And people wonder why the US is loosing so many people who can think logically, and make informed choices. When the culture is against the logical thinking people, and you have the chance to be able to move most people jump at it. Its better to be able to look back and go thank God I'm not there anymore, than to sit and watch your neighbors and country fall into social patterns seen more often in 1984, Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451.
Why look to Orwell and Rand - if they want something for keeping tabs on things in the legal market. Disney; who keeps managing to hold on to the copyright for their products multiple years after the original copyright should have left it in the hands of public domain.
I think the only thing that is safe to exist in Public Domain is patents atm, but if we let intellectual property slip how long till patents hold the same weight as copyright?
Unless your playing a Piano or other instrument that can hold such weight. Good luck being able to read it. From using my laptop in various band rooms. Your normal able to be beat up music stand - can't support the weight. Let along the multitude of thin wire one's loved by directors everywhere for their cheep price (and thus more money to instruments and care of such).
I would have loved such an option as this being a music librarian back in my music days when I could spend 5 hours copying scores so the originals didn't get beat up and could be left readable.
Which comes back to the point of if your going to digitize music like this - How are you going to be able to make notations for it? Your standard write it in with a pencil doesn't work. What about turning pages with efficiency? If the device freezes how screwed will your performers be?
WoD, there is no fortitude save, and it would be your Stamina as Physical Resistance Trait.
Though it makes me wonder why an Changeling would be reading/. and gaining Banality.
I don't know about notices, but I know when I was in college we we're all given notices of when to expect the servers to slow down because RIAA was scanned the university server for pirated music. I think they got like one kid who had an audio clip on their university website - which was all of please take this down.
3) They're probably not aware of your CD collection. But, what in Xenu's name are you doing torrenting an album you already own, when just putting the disc in the freaking drive gets you whatever quality (even Windows Media Player lets you do lossless!) correct tags, album art, and is done in a few minutes? In what case is finding a torrent faster than ripping the actual disc? Do you have a T3 line connected to a Windows 98 box with a dual-speed CD-ROM drive? And has anyone actually been sued for downloading their own CD collection?
I can think of when I had done that with my CD collection. It took 5 days of nothing but swapping out disks upon disks, and if it couldn't find the album on windows media player look up (i.e. some of the complication cd's they sell with all the good songs on them cheeply. Your still hand typing in your information.)
This was back before the age of P2P or iTunes - and then after the fact I still bought someof the new ones in CD and iTunes format because it took less time. What is easier setting something to download while you sleep - or sitting there with stacks of CD's for days?
I don't know about most people but I've had to deal not only with business but universities that had digital copies of things that we're copyrighted in their paper form, before the age of digital. They put the forms, books, and so on in things like pdf for mass distribution to either employee's or fellow students.
Does that mean that every student that downloads a pdf of the assignment because the book is no longer in print now infringes upon this law?
I remember from some classes having an excess of about 30 some MB of pdf files that were all reading assignments because the book came out in the 50's and there wasn't that much of a demand for it other than college students and professors so no one makes a profit off printing them. On the same case, does this law mean that we are then going to have to shut down project gutenberg? Who has access to classics free on the internet for the education of the masses to their classics, all of which are copyrighted in their current form last I checked by project gutenberg. Does that mean when I download and copy the plain text file so your average college student can do their homework off line mean that their computer is going to be confiscated each time they catch students doing homework?
Or what about businesses that bought corporate licenses of various software that only came with one user manual that had to make it a pdf for easier distribution (which I would like more than just killing tree's and cluttering my desk)?
That combined with a few other issues is why most people are having issues with them now. I'll admit I squeek by in being an old Millenial; but looking and having taught while I was in college other students it has an impact when you try and tell them its not good enough they get outraged.
I remember despite that yes it was in the 90's that we had a teacher that banned the use of any calculator in our math class at all. True he was an older teacher, but it made most of us learn how to either via paper or in our heads do math without the major crutch of technology.
I've always wanted to go back and thank him; after I moved schools that put me so far above other students that we're lost when it came to things like standardized tests that wouldn't allow you to use them.
And if you don't have a good teacher it does hurt. I had a teacher that was more concerned with small things and numbers that I still had to add together the table for 7,8,and 12 that I never memorized because the teacher wasn't bothered with it; and future one's expect you to know it.
In theory that would have a benefit for getting new blood in. From someone who almost went for their teaching certificate as well as my degree to have something to fall back on if the economy bottomed out.
Requirements to teach; at least 30 observational hours of just seeing how a class room works. I cannot remember the hours of student teaching that went into things (which was more often than not clunky for they we're not teaching in a manner they would like but at the direction of the supervising teacher).
I think three different types of background checks; which put most of my fellow college students back about 150.
And a TB test; of if you failed pushed you out completely of the program as you cannot work in education having a positive on the TB test.
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And people wonder why the US is loosing so many people who can think logically, and make informed choices. When the culture is against the logical thinking people, and you have the chance to be able to move most people jump at it. Its better to be able to look back and go thank God I'm not there anymore, than to sit and watch your neighbors and country fall into social patterns seen more often in 1984, Brave New World and Fahrenheit 451.
I think the only thing that is safe to exist in Public Domain is patents atm, but if we let intellectual property slip how long till patents hold the same weight as copyright?
I would have loved such an option as this being a music librarian back in my music days when I could spend 5 hours copying scores so the originals didn't get beat up and could be left readable.
Which comes back to the point of if your going to digitize music like this - How are you going to be able to make notations for it? Your standard write it in with a pencil doesn't work. What about turning pages with efficiency? If the device freezes how screwed will your performers be?
WoD, there is no fortitude save, and it would be your Stamina as Physical Resistance Trait. Though it makes me wonder why an Changeling would be reading /. and gaining Banality.
Organizations die, and then people later realize that they we're not so bad and restart it with only a fraction of the original founders (if any).
I don't know about notices, but I know when I was in college we we're all given notices of when to expect the servers to slow down because RIAA was scanned the university server for pirated music. I think they got like one kid who had an audio clip on their university website - which was all of please take this down.
3) They're probably not aware of your CD collection. But, what in Xenu's name are you doing torrenting an album you already own, when just putting the disc in the freaking drive gets you whatever quality (even Windows Media Player lets you do lossless!) correct tags, album art, and is done in a few minutes? In what case is finding a torrent faster than ripping the actual disc? Do you have a T3 line connected to a Windows 98 box with a dual-speed CD-ROM drive? And has anyone actually been sued for downloading their own CD collection?
I can think of when I had done that with my CD collection. It took 5 days of nothing but swapping out disks upon disks, and if it couldn't find the album on windows media player look up (i.e. some of the complication cd's they sell with all the good songs on them cheeply. Your still hand typing in your information.)This was back before the age of P2P or iTunes - and then after the fact I still bought someof the new ones in CD and iTunes format because it took less time. What is easier setting something to download while you sleep - or sitting there with stacks of CD's for days?
Does that mean that every student that downloads a pdf of the assignment because the book is no longer in print now infringes upon this law? I remember from some classes having an excess of about 30 some MB of pdf files that were all reading assignments because the book came out in the 50's and there wasn't that much of a demand for it other than college students and professors so no one makes a profit off printing them. On the same case, does this law mean that we are then going to have to shut down project gutenberg? Who has access to classics free on the internet for the education of the masses to their classics, all of which are copyrighted in their current form last I checked by project gutenberg. Does that mean when I download and copy the plain text file so your average college student can do their homework off line mean that their computer is going to be confiscated each time they catch students doing homework?
Or what about businesses that bought corporate licenses of various software that only came with one user manual that had to make it a pdf for easier distribution (which I would like more than just killing tree's and cluttering my desk)?
That combined with a few other issues is why most people are having issues with them now. I'll admit I squeek by in being an old Millenial; but looking and having taught while I was in college other students it has an impact when you try and tell them its not good enough they get outraged.
I've always wanted to go back and thank him; after I moved schools that put me so far above other students that we're lost when it came to things like standardized tests that wouldn't allow you to use them.
And if you don't have a good teacher it does hurt. I had a teacher that was more concerned with small things and numbers that I still had to add together the table for 7,8,and 12 that I never memorized because the teacher wasn't bothered with it; and future one's expect you to know it.
In theory that would have a benefit for getting new blood in. From someone who almost went for their teaching certificate as well as my degree to have something to fall back on if the economy bottomed out. Requirements to teach; at least 30 observational hours of just seeing how a class room works. I cannot remember the hours of student teaching that went into things (which was more often than not clunky for they we're not teaching in a manner they would like but at the direction of the supervising teacher). I think three different types of background checks; which put most of my fellow college students back about 150. And a TB test; of if you failed pushed you out completely of the program as you cannot work in education having a positive on the TB test.