You say myspace is the problem, but do you think this artist would get different results on other sites like youtube or googlevideo? Youtube's pulled-down every song owned by WB per their request, and that would include this song "A Girl Like You". If Scottish artist Edwyn Collins tried to post his song on youtube, that too would get yanked. The problem is not the dot-com site but the DMCA law which requires the dot-com to take action, or else be fined.
The flaw here is that these artists (and people in general) still think they own rights. They don't. The rights have been transferred to the corporations who, with the cooperation of Congress and other corporations, control everything. The artist doesn't own the song in the view of either WB or myspace, and that's why he can't stream it.
Amiga was a great machine in the 80s, producing multimedia movies and games while the IBM PC and Macs just went "beep". Imagine having a Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis, but with a keyboard, and in 1985. That was the Amiga... it ran circles around the competition... and it took ten years for Windoze machines to catch up.
And in the 90s, I enjoyed using my old 68040 Quadra Mac, because at that time the System 7 OS was clearly superior to the Windows 3 crap. But now? The generic PC has become as easy to use as a Mac, and at a significant discount. So that's why the G3 will be my last.
>>>So Apple should have pulled a Vista & watered down their requirements so that any old PPC Mac no matter how old would be "ready"?
Given how efficiently Apple codes its operating systems, there's no reason why 10.4 or 10.5 wouldn't work on my 300 megahertz machine except an arbitrary decision to obsolete it, and thereby force me to go buy something new.
Alternatively Apple could develop programs like Safari that will work on my 10.3 install, instead of saying "you need 10.4 or higher".
>>>My wife's laptop (10.4) is running the latest version of Safari.
Well MY mac can't run the latest Safari because it's stuck at OS 10.3. I'm forced to use an older browser, which fails to render webpages properly. I hope this example is concrete enough for you to understand my point. For comparison my PC, which is older than the Mac, has no problem running the latest browsers. QED Wintel PCs have a longer lifespan than macs.
>>>Just because I own a disk doesn't mean I own the copyright to the software on the disk
That's one hundred percent true. Except when I sell my DVD of Word 2003 in my annual garage cleanup sale, I am NOT making a copy, therefore the copyprivilege has no relevance to this discussion.
>>>this is why Autodesk has resorted to licensing to do so.
Then they are guilty of FALSE ADVERTISING. They called it a "purchase" when in fact it was just a rental. Perhaps it's time for us customers to file a counter-lawsuit, as happened with Comcast in Florida. False advertising is illegal and it's time we held these companies accountable.
>>>You can't hold software in your hand; you can only hold the media on which its stored. >>>If you want a blank disc, they are available, and no one is debating your right to own blank disc
I can't believe you're serious. (Trolling perhaps?) You didn't say it outright, but it's pretty clear you believe I can not sell my DVD of Final Fantasy 12, MS Word 2003, or Autodesk to another citizen. THAT is a violation of my property rights. If the manufacturers are going to RENT the software then that's what it should be called, not "purchase".
The former can not be resold, but the latter can be, and I will sell my *purchases* whenever and however I feel like it.
That driver was stupid. Yes he got-out of his 90mph ticket, but now he's obliged to drive 75 or less. Before he had freedom to drive fast, and now he doesn't. ----- I've driven across North Dakota and Montana, and the 75mph speed limit struck me as silly. In the area where these too states join, there's quite literally nothing to hit so I don't see why this section of I-94 (near Glendive MT) needs a limit, anymore than the German Autobahns have limits.
Trivia -
Glendive is the smallest television market (0.005% of the population).
>>>the interstates were "designed" to keep traffic moving at about 80 mph, nationwide
Not correct. If you read the original Act from Congress, it mandates that the roads must be able to safely sustain 120 MPH travel. This was done immediately after World War 2 and the goal was to provide a way to move the U.S. Army rapidly across the continent as quickly as possible, hence the 120mph design minimum.
Yeah I already made-up my mind I'm not paying the $1500 fine (~$4000 for married households) just because I don't have health insurance. Once I hit age 60 and my body starts falling-apart, then I'll get insurance. But for right now I don't need it, since I've got 1/2 a million stored away for emergency.
Congress can take their unconstitutional fine and go pound sand.
Corporations are not people. They don't have a conscience to restrain themselves from illicit endeavors, which is also why corporations should not have rights. Giving rights to a corporation makes about as much sense as giving rights to a rock or tree.
I really wish people would stop calling "capitalism evil". Capitalism is nothing more than your neighbor building a chair, or bed, or whatever his specialty might be, and you saying, "That's really nice, can I buy it or give you something else for trade?" That's capitalism and it's not evil. It's the basis of human interaction between neighbors and goes-back 5000 years.
Have some of the corporations gotten out of control? Absolutely, but that doesn't mean we need to kill capitalism. We simply need to downsize the corporation (or kill it off completely), same way we removed the kings and replaced them with democratic-elected assemblies.
That's correct. The universe will never be absolute zero, but it will have attained a point where there's no energy except a very low-level heat about 1/2 degree above absolute. Like an engine that is slowly-but-surely cooling off. Hence the name "heat death". The universe will be a still-warm but essentially dead corpse.
Your viewpoint is interesting, but has no more basis in observation than the greek myths. Scientists have looked at the Big Crunch, and found that the galaxies are moving too fast. They will never pull back together.
Which requires me memorizing what year each episode aired. It's easier to just say "In the season three episode of Doctor Who TNG, we see the daleks....."
Text-only browsers are nice, but I wish they were wider. They are all limited to a measly 80 characters. (shrug). I bet the web browser on my C64 is safe.... mainly because the C64 is too darn slow to run exploits!
It seems everyone is trying to strip-away our property rights.
If you buy a physical object, it's yours to do with it what you wish, including selling the object to the next person, via garage sale or ebay. I can understand why organizations like RIAA want to strip-away our property so they can make themselves richer, but not the judges. Judges should be on the side of the People and protecting our rights.
Even better they could just attach the GPS directly to our bodies. You speed - you get an instant ticket sent to your home. Walk on the grass? Instant fine. Break into a bank, store, or other private area, the police will be dispatched.
I think this is a reasonable proposal. We will, at last, know peace in our time.
>>>The telephone companies do nothing to prevent people from discussing crimes on the phone!
This is probably the strongest argument. I can both download and upload files over the telephone lines, but the company can not be sued. It is not responsible for how its phone lines are being used.
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You say myspace is the problem, but do you think this artist would get different results on other sites like youtube or googlevideo? Youtube's pulled-down every song owned by WB per their request, and that would include this song "A Girl Like You". If Scottish artist Edwyn Collins tried to post his song on youtube, that too would get yanked. The problem is not the dot-com site but the DMCA law which requires the dot-com to take action, or else be fined.
>>>If it were up to the RIAA, artists wouldn't be allowed to stream their own urine.
Tyrants need to be shot before freedom can be restored.
The flaw here is that these artists (and people in general) still think they own rights. They don't. The rights have been transferred to the corporations who, with the cooperation of Congress and other corporations, control everything. The artist doesn't own the song in the view of either WB or myspace, and that's why he can't stream it.
Amiga was a great machine in the 80s, producing multimedia movies and games while the IBM PC and Macs just went "beep". Imagine having a Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis, but with a keyboard, and in 1985. That was the Amiga... it ran circles around the competition... and it took ten years for Windoze machines to catch up.
And in the 90s, I enjoyed using my old 68040 Quadra Mac, because at that time the System 7 OS was clearly superior to the Windows 3 crap. But now? The generic PC has become as easy to use as a Mac, and at a significant discount. So that's why the G3 will be my last.
>>>>> Looking at a 10-year-old Mac, the latest OS you can use is 10.3 (minimum 233 megahertz)
>>
>>Really?
Yes really. I've tried and failed to get my G3 Mac to run 10.4 - it doesn't meet the minimum megahertz requirement.
>>>>> I installed Snow Leopard on the old 2003 G4 iBook
>>
>>Rubbish. Snow Leopard is Intel only. It does not install on PPC Macs.
You caught an Apple fan in a lie. (cheer). It's like dealing with Hari Krishnas.
>>>So Apple should have pulled a Vista & watered down their requirements so that any old PPC Mac no matter how old would be "ready"?
Given how efficiently Apple codes its operating systems, there's no reason why 10.4 or 10.5 wouldn't work on my 300 megahertz machine except an arbitrary decision to obsolete it, and thereby force me to go buy something new.
Alternatively Apple could develop programs like Safari that will work on my 10.3 install, instead of saying "you need 10.4 or higher".
>>>My wife's laptop (10.4) is running the latest version of Safari.
Well MY mac can't run the latest Safari because it's stuck at OS 10.3. I'm forced to use an older browser, which fails to render webpages properly. I hope this example is concrete enough for you to understand my point. For comparison my PC, which is older than the Mac, has no problem running the latest browsers. QED Wintel PCs have a longer lifespan than macs.
>>>Just because I own a disk doesn't mean I own the copyright to the software on the disk
That's one hundred percent true. Except when I sell my DVD of Word 2003 in my annual garage cleanup sale, I am NOT making a copy, therefore the copyprivilege has no relevance to this discussion.
>>>this is why Autodesk has resorted to licensing to do so.
Then they are guilty of FALSE ADVERTISING. They called it a "purchase" when in fact it was just a rental. Perhaps it's time for us customers to file a counter-lawsuit, as happened with Comcast in Florida. False advertising is illegal and it's time we held these companies accountable.
>>>You can't hold software in your hand; you can only hold the media on which its stored.
>>>If you want a blank disc, they are available, and no one is debating your right to own blank disc
I can't believe you're serious. (Trolling perhaps?) You didn't say it outright, but it's pretty clear you believe I can not sell my DVD of Final Fantasy 12, MS Word 2003, or Autodesk to another citizen. THAT is a violation of my property rights. If the manufacturers are going to RENT the software then that's what it should be called, not "purchase".
The former can not be resold, but the latter can be, and I will sell my *purchases* whenever and however I feel like it.
That driver was stupid. Yes he got-out of his 90mph ticket, but now he's obliged to drive 75 or less. Before he had freedom to drive fast, and now he doesn't. ----- I've driven across North Dakota and Montana, and the 75mph speed limit struck me as silly. In the area where these too states join, there's quite literally nothing to hit so I don't see why this section of I-94 (near Glendive MT) needs a limit, anymore than the German Autobahns have limits.
Trivia -
Glendive is the smallest television market (0.005% of the population).
>>>the interstates were "designed" to keep traffic moving at about 80 mph, nationwide
Not correct. If you read the original Act from Congress, it mandates that the roads must be able to safely sustain 120 MPH travel. This was done immediately after World War 2 and the goal was to provide a way to move the U.S. Army rapidly across the continent as quickly as possible, hence the 120mph design minimum.
Yeah I already made-up my mind I'm not paying the $1500 fine (~$4000 for married households) just because I don't have health insurance. Once I hit age 60 and my body starts falling-apart, then I'll get insurance. But for right now I don't need it, since I've got 1/2 a million stored away for emergency.
Congress can take their unconstitutional fine and go pound sand.
>>>the Chinese will laugh at the US, and this could be one of those catalysts that evolves the relationship into a terminal one.
Without the support of China, our medicare and retirement programs will collapse due to lack of incoming money.
Corporations are not people. They don't have a conscience to restrain themselves from illicit endeavors, which is also why corporations should not have rights. Giving rights to a corporation makes about as much sense as giving rights to a rock or tree.
I really wish people would stop calling "capitalism evil". Capitalism is nothing more than your neighbor building a chair, or bed, or whatever his specialty might be, and you saying, "That's really nice, can I buy it or give you something else for trade?" That's capitalism and it's not evil. It's the basis of human interaction between neighbors and goes-back 5000 years.
Have some of the corporations gotten out of control? Absolutely, but that doesn't mean we need to kill capitalism. We simply need to downsize the corporation (or kill it off completely), same way we removed the kings and replaced them with democratic-elected assemblies.
So according to Isaac Asimov's "Last Question" story, god is a computer built by the previous iteration of the universe. That explains a lot.
>>>However, one can have a _tremendous_ amount of energy around for a heat death.
I said it was a low energy STATE, not that the overall quantity was low. 1/2 a degree Kelvin is extremely low.
That's correct. The universe will never be absolute zero, but it will have attained a point where there's no energy except a very low-level heat about 1/2 degree above absolute. Like an engine that is slowly-but-surely cooling off. Hence the name "heat death". The universe will be a still-warm but essentially dead corpse.
Your viewpoint is interesting, but has no more basis in observation than the greek myths. Scientists have looked at the Big Crunch, and found that the galaxies are moving too fast. They will never pull back together.
Which requires me memorizing what year each episode aired. It's easier to just say "In the season three episode of Doctor Who TNG, we see the daleks....."
Text-only browsers are nice, but I wish they were wider. They are all limited to a measly 80 characters. (shrug). I bet the web browser on my C64 is safe.... mainly because the C64 is too darn slow to run exploits!
http://www.armory.com/~spectre/cwi/hl/
http://www.jac64.com/demos-amp-music/play-62.html (turn up the speaker) (warning: Java)
"Hello customer support."
"Yes my computer's telling my to press any key to continue."
"Yes. And?"
"My keyboard doesn't have an any key."
It seems everyone is trying to strip-away our property rights.
If you buy a physical object, it's yours to do with it what you wish, including selling the object to the next person, via garage sale or ebay. I can understand why organizations like RIAA want to strip-away our property so they can make themselves richer, but not the judges. Judges should be on the side of the People and protecting our rights.
Even better they could just attach the GPS directly to our bodies. You speed - you get an instant ticket sent to your home. Walk on the grass? Instant fine. Break into a bank, store, or other private area, the police will be dispatched.
I think this is a reasonable proposal. We will, at last, know peace in our time.
>>>The telephone companies do nothing to prevent people from discussing crimes on the phone!
This is probably the strongest argument. I can both download and upload files over the telephone lines, but the company can not be sued. It is not responsible for how its phone lines are being used.