I do agree that copyright laws at the present are not beneficial to the public or the artist. There should be some term where exclusive copyright is granted to the artist, but at the present that term is far too long.
Also you might want to rethink your progression of why society is enriched by art (for art please include music/film/plays/etc). To paraphrase: "Picasso could make a living by selling works." In your defense of eradicating copyright: "4) The public not paying for works, access to works."
The kid studies martial arts. You can probably infer that he doesn't have motor-coordination issues. Seeing no point in games is not a big clue that he is socially inept. It means he doesn't like playing games.
With Firefox3 you right click on the search box and select "create keyword for this search". Makes it a lot easier than that whole %S bullshit that you used to have to do.
Hell even in a third-world country like South Korea you can get that (1000/1000) in Seoul or Busan. It costs a little more than the readily and cheaply available 100/100 connection, but it's there. I just moved back to Vancouver and I'm about ready to give up on the internet altogether.
Could you tell me where this free 303 emulator is? Unless you mean Rebirth. Which of course is free now, but only because it's been discontinued by Propellerhead.
I've never had any problems. A properly seeded football match takes about 2-3 minutes to DL. I think the speedtest result is skewed because I have definitely seen upload speeds faster than that when seeding something (not just burst either).
Who modded this insightful? Someone who's either never been to Korea, or been spurned by a Korean girl. Since this is Slashdot, I know where I'd lay my wager...
On Demand TV/Movies are already here. With my connection, what happens is they play about 45 seconds of commercials (varies depending on size of file being streamed) while the settop box buffers enough of the file so that the rest of the file can download while you watch. I'm not entirely sure of the internal workings, but the file seems to stay in memory for 3 days. TV is usually free (except for the most popular shows, and then it's a very minimal charge for only the most recent episode). There is a wide selection of movies, from free up to about $3.00/movie (depending on the exchange rate). With pay movies you have 3 days to watch the movie, you can pause it and come back to it, watch it more than once etc. This is a 100Mbps connection. For this service+internet I pay about $20/month. I am not looking forward to going back to Canada.:(
As for TFA, for us sedentary desk-jockeys, we think of "exercise" as healthy, but anyone who has played a sport in some sort of serious way has probably noticed that athletics at this level is not healthy, it's damaging to the body, it doesn't surprise me that the brain is no exception. I played competitive ultimate frisbee on a regular basis for several years and I was beginning to get knee trouble. Looking at the health problems some of the older players had was enough to make me quit. I'd much rather still be able to walk when I'm 50 thank you.
Since we're going on anecdotal evidence here, let's take my experience. I am currently 34 years of age. I've played soccer competitively (the league below what is now MLS), played ultimate competitively, played basketball in high school and basically been involved in competitive sports for about two-thirds of my life. I've broken my wrist once, and all of my fingers. Other than that, clean bill of health. Only a few of my friends have suffered any sort of really debilitating sorts of injuries. Proper preparation helps to reduce injury, stretching and warming up is vital. The other vital component to staying healthy is to know when to rest your body. As for being a sedentary desk jockey, Linux will be ready for the desktop before I become an office drone....
They don't actually buy the panels, Sony and Samsung run a joint operation that has 3 factories in South Korea to manufacture the panels. However the electronics and so on are made outside of that joint corporation. I definitely agree that you pay extra for the sony brand, and it's not a worthwhile tax.
There is a difference between providing a computer device that does just one thing and does it well, and going a step further and preventing it from doing anything else. From the manufacturer's perspective there are good reasons to do this - that, however, does not mean that I have to like it.
Has apple really "prevented" people who like to hack from altering their iPod Touch and iPhone? I would argue that they have not. If you have the desire to do so, it is incredibly easy to jailbreak your iPoT/iPhone. Yes, there have been some firmware updates which negate those jailbreaks, but apple have offered increased functionality with those firmware updates, and don't seem to be doing it out of malice. To the best of my knowledge none of the people doing the hacking have been slapped with a C&D notice. None of the sites that revolve around the hacked ecosystem have been threatened with legal notices. None of the people owning a hacked device have been sued.
So it seems to me that Apple have created devices that are easy to use out of the box, and are also able to go a step further; provided the owner of the device is willing to assume the risk that taking that extra step entails (and as a quick aside, if one ever happens to wreck their machine via hacked software, it is trivial to restore the machine to its original state using iTunes).
if you're using mouse gestures already, why don't you just use them to navigate through tabs?
Or if your hand is already on the mouse, just use the mouse?
The only effect this will have in the real world is that more WoW players will sit on their fat asses for a longer time. On a scale of 1 to 10 for stuff that matters this rates about -4. How the heck did the parent post get modded insightful? Inconceivable.
JUCHE - is the North Korean state ideology. It means "spirit of self-reliance" or "spirit of independance". It is literally everything to the North Korean people, so I can see the joke the OP is making in his sig.
...at the same time, most recording studios probably work with headphones far more than they work with speakers.
This is incorrect. For recording music, the performers will have headphones on so they can listen to other parts of the song without having it bleed into the microphones (although with the sensitivity of some microphones, even this can be a problem!). The engineer and producer will do all the recording using studio monitors. When they come to the mixdown, they will mix on a variety of listening sources, including headphones, but primarily on different types of speakers. I would estimate they spend maybe 85% of the time listening on monitors.
I've never worked in a post-production facility, but I have visited a few, and they all seemed to be using monitors rather than heaphones.
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I do agree that copyright laws at the present are not beneficial to the public or the artist. There should be some term where exclusive copyright is granted to the artist, but at the present that term is far too long.
Also you might want to rethink your progression of why society is enriched by art (for art please include music/film/plays/etc). To paraphrase: "Picasso could make a living by selling works." In your defense of eradicating copyright: "4) The public not paying for works, access to works."
It's interesting that you use Picasso as an example, because France had some pretty strict copyright laws. And they continue to enforce them.
http://www.picasso.fr/us/picasso_page_right-copyright.php
The kid studies martial arts. You can probably infer that he doesn't have motor-coordination issues.
Seeing no point in games is not a big clue that he is socially inept. It means he doesn't like playing games.
With Firefox3 you right click on the search box and select "create keyword for this search". Makes it a lot easier than that whole %S bullshit that you used to have to do.
Hell even in a third-world country like South Korea you can get that (1000/1000) in Seoul or Busan. It costs a little more than the readily and cheaply available 100/100 connection, but it's there. I just moved back to Vancouver and I'm about ready to give up on the internet altogether.
Could you tell me where this free 303 emulator is?
Unless you mean Rebirth. Which of course is free now, but only because it's been discontinued by Propellerhead.
I've never had any problems. A properly seeded football match takes about 2-3 minutes to DL. I think the speedtest result is skewed because I have definitely seen upload speeds faster than that when seeding something (not just burst either).
Who modded this insightful? Someone who's either never been to Korea, or been spurned by a Korean girl. Since this is Slashdot, I know where I'd lay my wager...
While it's true that Koreans do enjoy Hormel Spam a great deal more than the average westerner, they will not pay more for it than beef steak.
Well this is what I get here in Seoul: Speedtest result here
sorry, 1000Mbps
On Demand TV/Movies are already here. With my connection, what happens is they play about 45 seconds of commercials (varies depending on size of file being streamed) while the settop box buffers enough of the file so that the rest of the file can download while you watch. I'm not entirely sure of the internal workings, but the file seems to stay in memory for 3 days. TV is usually free (except for the most popular shows, and then it's a very minimal charge for only the most recent episode). There is a wide selection of movies, from free up to about $3.00/movie (depending on the exchange rate). With pay movies you have 3 days to watch the movie, you can pause it and come back to it, watch it more than once etc.
This is a 100Mbps connection. For this service+internet I pay about $20/month.
I am not looking forward to going back to Canada.:(
The human wreckage going by the name of Paul Gascoigne or Diego Maradona has nothing to do with blows to the head.
But everything to do with blow in the head.
As for TFA, for us sedentary desk-jockeys, we think of "exercise" as healthy, but anyone who has played a sport in some sort of serious way has probably noticed that athletics at this level is not healthy, it's damaging to the body, it doesn't surprise me that the brain is no exception. I played competitive ultimate frisbee on a regular basis for several years and I was beginning to get knee trouble. Looking at the health problems some of the older players had was enough to make me quit. I'd much rather still be able to walk when I'm 50 thank you.
Since we're going on anecdotal evidence here, let's take my experience. I am currently 34 years of age. I've played soccer competitively (the league below what is now MLS), played ultimate competitively, played basketball in high school and basically been involved in competitive sports for about two-thirds of my life. I've broken my wrist once, and all of my fingers. Other than that, clean bill of health. Only a few of my friends have suffered any sort of really debilitating sorts of injuries. Proper preparation helps to reduce injury, stretching and warming up is vital.
The other vital component to staying healthy is to know when to rest your body. As for being a sedentary desk jockey, Linux will be ready for the desktop before I become an office drone....
They don't actually buy the panels, Sony and Samsung run a joint operation that has 3 factories in South Korea to manufacture the panels. However the electronics and so on are made outside of that joint corporation. I definitely agree that you pay extra for the sony brand, and it's not a worthwhile tax.
I wonder who did the soundtrack.
whoops. stupid mod. undo undo undo!
There is a difference between providing a computer device that does just one thing and does it well, and going a step further and preventing it from doing anything else. From the manufacturer's perspective there are good reasons to do this - that, however, does not mean that I have to like it.
Has apple really "prevented" people who like to hack from altering their iPod Touch and iPhone? I would argue that they have not. If you have the desire to do so, it is incredibly easy to jailbreak your iPoT/iPhone. Yes, there have been some firmware updates which negate those jailbreaks, but apple have offered increased functionality with those firmware updates, and don't seem to be doing it out of malice.
To the best of my knowledge none of the people doing the hacking have been slapped with a C&D notice. None of the sites that revolve around the hacked ecosystem have been threatened with legal notices. None of the people owning a hacked device have been sued.
So it seems to me that Apple have created devices that are easy to use out of the box, and are also able to go a step further; provided the owner of the device is willing to assume the risk that taking that extra step entails (and as a quick aside, if one ever happens to wreck their machine via hacked software, it is trivial to restore the machine to its original state using iTunes).
if you're using mouse gestures already, why don't you just use them to navigate through tabs? Or if your hand is already on the mouse, just use the mouse?
whoops. that should have been insightful, not informative...
The only effect this will have in the real world is that more WoW players will sit on their fat asses for a longer time. On a scale of 1 to 10 for stuff that matters this rates about -4. How the heck did the parent post get modded insightful? Inconceivable.
So is ARSS basically a FOSS implementation of Metasynth? Cool if it is. Especially if you keep up development.
JUCHE - is the North Korean state ideology. It means "spirit of self-reliance" or "spirit of independance". It is literally everything to the North Korean people, so I can see the joke the OP is making in his sig.
Cymbals do produce overtones. They are inharmonic (or partials, if you will). You're getting harmonics and overtones mixed up.Citation needed?
...at the same time, most recording studios probably work with headphones far more than they work with speakers.
This is incorrect. For recording music, the performers will have headphones on so they can listen to other parts of the song without having it bleed into the microphones (although with the sensitivity of some microphones, even this can be a problem!). The engineer and producer will do all the recording using studio monitors. When they come to the mixdown, they will mix on a variety of listening sources, including headphones, but primarily on different types of speakers. I would estimate they spend maybe 85% of the time listening on monitors.
I've never worked in a post-production facility, but I have visited a few, and they all seemed to be using monitors rather than heaphones.
Well, they're on the way. ckBot is an awesome beginning to this type of robot. Have a quick gander at this youtube clip.
ckBot broken apart and comes back together