Actually it's both. There are limits that must be met before criminal prosecution can set in but you can be fined and/or imprisoned for infringing copyrights, typically through distribution for financial gain.
No you don't. Contrary to popular belief, at least popular/. belief, vinyl still works as long as you don't throw out your phonograph player simply because casettes came out. Same goes for casettes though they wear out if they are played too many times. There is no need to repurchase your music collection on the latest and greatest audio device. Personally I like the physical distribution of music because I can choose how to encode it for my computer or digital music player.
"this could be the beginning of the end for the audio CD."...about anyone else but I don't want the audio CD to go away. I'm quite happy with the CD and if I want to put music on my computer I'll rip it myself. My computer is not in the same room where I would notmally play CDs when entertaining anyway.
Yes but traffic in the oncoming lane will be stopped as well. Not only that but in many states it is the law that you pull to the side of the road to allow emergency vehicles to pass.
...have the change event turn all the lights in the intersection go red. Emergency vehicles will allowed to pass through the intersection AND the intersection will be cleared of any vehicles. Who would want a device that turns lights at an intersection all red? Problem solved.
You know, I would have thought this was simply another conspiracy theory on/. created to stir up controversy and debate. However, after reading this and this on Think Secret the other day I'm not so sure. This isn't the first not will it likely be the last transgression at this level pulled by Apple.
I wonder how this is going to affect applications like Maya. Hollywood was converting a lot of workstations to RedHat and running Maya on them. Does the RedHat Enterprise support cover workstations at major post-production and effects shops? If not either Windows or MacOS X just got a big bump of users.
You're forgetting the part of the equation that deals with development time = drain on profits and if this drain > profits then it's not worth investing the development time.
Is that going to be anything like the Open Source legal advice you get here on/.?
geek#1: I have this rash on my ass and I can't find anything in the man, wiki or google about it. Anyone have an idea what this is and what I can do about it?
Excuse me "Mr. +4 Interesting" but the Apple iTunes store is populated with thousands of artists and songs whose record labels are part of the RIAA. The iTunes store also works with the RIAA to ensure the music is delivered in a way so as to limit widespread illegal distribution of the songs downloaded from the service. iTunes is as much an experiment for Apple as it is for the RIAA.
"The only thing that bugs me about the current american driving situation is how easy it is to "fix" tickets."
That's the only thing that bugs you about driving in the States? You shoudl try driving in Boston sometime. This will quickly drop to about number 1000 on your list. My biggest problem is the relative ease with which anyone can legally get a driver's license. Hell, my original Alabama license included not only regular motor vehicles but motorcycles as well but I never took a motorcycle competancy test, written or practical. When I moved to Boston, they converted my license, motorcycle and all without any questions. I still have not taken any competancy tests for driving a motorcycle (learned how from a friend in college though) but I can legally drive one all the same. Number two on my list would be those arrogant fcks who pull out into traffic assuming I'm going to stop and let them in. They're lucky I can't afford a Hummer H1 because there would be a lot of cars in Boston missing their front ends.
No my friend, there are far greater problems in the States concerning the driving situation. Fixing tickets is very low on the list of problems, being beaten out by teenage stupidity behind the wheel, old people being allowed to drive enormous boats (hell, being allowed to drive at all), cell phones, and self-absorbed assholes to name a measley few.
Do you see any anisotrophic highlights in the grey window border elements? No? Then it wouldn't be brushed metal, it would be a grey gradient now wouldn't it? Besides, this is an interim UI for the alpha and quite likely the beta. The final UI, much like with XP won't be introduced until the OS is well on its way and close to release.
"Please allow me to remind you that the DMCA passed through the Senate unapposed..."
The Clinton Administration allowed the DMCA to be passed you ignoratnt fucktard. I'm not defending Bush, I'm just pointing our your ignorance so don't blame the messenger (me).
"As for your example... I'm pretty sure a corrupt dealer and mechanic could either BLANK your black box, or replace it with a blank one without your knowledge, anyway.
That, of course, brings up another possibilty - how long until someone hacks the black box through the standard dataport and starts selling a module to fake the recording to ensure it complies with your version of events?"
Which would likely be as illegal as turning back the odometer and it seems it would be just as easy to discover by etching the vin number onto the black box itself. If the vin numbers don't match you had better have a damn good excuse.
While this is not specifically what you are asking for, Adobe has a very cool SVG demo (click on the visual building search, SVG plug-in required) that allows one to visually browse a buildings personell directory. All you would need to do is add a search to this page and have automatically go to the tower and floor and then highlight the proper office.
I'm with you there. I'd like to add that I also prefer the toned down color scheme that offers a bit more clarity. Typically I use Streets and Trips on both my desktop and my PDA (exteremly handy on the PDA) but when these aren't handy I always use Mappoint.
And what will protect software once copyright is removed? Licenses? Good faith? Fairy and pixie dust? Yeah, contract law is going to improve the system for the better. RMS is the most short-sighted, ignorant person I know if he thinks eliminating copyright is a good idea.
OK, here's the endorsement from someone who has worked with Photoshop since v 2.5 and has a MFA in Graphic Design. While I don't agree necessarily with his overall tone, his points are rather accurate. Also, I'd like to point out that while Photoshop does not come with the source code, it does come with an excellent SDK and scripting plug-in that will allow you to extend the features of Photoshop quite nicely. Putting this stuff into the source code is not the answer, adding it on through plug-ins and scripts is.
All I see here are knee jerk anti-MS responses from people who likely do nor even run Windows, much less WMP9. I personally don't keep large collections of music on my computer fora number of reasons but I happen to know about WMP9 and the services it does offer. While not complete, Microsoft is working wth other companies to integrate their digital music offerings into WMP9 so users will have one media player with access to as many digital audio and video online stores as sign up with Microsoft to offer their service through WMP9. Currently Napetsr 2.0, MusicNow and CinemaNow offer their services through the Premium Services tab of WMP9 but as more and more users begin to purchase music and video online more stores will likely be made available.
This is the choice MS is talking about that is lacking in Apple's iTunes. Apple has the media player, file format, music store and library control software all wrapped into one application with no in for third parties. In fact, when a third party developed a way to turn iTunes into a distributed jukebox Apple had them shut down and developed their own way to do this within iTunes.
The USAF Space Command, in conjunction with Vought and McDonnell Douglas began developing an ASAT program in 1979. The program was intended to counter the Soviet Union's development of 'killer' sattllites. Instead of using sattellites to destroy other sattellites howver, Vought and MD developed a missile that could be launched from a specialized F-15. The ASAT used a SRAM first stage and Altair III second stage rocket launched form the F-15 at 80,000 ft to intercept the sattellite and knock it from its orbit. The program was supposed to come to fruition in 1985 but I'm not really sure what ever happened to it. Since the USAF is relying less and less on the aging F-15s, perhaps this program is now dead.
I don''t pretend the RIAA represents musicians, I know they represent the record labels. It is the charter of the RIAA to protect the rights of its member companies and since they enter into contracts with musicians, trading licenses to their copyrights in return for advances and royalty payments, it is teh charter of the RIAA to protect copyrights. No one forces the musicians to enter into these contracts you know.
'..responses to Forbes' unfriendly description of the FSF -- for attempting to protect their copyrights -- as Linux's "hit men."'
Excuse me but isn't this the same site that villifies the RIAA and MPAA for protecting the copyrights of their member companies? So why is it ok for the FSF to protect their copyrights and not ok for the RIAA and MPAA? Don't bother answering that, it was rhetorical. I already know what a bunch of hypocrites the editors and many of the readers of Slashdot are.
"...eventually turning this system into the most unreliable source of news there is."
They have a long way to go before they surpass Slashdot for that title. I think I'll leave my money on the release of Duke Nukem within the next twenty years.
Slashdot Mirror
Actually it's both. There are limits that must be met before criminal prosecution can set in but you can be fined and/or imprisoned for infringing copyrights, typically through distribution for financial gain.
No you don't. Contrary to popular belief, at least popular /. belief, vinyl still works as long as you don't throw out your phonograph player simply because casettes came out. Same goes for casettes though they wear out if they are played too many times. There is no need to repurchase your music collection on the latest and greatest audio device. Personally I like the physical distribution of music because I can choose how to encode it for my computer or digital music player.
Why boycott /.? Just do what I did, point ads.osdn.com to 127.0.0.1 and you can ignore them altogether. Out of sight, out of mind.
Let me know when the Type-R model is available though.
"this could be the beginning of the end for the audio CD." ...about anyone else but I don't want the audio CD to go away. I'm quite happy with the CD and if I want to put music on my computer I'll rip it myself. My computer is not in the same room where I would notmally play CDs when entertaining anyway.
Yes but traffic in the oncoming lane will be stopped as well. Not only that but in many states it is the law that you pull to the side of the road to allow emergency vehicles to pass.
...have the change event turn all the lights in the intersection go red. Emergency vehicles will allowed to pass through the intersection AND the intersection will be cleared of any vehicles. Who would want a device that turns lights at an intersection all red? Problem solved.
You know, I would have thought this was simply another conspiracy theory on /. created to stir up controversy and debate. However, after reading this and this on Think Secret the other day I'm not so sure. This isn't the first not will it likely be the last transgression at this level pulled by Apple.
I wonder how this is going to affect applications like Maya. Hollywood was converting a lot of workstations to RedHat and running Maya on them. Does the RedHat Enterprise support cover workstations at major post-production and effects shops? If not either Windows or MacOS X just got a big bump of users.
You're forgetting the part of the equation that deals with development time = drain on profits and if this drain > profits then it's not worth investing the development time.
"- Open source healthcare"
/.?
Is that going to be anything like the Open Source legal advice you get here on
geek#1: I have this rash on my ass and I can't find anything in the man, wiki or google about it. Anyone have an idea what this is and what I can do about it?
geek#2: IANAD but...
Excuse me "Mr. +4 Interesting" but the Apple iTunes store is populated with thousands of artists and songs whose record labels are part of the RIAA. The iTunes store also works with the RIAA to ensure the music is delivered in a way so as to limit widespread illegal distribution of the songs downloaded from the service. iTunes is as much an experiment for Apple as it is for the RIAA.
"The only thing that bugs me about the current american driving situation is how easy it is to "fix" tickets."
That's the only thing that bugs you about driving in the States? You shoudl try driving in Boston sometime. This will quickly drop to about number 1000 on your list. My biggest problem is the relative ease with which anyone can legally get a driver's license. Hell, my original Alabama license included not only regular motor vehicles but motorcycles as well but I never took a motorcycle competancy test, written or practical. When I moved to Boston, they converted my license, motorcycle and all without any questions. I still have not taken any competancy tests for driving a motorcycle (learned how from a friend in college though) but I can legally drive one all the same. Number two on my list would be those arrogant fcks who pull out into traffic assuming I'm going to stop and let them in. They're lucky I can't afford a Hummer H1 because there would be a lot of cars in Boston missing their front ends.
No my friend, there are far greater problems in the States concerning the driving situation. Fixing tickets is very low on the list of problems, being beaten out by teenage stupidity behind the wheel, old people being allowed to drive enormous boats (hell, being allowed to drive at all), cell phones, and self-absorbed assholes to name a measley few.
Do you see any anisotrophic highlights in the grey window border elements? No? Then it wouldn't be brushed metal, it would be a grey gradient now wouldn't it? Besides, this is an interim UI for the alpha and quite likely the beta. The final UI, much like with XP won't be introduced until the OS is well on its way and close to release.
"Please allow me to remind you that the DMCA passed through the Senate unapposed..."
The Clinton Administration allowed the DMCA to be passed you ignoratnt fucktard. I'm not defending Bush, I'm just pointing our your ignorance so don't blame the messenger (me).
"As for your example... I'm pretty sure a corrupt dealer and mechanic could either BLANK your black box, or replace it with a blank one without your knowledge, anyway.
That, of course, brings up another possibilty - how long until someone hacks the black box through the standard dataport and starts selling a module to fake the recording to ensure it complies with your version of events?"
Which would likely be as illegal as turning back the odometer and it seems it would be just as easy to discover by etching the vin number onto the black box itself. If the vin numbers don't match you had better have a damn good excuse.
While this is not specifically what you are asking for, Adobe has a very cool SVG demo (click on the visual building search, SVG plug-in required) that allows one to visually browse a buildings personell directory. All you would need to do is add a search to this page and have automatically go to the tower and floor and then highlight the proper office.
I'm with you there. I'd like to add that I also prefer the toned down color scheme that offers a bit more clarity. Typically I use Streets and Trips on both my desktop and my PDA (exteremly handy on the PDA) but when these aren't handy I always use Mappoint.
"He is against COPYRIGHT on code."
And what will protect software once copyright is removed? Licenses? Good faith? Fairy and pixie dust? Yeah, contract law is going to improve the system for the better. RMS is the most short-sighted, ignorant person I know if he thinks eliminating copyright is a good idea.
OK, here's the endorsement from someone who has worked with Photoshop since v 2.5 and has a MFA in Graphic Design. While I don't agree necessarily with his overall tone, his points are rather accurate. Also, I'd like to point out that while Photoshop does not come with the source code, it does come with an excellent SDK and scripting plug-in that will allow you to extend the features of Photoshop quite nicely. Putting this stuff into the source code is not the answer, adding it on through plug-ins and scripts is.
All I see here are knee jerk anti-MS responses from people who likely do nor even run Windows, much less WMP9. I personally don't keep large collections of music on my computer fora number of reasons but I happen to know about WMP9 and the services it does offer. While not complete, Microsoft is working wth other companies to integrate their digital music offerings into WMP9 so users will have one media player with access to as many digital audio and video online stores as sign up with Microsoft to offer their service through WMP9. Currently Napetsr 2.0, MusicNow and CinemaNow offer their services through the Premium Services tab of WMP9 but as more and more users begin to purchase music and video online more stores will likely be made available.
This is the choice MS is talking about that is lacking in Apple's iTunes. Apple has the media player, file format, music store and library control software all wrapped into one application with no in for third parties. In fact, when a third party developed a way to turn iTunes into a distributed jukebox Apple had them shut down and developed their own way to do this within iTunes.
The USAF Space Command, in conjunction with Vought and McDonnell Douglas began developing an ASAT program in 1979. The program was intended to counter the Soviet Union's development of 'killer' sattllites. Instead of using sattellites to destroy other sattellites howver, Vought and MD developed a missile that could be launched from a specialized F-15. The ASAT used a SRAM first stage and Altair III second stage rocket launched form the F-15 at 80,000 ft to intercept the sattellite and knock it from its orbit. The program was supposed to come to fruition in 1985 but I'm not really sure what ever happened to it. Since the USAF is relying less and less on the aging F-15s, perhaps this program is now dead.
I don''t pretend the RIAA represents musicians, I know they represent the record labels. It is the charter of the RIAA to protect the rights of its member companies and since they enter into contracts with musicians, trading licenses to their copyrights in return for advances and royalty payments, it is teh charter of the RIAA to protect copyrights. No one forces the musicians to enter into these contracts you know.
'..responses to Forbes' unfriendly description of the FSF -- for attempting to protect their copyrights -- as Linux's "hit men."'
Excuse me but isn't this the same site that villifies the RIAA and MPAA for protecting the copyrights of their member companies? So why is it ok for the FSF to protect their copyrights and not ok for the RIAA and MPAA? Don't bother answering that, it was rhetorical. I already know what a bunch of hypocrites the editors and many of the readers of Slashdot are.
"...eventually turning this system into the most unreliable source of news there is."
They have a long way to go before they surpass Slashdot for that title. I think I'll leave my money on the release of Duke Nukem within the next twenty years.