While that looks to be a great Windows XP Media Center PC, I believe this is what the original poster was inquiring about.
While I have had no personal experience with this IA kit, I have had some experience with the MSN web service and I have to say it's really good, especially for users who aren't technically inclined. The MSN service doesn't hold your hand nearly as much as the AOL service but it offers the same integrated package that makes users feel comfortable.
It appears that this kit from RCA merely brings this service to the television set. I'd give it the thumbs up for users who want the internet but don't want to deal with the hassles of a computer. The only downside I can see to this is when one person wants to check e-mail or surf the web but the other is watching a football or baseball game on TV and doesn't want to give up the set.
...is no justice at all. Imagine if everyone felt they had the right to take the law into their own hands and dispense justice as they saw fit our legal system would become unbalanced. Individuals would place differing penalties based on their own moral judgments, not based on a standard of law. Judge, jury, executioner.
Indeed, not a short month or so ago the RIAA was proposing congress pass legislation which would enable them to hunt down and possibly destroy or disable a system they believe to be involved with infringing intellectual property. Judge, jury, executioner.
Many in these forums cried foul against this form of vigilante justice, and rightly so because vigilante justice is no justice at all. Even when the shoe is on the other foot, as it appears to be in this case, it still makes the act of dispensing justice, without the backing of our legal system, wrong.
Ummm. perhaps you should read the Constitution again. This time read the section BEFORE the amendments and you will find that the framers gave us copyright protection first.
Mickey Mouse will NEVER be in the public domain because his likeness is protected by Trademark law. Trademark protection is only lost when the company stops proactively enforcing it, there is no time limit on these protections.
As for Disney not putting back in the public domain, well, duh. These stories are ALREADY in the public domain. Disney has not affected the underlying themes and morals these stories impart. You can still make an animated version of Beauty and the Beast, regardless of whether Disney's own version is ever released into the public domain or not. Same goes for the Jungle Book, Snow White, Cinderella and a slew of other classics made popular once more by Disney.
If Disney is only rehashing classic literature as animated films, then their releasing them back into the public domain in no way enriches our lives in the way you seem to think it should.
There's no dilema here. You have just as much opportunity as Disney does to create animated works based on these classic tales. The fact that you don't doesn't mean Copyright is broken, it means you have failed to take advantage of the same opportunities afforded to all.
Wow, bashing the US and Microsoft in one post and it hasn't been modded up to +5 insightful yet? Wake up the moderators, they appear to be asleep at the wheel again.
...I lost all respect for this author's argument here, "There was no argument ever made for a third- or fourth-generation royalty, much less a perpetual assignment of royalties to a corporation that never dies."
US Copyright law limits the duration for corporations to 96 years from date of creation. Had Mr. Bloom done a little bit of research he would have discovered this tidbit of info.
No, it's not. The Tablet PC and Mira are two different technologies. While they may appear to be very similar, the Mira devices only work within a certainrange of the host system. Tablet PCs are very cool subnotebooks with pen input systems in lieu or in conjunction with keyboards. They ARE the computer where as the Mira devices are simply smart displays.
Re:When will they learn?
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I realize that. I was just being a tad sarcastic at that point:)
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Question: What are the implications of Film Gimp?
Film Gimp is the most successful open source tool in feature motion picture work today. Programmers at many studios are helping development, including Rhythm & Hues, Sony Pictures Imageworks, and ILM. This is great cooperation in an industry that historically has been rather secretive.
Studios have become the leading desktop users of Linux. Three hundred Linux desktops at Dreamworks. That's amazing! While the MPAA is campaigning for new restrictions on content, the artists at the studios are using and helping create open source. Having Linux and open source as a crucial part of studio operations may help executives rethink their corporate position on open source and Linux issues.
Movie studios migt be giving back to the community by helping develop the tools but this is completely different from the studios giving away the IP created with these tools. Because the studios benefit from OSS is not enough reason for the studio execs to allow their IP to be freely distributed. Don't expect this to happen anytime soon, if ever.
Perhaps RMS should add a line to the GPL which requires any work created with GPL based tools must be given to the community under the same terms as source code.
...when they eventually do wear out? Eventually these batteries will have to be replaced and if they use radioactive material in their core then they could pose a very hazardous problem to the environment. Yucca is going to look like a playground compared to the problem with these batteries being disposed of when laptops are thrown out and replaced without transferring batteries for whatever reason.
Why don't you atttack leaders like Sadda Husein then? He has an "insane amount on money", palaces all over Iraq, many with swimming pools yet he uses his money to bolster his military weapons programs, provide water for the gradens and pools around his palaces and tests biological and chemical werapons on his own population.
Oh, I forgot. Since he's the target of a US and UN investigation, he's the underdog and/. loves to cheer for the little guy facing unblievable odds, regardless of the facts.
You go ahead and belittle Bill Gates donations but don't forget to check you own bank account and learn how little you actually provide to those in need.
shhhhh..this is/. If you report facts here I'll have to report you to the proper authorities. Quit spreading truths and start spreading lies and innuendo. If you start spreading truth,/. will become useless as no one will want to read their crap and the comments made by most of the users here.
Ummm...if the audio app has a waveform disaply you can find the pauses quite easily. Throw in real-time scrubbing and it's nearly idiot proof. Speech recognition would only overcomplicate a fairly simple process.
It doesn't matter what the audio is, working with a digital audio workstation and/or multitrack edtor is the same for all recorded sounds. You need to better understand the workflow I think, the program doesn't need to change for such a tiny niche idea.
My suggestion would be to record your prose sessions and name them accordingly. Once you have all your source files, begin to sift through them and add region markers to the tracks, labelling them accordingly. Then go back and begin to cut and paste different regions together into one master track. Once you have your master track you can begin to smooth out the transitions between takes, sweeten the audio and save out a final audio file.
By approaching the recording session this way you aren't wasting time going back and forth between recording and editing, allowing you to focus on getting the audio perfect the first few tries and learning how to sweeten audio better in post production.
Now, I am not saying that recording music uses the same gear and setup as recording speech, I'm just saying the process is very similar, especially on a DAW or similar prosumer recording application on the PC. Micing properly is key to recording a successful audio session.
Holy, crap, that was the worst shit I've heard in a while. I'd rather listen to N'Sync or rap than listen to this crap. Whatever happened to good music like Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson and B.B. King? If yours is the future of music, I'd rather live in silence.
Sue slashdot, well actually their parent company. You notifid slashdot to not link to your site for very specific reasons and they ignored the notice knowing full well what the consequences of their actions would likely be. I'd be interested to see what a ruling like this would do to hyperlinking and deeplinking of web sites.
Yes, however, the use of type and graphics can be a powerful way to send a message. In some ways, it is far better to approach the problem this way then to write out lengthy copy that no one will read. Just because YOU don't understand graphic design doesn't mean the message is poorly communicated.
Ah, but is that bandwidth your property? Is bandwidth even considered property from a legal standpoint? You may call it property all you want but until you can formulate a legal argument and prove it in a court of law then your words mean absolutely nothing. If property law were applicable here I'm sure the argument would have been presented in a case like this.
Also, you are not forbidding one's excercise of free speech, you are forbidding the vandalism and tresspass on one's property. Big difference.
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While that looks to be a great Windows XP Media Center PC, I believe this is what the original poster was inquiring about.
While I have had no personal experience with this IA kit, I have had some experience with the MSN web service and I have to say it's really good, especially for users who aren't technically inclined. The MSN service doesn't hold your hand nearly as much as the AOL service but it offers the same integrated package that makes users feel comfortable.
It appears that this kit from RCA merely brings this service to the television set. I'd give it the thumbs up for users who want the internet but don't want to deal with the hassles of a computer. The only downside I can see to this is when one person wants to check e-mail or surf the web but the other is watching a football or baseball game on TV and doesn't want to give up the set.
...is no justice at all. Imagine if everyone felt they had the right to take the law into their own hands and dispense justice as they saw fit our legal system would become unbalanced. Individuals would place differing penalties based on their own moral judgments, not based on a standard of law. Judge, jury, executioner.
Indeed, not a short month or so ago the RIAA was proposing congress pass legislation which would enable them to hunt down and possibly destroy or disable a system they believe to be involved with infringing intellectual property. Judge, jury, executioner.
Many in these forums cried foul against this form of vigilante justice, and rightly so because vigilante justice is no justice at all. Even when the shoe is on the other foot, as it appears to be in this case, it still makes the act of dispensing justice, without the backing of our legal system, wrong.
...it's Strom Thurmond's head.
Ummm. perhaps you should read the Constitution again. This time read the section BEFORE the amendments and you will find that the framers gave us copyright protection first.
Mickey Mouse will NEVER be in the public domain because his likeness is protected by Trademark law. Trademark protection is only lost when the company stops proactively enforcing it, there is no time limit on these protections.
As for Disney not putting back in the public domain, well, duh. These stories are ALREADY in the public domain. Disney has not affected the underlying themes and morals these stories impart. You can still make an animated version of Beauty and the Beast, regardless of whether Disney's own version is ever released into the public domain or not. Same goes for the Jungle Book, Snow White, Cinderella and a slew of other classics made popular once more by Disney.
If Disney is only rehashing classic literature as animated films, then their releasing them back into the public domain in no way enriches our lives in the way you seem to think it should.
There's no dilema here. You have just as much opportunity as Disney does to create animated works based on these classic tales. The fact that you don't doesn't mean Copyright is broken, it means you have failed to take advantage of the same opportunities afforded to all.
Wow, bashing the US and Microsoft in one post and it hasn't been modded up to +5 insightful yet? Wake up the moderators, they appear to be asleep at the wheel again.
...I lost all respect for this author's argument here, "There was no argument ever made for a third- or fourth-generation royalty, much less a perpetual assignment of royalties to a corporation that never dies."
US Copyright law limits the duration for corporations to 96 years from date of creation. Had Mr. Bloom done a little bit of research he would have discovered this tidbit of info.
No, it's not. The Tablet PC and Mira are two different technologies. While they may appear to be very similar, the Mira devices only work within a certainrange of the host system. Tablet PCs are very cool subnotebooks with pen input systems in lieu or in conjunction with keyboards. They ARE the computer where as the Mira devices are simply smart displays.
I realize that. I was just being a tad sarcastic at that point :)
Question: What are the implications of Film Gimp?
Film Gimp is the most successful open source tool in feature motion picture work today. Programmers at many studios are helping development, including Rhythm & Hues, Sony Pictures Imageworks, and ILM. This is great cooperation in an industry that historically has been rather secretive.
Studios have become the leading desktop users of Linux. Three hundred Linux desktops at Dreamworks. That's amazing! While the MPAA is campaigning for new restrictions on content, the artists at the studios are using and helping create open source. Having Linux and open source as a crucial part of studio operations may help executives rethink their corporate position on open source and Linux issues.
Movie studios migt be giving back to the community by helping develop the tools but this is completely different from the studios giving away the IP created with these tools. Because the studios benefit from OSS is not enough reason for the studio execs to allow their IP to be freely distributed. Don't expect this to happen anytime soon, if ever.
Perhaps RMS should add a line to the GPL which requires any work created with GPL based tools must be given to the community under the same terms as source code.
...when they eventually do wear out? Eventually these batteries will have to be replaced and if they use radioactive material in their core then they could pose a very hazardous problem to the environment. Yucca is going to look like a playground compared to the problem with these batteries being disposed of when laptops are thrown out and replaced without transferring batteries for whatever reason.
Why don't you atttack leaders like Sadda Husein then? He has an "insane amount on money", palaces all over Iraq, many with swimming pools yet he uses his money to bolster his military weapons programs, provide water for the gradens and pools around his palaces and tests biological and chemical werapons on his own population.
/. loves to cheer for the little guy facing unblievable odds, regardless of the facts.
Oh, I forgot. Since he's the target of a US and UN investigation, he's the underdog and
You go ahead and belittle Bill Gates donations but don't forget to check you own bank account and learn how little you actually provide to those in need.
shhhhh..this is /. If you report facts here I'll have to report you to the proper authorities. Quit spreading truths and start spreading lies and innuendo. If you start spreading truth, /. will become useless as no one will want to read their crap and the comments made by most of the users here.
SE Linux is going for a level 2 and they believe this is even aiming a bit high.
BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS
Batman kicked Supermnan's ass with the help of a biomech suit and some kryptonite. Doesn't matter how he did it, the result was still the same.
Ummm...if the audio app has a waveform disaply you can find the pauses quite easily. Throw in real-time scrubbing and it's nearly idiot proof. Speech recognition would only overcomplicate a fairly simple process.
It doesn't matter what the audio is, working with a digital audio workstation and/or multitrack edtor is the same for all recorded sounds. You need to better understand the workflow I think, the program doesn't need to change for such a tiny niche idea.
My suggestion would be to record your prose sessions and name them accordingly. Once you have all your source files, begin to sift through them and add region markers to the tracks, labelling them accordingly. Then go back and begin to cut and paste different regions together into one master track. Once you have your master track you can begin to smooth out the transitions between takes, sweeten the audio and save out a final audio file.
By approaching the recording session this way you aren't wasting time going back and forth between recording and editing, allowing you to focus on getting the audio perfect the first few tries and learning how to sweeten audio better in post production.
Now, I am not saying that recording music uses the same gear and setup as recording speech, I'm just saying the process is very similar, especially on a DAW or similar prosumer recording application on the PC. Micing properly is key to recording a successful audio session.
Yeah and send your donations through paypal because I could always use the money.
...under US federal banking laws and this article from CNET explains why better than I could.
Truth hurts doesn't it Pezpunk?
Holy, crap, that was the worst shit I've heard in a while. I'd rather listen to N'Sync or rap than listen to this crap. Whatever happened to good music like Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Robert Johnson and B.B. King? If yours is the future of music, I'd rather live in silence.
Sue slashdot, well actually their parent company. You notifid slashdot to not link to your site for very specific reasons and they ignored the notice knowing full well what the consequences of their actions would likely be. I'd be interested to see what a ruling like this would do to hyperlinking and deeplinking of web sites.
Yes, however, the use of type and graphics can be a powerful way to send a message. In some ways, it is far better to approach the problem this way then to write out lengthy copy that no one will read. Just because YOU don't understand graphic design doesn't mean the message is poorly communicated.
Ah, but is that bandwidth your property? Is bandwidth even considered property from a legal standpoint? You may call it property all you want but until you can formulate a legal argument and prove it in a court of law then your words mean absolutely nothing. If property law were applicable here I'm sure the argument would have been presented in a case like this.
Also, you are not forbidding one's excercise of free speech, you are forbidding the vandalism and tresspass on one's property. Big difference.