That's the point. We have systems with 128MB of RAM and are only 800-933MHz PIII's. We were in a hybrid environment of Win2k and 98 already, so when we ordered a batch new systems, we ordered them in parts with enough 2K licenses to cover the entire plant.
And I'm not talking about 1,000 machines or anything, either. We have 21 Windows machines, and 4 of those were already running W2K.
At work we just bought a rather sizable chunk of Win2K licenses so that we could upgrade older systems from Win98 without taking the performance hit that we were expecting from XP. Plus since I'm more familiar with Win2K than XP, managing the network is easier for me without having to re-learn where they hid all the settings AGAIN.
Mad Apple ( http://www.madapple.net/ ) has their entire first album available in both MP3 and Vorbis, and is working on releasing not only it, but their next album under Creative Commons. And once that album is out of stock, it will probably be released as a free download as well.
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The thing is, everyone is different physiologically. I have early signs of carpal tunnel at 25. Some show it as early as 18 or 20, others not until they're much older.
For the most part, wrists are like tires. The amount you get out of them depends on how well you take care of them and how many miles you put on them.
With an entire chassis, why did they opt for just one speaker behind the driver?
There are small, decent sounding, and (relative to the cost of the car shell) inexpensive 5.1 setups. And you'd be able to mount most of the speakers in the existing speaker mounts.
Wow, you must have a marketing degree, because that's probably the most garbled buzzword-speak I've seen in a long time.
And as far as national identies are concerned, which I think you were talking about there, they change. They mutate. The US 40 years ago was about freedom and privacy, from the politicians on down. I'm not saying the politicians weren't corrupt or stupid, but they put on a good front about caring about freedom.
By your definition of Vaporware, a slip in release date would not be enough to show intent to not release, just a product delay. A complete removal of the release date, however, would.
One of the things I keep hearing mentioned is that Sun licences the MS Office file types for their importers. It's vastly cheaper than MS Office, though not free like OO.o, and students can use either MS Office or OO.o at home and be sure their files will open properly.
Saves the district money, opens the way for students to use a free office suite at home. Sounds like an ideal compromise.
We've had two-party rule since Washington left office.
But we haven't. Two-party rule has only been around since the Civil War or so. Prior to that there were between three and four electable political parties, depending on the year. I will have to re-research this again to find out exact names and years. (Whig springs to mind.)
I've always thought that was rather backwards, personally...
As a non-lawyer, non-politician, I would think copyright law changes should go like:
Copyright is licensable, but non-transferable. (Encourages people to make their own, rather than just buy someone else's.)
Copyright/Trademark is renewable indefinitely, but once it has lapsed, it's gone forever. 5-10 year increments. Thus Disney can keep Mickey, works that have been forgotten about by their creators will lapse into Public Domain, and the US Govt gets lotsa nice $20 bills for paperwork charges.
I don't mean to solicit further advice, but where does that leave those of us who enjoy foreign music that doesn't have a US distributor?
Just to make something clear, I'm not providing advice to you, and we're not in an attorney client relationship.
Hence why I don't want to solicit advice. The free, unofficial enlightenment is much appreciated.
This said, US copyrights vest in the US copyright holder -- who can easily be a foreigner. (Or the band Foreigner) So if a Japanese musician who writes and records a performance of a song, holding the US copyright all the while, authorizes a Japanese company to make a CD of it, then that CD satisfies the requirements of 602(b), and 602(a) is up to you.
It's just safer to try to get copies released lawfully in your own country due to the possibility that the rights might have been assigned to another, as opposed to merely licensed.
Does this help you?
It does to a point.
I was referring more to the import/export restrictions placed on copyrighted works. Currently it seems there is a stranglehold on importing any CDs that are also published domestically due to "undercutting" concerns. If the CD is not available in a domestic release, then what changes? (I.E., Foreign Band "A" releases on Sony Japan. Sony specifically refuses to release "A" in the US, but has US Distribution rights. The law currently allows me to import "A", but if Sony sells US rights to Bob's CDs, then what happens to my copy? It was legal when I imported it, so it's protected, but the next time I copy it to my MP3 player?
Also, does the law give any leniency to unpublished works? I.E., two years later, Bob's CDs has no production runs of "A" planned, but is the sole holder of the rights for the US. Does that mean that Bob's basically has the rights to say that US citizens can't own it, import or otherwise?
BUT, for iTunes distribution, they don't have to pay Shipping & Recieving personnel, warehouses, purchasing managers... All those are replaced with 1-2 accountants per download company. Obviously I didn't figure in marketing and such, but I would assume costs would be similar for online and physical distribution.
I don't mean to solicit further advice, but where does that leave those of us who enjoy foreign music that doesn't have a US distributor? (Puffy Ami Yumi, B'z, other J-Pop, to name a few of mine.) Or does that only apply to copyrighted materials that has a legal distribution contract/contact in both countries involved?
(So basically how does it differ if I go to Japan and buy a bunch of J Pop for my own listening vs. picking up a copy of AC/DC's newest while I'm there just because it's handy.)
And how does that affect me if I import a B'z album now, and later it gets US distribuiton? Are my MP3's then illegal because I make new copies from a CD that, while legal to buy when I did, would then be illegal?
Thank you very much for the correction. IANAL, and apparently assume too much logic when deriving what I know for what should theoretically follow. I keep forgetting that Laws != Logical.
Theoretically, if you are unaware that the content is illegitimate, have no way of possibly knowing same (which is no longer the case), and pay for the service, they're legally liable, not you.
Plus apparently there is SOME content on allofmp3 that is legal, since it's stated only some is not.
But how many mod chip users are interested in making honest backups? You could probably fit them all into the trunk of a Cadillac, with space left over for a spare tire.
My hunch also says that there are more parents with little kids that have gaming consoles then "will fit in the trunk of a Cadillac".
It depends on what Cadillac. You can fit 1/2 the population of Cleveland in a 1978 Fleetwood.
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That's the point. We have systems with 128MB of RAM and are only 800-933MHz PIII's. We were in a hybrid environment of Win2k and 98 already, so when we ordered a batch new systems, we ordered them in parts with enough 2K licenses to cover the entire plant.
And I'm not talking about 1,000 machines or anything, either. We have 21 Windows machines, and 4 of those were already running W2K.
No, but it does impede XP sales.
At work we just bought a rather sizable chunk of Win2K licenses so that we could upgrade older systems from Win98 without taking the performance hit that we were expecting from XP. Plus since I'm more familiar with Win2K than XP, managing the network is easier for me without having to re-learn where they hid all the settings AGAIN.
Mad Apple ( http://www.madapple.net/ ) has their entire first album available in both MP3 and Vorbis, and is working on releasing not only it, but their next album under Creative Commons. And once that album is out of stock, it will probably be released as a free download as well.
Mirrordot.org has a mirror of the front page here:
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http://www.mirrordot.org/stories/9aaeeefa8ac5c272
The thing is, everyone is different physiologically. I have early signs of carpal tunnel at 25. Some show it as early as 18 or 20, others not until they're much older.
For the most part, wrists are like tires. The amount you get out of them depends on how well you take care of them and how many miles you put on them.
Actually you argue against yourself there...
If they were smarter than us, that explains exactly why they haven't made contact.
What about the search appliance, Google Desktop, and my personal favorite, Picasa?
And no one can forget the Google Gulp!
Ach, misread. Behind the screen.
Same point could be made, though.
With an entire chassis, why did they opt for just one speaker behind the driver?
There are small, decent sounding, and (relative to the cost of the car shell) inexpensive 5.1 setups. And you'd be able to mount most of the speakers in the existing speaker mounts.
Wow, you must have a marketing degree, because that's probably the most garbled buzzword-speak I've seen in a long time.
And as far as national identies are concerned, which I think you were talking about there, they change. They mutate. The US 40 years ago was about freedom and privacy, from the politicians on down. I'm not saying the politicians weren't corrupt or stupid, but they put on a good front about caring about freedom.
These guys aren't even trying now.
More like nobody. You can't have people that both do and do not work for a company; they either do or they don't.
What about Consultants and Contractors?
One flaw with your logic, though.
By your definition of Vaporware, a slip in release date would not be enough to show intent to not release, just a product delay. A complete removal of the release date, however, would.
Ah, so it's a Working Designs joint venture!
Then why has no one suggested Star Office?
One of the things I keep hearing mentioned is that Sun licences the MS Office file types for their importers. It's vastly cheaper than MS Office, though not free like OO.o, and students can use either MS Office or OO.o at home and be sure their files will open properly.
Saves the district money, opens the way for students to use a free office suite at home. Sounds like an ideal compromise.
There goes what karma I had....
We've had two-party rule since Washington left office.
But we haven't. Two-party rule has only been around since the Civil War or so. Prior to that there were between three and four electable political parties, depending on the year. I will have to re-research this again to find out exact names and years. (Whig springs to mind.)
I've always thought that was rather backwards, personally...
As a non-lawyer, non-politician, I would think copyright law changes should go like:
Copyright is licensable, but non-transferable. (Encourages people to make their own, rather than just buy someone else's.)
Copyright/Trademark is renewable indefinitely, but once it has lapsed, it's gone forever. 5-10 year increments. Thus Disney can keep Mickey, works that have been forgotten about by their creators will lapse into Public Domain, and the US Govt gets lotsa nice $20 bills for paperwork charges.
Okay, I mis-read part of that. You answered my question and I missed it.
Disregard the questions posed prior to the rights being sold to Bob's.
I don't mean to solicit further advice, but where does that leave those of us who enjoy foreign music that doesn't have a US distributor?
Just to make something clear, I'm not providing advice to you, and we're not in an attorney client relationship.
Hence why I don't want to solicit advice. The free, unofficial enlightenment is much appreciated.
This said, US copyrights vest in the US copyright holder -- who can easily be a foreigner. (Or the band Foreigner) So if a Japanese musician who writes and records a performance of a song, holding the US copyright all the while, authorizes a Japanese company to make a CD of it, then that CD satisfies the requirements of 602(b), and 602(a) is up to you.
It's just safer to try to get copies released lawfully in your own country due to the possibility that the rights might have been assigned to another, as opposed to merely licensed.
Does this help you?
It does to a point.
I was referring more to the import/export restrictions placed on copyrighted works. Currently it seems there is a stranglehold on importing any CDs that are also published domestically due to "undercutting" concerns. If the CD is not available in a domestic release, then what changes? (I.E., Foreign Band "A" releases on Sony Japan. Sony specifically refuses to release "A" in the US, but has US Distribution rights. The law currently allows me to import "A", but if Sony sells US rights to Bob's CDs, then what happens to my copy? It was legal when I imported it, so it's protected, but the next time I copy it to my MP3 player?
Also, does the law give any leniency to unpublished works? I.E., two years later, Bob's CDs has no production runs of "A" planned, but is the sole holder of the rights for the US. Does that mean that Bob's basically has the rights to say that US citizens can't own it, import or otherwise?
Doing the Math:
Average payout: $2/CD
12 Songs * $0.12 = 1.44
RIAA: $11/CD - $2.50 (Artist+Publication) = $8.50/CD (Same source as above)
12 Songs * ($0.64-$0.12) = $6.24/CD
BUT, for iTunes distribution, they don't have to pay Shipping & Recieving personnel, warehouses, purchasing managers... All those are replaced with 1-2 accountants per download company. Obviously I didn't figure in marketing and such, but I would assume costs would be similar for online and physical distribution.
I don't mean to solicit further advice, but where does that leave those of us who enjoy foreign music that doesn't have a US distributor? (Puffy Ami Yumi, B'z, other J-Pop, to name a few of mine.) Or does that only apply to copyrighted materials that has a legal distribution contract/contact in both countries involved?
(So basically how does it differ if I go to Japan and buy a bunch of J Pop for my own listening vs. picking up a copy of AC/DC's newest while I'm there just because it's handy.)
And how does that affect me if I import a B'z album now, and later it gets US distribuiton? Are my MP3's then illegal because I make new copies from a CD that, while legal to buy when I did, would then be illegal?
TOO MUCH CIRCLE ILLOGIC!
Thank you very much for the correction. IANAL, and apparently assume too much logic when deriving what I know for what should theoretically follow. I keep forgetting that Laws != Logical.
Theoretically, if you are unaware that the content is illegitimate, have no way of possibly knowing same (which is no longer the case), and pay for the service, they're legally liable, not you.
Plus apparently there is SOME content on allofmp3 that is legal, since it's stated only some is not.
We need a redhat of music and film.
Would a RedHat of Music and Literature do?
It depends on what Cadillac. You can fit 1/2 the population of Cleveland in a 1978 Fleetwood.