I doubt it. As the article points out, wholesale prices were not affected by the MAP program, so the industry didn't see any increase in profits one way or another. Remember, it's the wholesale prices that companies pay to the record labels.
"The music companies said that MAP did not directly help them because it didn't affect wholesale prices."
Besides, MAP was about the industry providing payments to stores to supplement their advertising if they agreed to not sell a product below a minimum price. The supplemental advertising $$$ also ate into those prices.
I hope they watch out... Given their recent problems with Scientology, they should stay away from $cientology's "Gold Base" in Hemet, California. People have a tendency to die in and around it.
Umm... I don't think so. I have yet to receive a single spam addressed to the address I used for Monster.com. net-temps, however has. I use unique addresses for each place I put my resume up, or submit an application to.
In fact, net-temps is the only place I've received spam from.
(No, I don't want to pay you $70 to have your automated system tell me about my resume, when I can just have my career counselors to do it for free.)
Actually, $cientology lost one recently. A court case, started back in the 80's, which cult head David Miscavaige promised "Not one thin dime for Wollersheim", was finally resolved this year when $cientology paid 86,748,430 thin dimes ($8,674,848) to Lawrence Wollersheim after the long battle. He originally won $30 million in a lawsuit, but was later reduced to $2.5 million on appeal. $cientology drained the assets out of the "Church of $cientology of California", then claimed bankruptcy, forcing long drawn out proceedings to extend the judgement to the receivers of C$C of California's assets.
As Wollersheim prepared to expose $cientology's true corporate structure, $cientology paid the $2.5 million, plus stautatory interest of 10% since judgement (hence the $8.6 million award).
They still can't sell your information to the highest bidder. There's only certain information that they're allowed to actually publish, and that is essentially directory information. RIT finally got smart this year and started giving students the option of having their e-mail address publicly visible in the school's LDAP server. (Faculty and staff have the ability to login and see the e-mail addresses, because there is a legitimate need for them to do so, but the faculty and staff don't get to opt out of having their address listed in the LDAP server.)
Then again, students also get the ability to go in and edit most of their LDAP entry.
So if I made "Nicks uber cool GPL spreadsheet" and United Linux decided to take it, make a couple of tweaks and not release the changes I would be the one who was harmed and thus have legal standing to go after them.
Actually, under the GPL, I don't have to release any changes I make to a program unless I then distribute the program again. I'm perfectly welcome to download a program, change it, and use it for my personal use.
Distribution is the point at which I have the responsibility to deliver the source code.
Q: Does the GPL allow me to distribute a modified or beta version under a nondisclosure agreement?
A: No. The GPL says that anyone who receives a copy of your version from you has the right to redistribute copies (modified or not) of that version. It does not give you permission to distribute the work on any more restrictive basis.
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Or, they're distributing their version of Linux without any GPL'ed code in it. That would be kinda like giving someone a goldfish in a tank with a shiny plastic castle in it, except that there is no tank, no water, no goldfish, and no shiny castle inside of it.
Most Western music for the past 400 years has been created using the same essential building blocks.
Right. If you play them all backwards in a tape player, you get your wife back, you get your truck back, and you get your dog back. Granted, it wasn't nessecairly trucks back then, it might have been a mule team, or a wagon, or a ship, but yeah, pretty much the same.
Oh, speaking of that, did you acquire permission from the set designer and the lighting designer? (And yes, since most shows are sold along with set plans and lighting designs, that means the original set designer, not just the person brought in to build it.) Since it's their artistic work put into the set and lighting, photos of it are representations of their artistic work, so they have contorl over the reproductions of the representations. Copyright's a biatch, ain't it?
If need be, can't the bride and groom scan the photos, post them on the web and send friends and family there to view them? Sure the prints aren't great, but the pictures can be scanned well enough for viewing on the computer.
Sure you can. I know that with any scanner, I can scan in just about any image that I want to. The real question is, do I have the right to? If I own the copyrights to the photos, then hells yes I can!
Of corse, it's the acquiring of copyright that is going to take a bit more work and money. Like with a CD, you don't get that by default. Should you? That's a whole different question.
They're HIRING someone to do work, & expect that by paying money they'll receive the product with few or no strings attached.
As with all things, GET IT IN WRITING. If you expect the work to be done with few or no strings attached, spell those out in writing. If you want to change the contract later, expect to pay for it.
Case in point. Marine Midland Bank bought the naming rights to what was then the "Crossroads Arena" in Buffalo. It became the Marine Midland Arena. A couple of years later, the company adopted the name of their parent company, HSBC. Unfortunatley, the contract they signed didn't provide for name changing. HSBC had to re-negotiate with Erie County and the Buffalo Sabres. It cost HSBC money in the re-negotiation of the contract, money to pay the county, and a break in interest rates on loans to the Sabres.
My point is this. If you expect something to happen, make sure you have it in writing, and have it signed. Contracts based on "Expectations" have little value in court. Verbal agreements don't often hold water outside of the entertainment industry.
The ability to select links w/o the mouse has been around for a while, it just wasn't teribly user friendly. THe TAB key would cycle through the links/form elements on the page, and the enter key would activate the link.
I know... not exactly what you wanted;-)
Consider this to be a game of go fish. You got what you wished for. Wish again, and this time, wish for something cool, like, "Have Micro$oft give us all money when we download Mozilla.";-)
Well, by the same argument, a group of essentially unregulated commercial interests has the power to decide which companies can manufacture DVD players. People are trying to hold these people accountable for the power that they wield, and they don't have grievance procedures.
Well, he left his e-mail address at the bottom of the article.
"You can reach him at bret [] lextext [dot] com."/me guesses his username is setup as "bret"/me is probably right, considering (According to Netcraft), he's running Apache probably on top of FreeBSD, which means there's probably an account to go with it.
The only way they can tell is if you tell the printer in the printer driver. My old 694 C does print out different intensities of ink depending on the type of paper chosen. (Most notably, between Inkjet Transparency Paper and Glossy Photo Paper). But that has nothing to do with the manufacturer.
Same here. Although it didn't work "straight out of the box", all I had to do was download the latest version of CUPS, and it worked. *boom*
And, since the printer has both a USB port and a paralell port, I was able to hook up both my linux and windoze/linux box to it. (I just won't try to print to it from both machines at the same time.)
Her Touring Schedule looks pretty good... and the producers putting on her shows are putting up with her contractriders (no, I'm not complaining about them). All things considered, if she's happy, then she's doing good:-)
BTW, RIAA's reaction is covered in her second article.
How many sound artifacts would double compression cause? If/when I change to oog, I'll be re-ripping my CD's. Yes, a royal pain in the arse, but it's one I think I can handle.
Not exactly. His translates fingerspelling into letters. I still give him major props, it's still damn good work for a kid of his age, but it's still easier for a deaf person to pull out a pen and paper than to use his tool.
Sign language is a much bigger concept than fingerspelling. Other people have given much better explanations than I have.
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I doubt it. As the article points out, wholesale prices were not affected by the MAP program, so the industry didn't see any increase in profits one way or another. Remember, it's the wholesale prices that companies pay to the record labels.
"The music companies said that MAP did not directly help them because it didn't affect wholesale prices."
Besides, MAP was about the industry providing payments to stores to supplement their advertising if they agreed to not sell a product below a minimum price. The supplemental advertising $$$ also ate into those prices.
I hope they watch out... Given their recent problems with Scientology, they should stay away from $cientology's "Gold Base" in Hemet, California. People have a tendency to die in and around it.
You utter the words "$cientology" and "OT III" in the same sentence.
Umm... I don't think so. I have yet to receive a single spam addressed to the address I used for Monster.com. net-temps, however has. I use unique addresses for each place I put my resume up, or submit an application to.
In fact, net-temps is the only place I've received spam from.
(No, I don't want to pay you $70 to have your automated system tell me about my resume, when I can just have my career counselors to do it for free.)
Actually, $cientology lost one recently. A court case, started back in the 80's, which cult head David Miscavaige promised "Not one thin dime for Wollersheim", was finally resolved this year when $cientology paid 86,748,430 thin dimes ($8,674,848) to Lawrence Wollersheim after the long battle. He originally won $30 million in a lawsuit, but was later reduced to $2.5 million on appeal. $cientology drained the assets out of the "Church of $cientology of California", then claimed bankruptcy, forcing long drawn out proceedings to extend the judgement to the receivers of C$C of California's assets.
As Wollersheim prepared to expose $cientology's true corporate structure, $cientology paid the $2.5 million, plus stautatory interest of 10% since judgement (hence the $8.6 million award).
One of the pidgeons left an Audit Trail
They still can't sell your information to the highest bidder. There's only certain information that they're allowed to actually publish, and that is essentially directory information. RIT finally got smart this year and started giving students the option of having their e-mail address publicly visible in the school's LDAP server. (Faculty and staff have the ability to login and see the e-mail addresses, because there is a legitimate need for them to do so, but the faculty and staff don't get to opt out of having their address listed in the LDAP server.)
Then again, students also get the ability to go in and edit most of their LDAP entry.
So if I made "Nicks uber cool GPL spreadsheet" and United Linux decided to take it, make a couple of tweaks and not release the changes I would be the one who was harmed and thus have legal standing to go after them.
Actually, under the GPL, I don't have to release any changes I make to a program unless I then distribute the program again. I'm perfectly welcome to download a program, change it, and use it for my personal use.
Distribution is the point at which I have the responsibility to deliver the source code.
They would have to be rewriting from the ground up. And they'd have to rewrite everything.
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GPL FAQ
Q: Does the GPL allow me to distribute a modified or beta version under a nondisclosure agreement?
A: No. The GPL says that anyone who receives a copy of your version from you has the right to redistribute copies (modified or not) of that version. It does not give you permission to distribute the work on any more restrictive basis.
********
Or, they're distributing their version of Linux without any GPL'ed code in it. That would be kinda like giving someone a goldfish in a tank with a shiny plastic castle in it, except that there is no tank, no water, no goldfish, and no shiny castle inside of it.
Most Western music for the past 400 years has been created using the same essential building blocks.
Right. If you play them all backwards in a tape player, you get your wife back, you get your truck back, and you get your dog back. Granted, it wasn't nessecairly trucks back then, it might have been a mule team, or a wagon, or a ship, but yeah, pretty much the same.
Oh, speaking of that, did you acquire permission from the set designer and the lighting designer? (And yes, since most shows are sold along with set plans and lighting designs, that means the original set designer, not just the person brought in to build it.) Since it's their artistic work put into the set and lighting, photos of it are representations of their artistic work, so they have contorl over the reproductions of the representations. Copyright's a biatch, ain't it?
If need be, can't the bride and groom scan the photos, post them on the web and send friends and family there to view them? Sure the prints aren't great, but the pictures can be scanned well enough for viewing on the computer.
Sure you can. I know that with any scanner, I can scan in just about any image that I want to. The real question is, do I have the right to? If I own the copyrights to the photos, then hells yes I can!
Of corse, it's the acquiring of copyright that is going to take a bit more work and money. Like with a CD, you don't get that by default. Should you? That's a whole different question.
Definition: Verbal:
3. Expressed in spoken rather than written words; oral: a verbal contract.
They're HIRING someone to do work, & expect that by paying money they'll receive the product with few or no strings attached.
As with all things, GET IT IN WRITING. If you expect the work to be done with few or no strings attached, spell those out in writing. If you want to change the contract later, expect to pay for it.
Case in point. Marine Midland Bank bought the naming rights to what was then the "Crossroads Arena" in Buffalo. It became the Marine Midland Arena. A couple of years later, the company adopted the name of their parent company, HSBC. Unfortunatley, the contract they signed didn't provide for name changing. HSBC had to re-negotiate with Erie County and the Buffalo Sabres. It cost HSBC money in the re-negotiation of the contract, money to pay the county, and a break in interest rates on loans to the Sabres.
My point is this. If you expect something to happen, make sure you have it in writing, and have it signed. Contracts based on "Expectations" have little value in court. Verbal agreements don't often hold water outside of the entertainment industry.
Man, would that make my browsing fly!
/pr0n ;-)
All depends on how fast you can type
The ability to select links w/o the mouse has been around for a while, it just wasn't teribly user friendly. THe TAB key would cycle through the links/form elements on the page, and the enter key would activate the link.
;-)
;-)
I know... not exactly what you wanted
Consider this to be a game of go fish. You got what you wished for. Wish again, and this time, wish for something cool, like, "Have Micro$oft give us all money when we download Mozilla."
There have been problems installing some xpi's on Linux and some other systems.
Check the bottom of the page that reads:
Linux rpm's are available browse (html) or download (ftp)
Well, by the same argument, a group of essentially unregulated commercial interests has the power to decide which companies can manufacture DVD players. People are trying to hold these people accountable for the power that they wield, and they don't have grievance procedures.
Well, he left his e-mail address at the bottom of the article.
/me guesses his username is setup as "bret" /me is probably right, considering (According to Netcraft), he's running Apache probably on top of FreeBSD, which means there's probably an account to go with it.
"You can reach him at bret [] lextext [dot] com."
The only way they can tell is if you tell the printer in the printer driver. My old 694 C does print out different intensities of ink depending on the type of paper chosen. (Most notably, between Inkjet Transparency Paper and Glossy Photo Paper). But that has nothing to do with the manufacturer.
Same here. Although it didn't work "straight out of the box", all I had to do was download the latest version of CUPS, and it worked. *boom*
And, since the printer has both a USB port and a paralell port, I was able to hook up both my linux and windoze/linux box to it. (I just won't try to print to it from both machines at the same time.)
Her Touring Schedule looks pretty good... and the producers putting on her shows are putting up with her contract riders (no, I'm not complaining about them). All things considered, if she's happy, then she's doing good :-)
BTW, RIAA's reaction is covered in her second article.
How many sound artifacts would double compression cause? If/when I change to oog, I'll be re-ripping my CD's. Yes, a royal pain in the arse, but it's one I think I can handle.
Pull through to the window. Then, break out the pen and paper and hope the person at the window can read. Or, find hearing friends to go with you.
Not exactly. His translates fingerspelling into letters. I still give him major props, it's still damn good work for a kid of his age, but it's still easier for a deaf person to pull out a pen and paper than to use his tool.
Sign language is a much bigger concept than fingerspelling. Other people have given much better explanations than I have.