Of course, the Berne Convention means that the copyright laws of the United States are also recognized by many other countries when applied to works originating from the United States.
Look it up. Article 5, paragraph 1.
Just because no one's going to bother extraditing you to the US for violating copyright doesn't mean you're allowed to do so.
Your comment is practically incoherent. Your attention to proper spelling is atrocious and the tone of your writing suggests that underdeveloped communication skills, not your age, is the reason you're encountering problems at work.
You were home schooled -- is your home proud to have turned out a kid who must apologize in advance because his grammar is so poor?
Where I went to college, I saw my girlfriend
indundanted with pre-approved credit card offers
with huge limits that, if she even put them
halfway to their limit, would not be even able to
pay the minimum. This, to a person with no credit
and no job- just because she was female.
Let me know when you get to the part of the story that proves credit card companies are evil, okay?
Surely no one was forcing your girlfriend to spend anywhere near the credit limits offered, nor even to accept the card offers in the first place.
If she overspent and went bankrupt and destroyed her credit rating, it would be her own damn fault. You can't place any of the blame on the card companies here.
I think the important point to remember here is
that the record companies are not playing fair.
They do not want to licence their products for
sale on the internet.
So what? Their products are theirs, they can license them however they want. They're under no obligation to license their content for use on the internet, not even if you really think they should.
...For example, what if Linus Torvalds created
and was marketing a product called Linux, which
was intended to provide the same functionality as
Unix and used unique only to Unix technical and
architectural concepts?...
I guarantee that the copy protection WILL be
used to justify paying artists a lower royalty rate on the front end, and to further reduce
payment to them on the back end.
Good. Maybe that will encourage more artists to avoid volunteering for rape at the hands of the industry.
"We believe [Montogomery] Burns still has that [trillion-dollar] bill hidden somewhere in his house. But all we've ascertained from satellite photos is that it's not on the roof!"
...and it has nothing to do with the original poster's submission.
Honenstly, is it too much to ask that if the editors MUST insert their own comments to a story submission, they at least try to make them somehow related?
Not only did they misidentify Kibo's first post to alt.religion.kibology (Kibo himself posted a correction the other day), they also failed to notice that Kibo's home page is at http://www.kibo.com and not some stupid bandwidth-crippled Yahoo site.
I combined my computer and my home theater about 3 years ago because I live in a tiny studio apartment and don't have the space for separate systems. And I have no complaints about it.
I have a DVD drive and TV tuner and DVD decoder cards in my minitower. The VCR is attached to the TV card's RCA input. The cable TV is attached to the card's coax input.
The picture quality on my 17" flatscreen monitor is acceptable. The digital output of my soundcard is hooked up to a $400 Dolby Digital reciever. The sound quality is acceptable too.
The sound of the the CPU fan bothering you? Turn up the audio volume. It's not like the typical home theater aficionado has the audio volume at any less than 'too loud' in the first place.
I admit my solution isn't appropriate for anyone. But the people who are crowing about how dumb people are for trying to turn a PC into an entertainment system should admit that such a setup is appropriate for some.
There will NOT be a new DVD format in the next couple of years. If we look at history, the typical lifespan of a consumer A/V media format is on the order of 20 years or more (there's still a respectable market for VHS today, and it's been consumer-grade technology since I was born).
The DVD format has only been on the market for about 4 years. Don't expect any 'super-DVD' formats to gain any popularity at all until maybe 2015 or so.
As for your limited-viewing degrading DVD concept, you do remember the Circuit City DivX debacle, don't you?
The idea of a starving artist or musician who creates for the love of art or music is a lie.
How do you reconcile that with the existence of thousands of artists, including musicians, who are starving, and do create for the love of their art?
It seems the only people who advocate getting rid of intellectual property protections are those
who have never created anything
False dichotomy between "people who have created something" and "people who have never created anything". EVERYONE creates stuff.
Without patent protection we would have to rely on the government and universities for research. And since they aren't for profit we would only get things some geek thought up in a lab and would probably have no practical use in the real world.
You can't discount academic and governmental research just because you have some sort of anti-Ivory Tower mentality. I can name about one million inventions that have come out of those institutions that cannot be dismissed as having "no practical use in the real world".
I agree with you -- copyrights ARE good. The problem is that copyright control is increasingly being taken away from the individuals who are actually creating anything.
It's not like you've violated your end of the deal and they have the right to "discontinue service at any time."
Read your contract lately?
I would bet that your cable internet provider is allowed to terminate yours service at any time (given reasonable notice), whether or not you have violated your end of the deal.
Having a multi-homed network is extremely
stressful on the rest of the Internet, and you're going to have to pay for the privilege.
Whatever happened to eliminating single points of failure? Did that philosophy die out with ARPAnet?
You should be quite satisfied that you can even get high-speed connectivity (not to mention,
connectivity from multiple providers at once) where you're at. Here in the USA, the most
technologically advanced society in the world, it's difficult if not impossible to get *any* high
speed service outside a major metropolitan area. Before my cable monopoly upgraded its network, I couldn't get any service at all that wasn't long distance dialup.
Well, that's residential internet access... if you've got the money to pay for commercial connectivity, you'll have more options.
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America is NOT globally hated.
Why did just about every civilized nation in the world express its condolences to the US in the aftermath of 9/11?
It's not because they were afraid we were going to bomb them if they didn't.
Second, farmers ,always buy new seed every year, because retained grain is a poor and
inefficient way to grow your pants.
Well, that does it.
I'm not going to stand at the bottom of the grain silo with the spout aimed down my waistband anymore...
I bet if you XOR a .NAP file against xFF, it turns back into an MP3 file.
Oops! I just violated the DMCA!
Of course, the Berne Convention means that the copyright laws of the United States are also recognized by many other countries when applied to works originating from the United States.
Look it up. Article 5, paragraph 1.
Just because no one's going to bother extraditing you to the US for violating copyright doesn't mean you're allowed to do so.
Your comment is practically incoherent. Your attention to proper spelling is atrocious and the tone of your writing suggests that underdeveloped communication skills, not your age, is the reason you're encountering problems at work.
You were home schooled -- is your home proud to have turned out a kid who must apologize in advance because his grammar is so poor?
Not if he gets the star power-up that makes his car temporarily invincible...
Where I went to college, I saw my girlfriend
indundanted with pre-approved credit card offers
with huge limits that, if she even put them
halfway to their limit, would not be even able to
pay the minimum. This, to a person with no credit
and no job- just because she was female.
Let me know when you get to the part of the story that proves credit card companies are evil, okay?
Surely no one was forcing your girlfriend to spend anywhere near the credit limits offered, nor even to accept the card offers in the first place.
If she overspent and went bankrupt and destroyed her credit rating, it would be her own damn fault. You can't place any of the blame on the card companies here.
The musicians you've heard of are forbidden from using this 'new tech stuff' by their contracts with their record companies.
The musicians you haven't heard of ARE using this new tech stuff. Go out and find them and support them.
I think the important point to remember here is
that the record companies are not playing fair.
They do not want to licence their products for
sale on the internet.
So what? Their products are theirs, they can license them however they want. They're under no obligation to license their content for use on the internet, not even if you really think they should.
How is this not playing fair?
...For example, what if Linus Torvalds created
and was marketing a product called Linux, which
was intended to provide the same functionality as
Unix and used unique only to Unix technical and
architectural concepts?...
I guarantee that the copy protection WILL be
used to justify paying artists a lower royalty rate on the front end, and to further reduce
payment to them on the back end.
Good. Maybe that will encourage more artists to avoid volunteering for rape at the hands of the industry.
"We believe [Montogomery] Burns still has that [trillion-dollar] bill hidden somewhere in his house. But all we've ascertained from satellite photos is that it's not on the roof!"
-Agent Johnson, Simpsons episode #5F14
...and it has nothing to do with the original poster's submission.
Honenstly, is it too much to ask that if the editors MUST insert their own comments to a story submission, they at least try to make them somehow related?
Not only did they misidentify Kibo's first post to alt.religion.kibology (Kibo himself posted a correction the other day), they also failed to notice that Kibo's home page is at http://www.kibo.com and not some stupid bandwidth-crippled Yahoo site.
-Poot
I combined my computer and my home theater about 3 years ago because I live in a tiny studio apartment and don't have the space for separate systems. And I have no complaints about it.
I have a DVD drive and TV tuner and DVD decoder cards in my minitower. The VCR is attached to the TV card's RCA input. The cable TV is attached to the card's coax input.
The picture quality on my 17" flatscreen monitor is acceptable. The digital output of my soundcard is hooked up to a $400 Dolby Digital reciever. The sound quality is acceptable too.
The sound of the the CPU fan bothering you? Turn up the audio volume. It's not like the typical home theater aficionado has the audio volume at any less than 'too loud' in the first place.
I admit my solution isn't appropriate for anyone. But the people who are crowing about how dumb people are for trying to turn a PC into an entertainment system should admit that such a setup is appropriate for some.
"Newest"? Microsoft Research has been around for years.
And I fail to see why Microsoft is evil for offering generous salaries to smart people.
There will NOT be a new DVD format in the next couple of years. If we look at history, the typical lifespan of a consumer A/V media format is on the order of 20 years or more (there's still a respectable market for VHS today, and it's been consumer-grade technology since I was born).
The DVD format has only been on the market for about 4 years. Don't expect any 'super-DVD' formats to gain any popularity at all until maybe 2015 or so.
As for your limited-viewing degrading DVD concept, you do remember the Circuit City DivX debacle, don't you?
Maybe the U.S. government has dictated that they leave bugs in.
Since when has Microsoft NOT defied governmental mandates?
We're talking about home backup here, so you don't lose your collection of downloaded mp3's if your primary hard drive crashes.
Storage in an offsite data vault on media that will last 10 years is just a wee bit more than COMPLETE AND TOTAL OVERKILL! FURRFU!
The idea of a starving artist or musician who creates for the love of art or music is a lie.
How do you reconcile that with the existence of thousands of artists, including musicians, who are starving, and do create for the love of their art?
It seems the only people who advocate getting rid of intellectual property protections are those
who have never created anything
False dichotomy between "people who have created something" and "people who have never created anything". EVERYONE creates stuff.
Without patent protection we would have to rely on the government and universities for research. And since they aren't for profit we would only get things some geek thought up in a lab and would probably have no practical use in the real world.
You can't discount academic and governmental research just because you have some sort of anti-Ivory Tower mentality. I can name about one million inventions that have come out of those institutions that cannot be dismissed as having "no practical use in the real world".
I agree with you -- copyrights ARE good. The problem is that copyright control is increasingly being taken away from the individuals who are actually creating anything.
Yes, it is expensive, but it is still a lot more powerful than a $500 laptop
So what spreadsheets are available for the Gamecube? Web browsers? Have the GNU utilities been ported over yet?
Your definition of 'more powerful' is pretty narrow.
What does it matter how many companies are writing games for Xbox if no one's buying them?
It's not like you've violated your end of the deal and they have the right to "discontinue service at any time."
Read your contract lately?
I would bet that your cable internet provider is allowed to terminate yours service at any time (given reasonable notice), whether or not you have violated your end of the deal.
Basically, quicktime allowed the birth of multimedia.
Lest the Microsoft-loathing zealots of Slashdot forget, the initial release of Windows Media Player also took place 10 years ago.
Having a multi-homed network is extremely
stressful on the rest of the Internet, and you're going to have to pay for the privilege.
Whatever happened to eliminating single points of failure? Did that philosophy die out with ARPAnet?
You should be quite satisfied that you can even get high-speed connectivity (not to mention,
connectivity from multiple providers at once) where you're at. Here in the USA, the most
technologically advanced society in the world, it's difficult if not impossible to get *any* high
speed service outside a major metropolitan area. Before my cable monopoly upgraded its network, I couldn't get any service at all that wasn't long distance dialup.
Well, that's residential internet access... if you've got the money to pay for commercial connectivity, you'll have more options.