 186 pieces of information that will ultimately be discarded before the REAL study with at LEAST 10x that amount goes public.
Heck, for the last master's thesis I was helping with (the kiddies ask for my help since I do this daily) 200 students was a small amount...yeah...the ultimate goal of that is to get it published, but its more of a "Look What We Found -- Give Us Some Money To Prove This Is *REALLY* What My Hypothesis Says".
I always have trouble with folks that aren't involved with a field for their willingness to draw sweeping conclusions from their tiny, and generally imaginary, homogenious life experience.
Or you can get a QT Compliant player and do it just the same.
OR you can use RealPlayer that installs spyware even with the paid version. Or contribute to the Evil Empire.
Funny thing is, I don't know of ANY decent media streaming servers -- and note the qualifier -- that offers their server for free...and gives the source so you can build it for any OS.
So the payment method is shifted. Anyone that NEEDS fullscreen pays for it. Anyone that needs it but doesn't want to pay for it simply uses the codecs Apple provides and uses another container. Apple provides ALL the hooks for anyone that wants to do this and doesn't abstract something and then hide them like other companies.
So, you pay $30 for convience and for the ability to have a nice brushed metal environment on your windows and nothing else. Well, and the ability to edit in the window...and save from the window instead of digging the file out of cache (that too is free)...and several other things that I'm forgetting.
$30 isn't much. If you can't afford it, then don't bitch. Get a job and stop whining. We don't care. Even a job flipping burgers will pay for that $30 in aproximately 5 hours. Of course, that is only for those too lazy to do a little research to find out that Quicktime CAN play fullscreen...you just have to download other items. If you can download a 50Meg trailer, you've obviously gotten a fast pipe or some other form to obtain data. Use it.
I fucking hate whiners that throw bad arguements and then lack the logic to understand one's counterarguements are not correct and there has been no agreement. Maybe you should go work with Darl...he needs idiots that can see words that are not there and represent them to the public in sanitized form.
Full Screen?
:-).
Of course it can. Either pay for QuicktimePro that allows you to do this ($30) or get an alternative player to do so. On the Mac, you can even send an AppleScript event to the player and it will force the override even if you haven't paid for it.
I think there is something similar on the PC, but whenever I've wanted to show off and show one of these vids...I've always gone to the Mac because it makes the presentation look nicer (read prettier machines
True...I threw out bogus numbers in a rush. I guess I shouldn't complain about someone's $0.000000083 if I can't even write down a standard royalty rate :-)
:-)
/.'rs throw out on this subject never ceases to amaze me...
Regardless, the point is -- the money is in the publishing. An artist who performs AND composes will get quite a bit more than just performing. Too many folks don't count this in with the $$$ the artist is making and it definately factors into the cash because as you say -- that DOESN'T come out of advances or otherwise. It comes out of the MSRP of every album sold (well at least until it becomes a cut out...but thats a different set of crap
Thanks for setting me straight...too much crap to deal with at work, but the bullshit most
No need to.
The law is the law and any decent musician will know that no matter what it is, if someone elses lawyer is better than yours you will have to pay up.
I've got a neighbor that is a lawyer...while he was gone for a week the city ripped up the sidewalks and put in safer sidewalks that weren't cracked and broken and otherwise. This asshole had a lot of time on his hands and sued because he claimed his greyed broken concrete walkway was historic (in front of a newish home) and eventually won when the city decided it wasn't worth the effort.
Most of these go before juries that are not experts in the law and have no clue and go with the guy that makes the best arguments and not the one that is actually in right of the law.
Several of the cases you've presented actually had the defendant pretty much give the case over upon crossexamination and thus dictated future rules. For instance, Harrison pretty much stated that he might have heard the song and expressed an idea that he occasionally worked others songs into his own and it went downhill from there.
Quite a few other cases listed that effected copyright rules because of the uninformed making rulings -- and then other rulings actually VERY informed such as the Luther Campbell (Luke Skyywalker and 2 Live Crew) that DID make a lot of sense.
Just because you put something down electronically and someone disagrees with your sentiments to the point of not wanting to even comment on them doesn't mean the folks on the other end of the screen didn't read the link.
By the logic of the US -- ANYONE can sue anyone and present a valid case...that doesn't mean that it truely is the intended spirit of the law. Personally, I think we need to get rid of the amature jury system and actually pay folks that know what they are doing (in a copyright case, one might expect a copyright lawyer in another non-connected field to sit in on the jury). It would definately have made differences in many cases...I can think of things like the OJ Simpson trial for one where folks didn't even know what REASONABLE GUILT meant. Hmmm...800Million : 1, but its possible so its probable, so he must be innocent.
Just because you know a Sonnet or Haiku both have specific formats and sometimes themes, doesn't mean you can't write something original.
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Everything is based off something else. Its what YOU bring to it that makes it yours. How many '50s rock songs all have the same damn chord structure and riffs. I drove across country with my father and all he played with that stuff (and doowop)...every single song sounded exactly the same as the others. To him, they were all unique and special.
Does this mean one can never write an original piece of software either? They follow the same semantic guidlines and a lot of times the UI is the same (because they are using the same libraries as the OS offers).
Originality is really not that hard to come by. Proving that you are making an original thought, however, might be
Hmmm...I've always paid $3 or $4 for a single...generally they have 2 or 3 extra songs along with a remix.
Never saw one for only $1 at the store.
Hell, most of the 'singles' I buy I spend upwards of $10 on because they have remixes I REALLY want. Again, that one song is worth the money to me...
"I think the solution is for artists to make better music."
Of course it is...or its your duty as a listener not to buy music (or 'aquire it' by any means) from folks that refuse to write consistantly good music. I wouldn't buy a Steven King book if 70% of the pages were bullshit filler.
Oh wait...I think thats why I stopped buying them...
Heh! His short stories rock...its like reading his 500 Page Epics with the middle 400 Pages ripped out (which actually works pretty well if you do buy one of his epics...you really loose nothing of the plot).
"Also, they mention the 'Publishers Cut' on there, but forget to note that the label is usually the publisher (most will work very hard to keep the rights to any songs you write, they will also work hard to keep you from releasing covers of songs they didn't write"
Actually, if you look at most albums, you will see a publishing company next to the name of the song title...generally its some wierd name you've never heard of but always associated with that person.
For instance, as I strugle to think of one, I believe Nine Inch Nail's always uses the moniker of Leaving Hope Music as their publisher...its Reznor's personal publishing company. What do ya have to do to have a publishing company? Register it with Harry Fox or ASCAP or one of the others. I think its like $100 and they will collect the publishing fees for a small percentage. Hell, if you didn't have a publisher before and your songs were released, they will even look in places that collect these things and retrieve them for you...a friend did some work on an Anime series in the late 80s to get him through a dry spell. Payed up front BUT they released the music from the album after the series got popular. When he got his new record deal, he ended up starting up another publishing company and they went out and looked for uncollected royalties and found about $10k for him from the Asian Market from 10 years ago for stuff he'd completely forgotten about.
As I mentioned in another post, there is a reason most artists at least go for Co-Writting credit. Everyone knows Avril Lavine didn't write most of the songs off her last album, but anthing with her name on it is considered 50% her music (and the rest to 'The Matix' group) because she changed a word or a chord here or there...she was around this stuff before (I think her uncle was a MI attny or something) and wasn't stupid about this knowing that publishing is where the big bucks comes from a lot of times.
The publication royalties are VERY important and any musician that doesn't know this is an idiot. Any decent management would let the artist know this BEFORE they go into the studio...after all, the management generally gets 10% of the artists take (paid by the artist) and would be silly to let half the potential cash go unclaimed.
But you are right...in Country and Western and pop, its not uncommon for the artists to never write their own songs...if they were smart, they'd do like Elvis and Sinatra did and demand 50% cuts for putting the song on the album in the first place -- even if the song was written 10 years ago and sat in a catalogue unused. But then we'd have to complain about artists abusing their power the same way labels did...
This has been the case for about a year now?
People that don't like the artists will pay per song. I for one, use iTunes as a way to demo if I'm going to like an album and buy a song or two and THEN buy the album so I can have the liner notes and all that. I use to do the same with Napster -- great concept if people were honest. If I didn't like the song, it got deleted. If I liked it, the album was purchased.
People look at a single song as being only worth $1...honestly that is bullshit. Other songs are subsudized by the 'singles'. They might not be as good, but it would be a hard sell to price the single at $12 and the rest at $0.23. So they sell them equally, hoping the single will be a loss leader for the others.
Personally, if I were doing the iTunes thing, I would be pushing for my full albums to be purchased. Quite a few artists have it this way. I'd have a hard album that folks can buy with like 12 songs on it, but virtual albums of 3 or 4 songs for $4 each...it would be a compromise between spending $12 on an album that has one song I like and $1 where the artist gets screwed.
Then again, most of the artists I listen to are good songwritters and performers and thus whole albums make the best sense to me...the above example would be appropriate for flash in the pants pop divas and otherwise...