Granted, it has been nearly ten years since I was involved in creating an online music store. But it appears that mechanical licenses still do not grant rights to display album art to consumers, even if the two standard agreements I have seen appear to cover online distribution, at least for download services.
Note that the radio station agreements are very different from the online/internet/mobile agreements.
Tell that to the record labels and the agencies that collect royalties in different countries. THEY are the ones requiring the geo-fencing and different pricing for different countries.
If you try to negotiate rights to sell or play any music, you will soon start wondering if the record label wants your money or not, because it will seem like they don't. It does not even matter if you are part of the same company group as a the record label you are negotiating with. Been there, done that.
You are like the Swedes who always talk about how much "free" stuff they have...and this goes right along with that. take a look at how much they pay in tax...starting with that lovely little 90% + inheritance tax.
While I agree that the taxes in Sweden are way too high, that anything payed for by taxes is by definition ("payed for") not free and I also know that a lot of money is lost in the administration said taxes, you REALLY need to take econ 101 for Swedish circumstances before even thinking of talking about Swedish taxes. Cas á point: The inheritance tax in Sweden i 0 (ZERO) percent. We had an inheritance tax a few years back, though. It was 30%, after subtracting a tax free amount of money (about $10k if I recall correctly). So currently, the US inheritance tax (whatever it is) is more unfair than the Swedish one, considering that inheritec money most likely is money that the deceased already has paid income tax for.
While I seem to have a better command of English than many native speakers/writers, I wouldn't presume to know better than all of them. Thus, I hope you know better than me if "voiced-over" is more correct that "voice-overed", seeing as you have a.au mail address while I have a.se one.:)
Mostly when you learn another language you learn by typing. When you learn by speaking synonyms can really give you problems.
If "they're", "there" and "their" were synonyms, that would indeed be a problem. Fortunately, I can bring you the following news: they are not.
Also, unless you live someplace where all movies and TV shows are voice-overed rather than subtitled, you generally hear and start to learn other languages that way before you learn to read and write them.
Don't listen to these whiners. There will always be complainers in any system, and socialist Sweden is no exception. However, the majority is quite happy with being provided cheap services on the complainers' tax money:)
Quite. More than half on Sweden's population is dependent on state or county tax money for their upkeep (employed by the state or the county; or living from or dependent on welfare).
Don't. I live in Sweden. I'm a Swede. Too much of my tax money is lost, paying for the enormous and inefficient administration of the system.
I am a contractor and I have to expect 75% of the money I invoice to go to taxes and fees. No matter how much use I make of the free healthcare and education I can't get my money's worth. I don't mind contributing some to other people's healthcare and education through taxes, but not to this extent.
Try the 100 Mbps up/down for USD 85/month I can get here in Stockholm, Sweden (the dollar is really weak right now, a couple of years ago it would have been more like $60/month). No cap. Not that I need it, my 10 Mbps is just fine (wnd with no perceptible slowdown during peak hours) -- Bittorrent is amazing as it is, especially with all the other peers who use the same ISP (www.bredband.com).
You are confusing rotation with orbit. And the person who moderated you post probably does, too.
Yes, the planet may very well spin a bit faster. But no, that does not affect its orbit around the Sun.
Pick up your old physics boook and check out Newtons third law of motion: "For each action there is an equal and opposite re-action." Unless the earthquake ejected a large mass into space, the Earth's orbit hasn't changed due to the quake.
Imagine that you are sitting in a spaceship in soalr orbit holding a nice long-range rifle. You aim the rifle at the Earth. Would the speed with which the planet rotates around it's own axis affect your aim? Nope. If the planet got smaller, that may make a difference, but we're probably talking a couple of feet in changed diameter, which is not much considering the size of teh target.
What you seem to be missing is that the speed with which the Earth orbits the Sun is not what has been affected. No mass has been ejected into space, just redistributed within the Earth, so no change in the Earth's orbit around the Sun has happened. Basic physics, really. I seem to recall something about forces in opposite directions that some Englishman discovered a few hundred years ago.
Point taken. So, the asteroid that was about to hit the Earth will now probably miss us, since the Earth's diameter is now, what, 1.5 meters less than before? Thank goodness, we're saved!
Your statement assumes that different code is present in the different driver distributions. That is not the case. Omega (and similar) drivers are ordinary ATI drivers, only repackaged with registry tweaks.
I'm going to buy one of these and connect it to the l33t USB 1.1 interface on my laptop. It will take me about 8 days to fill it with stuff, given that I can saturate the 12 Mbps USB interface.
Justifying costs isn't strange, is it?
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What's so srtange about having to justify paying for something, it being software or something else? I know I would like expenses paid for by my tax money to be justified.
Support costs will be added no matter what. Why not justify the extra expense of licensing?
Ah, yes. There it is, the elusive $500 Dell PC. Still no FireWire and this system comes with XP Home edition (instead of Professional ed.). More importantly, there is a limit of 5 systems per customer.
Still, one may get close to this price if Dell offers volume discounts on the prices they give to K12 institutions. But the price advantage for PCs still isn't $1200, like the grandparent's parent claimed. If there is and advantage, maybe it is $50-$150, and not even this is certain if you need FireWire on your computers.
Scratch that -- The Optiplex GX60 SFF without a modem is $650 for a K12 in PA. But then it only has a 15" screen as compared to the Dimension 4200 i found before, which had a 17" screen. The eMac has a 17" CRT and the iMac a 15" LCD (which in most peoples opinions is a lot nicer than a 15" CRT).
Oh, come on! A $1700 iMac? Why coulnd't you bother to check the prices first? Apple Store sells iMacs starting at $1299 and eMacs starting at $799. For schools, that would be $1199 and $699 respectively, possibly less with a volume discount. And maybe not buying direct from Apple will lower the price further. And this includes a monitor, does the $500 Dell include this?
Btw, the cheapest Dell (with a monitor) I managed to find for a K12 institution in PA was $666. This model didn't have a modem (wich probably doesn't matter, though) or FireWire (probably more interesting).
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Yeah, well, the design is cool, but I still can't keep my feet like I want to. The iDesk has its only leg right in front of me and the NetSurfer places the computer there. I still think that the best desk for computer use is a normal desk with plenty of room for my legs underneath.
Desks made for computers hur my legs
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Why is it that almost all desks made specifically for computers have their legs exactly where I would like to put mine? I hate furniture that comes in my way when I try to use it. Why not just let the table have its legs far apart, with room for my legs in between?
The pictures on the iGo page are hilarious. Can you see the way the woman has to sit in order to use the computer? More than 5 minutes at a time in that position and my back breaks. The designers obviously never tries to actually use the furniture they make.
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Granted, it has been nearly ten years since I was involved in creating an online music store. But it appears that mechanical licenses still do not grant rights to display album art to consumers, even if the two standard agreements I have seen appear to cover online distribution, at least for download services.
Note that the radio station agreements are very different from the online/internet/mobile agreements.
Tell that to the record labels and the agencies that collect royalties in different countries. THEY are the ones requiring the geo-fencing and different pricing for different countries.
If you try to negotiate rights to sell or play any music, you will soon start wondering if the record label wants your money or not, because it will seem like they don't. It does not even matter if you are part of the same company group as a the record label you are negotiating with. Been there, done that.
Hodor hodor hodor. Hodor, hodor hodor hodor hodor Hodor hodor. Hodor.
You are like the Swedes who always talk about how much "free" stuff they have...and this goes right along with that. take a look at how much they pay in tax...starting with that lovely little 90% + inheritance tax.
While I agree that the taxes in Sweden are way too high, that anything payed for by taxes is by definition ("payed for") not free and I also know that a lot of money is lost in the administration said taxes, you REALLY need to take econ 101 for Swedish circumstances before even thinking of talking about Swedish taxes. Cas á point: The inheritance tax in Sweden i 0 (ZERO) percent. We had an inheritance tax a few years back, though. It was 30%, after subtracting a tax free amount of money (about $10k if I recall correctly). So currently, the US inheritance tax (whatever it is) is more unfair than the Swedish one, considering that inheritec money most likely is money that the deceased already has paid income tax for.
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While I seem to have a better command of English than many native speakers/writers, I wouldn't presume to know better than all of them. Thus, I hope you know better than me if "voiced-over" is more correct that "voice-overed", seeing as you have a .au mail address while I have a .se one. :)
If "they're", "there" and "their" were synonyms, that would indeed be a problem. Fortunately, I can bring you the following news: they are not.
Also, unless you live someplace where all movies and TV shows are voice-overed rather than subtitled, you generally hear and start to learn other languages that way before you learn to read and write them.
Don't listen to these whiners. There will always be complainers in any system, and socialist Sweden is no exception. However, the majority is quite happy with being provided cheap services on the complainers' tax money :)
Quite. More than half on Sweden's population is dependent on state or county tax money for their upkeep (employed by the state or the county; or living from or dependent on welfare).
I really respect a system like that.
Don't. I live in Sweden. I'm a Swede. Too much of my tax money is lost, paying for the enormous and inefficient administration of the system.
I am a contractor and I have to expect 75% of the money I invoice to go to taxes and fees. No matter how much use I make of the free healthcare and education I can't get my money's worth. I don't mind contributing some to other people's healthcare and education through taxes, but not to this extent.
Try the 100 Mbps up/down for USD 85/month I can get here in Stockholm, Sweden (the dollar is really weak right now, a couple of years ago it would have been more like $60/month). No cap. Not that I need it, my 10 Mbps is just fine (wnd with no perceptible slowdown during peak hours) -- Bittorrent is amazing as it is, especially with all the other peers who use the same ISP (www.bredband.com).
You are confusing rotation with orbit. And the person who moderated you post probably does, too.
Yes, the planet may very well spin a bit faster. But no, that does not affect its orbit around the Sun.
Pick up your old physics boook and check out Newtons third law of motion: "For each action there is an equal and opposite re-action." Unless the earthquake ejected a large mass into space, the Earth's orbit hasn't changed due to the quake.
Imagine that you are sitting in a spaceship in soalr orbit holding a nice long-range rifle. You aim the rifle at the Earth. Would the speed with which the planet rotates around it's own axis affect your aim? Nope. If the planet got smaller, that may make a difference, but we're probably talking a couple of feet in changed diameter, which is not much considering the size of teh target.
What you seem to be missing is that the speed with which the Earth orbits the Sun is not what has been affected. No mass has been ejected into space, just redistributed within the Earth, so no change in the Earth's orbit around the Sun has happened. Basic physics, really. I seem to recall something about forces in opposite directions that some Englishman discovered a few hundred years ago.
Point taken. So, the asteroid that was about to hit the Earth will now probably miss us, since the Earth's diameter is now, what, 1.5 meters less than before? Thank goodness, we're saved!
...oh, and earthquakes certainly don't change the orbits of asteroids.
Earthquakes can't change the Earth's orbit anymore than you can fly by pulling your hair upwards.
Your statement assumes that different code is present in the different driver distributions. That is not the case. Omega (and similar) drivers are ordinary ATI drivers, only repackaged with registry tweaks.
Yes. I play Age of Wonders by e-mail. PBEM is a superb feature in turn based games. I really wish more turn based games would allow for PBEM.
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I'm going to buy one of these and connect it to the l33t USB 1.1 interface on my laptop. It will take me about 8 days to fill it with stuff, given that I can saturate the 12 Mbps USB interface.
I'm a vegetarian because I hate animals.
What's so srtange about having to justify paying for something, it being software or something else? I know I would like expenses paid for by my tax money to be justified.
Support costs will be added no matter what. Why not justify the extra expense of licensing?
Ah, yes. There it is, the elusive $500 Dell PC. Still no FireWire and this system comes with XP Home edition (instead of Professional ed.). More importantly, there is a limit of 5 systems per customer.
Still, one may get close to this price if Dell offers volume discounts on the prices they give to K12 institutions. But the price advantage for PCs still isn't $1200, like the grandparent's parent claimed. If there is and advantage, maybe it is $50-$150, and not even this is certain if you need FireWire on your computers.
Scratch that -- The Optiplex GX60 SFF without a modem is $650 for a K12 in PA. But then it only has a 15" screen as compared to the Dimension 4200 i found before, which had a 17" screen. The eMac has a 17" CRT and the iMac a 15" LCD (which in most peoples opinions is a lot nicer than a 15" CRT).
Oh, come on! A $1700 iMac? Why coulnd't you bother to check the prices first? Apple Store sells iMacs starting at $1299 and eMacs starting at $799. For schools, that would be $1199 and $699 respectively, possibly less with a volume discount. And maybe not buying direct from Apple will lower the price further. And this includes a monitor, does the $500 Dell include this?
Btw, the cheapest Dell (with a monitor) I managed to find for a K12 institution in PA was $666. This model didn't have a modem (wich probably doesn't matter, though) or FireWire (probably more interesting).
Yeah, well, the design is cool, but I still can't keep my feet like I want to. The iDesk has its only leg right in front of me and the NetSurfer places the computer there. I still think that the best desk for computer use is a normal desk with plenty of room for my legs underneath.
Why is it that almost all desks made specifically for computers have their legs exactly where I would like to put mine? I hate furniture that comes in my way when I try to use it. Why not just let the table have its legs far apart, with room for my legs in between?
The pictures on the iGo page are hilarious. Can you see the way the woman has to sit in order to use the computer? More than 5 minutes at a time in that position and my back breaks. The designers obviously never tries to actually use the furniture they make.