You meant to say that Mixtapes can exist if you are already rich and successful and have a large legal team.
It's always been the case that the tools with which one can create music are necessarily limited by how much money the musician has.
Any chump can buy a student violin for $40, but if you want to use a Stradivarius to create your art, you better have eight figures in your bank account, or have the backing of an organization that does.
Can music be created on that $40 violin? Can mixtapes be created with free or near-free musical materials, such as works under a Creative Commons license? Sure.
The research I was able to do showed pretty clearly using other artists' work in mixes is tacitly allowed with a wink.
That would be fine, if permission to use the works were the artists' to give away. In most cases, it is not and phonographic copyright is the property of the record label. Thus, while we can argue whether it is morally right that someone can get in trouble for compiling a mixtape even when his actions are condoned by the artists who wrote the music, from a legal standpoint it is straightforward copyright infringement.
Mixtapes can exist and be legit; see Dan the Automator's "Wanna Buy A Monkey?" or DJ Jazzy Jeff's "Hip Hop Forever" series as recent examples of successful, non-copyright-infringing releases in the genre.
If I was a terrorist, I'd skip airports entirely, far too many cameras and police. I'd target a high speed intercity train. If I time it right, I should be able to blast a 125mph train into pieces on a high speed track, in time to cause major derailments from other trains.
The United States doesn't have any high speed intercity trains to target.
I believe the Acela trains can get up to about 80mph on some stretches of the route between Washington DC and Boston, but even with the commuter rail lines that share those track rights-of-way, it's not nearly as attractive to a terrorist as flying a plane into a skyscraper.
Dude. If you're going to count both Windows 3.1 and Windows 3.11 as new releases, then you should be counting XP Media Center, XP64, etc. as new releases between 2001 and the present.
without a usable service (which would no doubt be disabled within minutes of it being reported stolen to Cingular), what are you left with? An expensive video iPod with "camera and games."
And what use would a thug have with an expensive video iPod with camera and games that they didn't have to pay for?
Even without phone or internet connectivity, getting an iPhone for $0 sounds like it would be a good deal. And that's not even including the value of an iPhone as a status symbol.
IIRC the DC was the only system of its generation that easily supported 4 controllers
Not sure whether you consider Dreamcast to be part of the PS1/N64 generation, or the PS2/GC/Xbox generation, but all of the Nintendo and Microsoft consoles released in both of those generations also came with 4 controller ports standard.
and for virtual console games the Wii could in theory support up to 8
In THEORY, the Wii could probably support more controllers than would even be practical. Four Gamecube controllers, four remotes, four Classic Controllers attached to the remotes -- that's 12-player simultaneous play right there. Perhaps even more players could join in using DS'es as controllers via WiFi -- but where would everybody sit?
There were a few legitimate music CDs that had Dreamcast content on them, but Sega sacrificed that feature to prevent piracy - a good decision, considering.
Considering what? That Sega shut down production on Dreamcast consoles a couple months after switching to a drive model that wouldn't read standard CDs?
But surely the arcade version of the hardware doesn't rely on GD-ROM as its storage medium? One would think that in a use case like that, a more fixed and reliable technology like hard drives would be utilized.
What Moore's law is supposed to have to do with this I don't know.
Hey, at least they correctly identified Moore's Law as having something to do with the number of transistors on a chip, and not CPU clock speed or some other factor which contributes to performance but was never spoken to by Moore himself.
So we can assume out of all the windows users out there only 100 million out of all the people who have Windows PCs are actually upgrading their system. Is it just me or is that kida scary.
What's kida scary is that people actually think installing a new version of a web browser qualifies as a system upgrade. Yes, I know that due to IE's integration with Windows internals it kind of it, but people still shouldn't be thinking that way.
By the same token, it's kida scary that some people are automatically and unquestioningly applying every system patch to their OS that Microsoft pushes out. I have my system set to manual notification, and don't proceed with any security update until a few days have passed and there hasn't been any Slashdot article titled "Latest Windows Patch Breaks Everything". Do people trust Microsoft patches to be that flawless???
last semester, I took an undergraduate course; the first week, one of the other women in the class was lamenting the fact that so many male students were always telling her she shouldn't be in CSE because she was a girl, and it was a "man's field."
Engineering undergrads are not really known for their social grace. What you witnessed was their clumsy, inept attempt at a mating ritual.
I think that the only real solution is to not allow the movies to be played on a computer. Only on dedicated set top boxes.
Dedicated set top boxes are not computers too? Hell, I'm sure at least one popular model of PVR and/or digital cable box has a Linux kernel making all the magic happen.
There was a lot less piracy going on when you had to dub the tape, instead of just clicking on a link.
Yes, and back then the RIAA member labels were raking in money hand over fist. Today, they're still raking in money hand over fist, but... they... hmm.
I imagine most of you will be fine with this cause talk radio is just a bunch of right-wing hate mongers, right? Eh? No harm in silencing that, huh?
You have a very active imagination.
It might be acceptable to ascribe such beliefs to a particular Democrat, such as Kucinich, but it is not okay to assume ALL Democrats feel that way -- as you have already done. You said we all "love it". This Democrat does not.
You're also ignoring that the leftist point of view permeates most broadcast TV quite thoroughly (Yes, except for Fox). If you don't realize it, it's for the same reason fish don't realize they're wet.
OH ENGLIGHTENED RIGHT-WINGER, SHOW US IGNORANT PLEBES THE WAY OF TRUTH AND LIGHT.
By the way, what is this "radio" thing you keep mentioning? Some kind of podcast?
initial offput associations of video game music from people that don't have a clue is that it is always some dude sitting in a room playing around with a synthesizer up untill he comes up with something 'cool,' and then proceeds to build it up from there.
That's pretty much the process by which all music in history has been written, except sometimes the synthesizer is replaced by a piano, or guitar, or harpsichord.
Is it fair to say that someone like Nobuo Uematsu [...] is not a 'real' composer, but John Williams and James Horner would be respected as such?
I would consider all three of them to be great soundtrack composers, but I'm not sure I'd want to listen to a piece of standalone non-programmatic music from any of them. Their specialty lies in being able to take a event or emotion expressed in another medium and create music that complements it extremely well.
Not to denigrate soundtrack writing as a 'lesser' form of music, though, it's just as valid as any other.
The Wiimote is interesting technology but I don't think they will have a monopoly on the design/usage of a pointing wand for very long.
Given the number of patents Nintendo holds on the technologies and design elements of the Wii Remote, it could very well be a while before any other console has a controller that can match it.
And even if there eventually is one, I don't know that the first-to-market phenomenon could be overcome. Today, if a publisher wants to build a game around touchscreen input, they're going to target it to the DS. If they want a game focused on spatial control, it's going to be a Wii title. I don't know what kinds of incentive the competition is going to be able to offer publishers to get them to switch away from Nintendo for those types of titles.
Those are display boxes, they don't actually have a console inside of them.
While obviously I don't expect them to take one of the empty boxes off the pyramid every time a customer purchases a PS3, I would imagine that retailers would want to keep the number of boxes on display pretty close to the number of units actually available for purchase.
The salesperson isn't going to enjoy being in a position where he has to tell an expectant customer "Sorry, we are sold out of those, I know it looks like there's a stack of 20 of them right there but those are just fakes for show." It doesn't promote customer trust.
Putting your computer's display through a TV is one of the easiest things you can do with a computer.
Not when the computer is sitting on a desk in the home office, and the TV is situated in the living room, on the other side of the house.
Most people don't have their entertainment centers wired for computing and the Internet yet, but over the next 5-10 years, it's going to become as standard as DVD players and stereo speakers.
The built-in software firewall that has been shipping standard with XP for the past five years or so does a decent job. If Windows machines are getting compromised, it most likely a case where the user has done something stupid behind the firewall while running, as most users have to, as an Administrator.
In other words, if you can trick the guy inside the house into unlocking the door for you, it doesn't matter if it's a screen door or three-inch steel.
Verizon's CEO has said many times that the pipes belong to him and has indicated he's pissed off because everyone's making money off the Internet except him. I can see his point.
So can I, except for the part about not making money. Verizon already gets paid twice for the usage of their inter-pipes, by both the sender and recipient.
Here in the US, we don't have anything like that, although we do make you get 'car insurance'.
We also make drivers get "a driver's license". Which requires the applicant to pass a written test, complete a road test, and usually log a certain number of hours of supervised behind-the-wheel training before the license can be granted.
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You meant to say that Mixtapes can exist if you are already rich and successful and have a large legal team.
It's always been the case that the tools with which one can create music are necessarily limited by how much money the musician has.
Any chump can buy a student violin for $40, but if you want to use a Stradivarius to create your art, you better have eight figures in your bank account, or have the backing of an organization that does.
Can music be created on that $40 violin? Can mixtapes be created with free or near-free musical materials, such as works under a Creative Commons license? Sure.
Neither is Valdez. Juan has deep pockets, and they're full of coffee beans...
The research I was able to do showed pretty clearly using other artists' work in mixes is tacitly allowed with a wink.
That would be fine, if permission to use the works were the artists' to give away. In most cases, it is not and phonographic copyright is the property of the record label. Thus, while we can argue whether it is morally right that someone can get in trouble for compiling a mixtape even when his actions are condoned by the artists who wrote the music, from a legal standpoint it is straightforward copyright infringement.
Mixtapes can exist and be legit; see Dan the Automator's "Wanna Buy A Monkey?" or DJ Jazzy Jeff's "Hip Hop Forever" series as recent examples of successful, non-copyright-infringing releases in the genre.
If I was a terrorist, I'd skip airports entirely, far too many cameras and police. I'd target a high speed intercity train. If I time it right, I should be able to blast a 125mph train into pieces on a high speed track, in time to cause major derailments from other trains.
The United States doesn't have any high speed intercity trains to target.
I believe the Acela trains can get up to about 80mph on some stretches of the route between Washington DC and Boston, but even with the commuter rail lines that share those track rights-of-way, it's not nearly as attractive to a terrorist as flying a plane into a skyscraper.
Dude. If you're going to count both Windows 3.1 and Windows 3.11 as new releases, then you should be counting XP Media Center, XP64, etc. as new releases between 2001 and the present.
without a usable service (which would no doubt be disabled within minutes of it being reported stolen to Cingular), what are you left with? An expensive video iPod with "camera and games."
And what use would a thug have with an expensive video iPod with camera and games that they didn't have to pay for?
Even without phone or internet connectivity, getting an iPhone for $0 sounds like it would be a good deal. And that's not even including the value of an iPhone as a status symbol.
I remember being worried about it [predictions of a coming ice age], which is why I am not worried about global warming now
So because a previous scientific prediction was discredited, you feel that all current scientfic predictions are not credible? Strange.
IIRC the DC was the only system of its generation that easily supported 4 controllers
Not sure whether you consider Dreamcast to be part of the PS1/N64 generation, or the PS2/GC/Xbox generation, but all of the Nintendo and Microsoft consoles released in both of those generations also came with 4 controller ports standard.
and for virtual console games the Wii could in theory support up to 8
In THEORY, the Wii could probably support more controllers than would even be practical. Four Gamecube controllers, four remotes, four Classic Controllers attached to the remotes -- that's 12-player simultaneous play right there. Perhaps even more players could join in using DS'es as controllers via WiFi -- but where would everybody sit?
There were a few legitimate music CDs that had Dreamcast content on them, but Sega sacrificed that feature to prevent piracy - a good decision, considering.
Considering what? That Sega shut down production on Dreamcast consoles a couple months after switching to a drive model that wouldn't read standard CDs?
CDs don't work in the arcade hardware.
But surely the arcade version of the hardware doesn't rely on GD-ROM as its storage medium? One would think that in a use case like that, a more fixed and reliable technology like hard drives would be utilized.
I think it's more like Guitar Hero, but not.
Or perhaps like Elite Beat Agents, but not.
Who knows what new variation on the "push the button at the exact right moment, and receive a pellet" formula some hack will think of next?
What Moore's law is supposed to have to do with this I don't know.
Hey, at least they correctly identified Moore's Law as having something to do with the number of transistors on a chip, and not CPU clock speed or some other factor which contributes to performance but was never spoken to by Moore himself.
So we can assume out of all the windows users out there only 100 million out of all the people who have Windows PCs are actually upgrading their system. Is it just me or is that kida scary.
What's kida scary is that people actually think installing a new version of a web browser qualifies as a system upgrade. Yes, I know that due to IE's integration with Windows internals it kind of it, but people still shouldn't be thinking that way.
By the same token, it's kida scary that some people are automatically and unquestioningly applying every system patch to their OS that Microsoft pushes out. I have my system set to manual notification, and don't proceed with any security update until a few days have passed and there hasn't been any Slashdot article titled "Latest Windows Patch Breaks Everything". Do people trust Microsoft patches to be that flawless???
Now if someone can explain why my Megadrive turned yellow?!
Your younger brother peed on it, because you never let him play.
Besides, how does black plastic fade to yellow? I'd think it would turn something more akin to purple.
last semester, I took an undergraduate course; the first week, one of the other women in the class was lamenting the fact that so many male students were always telling her she shouldn't be in CSE because she was a girl, and it was a "man's field."
Engineering undergrads are not really known for their social grace. What you witnessed was their clumsy, inept attempt at a mating ritual.
Supposing you get 150 KB/s sustained on the torrent, your computer's still going to be chewing on it for over 37 hours.
But I want SERENITY NOW!!!
I think that the only real solution is to not allow the movies to be played on a computer. Only on dedicated set top boxes.
Dedicated set top boxes are not computers too? Hell, I'm sure at least one popular model of PVR and/or digital cable box has a Linux kernel making all the magic happen.
There was a lot less piracy going on when you had to dub the tape, instead of just clicking on a link.
Yes, and back then the RIAA member labels were raking in money hand over fist. Today, they're still raking in money hand over fist, but... they... hmm.
I imagine most of you will be fine with this cause talk radio is just a bunch of right-wing hate mongers, right? Eh? No harm in silencing that, huh?
You have a very active imagination.
It might be acceptable to ascribe such beliefs to a particular Democrat, such as Kucinich, but it is not okay to assume ALL Democrats feel that way -- as you have already done. You said we all "love it". This Democrat does not.
You're also ignoring that the leftist point of view permeates most broadcast TV quite thoroughly (Yes, except for Fox). If you don't realize it, it's for the same reason fish don't realize they're wet.
OH ENGLIGHTENED RIGHT-WINGER, SHOW US IGNORANT PLEBES THE WAY OF TRUTH AND LIGHT.
By the way, what is this "radio" thing you keep mentioning? Some kind of podcast?
initial offput associations of video game music from people that don't have a clue is that it is always some dude sitting in a room playing around with a synthesizer up untill he comes up with something 'cool,' and then proceeds to build it up from there.
That's pretty much the process by which all music in history has been written, except sometimes the synthesizer is replaced by a piano, or guitar, or harpsichord.
Is it fair to say that someone like Nobuo Uematsu [...] is not a 'real' composer, but John Williams and James Horner would be respected as such?
I would consider all three of them to be great soundtrack composers, but I'm not sure I'd want to listen to a piece of standalone non-programmatic music from any of them. Their specialty lies in being able to take a event or emotion expressed in another medium and create music that complements it extremely well.
Not to denigrate soundtrack writing as a 'lesser' form of music, though, it's just as valid as any other.
The Wiimote is interesting technology but I don't think they will have a monopoly on the design/usage of a pointing wand for very long.
Given the number of patents Nintendo holds on the technologies and design elements of the Wii Remote, it could very well be a while before any other console has a controller that can match it.
And even if there eventually is one, I don't know that the first-to-market phenomenon could be overcome. Today, if a publisher wants to build a game around touchscreen input, they're going to target it to the DS. If they want a game focused on spatial control, it's going to be a Wii title. I don't know what kinds of incentive the competition is going to be able to offer publishers to get them to switch away from Nintendo for those types of titles.
Those are display boxes, they don't actually have a console inside of them.
While obviously I don't expect them to take one of the empty boxes off the pyramid every time a customer purchases a PS3, I would imagine that retailers would want to keep the number of boxes on display pretty close to the number of units actually available for purchase.
The salesperson isn't going to enjoy being in a position where he has to tell an expectant customer "Sorry, we are sold out of those, I know it looks like there's a stack of 20 of them right there but those are just fakes for show." It doesn't promote customer trust.
Putting your computer's display through a TV is one of the easiest things you can do with a computer.
Not when the computer is sitting on a desk in the home office, and the TV is situated in the living room, on the other side of the house.
Most people don't have their entertainment centers wired for computing and the Internet yet, but over the next 5-10 years, it's going to become as standard as DVD players and stereo speakers.
"Windows only comes with a screen door"
Oh, BULLSHIT.
The built-in software firewall that has been shipping standard with XP for the past five years or so does a decent job. If Windows machines are getting compromised, it most likely a case where the user has done something stupid behind the firewall while running, as most users have to, as an Administrator.
In other words, if you can trick the guy inside the house into unlocking the door for you, it doesn't matter if it's a screen door or three-inch steel.
Verizon's CEO has said many times that the pipes belong to him and has indicated he's pissed off because everyone's making money off the Internet except him. I can see his point.
So can I, except for the part about not making money. Verizon already gets paid twice for the usage of their inter-pipes, by both the sender and recipient.
Here in the US, we don't have anything like that, although we do make you get 'car insurance'.
We also make drivers get "a driver's license". Which requires the applicant to pass a written test, complete a road test, and usually log a certain number of hours of supervised behind-the-wheel training before the license can be granted.