Yesterday you sold me a CD which was (more often than not, to all intents and purposes) full to capacity with standard CD audio format music
Really? Very few CD's come anywhere near the 80-minute upper boundary of a standard compact disc. Most in my collection are 45-60 minutes in length; slightly longer than both sides of a standard LP of yore.
you received LESS MUSIC than you "normally/previously" would
This is only true if you consider every second of every piece of music to be equally valuable -- a claim which would be fallacious on its face. I'd rather buy 5 minutes of music by $band_I_like than a full hour by $band_I_hate.
Given this trend in the music industry, in the near future they'll be selling us Holographic Storage DISCs etc. etc. etc.
Consider this: on almost every album since Sgt. Pepper, the record labels have included printed lyrics along with the album itself.
Almost none of the CDs I've bought in the past 5 years have included any lyrics.
So the copyrighted lyrics are provided twice, in two different formats: once printed and once sung. Does this mean that lyricists have been cheated for 35 years?
No, because there are two different types of copyright in play here.
The printed words are covered by mechanical copyright. The audio version is covered by phonorecording copyright. While the lyricist may/may not posess mech. copyright for the words they've written, the phono. copyright almost invariably belongs to the record label.
Re:Is Apple or Microsoft forcing HP to do this?
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Seriously, how do you figure apple as a monopoly on anything?
Whom else can you buy a computer from that you can run OS X on?
Sony had a superior quality format for videotape (betamax), but wouldn't share with anyone. Meanwhile, Panasonic, Philips, and others all got together and agreed on VHS format.
Meh... Beta was mildly superior, mainly in the sense that the path of the tape through the rollers in the machine was simpler, creating fewer points of mechanical failure. Differences in video quality between the formats were all but imperceptible.
VHS's eventual dominance was as much due to the fact that the tapes were twice as long as it was to the pricing benefits from having multiple vendors.
Just because KISS's version of the code was released to the world in 2003, doesn't mean development of it may have predated Mplayer's 2001 release. They could have written their subtitle routines in 1999, and sat on them for four years while commodity hardware got cheap enough to sell devices at a profit.
Occam's Razor still applies, but KISS's version of events isn't COMPLETELY impossible.
You CANT use GPL software unless you specifically agree to share your modifications with the original copyright holders under the GPL.
That's not what the GPL says, though.
If you REDISTRIBUTE code based on GPL'd source, you're obligated to share your modifications. Not just with the original copyright holders, but with anyone who would like to see it.
If you don't distribute your project, you don't need to share your modifications with anyone.
Musica de los 70's y 80's: Morally, if not legally, copyright on music this old should have expired.
Says you. Personally, I feel that copyright on music should last about 40-50 years. You're entitled to your opinion but don't represent the rest of us.
Given that it's Spanish, the RIAA probably doesn't own the rights, anyway
Really? All the music was recorded in Spain?
Many American citizens speak and write songs in languages other than English.
Re:Let's not forget the Phantom...
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The presence of the Phantom on the Windows Embedded Device stand, if nothing else, proves that if Infinium Labs is a hoax, it is a hoax which has taken in Microsoft along with several other key companies in the industry.
Maybe it's not a hoax. Maybe it's just a disaster.
We really can't afford to be passed up by China in the space programs. The implications on many fronts, from technological, military, and national stature are too important.
So basically you're saying America can't afford to lose The World Dick-Waving Championships. Pardon me if I don't care.
The United States leads the world in many, many industries already. Why MUST space exploration be among them?
A successful manned Mars mission would be a stunning success for mankind
As long as it's not Chinamankind; then we Americans "lose" somehow.
- There's nothing to gain from going to Mars New home for humanity.
On Mars? Unlikely.
Easy access to the asteroids ($trillion apiece in ore!).
Of course, the more of it we harvest from asteroids, the more common and therefore less valuable it will become.
I have horrible visions of the entire asteroid trade being controlled by Halliburton or DeBeers anyway.
Unprecedented Scientific discovery.
Absolutely.
Going to Mars and taming space is the only way forward for humanity as a whole.
Perhaps the venture should be funded by humanity as a whole, then. A multinational competitive "race to Mars" does nothing but waste resources and duplicate effort. A cooperative effort between all the nations with space programs would be better.
Papa Bush [...] backed out [...] because of a falsely inflated sticker price. We have to make sure that [GW Bush] sticks to his guns.
Call me a true conservative, but I don't think a leader facing a multi-trillion dollar deficit should be adopting a stance of "Let's do this cool thing no matter how much it costs."
If you have a set of custom filters you've created over the years, or work with certain production houses, you must use Adobe.
Maybe you shouldn't have been so short sighted as to lock yourself into a single vendor, in that case. I have no sympathy for the plight of the poor graphic designers.
Not only does she take home a ridiculous salary, she spends enormous sums on everything apparently.
Any HPQ stock owners here? Perhaps someone should ask Carly and the board of directors how luxury amenities for the executives serve to maximize shareholder value.
Which is why it's still in use in a huge number of recording studios.
Linear access is what killed DAT on the consumer market, not DRM. People want random access seek times approaching zero. Having to rev up a motor and wait a few seconds to get to the point you want to get to is unacceptable.
If the government chooses to legislate something, there are checks and balances and the ability of the people to fight it. If a company changes a product that you have to use, too fucking bad.
So customers don't have the ability to fight Adobe's decision to implement this in any way?
They can't write to the company and demand that the feature be removed?
They can't vote with their wallets by sticking with an earlier version of the software instead of upgrading?
If this were a REAL sticking point, instead of a mere ideological whinge from the more libertarian members of the community, another software company would GLADLY step in and stake a claim on the graphic design market. No, GIMP isn't a Photoshop-killer yet, but after a couple years of development funding from a commercial entity, it very well could be.
I'm sure I've managed to rip CDs to the hard drive as the same time I'm playing music. Sure it's audio vs video, but it amounts to the same thing don't it?
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What is a "Penn state" ??
It's a university located in the state of Pennsylvania.
Not to be confused with "the state pen", although both are similarly hard to get into and have similar reputations for academic excellence.
Yesterday you sold me a CD which was (more often than not, to all intents and purposes) full to capacity with standard CD audio format music
Really? Very few CD's come anywhere near the 80-minute upper boundary of a standard compact disc. Most in my collection are 45-60 minutes in length; slightly longer than both sides of a standard LP of yore.
you received LESS MUSIC than you "normally/previously" would
This is only true if you consider every second of every piece of music to be equally valuable -- a claim which would be fallacious on its face. I'd rather buy 5 minutes of music by $band_I_like than a full hour by $band_I_hate.
Given this trend in the music industry, in the near future they'll be selling us Holographic Storage DISCs etc. etc. etc.
They may be selling... but will anyone be buying?
Consider this: on almost every album since Sgt. Pepper, the record labels have included printed lyrics along with the album itself.
Almost none of the CDs I've bought in the past 5 years have included any lyrics.
So the copyrighted lyrics are provided twice, in two different formats: once printed and once sung. Does this mean that lyricists have been cheated for 35 years?
No, because there are two different types of copyright in play here.
The printed words are covered by mechanical copyright. The audio version is covered by phonorecording copyright. While the lyricist may/may not posess mech. copyright for the words they've written, the phono. copyright almost invariably belongs to the record label.
Seriously, how do you figure apple as a monopoly on anything?
Whom else can you buy a computer from that you can run OS X on?
So what's to prevent those lawsuits from happening down the road over a slightly different issue?
Absolutely nothing.
And that's how it should be. Those lawsuits should be dealt with if/when they happen, not today.
Sony had a superior quality format for videotape (betamax), but wouldn't share with anyone. Meanwhile, Panasonic, Philips, and others all got together and agreed on VHS format.
Meh... Beta was mildly superior, mainly in the sense that the path of the tape through the rollers in the machine was simpler, creating fewer points of mechanical failure. Differences in video quality between the formats were all but imperceptible.
VHS's eventual dominance was as much due to the fact that the tapes were twice as long as it was to the pricing benefits from having multiple vendors.
Sorry pal, the most notable engineering effort by Compaq was marketing.
So the first truly portable (okay, luggable) PC clone was not notable?
Granted, that was over 20 years ago, and that magic was long gone from the company by the time Fiorino took the helm, but still.
I can ignore any EULAs because they haven't been tried in court? Great!
Sure, ignore away... At Your Own Risk. But be prepared to face the consequences if those EULAs ARE upheld in court.
Just because KISS's version of the code was released to the world in 2003, doesn't mean development of it may have predated Mplayer's 2001 release. They could have written their subtitle routines in 1999, and sat on them for four years while commodity hardware got cheap enough to sell devices at a profit.
Occam's Razor still applies, but KISS's version of events isn't COMPLETELY impossible.
You CANT use GPL software unless you specifically agree to share your modifications with the original copyright holders under the GPL.
That's not what the GPL says, though.
If you REDISTRIBUTE code based on GPL'd source, you're obligated to share your modifications. Not just with the original copyright holders, but with anyone who would like to see it.
If you don't distribute your project, you don't need to share your modifications with anyone.
What is the big deal? Nobody is forcing people to use that service.
The 'big deal' is that msfreepc is not authorized to even PROVIDE that service in the first place.
H&R Block can submit your tax return on your behalf because the tax codes say a taxpayer can authorize another party to submit on their behalf.
The conditions of the settlement in this case explicitly stated that claimants could NOT authorize another party to act on their behalf.
America is not real tolerant of those kinds of statements these days.
Pot kettle black. Look at yourself... " those kind of statements". What are you, some kind of racistphobe?
Musica de los 70's y 80's: Morally, if not legally, copyright on music this old should have expired.
Says you. Personally, I feel that copyright on music should last about 40-50 years. You're entitled to your opinion but don't represent the rest of us.
Given that it's Spanish, the RIAA probably doesn't own the rights, anyway
Really? All the music was recorded in Spain?
Many American citizens speak and write songs in languages other than English.
The presence of the Phantom on the Windows Embedded Device stand, if nothing else, proves that if Infinium Labs is a hoax, it is a hoax which has taken in Microsoft along with several other key companies in the industry.
Maybe it's not a hoax. Maybe it's just a disaster.
For web apps, well, I stick around PHP/ASP.NET. Why? Portability!
ASP.NET is portable?
there seems to be something wrong with Sun's implementation for Java.
Perhaps Sun's is intended as a reference implementation, and is not optimized for performance?
We really can't afford to be passed up by China in the space programs. The implications on many fronts, from technological, military, and national stature are too important.
So basically you're saying America can't afford to lose The World Dick-Waving Championships. Pardon me if I don't care.
The United States leads the world in many, many industries already. Why MUST space exploration be among them?
A successful manned Mars mission would be a stunning success for mankind
As long as it's not Chinamankind; then we Americans "lose" somehow.
- There's nothing to gain from going to Mars
New home for humanity.
On Mars? Unlikely.
Easy access to the asteroids ($trillion apiece in ore!).
Of course, the more of it we harvest from asteroids, the more common and therefore less valuable it will become.
I have horrible visions of the entire asteroid trade being controlled by Halliburton or DeBeers anyway.
Unprecedented Scientific discovery.
Absolutely.
Going to Mars and taming space is the only way forward for humanity as a whole.
Perhaps the venture should be funded by humanity as a whole, then. A multinational competitive "race to Mars" does nothing but waste resources and duplicate effort. A cooperative effort between all the nations with space programs would be better.
Papa Bush [...] backed out [...] because of a falsely inflated sticker price. We have to make sure that [GW Bush] sticks to his guns.
Call me a true conservative, but I don't think a leader facing a multi-trillion dollar deficit should be adopting a stance of "Let's do this cool thing no matter how much it costs."
If you have a set of custom filters you've created over the years, or work with certain production houses, you must use Adobe.
Maybe you shouldn't have been so short sighted as to lock yourself into a single vendor, in that case. I have no sympathy for the plight of the poor graphic designers.
Not only does she take home a ridiculous salary, she spends enormous sums on everything apparently.
Any HPQ stock owners here? Perhaps someone should ask Carly and the board of directors how luxury amenities for the executives serve to maximize shareholder value.
DAT is a ten year old perfectly good technology.
Which is why it's still in use in a huge number of recording studios.
Linear access is what killed DAT on the consumer market, not DRM. People want random access seek times approaching zero. Having to rev up a motor and wait a few seconds to get to the point you want to get to is unacceptable.
If the government chooses to legislate something, there are checks and balances and the ability of the people to fight it. If a company changes a product that you have to use, too fucking bad.
So customers don't have the ability to fight Adobe's decision to implement this in any way?
They can't write to the company and demand that the feature be removed?
They can't vote with their wallets by sticking with an earlier version of the software instead of upgrading?
If this were a REAL sticking point, instead of a mere ideological whinge from the more libertarian members of the community, another software company would GLADLY step in and stake a claim on the graphic design market. No, GIMP isn't a Photoshop-killer yet, but after a couple years of development funding from a commercial entity, it very well could be.
When did it become Adobe's job to enforce the law at the expense of flexibility?
Adobe's job is to concern themselves more with LIABILITY than FLEXIBILITY.
Unfortunatly I don't know of a free codec that can play DVDs, thanks to the RIAA's work on DeCSS.
s/RIAA/MPAA/g
I'm sure I've managed to rip CDs to the hard drive as the same time I'm playing music. Sure it's audio vs video, but it amounts to the same thing don't it?
Do you encode your CDs as MPEG-2 video streams?
RTFPatent.