When my G4 tower goes to sleep, there is no waking it up. At all. OSX 10.3.7. Dual 867 Mirror drive doors G4. Everything else works perfect, as far as I can tell. I know this is totally offtopic, but if anyone knows a solution, I'm all ears...
That's not correct. The law has specific exceptions for any activity that would ordinarily be considered fair use. That is to say, is what you're doing is fair use, the way you're doing it is automatically not illegal.
In practice, this is the way it works out. "Fair use" certainly includes artistic, creative works that cite originals. If I did it in a book nobody would question it. If I do it in a song, no record company in their right mind would publish it without permission (and usually big $$ fees). And, given the current state of laws (and more importantly of their interpretation by lawyers, many of them paid by record companies), they would be right to make this decision -- why take the risk? Common practice in the music industry is to clear samples and pay for them, no matter how "derivative" or not the final product is in relation to the sample.
It depends on your reason for quoting. It it's criticism or comment or parody or something along those lines, you're mistaken. But if you're just "sampling" in order to create your own work, no, that's not allowed. That's stealing.
That's crap. I can quote in a book from various sources whether or not I am "criticizing," "commenting" or "parodying" those sources. True, the above mentioned activities are considered important free speech activities (and thus specifically mentioned in copyright cases as fair use), but who is to say that a guitar riff used to make a new song is not in some way a comment on the original? And why should such a riff be treated any differently than a quote from a newspaper, for example, used in a poem or in another article or whatever? My problem is not with the reasons for fair use but with the fact that copyright laws *in practice* treat music (and video) differently than they do text, yet they refuse to acknowledge this double standard. I hate to use this corny phrase but a paradigm shift is necessary in the world of copyright law.
When you use modern technology to do the exact same thing as quotation, there is no protection for the action. That's a key place where modern copyright law has gone wrong, IMHO. If I copy a paragraph from a book and quote it in another book, nobody sweats it (in fact, it's expected). But if I quote a piece of a beat from a song in another song, or a segment of film or TV in a video art piece, I'm expected to get the permission of the copyright owner (and often to pay lots of $$$, if they agree to let me use it at all).
Let's face it, if you still wanted to be a politician after being told you would live a life of abject poverty, living day by day on scraps scavenged from kitchen bins, only the truly motivated would stay in the profession. A similar system could be put in place for the law profession.
We already have this kind of system in place for teachers.
It just shows you what a good deal Apple products are. The iPod shuffle is an example of being able to buy $85,000 worth of audio equipment for $100. Make that $135,000 when you include the mods! Now, who says macs are more expensive?
why would you compare a turntable to an amplifier in an mp3 player? Put that (beautiful, btw) Linn Sondek on a crappy amp and the sound will be as crappy as the amplifier.
If you read the article you'd notice that they tried different headphones when reviewing the iPod. The problem with the bass response has to do with the amplifier in the iPod.
Of course, you can always plug your iPod into a real amplifier and get all the bass you want through real speakers.
I have no idea how many times I've had to return sets of speakers simply because the sub-woofer was about 100 times too large for the other speakers and the amp couldn't be turned low enough to get rid of the excessive bass.
Huh? Isn't that why most subwoofers have a separate volume control?
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When my G4 tower goes to sleep, there is no waking it up. At all. OSX 10.3.7. Dual 867 Mirror drive doors G4. Everything else works perfect, as far as I can tell. I know this is totally offtopic, but if anyone knows a solution, I'm all ears...
Like Doom III or GTA... let the machines play the games, and then we can finally get some work done!
In practice, this is the way it works out. "Fair use" certainly includes artistic, creative works that cite originals. If I did it in a book nobody would question it. If I do it in a song, no record company in their right mind would publish it without permission (and usually big $$ fees). And, given the current state of laws (and more importantly of their interpretation by lawyers, many of them paid by record companies), they would be right to make this decision -- why take the risk? Common practice in the music industry is to clear samples and pay for them, no matter how "derivative" or not the final product is in relation to the sample.
It depends on your reason for quoting. It it's criticism or comment or parody or something along those lines, you're mistaken. But if you're just "sampling" in order to create your own work, no, that's not allowed. That's stealing.
That's crap. I can quote in a book from various sources whether or not I am "criticizing," "commenting" or "parodying" those sources. True, the above mentioned activities are considered important free speech activities (and thus specifically mentioned in copyright cases as fair use), but who is to say that a guitar riff used to make a new song is not in some way a comment on the original? And why should such a riff be treated any differently than a quote from a newspaper, for example, used in a poem or in another article or whatever? My problem is not with the reasons for fair use but with the fact that copyright laws *in practice* treat music (and video) differently than they do text, yet they refuse to acknowledge this double standard. I hate to use this corny phrase but a paradigm shift is necessary in the world of copyright law.
Where the Woz comes running through the crowd and hurls a hammer at the Mac. That's the real reason this video was "lost."
When you use modern technology to do the exact same thing as quotation, there is no protection for the action. That's a key place where modern copyright law has gone wrong, IMHO. If I copy a paragraph from a book and quote it in another book, nobody sweats it (in fact, it's expected). But if I quote a piece of a beat from a song in another song, or a segment of film or TV in a video art piece, I'm expected to get the permission of the copyright owner (and often to pay lots of $$$, if they agree to let me use it at all).
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I got there first and changed it ;^)
So teaching kids how to spoof IP addresses is doing something "useful" whereas activism is not?
We already have this kind of system in place for teachers.
It just shows you what a good deal Apple products are. The iPod shuffle is an example of being able to buy $85,000 worth of audio equipment for $100. Make that $135,000 when you include the mods! Now, who says macs are more expensive?
Nah, don't return it. Instead, bitch about it on slashdot. I'm sure that will fix the problem.
why would you compare a turntable to an amplifier in an mp3 player? Put that (beautiful, btw) Linn Sondek on a crappy amp and the sound will be as crappy as the amplifier.
Of course, you can always plug your iPod into a real amplifier and get all the bass you want through real speakers.
Huh? Isn't that why most subwoofers have a separate volume control?
Agreed. Now, how do you account for Condeleeza Rice?
Someone else actually jumped out the window. Milli (or was it Vanilli?) just pretended to...
My favorite Millennium was the episode that made fun of Scientology. Anyone know if they ever got any shit from the Scientologists for that?
Duchovny WANTS TO BELIEVE there is a sequel in the works.
It's the iPut. Look for it soon at an Apple Store near you.
A bunch? This kid has friends?
Why should their killer product be a BSD filesystem?
Darl McBride was spotted leaving the building shortly thereafter.
I don't understand it at all.
Heavens, no!