There's actually space in the signal for 6 (8?) different sets of captions set aside. Only 2 of them are used with any frequency at all. The rest aren't used. They're jsut re-allocating the space to other purposes.
How else other than through the slale of records is an artist supposed to create his music?
I'm not sure what you're asking, but i think you mean "How else other than through the sale of records is an artist to support themselves?" It's called "Go on tour." You know how much artists royalties amount to from a song on a CD? 8.5 CENTS. They get much more from sales of tickets & band merchandise at concerts.
How much do you think it costs to purchase instruments and rent a recording studio? Don't know? Let me tell you then it's quite a bit!
And the price is dropping every day because microphone prices and digital mastering equipment prices are dropping through the floor. More and more people have access to high-quality recording equipment. Get a few good microphones, some good recording equipment, and some space away from ambient noise, and you have a decent recording area.
Would you like the work of your inspiration to be copied without regard to your rights as the creator?
Finally making a good point. What about the will of the artists? The will of the artists went out the window once they signed their recording contract.
I think you're missing the fact that there are a couple of different camps on this issue. There's blatant piracy, and then there's this issue of FAIR USE. Blatant piracy is obviously wrong, but telling me I can't make a copy of a CD I purchased to take to work with me so I don't have to carry a whole pile of CD's with me is wrong
I don't know about your state, but in New York, if a store has s sale that is sponsored by the manufacturer, the store is required to charge sales tax on the manufacturer's reduced price. If I come in with a coupon for $0.50 something at the store, I still have to pay the $0.04 sales tax on that $0.50.
It's just pennies for a little $0.50 coupon... but when you're talking about something a little more pricey, like a web cam... $99.99 - #30.00 rebate = $3.24 in sales taxes paid on rebate portion, then you start to make a difference.
Tack on another $0.34 to the cost of the rebate for postage... and then you're really starting to see the rebate become meaningless.
Just because you have the right to say something, you do not have the right to make me use my resources (or resources that I have paid for) to listen to you.
Have you ever had junk mail come "Postage due"?
If we find out that a product is dangerous in 50 years, then, "oh well, that's life." But if you've lied to me for 50 years because you've known it all along, and you perjure yourself in front of Congress in saying your product is not addictive, when your companys' records say otherwise, and I am stuck paying for the costs of your product's aftereffects, then you owe me a hell of a lot!
Well, the most poignant one was the American Legacy Foundation's assault on the Philip Morris positive smear campaign. I think that's the one that's going to stand out in people's minds... I wish they'd show that one a little bit more throughout the year.
"Sega of America has denied reports that the company is to pull out of the hardware market and cease production of Dreamcast."
That's a pretty far strech from "Sega Kills Off The Dreamcast"
I know all about that first amendment, free speech thingie that Slashdot believes in, but could we PLEASE get a little editorial accuracy?
This is just my humbl opinion, but in my Software Architecture course, I've noticed that there is something more to all of this than jsut straight up "code reuse"... Architecture reuse is going to be far more important. Sure, we have those nice little design patterns that tell us how to achieve small tasks within our program, but with large-scale systems, recycling the _architecture_ is becoming more important. How do you think Microsoft made Office so rapidly? They used the same architecture, same components, jsut with a little bit of different function.
It's one thing to recycle a few hundred LOC every now and then, but it's a whole different ballgame when you can recycle the plans for a complete system. I feel (and I may be wrong) that this just isn't as easy under the procedural system.
http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/199 9/12/21/emails1221_01.html
APB reported this on 12/21/1999.... Sentencing was set for April 24, 2000...
Could we please get some up to date news?
I watched some of the NetZero ads during South Park last night....
I love the mock "testifying" before congress that the Internet should be free... and that they actually have "Defenders of the Free World" trademarked... "defenders of our left nut" is more appropriate for them.
As to the piracy question, the issue rests in part on analogies with other technological innovations that posed a threat to traditional distributors of information. The MP3 technology could be analogized to the photocopier, which allowed individuals to make and sell copies of books, undercutting the market for the original publication. The clear distinction is that photocopiers resulted in degraded copies; MP3 permits the creation of exact replicas of the original.
Umm... correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't MP3 lossy compression? This guy needs to get a clue, or at least a nice e-mail explaining his mistake...
And don't forget that it's Shrub's own running mate Dick Cheney, as a lowly representative from Wyoming, who railroaded the Iran-Contra Joint Investigation Committee's proceedings and ran them into the ground, basically clearing the way for Bush Sr. to escape the incident unscathed and unindicted.
The real sad thing I see coming out of all this is that when Clinton was elected, we had the Congress & the White House controlled by opposite parties. (And thus all the investigations launched by one party.)
Now, there's nobody out there to attack Bush on his shady dealings with Draft Dodging through the Texas Air National Guard (and going AWOL for over a year)...
Indeed, the BiStatix concept is so simple that the Motorola engineer who co-invented it, Noel Eberhardt, often demonstrates it by using a pencil to create an antenna on a piece of paper. By applying graphite to paper, and then attaching the BiStatix chip to the graphite antenna, Eberhardt has been known to create a working model of the concept in less than a minute.
It's funny that pencils and Eberhardt are mentioned in this same paragraph... isn't Eberhart-Faber one of the leading Pencil/Pen manufacturers?
Re:pot calling the kettle black?
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Now it may be true that the individual instructions patented by intel aren't particularly novel but these appear to be the way intel can protect its novel contributions to its instruction set.
This is why Apple clones dies off very quickly. Sure, manufacturers could put together the hardware, they just couldn't have any software for it. Apple was charging a ridiculous fee for the operating system for clones, thereby guarenteeing that their machines would be cheaper. Apple called this "recovering the cost of developing the OS"...
As no Response has been filed, there is little information relating to the Respondent. The said domain names were
registered in the name of Cupcake Patrol and in the absence of any evidence to the contrary this Administrative Panel
accepts the Complainant's submission that this is a trading name of the Respondent.
AND this guy is a cyber squatter too...
The Complainant submits that there have been at least five ICANN decisions against the Respondent in which it has been
found that he registered and used domain names that are identical or confusingly similar to famous trademarks in bad faith
and without a legitimate business purpose viz. Hewlett-Packard Company v. Cupcake City, NAF Case No.
FA0002000093562; Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. v. John Zuccarini et al., WIPO Case No. D2000-0330; Hewlett-Packard
Company v. John Zuccarini, NAF Case No. FA00040000994454; Bama Rags, Inc. v. John Zuccarini d/b/a Cupcake
Confidential, NAF Case No. 0003000094380 and Bama Rags, Inc. v. John Zuccarini, NAF Case No. 0003000094381.
Just like in real court, it doesn't look good if you don't show up...
Said Notification of Complaint and Commencement of Administrative Proceeding inter alia advised the Respondent that the
Administrative Proceeding had commenced on August 25, 2000 and that the Respondent was required to submit a
Response to the Center on or before September 13, 2000.
No Response was received by the Center from the Respondent and on September 25, 2000, the Center sent a Notification
of Respondent Default to the Respondent by post/courier and by e-mail. A copy of said Notification of Respondent Default
was on the same date sent to the authorised representative of the Complainant by e-mail. Said Notification inter alia
advised the Respondent that the Respondent was in default and that in accordance with the Rules, and the Supplemental
Rules, the Center would proceed to appoint a single member Administrative Panel as designated by the Complainant, that
the said Administrative Panel would be informed of the said default, and that the Center would continue to send all
case-related communications to the Respondent.
If the guy had bothered to show up, or at least respond to the e-mails, he would have had a better chance. It's the very same as not showing up in court in the US... if you don't show, you're probably going to lose. (This happens in Small Claims Court all the time.)
There is also the case of Rep. Rick Boucher of VA, (the guy who is sponsoring a LOT of bills that are/. supported, IMHO) http://www.house.gov/boucher/internet.htm
He helped push the legislation that modified the NSF charter to become a little bit commercial, and to allow commercial entities on to the internet. So Boucher also helped "Create the internet as we know it".
One important thing we missed here...
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The original lawsuit was filed by MAPS against Black Ice. The Black Ice laswsuit is a countersuit.
Under attack from firms that have wound up on its so-called ``Blackhole List'' of junk e-mailers, MAPS filed suit this spring seeking a definitive ruling from a California court that its
practices did not violate any laws.
The target of the suit was Black Ice, which makes software tool kits and had threatened legal action over being placed on the Blackhole List. Black Ice responded by counter-suing MAPS, accusing it of defamation and unfair business practices.
Slashdot Mirror
There's actually space in the signal for 6 (8?) different sets of captions set aside. Only 2 of them are used with any frequency at all. The rest aren't used. They're jsut re-allocating the space to other purposes.
How else other than through the slale of records is an artist supposed to create his music?
I'm not sure what you're asking, but i think you mean "How else other than through the sale of records is an artist to support themselves?" It's called "Go on tour." You know how much artists royalties amount to from a song on a CD? 8.5 CENTS. They get much more from sales of tickets & band merchandise at concerts.
How much do you think it costs to purchase instruments and rent a recording studio? Don't know? Let me tell you then it's quite a bit!
And the price is dropping every day because microphone prices and digital mastering equipment prices are dropping through the floor. More and more people have access to high-quality recording equipment. Get a few good microphones, some good recording equipment, and some space away from ambient noise, and you have a decent recording area.
Would you like the work of your inspiration to be copied without regard to your rights as the creator?
Finally making a good point. What about the will of the artists? The will of the artists went out the window once they signed their recording contract.
I think you're missing the fact that there are a couple of different camps on this issue. There's blatant piracy, and then there's this issue of FAIR USE. Blatant piracy is obviously wrong, but telling me I can't make a copy of a CD I purchased to take to work with me so I don't have to carry a whole pile of CD's with me is wrong
A bacterium that is really dangerous and tending to spread all over everywhere? One that monopolises the natural world?
Oh, so it's sorta like Microsoft and Microsoft Outlook then?
I don't know about your state, but in New York, if a store has s sale that is sponsored by the manufacturer, the store is required to charge sales tax on the manufacturer's reduced price. If I come in with a coupon for $0.50 something at the store, I still have to pay the $0.04 sales tax on that $0.50. It's just pennies for a little $0.50 coupon... but when you're talking about something a little more pricey, like a web cam... $99.99 - #30.00 rebate = $3.24 in sales taxes paid on rebate portion, then you start to make a difference. Tack on another $0.34 to the cost of the rebate for postage... and then you're really starting to see the rebate become meaningless.
Just because you have the right to say something, you do not have the right to make me use my resources (or resources that I have paid for) to listen to you. Have you ever had junk mail come "Postage due"?
If we find out that a product is dangerous in 50 years, then, "oh well, that's life." But if you've lied to me for 50 years because you've known it all along, and you perjure yourself in front of Congress in saying your product is not addictive, when your companys' records say otherwise, and I am stuck paying for the costs of your product's aftereffects, then you owe me a hell of a lot!
Well, the most poignant one was the American Legacy Foundation's assault on the Philip Morris positive smear campaign. I think that's the one that's going to stand out in people's minds... I wish they'd show that one a little bit more throughout the year.
http://www.mcvuk.com/ writes: "Sega denies Dreamcast death"
"Sega of America has denied reports that the company is to pull out of the hardware market and cease production of Dreamcast." That's a pretty far strech from "Sega Kills Off The Dreamcast" I know all about that first amendment, free speech thingie that Slashdot believes in, but could we PLEASE get a little editorial accuracy?
This is just my humbl opinion, but in my Software Architecture course, I've noticed that there is something more to all of this than jsut straight up "code reuse"... Architecture reuse is going to be far more important. Sure, we have those nice little design patterns that tell us how to achieve small tasks within our program, but with large-scale systems, recycling the _architecture_ is becoming more important. How do you think Microsoft made Office so rapidly? They used the same architecture, same components, jsut with a little bit of different function.
It's one thing to recycle a few hundred LOC every now and then, but it's a whole different ballgame when you can recycle the plans for a complete system. I feel (and I may be wrong) that this just isn't as easy under the procedural system.
Would those people who have genetic red-green colorblindness who are "propagating the species" be violated for patent infringment?
http://www.apbnews.com/newscenter/breakingnews/199 9/12/21/emails1221_01.html
APB reported this on 12/21/1999.... Sentencing was set for April 24, 2000...
Could we please get some up to date news?
I'm wondering about ad-bars like AllAdvantage, and that sort of thing... wouldn't that be prior art as well?
I watched some of the NetZero ads during South Park last night....
I love the mock "testifying" before congress that the Internet should be free... and that they actually have "Defenders of the Free World" trademarked... "defenders of our left nut" is more appropriate for them.
Ahh... that's right. I didn't think of it from that angle...
As to the piracy question, the issue rests in part on analogies with other technological innovations that posed a threat to traditional distributors of information. The MP3 technology could be analogized to the photocopier, which allowed individuals to make and sell copies of books, undercutting the market for the original publication. The clear distinction is that photocopiers resulted in degraded copies; MP3 permits the creation of exact replicas of the original. Umm... correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't MP3 lossy compression? This guy needs to get a clue, or at least a nice e-mail explaining his mistake...
I was under the impression that a very large percentage of the people writing mozilla were being paid by Netscape (AOL)
Having read numerous bugzilla reports, I am under the same impression. It does look like a lot of Netscape (AOL) engineers are working on the bugs.
And don't forget that it's Shrub's own running mate Dick Cheney, as a lowly representative from Wyoming, who railroaded the Iran-Contra Joint Investigation Committee's proceedings and ran them into the ground, basically clearing the way for Bush Sr. to escape the incident unscathed and unindicted. The real sad thing I see coming out of all this is that when Clinton was elected, we had the Congress & the White House controlled by opposite parties. (And thus all the investigations launched by one party.) Now, there's nobody out there to attack Bush on his shady dealings with Draft Dodging through the Texas Air National Guard (and going AWOL for over a year)...
"I support breast cancer research"
*oops* blocked by censorware.
Indeed, the BiStatix concept is so simple that the Motorola engineer who co-invented it, Noel Eberhardt, often demonstrates it by using a pencil to create an antenna on a piece of paper. By applying graphite to paper, and then attaching the BiStatix chip to the graphite antenna, Eberhardt has been known to create a working model of the concept in less than a minute.
It's funny that pencils and Eberhardt are mentioned in this same paragraph... isn't Eberhart-Faber one of the leading Pencil/Pen manufacturers?
Now it may be true that the individual instructions patented by intel aren't particularly novel but these appear to be the way intel can protect its novel contributions to its instruction set.
This is why Apple clones dies off very quickly. Sure, manufacturers could put together the hardware, they just couldn't have any software for it. Apple was charging a ridiculous fee for the operating system for clones, thereby guarenteeing that their machines would be cheaper. Apple called this "recovering the cost of developing the OS"...
Continuing on...
As no Response has been filed, there is little information relating to the Respondent. The said domain names were registered in the name of Cupcake Patrol and in the absence of any evidence to the contrary this Administrative Panel accepts the Complainant's submission that this is a trading name of the Respondent.
AND this guy is a cyber squatter too...
The Complainant submits that there have been at least five ICANN decisions against the Respondent in which it has been found that he registered and used domain names that are identical or confusingly similar to famous trademarks in bad faith and without a legitimate business purpose viz. Hewlett-Packard Company v. Cupcake City, NAF Case No. FA0002000093562; Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc. v. John Zuccarini et al., WIPO Case No. D2000-0330; Hewlett-Packard Company v. John Zuccarini, NAF Case No. FA00040000994454; Bama Rags, Inc. v. John Zuccarini d/b/a Cupcake Confidential, NAF Case No. 0003000094380 and Bama Rags, Inc. v. John Zuccarini, NAF Case No. 0003000094381.
Just like in real court, it doesn't look good if you don't show up...
Said Notification of Complaint and Commencement of Administrative Proceeding inter alia advised the Respondent that the Administrative Proceeding had commenced on August 25, 2000 and that the Respondent was required to submit a Response to the Center on or before September 13, 2000.
No Response was received by the Center from the Respondent and on September 25, 2000, the Center sent a Notification of Respondent Default to the Respondent by post/courier and by e-mail. A copy of said Notification of Respondent Default was on the same date sent to the authorised representative of the Complainant by e-mail. Said Notification inter alia advised the Respondent that the Respondent was in default and that in accordance with the Rules, and the Supplemental Rules, the Center would proceed to appoint a single member Administrative Panel as designated by the Complainant, that the said Administrative Panel would be informed of the said default, and that the Center would continue to send all case-related communications to the Respondent.
If the guy had bothered to show up, or at least respond to the e-mails, he would have had a better chance. It's the very same as not showing up in court in the US... if you don't show, you're probably going to lose. (This happens in Small Claims Court all the time.)
There is also the case of Rep. Rick Boucher of VA, (the guy who is sponsoring a LOT of bills that are /. supported, IMHO) http://www.house.gov/boucher/internet.htm
He helped push the legislation that modified the NSF charter to become a little bit commercial, and to allow commercial entities on to the internet. So Boucher also helped "Create the internet as we know it".
The original lawsuit was filed by MAPS against Black Ice. The Black Ice laswsuit is a countersuit.
Under attack from firms that have wound up on its so-called ``Blackhole List'' of junk e-mailers, MAPS filed suit this spring seeking a definitive ruling from a California court that its practices did not violate any laws.
The target of the suit was Black Ice, which makes software tool kits and had threatened legal action over being placed on the Blackhole List. Black Ice responded by counter-suing MAPS, accusing it of defamation and unfair business practices.
Although risking a -1 redundant for this, here is the specific hoax page from CIAC