The U.S. != The World Some of us in the U.S. do know that. However, the U.S. sets the trends these days, whether you Europeans like to admit it or not. It's likely that a standard such as UCITA, if it stands up to the inevitable court challenges to come, will be enforced in the industrialized world and perhaps incorporated into international copyright law. U.S. corporations are that powerful.
Right. It appears there are two types of people in the world: the kind who think Beam-It is so illegal it's "laughable", as one poster put it, and the kind who think it's a perfectly harmless and reasonable thing to do.
Perhaps MP3.com needs to demonstrate that this service does not in any way encourage or enable illegal copying. I suppose you could argue that it discourages purchases; you no longer need separate copies for home, office, dorm, etc.
By the way, libraries have CDs, cassettes, and LPs that they let you borrow. How do they get away with this if MP3.com can't even let you listen to your own CDs?
This person's apparent email address was Ireland, not "Englend". Ireland hasn't been governed by England for about 75 years now, though their legal system may still be similar.
The Chinese written language is one of the world's most brilliant cultural achievements. How can anyone argue that? But the sad thing is, the PRC government instituted a simplified character set, thus diminishing the visual beauty of the language and making it that much harder for the current generation to read the old texts.
So what your ancestors wrote 2000 years ago is not as easy to read as it was a generation ago, my friend.
As for banning W2K: how this can possibly benefit software developers in China is beyond me. Encouraging a domestic piracy industry is the most likely result--if people can't buy it, they'll steal it.
Regarding this concept, what about the related but less benevolent example of cybersquatting, wherein a very similar URL is grabbed for malicious reasons. I just this morning discovered that a non-profit organization which I support has had this happen. They have a.ORG address. Someone apparently grabbed the.COM equivalent and is displaying a page announcing, quite falsely, that the organization has closed down. Presumably this is a form of blackmail.
I think the organization has pretty good grounds for a libel suit but I'm not really sure.
I have suggested that a fair settlement would consist of surrendering the URL to the organization, plus court costs of course.
I don't understand all the hoo-hah. According to the NYT article, on which this entire discussion is based, an AOL representative claims that prior to this suit they were already working on access to people with disabilities, including support for text-reading products. If this is for real, then there is no merit to the lawsuit.
AOL does deserve a raspberry for not already providing ALT text or "text only" versions of their sites, though.
Palm and similar devices let you search. Notebook style interface is great in many ways but much harder to search. That's the primary reason I got a Palm III, in order to organize all my contacts, and it sure has paid off. I'm always forgetting people's last names, names of spouses, etc. and it's a great asset ("Oh hi Rory, how's Daisy and little Beemy?").
Then, you can download books and articles to read during interminable waits at doctors' offices etc. Hand-copying a book or article into your notebook is going to take a serious chunk of time not to mention writer's cramp.
Don't forget that you can make the Palm gleep at you at specified times. Makes a great travel alarm clock, and meeting reminder, etc. It's also nice for remembering birthdays forever.
Don't see where color improves any of the above functionality but black-on-white might be a bit easier on the eyes under certain lighting conditions.
Humankind doesn't advance without this kind of pie-in-the-sky fantasizing by a bunch of dreamers. It's easy to sit back and shoot down the this group's plans, but how does that help? I believe the superpowers of the mid-21st Century are going to be the nations and grouips of nations that move into space for commercial exploitation. Unfortunately, not since JFK has the U.S. had a leader with the vision, the intelligence, the rhetorical ability, and the chutzpah to ram through a $1 trillion (in today's terms) manned moon project.
Now, as technological prowess has proliferated globally, other nation-states such as Japan, China and India have developed spacefaring ability, even as the U.S. and Russia have backed off. Instead of a sort of Pax Americana in the skies, with U.S. space fleets maintaining fair and free trading routes much as the British fleets did in the 19th century, we will probably see a free-for-all with inimical, totalitarian powers like China setting up military bases in orbit while American politicians wring their hands helplessly.
This doomsday talk is great for inciting controversy but has little to do with reality. Support for computer literacy courses in every public school is the obvious way to empower people . Such courses do exist. In addition, adult computer literacy reach-out programs exist; my girlfriend is involved in such a one in Boston. These programs teach such basic skills as how to navigate the Web with a browser, how to write email, etc. One of her students, a welfare mom with an alcoholic husband in prison and seven children, obtained her high school equivalency, learned a lot about computers as a lab assistant, and obtained a $30K/year job as a computer administrator working for the state (more money than her teachers make, mind you). Obviously this individual was particularly motivated but the point is that opportunities exist.
Volunteering once a week at one of these outreach programs is a fine way to help fix the problem; writing doomsday articles about supposed racial divides achieves nothing.
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Actually, the judge said Napster was clearly guilty of copyright violations. She's already made up her mind.
The U.S. != The World
Some of us in the U.S. do know that.
However, the U.S. sets the trends these days, whether you Europeans like to admit it or not. It's likely that a standard such as UCITA, if it stands up to the inevitable court challenges to come, will be enforced in the industrialized world and perhaps incorporated into international copyright law. U.S. corporations are that powerful.
Right. It appears there are two types of people in the world: the kind who think Beam-It is so illegal it's "laughable", as one poster put it, and the kind who think it's a perfectly harmless and reasonable thing to do.
Perhaps MP3.com needs to demonstrate that this service does not in any way encourage or enable illegal copying. I suppose you could argue that it discourages purchases; you no longer need separate copies for home, office, dorm, etc.
By the way, libraries have CDs, cassettes, and LPs that they let you borrow. How do they get away with this if MP3.com can't even let you listen to your own CDs?
This person's apparent email address was Ireland, not "Englend". Ireland hasn't been governed by England for about 75 years now, though their legal system may still be similar.
The Chinese written language is one of the world's most brilliant cultural achievements. How can anyone argue that? But the sad thing is, the PRC government instituted a simplified character set, thus diminishing the visual beauty of the language and making it that much harder for the current generation to read the old texts.
So what your ancestors wrote 2000 years ago is not as easy to read as it was a generation ago, my friend.
As for banning W2K: how this can possibly benefit software developers in China is beyond me. Encouraging a domestic piracy industry is the most likely result--if people can't buy it, they'll steal it.
Regarding this concept, what about the related but less benevolent example of cybersquatting, wherein a very similar URL is grabbed for malicious reasons. I just this morning discovered that a non-profit organization which I support has had this happen. They have a .ORG address. Someone apparently grabbed the .COM equivalent and is displaying a page announcing, quite falsely, that the organization has closed down. Presumably this is a form of blackmail.
I think the organization has pretty good grounds for a libel suit but I'm not really sure.
I have suggested that a fair settlement would consist of surrendering the URL to the organization, plus court costs of course.
I don't understand all the hoo-hah. According to the NYT article, on which this entire discussion is based, an AOL representative claims that prior to this suit they were already working on access to people with disabilities, including support for text-reading products. If this is for real, then there is no merit to the lawsuit.
AOL does deserve a raspberry for not already providing ALT text or "text only" versions of their sites, though.
-Terry
Fly by night? Sounds like this sort of alternative housing approach could really take off!
Palm and similar devices let you search. Notebook style interface is great in many ways but much harder to search. That's the primary reason I got a Palm III, in order to organize all my contacts, and it sure has paid off. I'm always forgetting people's last names, names of spouses, etc. and it's a great asset ("Oh hi Rory, how's Daisy and little Beemy?").
Then, you can download books and articles to read during interminable waits at doctors' offices etc. Hand-copying a book or article into your notebook is going to take a serious chunk of time not to mention writer's cramp.
Don't forget that you can make the Palm gleep at you at specified times. Makes a great travel alarm clock, and meeting reminder, etc. It's also nice for remembering birthdays forever.
Don't see where color improves any of the above functionality but black-on-white might be a bit easier on the eyes under certain lighting conditions.
Humankind doesn't advance without this kind of pie-in-the-sky fantasizing by a bunch of
dreamers. It's easy to sit back and shoot down the this group's plans, but how does that
help? I believe the superpowers of the mid-21st Century are going to be the nations and
grouips of nations that move into space for commercial exploitation. Unfortunately, not
since JFK has the U.S. had a leader with the vision, the intelligence, the rhetorical ability,
and the chutzpah to ram through a $1 trillion (in today's terms) manned moon project.
Now, as technological prowess has proliferated globally, other nation-states such as
Japan, China and India have developed spacefaring ability, even as the U.S. and Russia
have backed off. Instead of a sort of Pax Americana in the skies, with U.S. space fleets
maintaining fair and free trading routes much as the British fleets did in the 19th century,
we will probably see a free-for-all with inimical, totalitarian powers like China setting up
military bases in orbit while American politicians wring their hands helplessly.
Go, Artemis!
This doomsday talk is great for inciting controversy but has little to do with
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reality. Support for computer literacy courses in every public school is the
obvious way to empower people . Such courses do exist. In addition, adult
computer literacy reach-out programs exist; my girlfriend is involved in such a
one in Boston. These programs teach such basic skills as how to navigate the
Web with a browser, how to write email, etc. One of her students, a welfare mom
with an alcoholic husband in prison and seven children, obtained her high school
equivalency, learned a lot about computers as a lab assistant, and obtained a
$30K/year job as a computer administrator working for the state (more money than
her teachers make, mind you). Obviously this individual was particularly
motivated but the point is that opportunities exist.
Volunteering once a week at one of these outreach programs is a fine way to help
fix the problem; writing doomsday articles about supposed racial divides
achieves nothing.
Yog
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