They have complete writeups on both versions of it... US Version, Canadian Version. If you bother to take a look, notice how thses two e-mails are almost EXACTLY the same, save for the differneces in Canadian/American government references. At least these jokers aren't discriminating over political boundaries... I'm just surprised that the Canadian version doesn't have a French translation to go along with it...
Are they trying to say that people who put lecture notes on the web are against babies?
Commercial distribution of lecture notes. If it's posted up there in general, it's fair use. I think they're trying to say that selling the notes of the lecture is like selling the creative
El Cheapo...
Nerf Wildfire. Nothing says lovin' like blasting one of your co-workers with 20 shots off the Nerf Wildfire. At a cost of about $35.00 from thinkgeek.com, this bad boy redefines the meaning of "office politics."
The Big thing... Portable MP3 Player. This particular one comes with 6Gb of storage space:-) That's about 100 hours of playing time... and it's the same size as the book of CD's I lug to work with me every day:-) It costs about $640 from thinkgeek.com
And if I could have anything bought...
1 congressman to introduce a bill to repeal the DCMA, and improve copyright laws, and about 200 more to support it. Total cost, about $9.075 million. That way, we wouldn't have to worry about
Are we becoming a little cynical? Hypocritical?
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I don't know if it's just me, but I see an alarming trend of things here on slashdot... "Evil topic! We must stop this! We need to get the people involved!", but nothing ever happens... and now when there is a clear chance to do something, and the path to take action has been mildly facilitated, we sit back and say "this isn't goign to accomplish anything."
I know, I'm probably wrong, because only the highly motivated people will actually do anything... and those people are the vocal ones... but... *sigh*
mp3.com would print out the letter and envelope, complete with the submitters home address, and mail it to the poor congressman (all at once...if done right..hehe.)
This is possible. The US Postal Service is rolling out a new service called "NetPost Mailing on line". Basically, it combines printing, addressing and postage all in to one convenient system. According to their FAQ, it offers next day turn around. No idea on what the costs are going to be though.
Scan the UPC on the CD and send it to a site, say MP3.com which just happens to have a giant database of MP3's on hand
That's a good idea, but what do you do about tiny companies who don't have a UPC to use? And, as:CueCat and the modern retailing industry have shown, UPC's are terribly easy and cheap to make. CD's, however, to burn an excat copy is much much harder. (You need to copy the CD's ID number & track information exactly to use My.mp3.com. This was fairly difficult from what I've heard.)
Having a real CD in hand implies that at least one person got a hold of a real CD.
Who needs Sattelite when you live in Buffalo, NY? The canadian coverage there has been great, and I'm glad that we're getting their feed over our local cable networks:-)
No, it says nothing about software received... it's more for the physical media. You could take the CD, and throw it against the window and smash it to tiny bits, and that would be okay... but the software generally has an EULA... of course, never agreeing/reading the EULA is a whole different story... and generally, it is difficult to install a program without agreeing to an EULA... IANAL, and that's just my $0.02.
Well, as sort of a correction to myself, it was published as being patented in August of 1998. The first time it was listed, it was published in the patent office's regular publishing as well.
This should really say "Granted a patent". If you bother to read the web page, it says under Legal Status: "Aug. 11, 1998 - A - Patent". This means that the patent was granted and the invention was published on Aug. 11, 1998. It was filed in November of 1995.
M0 = MP3.com's money before the lawsuit.
U0 = Universal's money before the lawsuit (against MP3.com).
C0 = Courtney Love's money before either lawsuit.
M1 = MP3.com's money after lawsuit against universal.
U1 = Universal's money after lawsuit against MP3.com.
M1 = M0 - $100 mil.
U1 = U0 + $100 mil.
M2 = MP3.com's money if Courtney Love wins suit against Universal.
U2 = Universal's money if Courtney Love wins suit against Universal.
C2 = Courtney Love's money if she wins suit against Universal:
M3 = MP3.com's money if Courtney Love loses suit against Universal
U3 = Universal's money if Courtney Love loses suit against Universal
C3 = Courtney Love's money if Courtney Love loses suit against Universal.
M3 = M1
U3 = U1
C3 = C0
Now, regardless of what C is, M1 = M2 = M3, which means that the event of the lawsuit against MP3.com IS INDEPENDENT of the result of the lawsuit from Courtney Love against Universal.
Granted, the EVENT of the lawsuit against Universal by Courtney Love comes as a result of the EVENT of the lawsuit against MP3.com, the OUTCOMES are independent. You're trying to apply syllogism to events in unrelated systems.
Yes, on the books, money does flow from MP3 to Universal to Courtney Love, the fact that Courtney Love getting money in the end has no effect on the fact that money is flowing from MP3.com to Universal.
How will they make their money?
This question was answered a few weeks ago here on/. The answer
One thing to remember about all this is that Google's results are also influenced by how many sites are linking to that particular website. If I were to do a search for my name on the internet, the results would first show www.fruvous.com's pages that had my name. The second would be pages at Photopoint.com. Third would be a newsgroup archive page that has a couple of my posts in it, and then my actual homepage. Why? Fruvous.com and PhotopPoint.com are far more popular to link to than www.rit.edu.
What it feels like is happening here is that the pertnership may have upped the score a little bit from sites that are lined from yahoo.com because there are more links directly from yahoo->google.
I don't think technology is going to ever completely replace the quality of hand made works, especially in the arts. The finest quality home furniture is still hand made (read: good quality, minor imperfections that bring character to the work.) Sure, a lot of machinery is going into these works, but you have the hand sanding, the hand finishing, something I don't think that a machine can ever reproduce.
True, there is going to be a lot of decent quality work produced by machine, but the best is still hand made.
It seems to me that colleges & universities should lose the "Academic" pricing of their computer software because it is now being used for commercial advertising.
I know here at RIT, we can't use systems for comemrcial gain because that's in the terms of our academic licensing... but I wonder how a system like this would affect that status...
In the House of Representatives, the only "Nay" vote to the Anti-Spam bill was cast by Ron Paul (Republican, 14th District of Texas). I wonder what thorn is up his butt? I mean, Texas is home to a majority of the members of Citizens Against Ugly Street Spam... hmm... methinks Mr. Paul must be working as a spammer at night or something;-)
I think it's about time Slashdot started editing the stories that go on the main page. There are SO MANY grammatical and spelling errors seeping into thse posts that it is getting to be unbearable. We are the nerds, and it makes sense that we should be more intelligent than the average human being, but some of these mistakes are getting.
Face the truth./. is now a commercial news organization (with a good community). Invoke a little common sense, a spell checker, and a grammar checker.
It's like their renting you the device, not giving it to you - the price of the rental is that you pay them for it's use.
It's a little scary, isn't it? We seem to be lacking the ownership of ANY property... we LEASE our car from the corporation, we LICENSE our software from the corporation, the insurance company and the bank OWN our houses, homes, and land... we don't OWN the barcode scanner, it's given to us...
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They have complete writeups on both versions of it... US Version, Canadian Version. If you bother to take a look, notice how thses two e-mails are almost EXACTLY the same, save for the differneces in Canadian/American government references. At least these jokers aren't discriminating over political boundaries... I'm just surprised that the Canadian version doesn't have a French translation to go along with it...
sorry... hit the submit button too soon...
As I said, selling the creative works of the professor. I'm not exactly sure how "derivitave work" applies in this case.
Are they trying to say that people who put lecture notes on the web are against babies?
Commercial distribution of lecture notes. If it's posted up there in general, it's fair use. I think they're trying to say that selling the notes of the lecture is like selling the creative
IIRC, Rep. Boucher represents Virginia's "Silicon Valley" region, in the northern end of VA. It's no surprise that he's coming up with stuff like the Online Music Owner's Listening Rights Act, and this Business Method Patent Improvement act..
I mean, just look at him... glasses, going bald... introducing good legislation... he's one of us!!!
What I would like to buy for Christmas...
:-) That's about 100 hours of playing time... and it's the same size as the book of CD's I lug to work with me every day :-) It costs about $640 from thinkgeek.com
El Cheapo...
Nerf Wildfire. Nothing says lovin' like blasting one of your co-workers with 20 shots off the Nerf Wildfire. At a cost of about $35.00 from thinkgeek.com, this bad boy redefines the meaning of "office politics."
The Big thing...
Portable MP3 Player. This particular one comes with 6Gb of storage space
And if I could have anything bought...
1 congressman to introduce a bill to repeal the DCMA, and improve copyright laws, and about 200 more to support it. Total cost, about $9.075 million. That way, we wouldn't have to worry about
I don't know if it's just me, but I see an alarming trend of things here on slashdot... "Evil topic! We must stop this! We need to get the people involved!", but nothing ever happens... and now when there is a clear chance to do something, and the path to take action has been mildly facilitated, we sit back and say "this isn't goign to accomplish anything."
I know, I'm probably wrong, because only the highly motivated people will actually do anything... and those people are the vocal ones... but... *sigh*
mp3.com would print out the letter and envelope, complete with the submitters home address, and mail it to the poor congressman (all at once...if done right..hehe.) This is possible. The US Postal Service is rolling out a new service called "NetPost Mailing on line". Basically, it combines printing, addressing and postage all in to one convenient system. According to their FAQ, it offers next day turn around. No idea on what the costs are going to be though.
Scan the UPC on the CD and send it to a site, say MP3.com which just happens to have a giant database of MP3's on hand
:CueCat and the modern retailing industry have shown, UPC's are terribly easy and cheap to make. CD's, however, to burn an excat copy is much much harder. (You need to copy the CD's ID number & track information exactly to use My.mp3.com. This was fairly difficult from what I've heard.)
That's a good idea, but what do you do about tiny companies who don't have a UPC to use? And, as
Having a real CD in hand implies that at least one person got a hold of a real CD.
Of course, MP3.com is involved in this... go here and write a letter to your representative and senators...
More specifically Real Video Demonstration of Hyperlinking.
scan a frappuccino bottle: and you get taken to the pepsi cola site. what starbucs has to do with pepsi is beyound my meager grasp...
IIRC, Pepsico is the bottler for the Starbucks Frappuchino drink. Much the same way that Coca Cola is the bottler for Snapple...
Who needs Sattelite when you live in Buffalo, NY? The canadian coverage there has been great, and I'm glad that we're getting their feed over our local cable networks :-)
No, it says nothing about software received... it's more for the physical media. You could take the CD, and throw it against the window and smash it to tiny bits, and that would be okay... but the software generally has an EULA... of course, never agreeing/reading the EULA is a whole different story... and generally, it is difficult to install a program without agreeing to an EULA...
IANAL, and that's just my $0.02.
Well, as sort of a correction to myself, it was published as being patented in August of 1998. The first time it was listed, it was published in the patent office's regular publishing as well.
This should really say "Granted a patent". If you bother to read the web page, it says under Legal Status: "Aug. 11, 1998 - A - Patent". This means that the patent was granted and the invention was published on Aug. 11, 1998. It was filed in November of 1995.
Ahh... but you're missing the point...
M0 = MP3.com's money before the lawsuit.
U0 = Universal's money before the lawsuit (against MP3.com).
C0 = Courtney Love's money before either lawsuit.
M1 = MP3.com's money after lawsuit against universal.
U1 = Universal's money after lawsuit against MP3.com.
M1 = M0 - $100 mil.
U1 = U0 + $100 mil.
M2 = MP3.com's money if Courtney Love wins suit against Universal.
U2 = Universal's money if Courtney Love wins suit against Universal.
C2 = Courtney Love's money if she wins suit against Universal:
M2 = M1
U2 = U1 - $settlement
C2 = C0 + $settlement
M3 = MP3.com's money if Courtney Love loses suit against Universal
U3 = Universal's money if Courtney Love loses suit against Universal
C3 = Courtney Love's money if Courtney Love loses suit against Universal.
M3 = M1
U3 = U1
C3 = C0
Now, regardless of what C is, M1 = M2 = M3, which means that the event of the lawsuit against MP3.com IS INDEPENDENT of the result of the lawsuit from Courtney Love against Universal.
Granted, the EVENT of the lawsuit against Universal by Courtney Love comes as a result of the EVENT of the lawsuit against MP3.com, the OUTCOMES are independent. You're trying to apply syllogism to events in unrelated systems.
Yes, on the books, money does flow from MP3 to Universal to Courtney Love, the fact that Courtney Love getting money in the end has no effect on the fact that money is flowing from MP3.com to Universal.
How will they make their money? This question was answered a few weeks ago here on /. The answer
One thing to remember about all this is that Google's results are also influenced by how many sites are linking to that particular website. If I were to do a search for my name on the internet, the results would first show www.fruvous.com's pages that had my name. The second would be pages at Photopoint.com. Third would be a newsgroup archive page that has a couple of my posts in it, and then my actual homepage. Why? Fruvous.com and PhotopPoint.com are far more popular to link to than www.rit.edu.
What it feels like is happening here is that the pertnership may have upped the score a little bit from sites that are lined from yahoo.com because there are more links directly from yahoo->google.
Of course, I could be wrong.
I don't think technology is going to ever completely replace the quality of hand made works, especially in the arts. The finest quality home furniture is still hand made (read: good quality, minor imperfections that bring character to the work.) Sure, a lot of machinery is going into these works, but you have the hand sanding, the hand finishing, something I don't think that a machine can ever reproduce.
True, there is going to be a lot of decent quality work produced by machine, but the best is still hand made.
It seems to me that colleges & universities should lose the "Academic" pricing of their computer software because it is now being used for commercial advertising.
I know here at RIT, we can't use systems for comemrcial gain because that's in the terms of our academic licensing... but I wonder how a system like this would affect that status...
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There is a method to the madness here...
In the House of Representatives, the only "Nay" vote to the Anti-Spam bill was cast by Ron Paul (Republican, 14th District of Texas). I wonder what thorn is up his butt? I mean, Texas is home to a majority of the members of Citizens Against Ugly Street Spam... hmm... methinks Mr. Paul must be working as a spammer at night or something ;-)
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Is this what happens when you cross JarJar with Yoda? Please do not let those two breed!
stop options
/. is now a commercial news organization (with a good community). Invoke a little common sense, a spell checker, and a grammar checker.
I think it's about time Slashdot started editing the stories that go on the main page. There are SO MANY grammatical and spelling errors seeping into thse posts that it is getting to be unbearable. We are the nerds, and it makes sense that we should be more intelligent than the average human being, but some of these mistakes are getting.
Face the truth.
It's like their renting you the device, not giving it to you - the price of the rental is that you pay them for it's use.
It's a little scary, isn't it? We seem to be lacking the ownership of ANY property... we LEASE our car from the corporation, we LICENSE our software from the corporation, the insurance company and the bank OWN our houses, homes, and land... we don't OWN the barcode scanner, it's given to us...
I'm just getting worried about all this now...
Then you missed the part about $100,000 of insurance from Traveler's Insurance placed on each account (for free).