The real innovation happens at companies populated with nineteen year olds. At nineteen years old, you don't have the kind of doubts you'd have at thirty.
Well, from my over thirty perspective I'll tell you this: at nineteen I thought I was a pretty hotshot programmer, but I didn't have anywhere near the focus or discipline that I have now: qualities that have allowed me to work independently from home making a decent living without worrying about a commute, "vacation" time or having a boss.
Being nineteen, talented and full of energy may lead to success (e.g. see Microsoft, Apple and id Software), but don't kid yourself: the majority of successes in business (including the tech world) are made by us "older" folks.
Sharing music files over p2p could be legalized tomorrow if you could just get enough votes in Congress to repeal copyright.
Isn't that overkill? Nothing is wrong with copyright per se; it does exactly what it is supposed to do: protect the artist from having his/her work stolen.
Without copyright, there is no incentive to capitalize on creative works. As we are a capitalist society, I wouldn't bet on the overturning of any laws that support such a huge industry.
Each sample would likely be fair use, but reconstructing the original work would still be copyright infringment. I suppose it would be just like cutting pages from a book and then reconstructing the book to distrubute for free -- nothing legal about that.
Yeah there is a lot of cruft out there in terms of lame hosting sites. But some of the best are ZeBOX (free mp3s and videos from indie bands -- all genres) and CDBaby (free sample streams and links to indie band web sites that often have mp3s -- or buy a CD from a band you like and screw the RIAA).
But to stay ontopic, uh, I'm sure every artist, like ourselves, has their music served on numerous sites. So why does anyone care if the copies that are on mp3.com are erased?
Yes, someone has. It's called ZeBOX. Donations accepted from artists in exchange for hosting mp3s and videos. However, here is no profit sharing because there is no fee to download.
Maybe we just need to stop letting people trademark common words. To me it is ridiculous that anyone can trademark a word that is found in a dictionary.
To me it is ridiculous that you would even suggest this. Can you imagine having to remember made up names for every product in the world?
Xevutsy Toothpaste Cryunhoot Coffee
Please. Using a common word as a trademark is fine -- it only stops direct competitors (in your market segment) from using the same word in their product or service. This insures that consumers aren't confused and that you (as the trademark holder) don't have to worry about harm to the goodwill you've built around your product/service name.
People seem to be confused that a trademark stops all common or public usage of that word (witness all the other "I'm going to trademark the word 'the' and sue all you guys" comments around here). That just isn't so folks!
So let's not get all worked up over trademarks -- it's a good thing.(TM)
Judging from your bile, I doubt that you'd likely ever care to be educated concerning the actual development of the Macintosh, but just in case, you can read about Jef Raskin's role in the development of the Macintosh here.
And you can read Jef's comments on the incredible amount of published "history" of the Xerox trip and its relation to the Macintosh here.
Where you got the notion that Jobs' "ideas" (whether you believe stolen or not) have anything to do with the Macintosh is beyond me. He took over the project, but he was not an engineer.
Nope. From their inception expandable Macs shipped with NuBus slots up to and including the PowerMac 6100, 7100, 8100 models. I believe all models that followed those released shipped with PCI.
Please consider obtaining my freeware app, Beholder, a fast, programmable, web image search frontend. It kicks Sherlock's current image searching channel's keister. I know I'm not an employee, so it'll cost you -- but isn't Sherlock worth it?
I suppose it's no worse than Slashdot bashing: The sort of stuff that will make Big Mac look like that old TI-85 collecting dust in your drawer??? Regardless of the success of future supercomputers, it is complete hyperbole to compare Big Mac's eventual demotion in the SC ranks to today's utility of a TI-85. Slashdot ediotrializing at its best folks!
Generally, a trademark offers protection in a market segment. For instance, Domino's Pizza and Domino's Sugar each have a respective trademark. You cannot start a confectionary supplier called "Domino's" nor can you start a Pizza place called "Domino's."
Big Mac is certainly a trademark in the food industry, but that may not preclude its use for other products, e.g. the name of a supercomputer. Especially if there is not likelihood of confusion on the part of the consumer (nobody is going to think the supercomputer has anything to do with sandwiches).
But I say "may" because McDonald's could conceivably argue dilution of trademark...it's an extremely famous mark.
Back in the day when mp3.com still had their Payback for Playback promotion, my band made about $300. Not a lot of money, but when you're a band trying to pay for gear and studio time, anything is nice. AFAIC, mp3.com went don't the tubes when they killed the promotion.
According to Projector Central (IMHO the best site for ind. projector reviews, the InFocus Screenplay 4800 is the basically the same model as the InFocus X1 (which can be had for $500 cheaper and can be bought online instead of an AV dealer). More details here.
Change the name of your "list of offerings" link to "Titles added in the last 30 days" and you might be right.
However, "War and Peace" is definitely available on audible.com, in both abridged and unabridged versions. A simple search on the site shows that quite easily.
Slashdot Mirror
Just curious: where did you get those numbers from?
Why should I have to enslave myself to Apple
You shouldn't. Nobody's forcing you, right? If you want to spend the money for the iPod, then do it. If you don't, then, er, don't.
The real innovation happens at companies populated with nineteen year olds. At nineteen years old, you don't have the kind of doubts you'd have at thirty.
Well, from my over thirty perspective I'll tell you this: at nineteen I thought I was a pretty hotshot programmer, but I didn't have anywhere near the focus or discipline that I have now: qualities that have allowed me to work independently from home making a decent living without worrying about a commute, "vacation" time or having a boss.
Being nineteen, talented and full of energy may lead to success (e.g. see Microsoft, Apple and id Software), but don't kid yourself: the majority of successes in business (including the tech world) are made by us "older" folks.
I thought its claim-to-fame was the first stable support for image rendering (GIF and whatever the X Window native format is).
Sharing music files over p2p could be legalized tomorrow if you could just get enough votes in Congress to repeal copyright.
Isn't that overkill? Nothing is wrong with copyright per se; it does exactly what it is supposed to do: protect the artist from having his/her work stolen.
Without copyright, there is no incentive to capitalize on creative works. As we are a capitalist society, I wouldn't bet on the overturning of any laws that support such a huge industry.
Each sample would likely be fair use, but reconstructing the original work would still be copyright infringment. I suppose it would be just like cutting pages from a book and then reconstructing the book to distrubute for free -- nothing legal about that.
Yeah there is a lot of cruft out there in terms of lame hosting sites. But some of the best are ZeBOX (free mp3s and videos from indie bands -- all genres) and CDBaby (free sample streams and links to indie band web sites that often have mp3s -- or buy a CD from a band you like and screw the RIAA).
My band's music from mp3.com...hurry up!
But to stay ontopic, uh, I'm sure every artist, like ourselves, has their music served on numerous sites. So why does anyone care if the copies that are on mp3.com are erased?
Yes, someone has. It's called ZeBOX. Donations accepted from artists in exchange for hosting mp3s and videos. However, here is no profit sharing because there is no fee to download.
Why, this guy!
Maybe we just need to stop letting people trademark common words. To me it is ridiculous that anyone can trademark a word that is found in a dictionary.
To me it is ridiculous that you would even suggest this. Can you imagine having to remember made up names for every product in the world?
Xevutsy Toothpaste
Cryunhoot Coffee
Please. Using a common word as a trademark is fine -- it only stops direct competitors (in your market segment) from using the same word in their product or service. This insures that consumers aren't confused and that you (as the trademark holder) don't have to worry about harm to the goodwill you've built around your product/service name.
People seem to be confused that a trademark stops all common or public usage of that word (witness all the other "I'm going to trademark the word 'the' and sue all you guys" comments around here). That just isn't so folks!
So let's not get all worked up over trademarks -- it's a good thing.(TM)
Uh, no.
Judging from your bile, I doubt that you'd likely ever care to be educated concerning the actual development of the Macintosh, but just in case, you can read about Jef Raskin's role in the development of the Macintosh here.
And you can read Jef's comments on the incredible amount of published "history" of the Xerox trip and its relation to the Macintosh here.
Where you got the notion that Jobs' "ideas" (whether you believe stolen or not) have anything to do with the Macintosh is beyond me. He took over the project, but he was not an engineer.
Nope. From their inception expandable Macs shipped with NuBus slots up to and including the PowerMac 6100, 7100, 8100 models. I believe all models that followed those released shipped with PCI.
Please consider obtaining my freeware app, Beholder, a fast, programmable, web image search frontend. It kicks Sherlock's current image searching channel's keister. I know I'm not an employee, so it'll cost you -- but isn't Sherlock worth it?
(yeah, yeah, okay -- a shameless plug...)
Give me some Quake framerates, or Photoshop gaussian blur benches.
Or if you're PC World, some Premiere or MS Word benchmarks.
I suppose it's no worse than Slashdot bashing: The sort of stuff that will make Big Mac look like that old TI-85 collecting dust in your drawer??? Regardless of the success of future supercomputers, it is complete hyperbole to compare Big Mac's eventual demotion in the SC ranks to today's utility of a TI-85. Slashdot ediotrializing at its best folks!
Generally, a trademark offers protection in a market segment. For instance, Domino's Pizza and Domino's Sugar each have a respective trademark. You cannot start a confectionary supplier called "Domino's" nor can you start a Pizza place called "Domino's."
Big Mac is certainly a trademark in the food industry, but that may not preclude its use for other products, e.g. the name of a supercomputer. Especially if there is not likelihood of confusion on the part of the consumer (nobody is going to think the supercomputer has anything to do with sandwiches).
But I say "may" because McDonald's could conceivably argue dilution of trademark...it's an extremely famous mark.
Yes, but the question is: why would you have to hit Next a few times to see the actual number of results?
Back in the day when mp3.com still had their Payback for Playback promotion, my band made about $300. Not a lot of money, but when you're a band trying to pay for gear and studio time, anything is nice. AFAIC, mp3.com went don't the tubes when they killed the promotion.
Filtering through all the crud was also a bitch.
According to Projector Central (IMHO the best site for ind. projector reviews, the InFocus Screenplay 4800 is the basically the same model as the InFocus X1 (which can be had for $500 cheaper and can be bought online instead of an AV dealer). More details here.
I didnt hear the "vast right wing conspirators" whining this much when Bill "pants around my ankles" Clinton was in office for 8 years.
;-)
You don't call forcing an impeachment that was unwanted by the people, "whining"?
Newsflash, you're confusing Gore Vidal with Al Gore.
So it appears we have an official denial now (as reported by Forbes this morning).
Change the name of your "list of offerings" link to "Titles added in the last 30 days" and you might be right.
However, "War and Peace" is definitely available on audible.com, in both abridged and unabridged versions. A simple search on the site shows that quite easily.
By "most popular MP3 player" they mean hardware, not software.