My experience is that the typical CD price has gone up significantly, but not if you know how/where to buy. 10 years ago, I remember buying CDs for right about $12-15 at Camelot Music (I think it's now FYE). Average price there now is about $18-20, plus tax (this is in a city with ~50K people, and at least 20 miles from a bigger city).
However, Best Buy still has most CDs for $14-16. The same ones that are $20 at the mall. Seems to simply be that retailers charge what people will pay (and most people that shop at malls are dumb enough to spend lots of money, then bitch about the cost).
Copyright law isn't there to serve the public good, it's there to protect the copyright owner from the 'public', the public being people who would steal their intellectual property. The law is to protect everyone, not just the mysterious 'public'. Are you saying that people with copyrighted works aren't part of the public?
Well, according to Eldred vs. Ashcroft, current copyright law is in line with the constitution. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 (Among the rest): Only the writings and discoveries of authors and inventors may be protected, and then only to the end of promoting science and the useful arts. (emphasis added).
Yeah, some people are stupid, and will split (I've seen this) a 5 meg file into into 50KB pieces to post to usenet (which should have an article size of 200-800KB after encoding). Sometimes, each.rxx will then be zipped, with the.nfo included. These are done by the fucktards, and are not what I was referring to. I am referring to properly done (i.e. splitting and verification only) situations.
As for the legality and Asia, that doesn't help anything on the internet. If everyone in america using KaZaA/LimeWire/etc could easily buy perfect bootlegs cheap, like can be done in some Asian areas, all of them would. But they can't, so they don't, and therefore needs a system for what they have.
From my understanding, South Korea's bandwidth is only notable WITHIN South Korea. The connections to the rest of the world are not even as good as the typical.us connection.
RAR isn't for compression (at least not much), but rather for splitting. A 4.4GiB file (or even a 700MiB one)is not possible for the distribution methods further up the chain, and it isn't uncommon for the files to remain intact all the way down to BT (which is GREAT, because it can also be used to fill the pieces grabbed from IRC, usenet, etc).
It's better than Mastersplitter because it includes internal verification, and zip didn't split.
Unless I missed something, there really doesn't seem to be a whole lot of info that one would assume to be a trade secret or even protected by NDA.
If I knew that Ford was going to be releasing a new compact performance car in summer 2006 for $15k, codenamed "Bullshit", would you consider that to be top-secret info protected by all those things?
Whether or not they're different items is irrelevant wrt to the First Amendment, they're clearly granted the same protection.
It's even possible that the framers considered it the same right, but included both simply in case that argument would be made (e.g. "It says free speech, not free press. You can't publish that.", much in the way a common argument against the 2nd Amendment is that it only applies to muskets)
Something that I couldn't find in the TFA- Who's pursuing these claims? That's the entity must be the copyright holder, or be authorized by the copyright holder. If it is the city (as the summary suggests), then it is a government-owned work, and thus was paid-for by Chicago taxpayers.
Having jumped on the Antec bandwagon a few years ago, I'm not sure if I can still recommend them.
Had an older 300w unit in my dad's computer. Worked fine in that, but couldn't get it to boot on mine if there was an HD connected to it-shutdown in only a couple seconds. That was an Asus A7V266, Athlon XP 1500, and any single HD. No RAM, no video card, nothing. Wouldn't even get to the failed POST. Connecting all sorts of everything (RAM, video card, CD-RW, DVD+/-R/W) and it worked fine- as long as none of them was an HD. (as a side note, using a second AT PSU for the HDs, I had it functioning adequately, until it powered down due to the failed, GENERIC, exhaust fan in the PSU. Replaced it, and it's still running in my dad's box)
Also, I took the plunge and got a TruePower 550, with their 3-Year warranty. 18 months later, I can't boot much of anything (AthlonXP 1500 underclocked to 1GHz, all IDE devices being powered by a secondary AT PSU). When even that failed, I had to fight- and I mean FIGHT- with Antec to get a damn RMA. Also had a dead fan (Doesn't look generic, but I wasn't about to void my warranty yet). Their case fans leave something to be desired- I've had 2 80mm Antec fans (out of about 6) die completely on me, in less than a year. OTOH, the rest have functioned nicely for about 3 years now.
Next PSU I buy is probably going to be either Vantec or Enermax.
Unless I missed a few posts, the only evidence that it's an urban myth is a press release from Sun. However, there are several rather reliable news sources, including The Register, reporting that it happened (all around April 9th, 2001).
Not quite, that's why many there are the stories of people getting the MS tax refund- Yes, the vendor must accept the return of Windows- but normally, they require the notebook back too (and frequently charge a restocking fee)
Seems a bit idealistic...Who would listen to a published child molester?
(Meant tongue-in-cheek, but consider at what point a convicted molester lost all rights- and I can guarantee it wasn't when the verdict was handed down, it was probably when the story was first reported in the media)
Last I checked (could've changed), flag burning was ruled to be a form a free speech (specifically, against the government), and was thus protected by the first amendment.
I think you're arguing semantics. I saw that line and thought more along the lines of the Alien & Sedition Acts (or PATRIOT), not violating laws.
i.e. can Newspapers have an article about their local congressman's corruption, or failures of the government? These would probably not be approved by the government, but is (still) perfectly legal.
Claiming someone is a convicted child molestor is libel (civil, not criminal case), and I believe witness protection lists are classified. This is illegal to have, just as it is illegal to publish.
But again, having a monopoly (or being declared to have one, as in the case of MS) in and of itself is not illegal, but has a larger (legal) burden to not abuse its position.
A big part of that is allowing choice, and monopoly status. MS, being a recognized monopoly, is not under the same laws as Ford, or even Apple.
Furthermore, a better analogy (even though analogies are bullshit) would be if that Ford car also wouldn't allow you to remove the old radio (at all) and was still using power and taking space, while your new stereo still had to use the old Ford speakers, and there was no way around this. Oh, and Ford had a monopoly on cars, and was trying to force people everywhere to use Ford radios (because then they have to buy Ford cars, and their monopoly is further secured)
Technically, it sounds like you're referring to MSHTML, not just the shell, IE.
Would it be possible to replace MSHTML with Gecko? That seems to be a more accurate question, since the shell itself isn't really tied into the OS (and certainly isn't where the problems are)
My experience (Kroger is the only one around here that uses those cards now) is that it doesn't matter whose card is used- leave your card at home and someone will offer theirs (or sometimes there's a house card). Also, this may be an Ohio law, or just the store's policy, but the cards cannot be used in regards to alcohol/tobacco (note that it's always a single tier pricing scheme, and they never ask for the card if that's all you're purchasing)
All those replies, a funny mod, and no one actually comments on your idea... VIIV as an instruction set extension seems like a decent guess- it lends itself to a few buzzwords (video, value, internet, illegal...) and wouldn't be a core product for them. (maybe not 2010, but that's a minor detail)
IMHO, the whole roman numeral thing seems to be a red herring.
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My experience is that the typical CD price has gone up significantly, but not if you know how/where to buy.
10 years ago, I remember buying CDs for right about $12-15 at Camelot Music (I think it's now FYE). Average price there now is about $18-20, plus tax (this is in a city with ~50K people, and at least 20 miles from a bigger city).
However, Best Buy still has most CDs for $14-16. The same ones that are $20 at the mall.
Seems to simply be that retailers charge what people will pay (and most people that shop at malls are dumb enough to spend lots of money, then bitch about the cost).
Copyright law isn't there to serve the public good, it's there to protect the copyright owner from the 'public', the public being people who would steal their intellectual property. The law is to protect everyone, not just the mysterious 'public'. Are you saying that people with copyrighted works aren't part of the public?
Well, according to Eldred vs. Ashcroft, current copyright law is in line with the constitution. Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8 (Among the rest): Only the writings and discoveries of authors and inventors may be protected, and then only to the end of promoting science and the useful arts. (emphasis added).
Yeah, some people are stupid, and will split (I've seen this) a 5 meg file into into 50KB pieces to post to usenet (which should have an article size of 200-800KB after encoding). Sometimes, each .rxx will then be zipped, with the .nfo included.
These are done by the fucktards, and are not what I was referring to. I am referring to properly done (i.e. splitting and verification only) situations.
As for the legality and Asia, that doesn't help anything on the internet. If everyone in america using KaZaA/LimeWire/etc could easily buy perfect bootlegs cheap, like can be done in some Asian areas, all of them would. But they can't, so they don't, and therefore needs a system for what they have.
From my understanding, South Korea's bandwidth is only notable WITHIN South Korea. The connections to the rest of the world are not even as good as the typical .us connection.
RAR isn't for compression (at least not much), but rather for splitting. A 4.4GiB file (or even a 700MiB one)is not possible for the distribution methods further up the chain, and it isn't uncommon for the files to remain intact all the way down to BT (which is GREAT, because it can also be used to fill the pieces grabbed from IRC, usenet, etc).
It's better than Mastersplitter because it includes internal verification, and zip didn't split.
Actually, they DO have an SCO icon, it just hasn't been updated since they were still called Caldera.
Unless I missed something, there really doesn't seem to be a whole lot of info that one would assume to be a trade secret or even protected by NDA.
If I knew that Ford was going to be releasing a new compact performance car in summer 2006 for $15k, codenamed "Bullshit", would you consider that to be top-secret info protected by all those things?
Seems to be plausible deniability.
Whether or not they're different items is irrelevant wrt to the First Amendment, they're clearly granted the same protection.
It's even possible that the framers considered it the same right, but included both simply in case that argument would be made (e.g. "It says free speech, not free press. You can't publish that.", much in the way a common argument against the 2nd Amendment is that it only applies to muskets)
Something that I couldn't find in the TFA- Who's pursuing these claims? That's the entity must be the copyright holder, or be authorized by the copyright holder. If it is the city (as the summary suggests), then it is a government-owned work, and thus was paid-for by Chicago taxpayers.
Isn't there something about how anyone or anything in public can be photographed? Or is that becoming a double-standard?
In a public place, it can be viewed by the general public, including a camera.
Having jumped on the Antec bandwagon a few years ago, I'm not sure if I can still recommend them.
Had an older 300w unit in my dad's computer. Worked fine in that, but couldn't get it to boot on mine if there was an HD connected to it-shutdown in only a couple seconds.
That was an Asus A7V266, Athlon XP 1500, and any single HD. No RAM, no video card, nothing. Wouldn't even get to the failed POST.
Connecting all sorts of everything (RAM, video card, CD-RW, DVD+/-R/W) and it worked fine- as long as none of them was an HD.
(as a side note, using a second AT PSU for the HDs, I had it functioning adequately, until it powered down due to the failed, GENERIC, exhaust fan in the PSU. Replaced it, and it's still running in my dad's box)
Also, I took the plunge and got a TruePower 550, with their 3-Year warranty. 18 months later, I can't boot much of anything (AthlonXP 1500 underclocked to 1GHz, all IDE devices being powered by a secondary AT PSU). When even that failed, I had to fight- and I mean FIGHT- with Antec to get a damn RMA.
Also had a dead fan (Doesn't look generic, but I wasn't about to void my warranty yet).
Their case fans leave something to be desired- I've had 2 80mm Antec fans (out of about 6) die completely on me, in less than a year.
OTOH, the rest have functioned nicely for about 3 years now.
Next PSU I buy is probably going to be either Vantec or Enermax.
Unless I missed a few posts, the only evidence that it's an urban myth is a press release from Sun. However, there are several rather reliable news sources, including The Register, reporting that it happened (all around April 9th, 2001).
Right now, I'd say it's a 50/50 chance.
Not quite, that's why many there are the stories of people getting the MS tax refund- Yes, the vendor must accept the return of Windows- but normally, they require the notebook back too (and frequently charge a restocking fee)
I see ads for MS crap all the time. Last time I remember seeing it was an ad right here on /.
Unless I read the details wrong, the concern isn't on the servers' side- it's on the clients.
If there is an illegal website, they can raid it and get server logs- but this is not what's being discussed.
If they think Joe Blow's up to something, they MIGHT be able to watch his traffic, and see what sites he visits, without a warrant.
AFAIK, Google, Netcraft, and all the rest are not monitoring my connections in any way.
Seems a bit idealistic...Who would listen to a published child molester?
(Meant tongue-in-cheek, but consider at what point a convicted molester lost all rights- and I can guarantee it wasn't when the verdict was handed down, it was probably when the story was first reported in the media)
Last I checked (could've changed), flag burning was ruled to be a form a free speech (specifically, against the government), and was thus protected by the first amendment.
I think you're arguing semantics.
I saw that line and thought more along the lines of the Alien & Sedition Acts (or PATRIOT), not violating laws.
i.e. can Newspapers have an article about their local congressman's corruption, or failures of the government?
These would probably not be approved by the government, but is (still) perfectly legal.
Claiming someone is a convicted child molestor is libel (civil, not criminal case), and I believe witness protection lists are classified. This is illegal to have, just as it is illegal to publish.
Well, after hitting google briefly, I found this:
http://www.ncpa.org/iss/ant/1999/pd041299h.html
But again, having a monopoly (or being declared to have one, as in the case of MS) in and of itself is not illegal, but has a larger (legal) burden to not abuse its position.
A big part of that is allowing choice, and monopoly status. MS, being a recognized monopoly, is not under the same laws as Ford, or even Apple.
Furthermore, a better analogy (even though analogies are bullshit) would be if that Ford car also wouldn't allow you to remove the old radio (at all) and was still using power and taking space, while your new stereo still had to use the old Ford speakers, and there was no way around this.
Oh, and Ford had a monopoly on cars, and was trying to force people everywhere to use Ford radios (because then they have to buy Ford cars, and their monopoly is further secured)
Technically, it sounds like you're referring to MSHTML, not just the shell, IE.
Would it be possible to replace MSHTML with Gecko? That seems to be a more accurate question, since the shell itself isn't really tied into the OS (and certainly isn't where the problems are)
My experience (Kroger is the only one around here that uses those cards now) is that it doesn't matter whose card is used- leave your card at home and someone will offer theirs (or sometimes there's a house card).
Also, this may be an Ohio law, or just the store's policy, but the cards cannot be used in regards to alcohol/tobacco (note that it's always a single tier pricing scheme, and they never ask for the card if that's all you're purchasing)
And I'm supposed to show proof of age every time I buy alcohol or tobacco.
Guess how often that actually happens.
Just because they're required to, doesn't mean they actually do.
(besides, laws on this vary heavily by state)
Read what else the founding fathers wrote on the subject, you'll be rather amazed.
check it out.
All those replies, a funny mod, and no one actually comments on your idea...
VIIV as an instruction set extension seems like a decent guess- it lends itself to a few buzzwords (video, value, internet, illegal...) and wouldn't be a core product for them. (maybe not 2010, but that's a minor detail)
IMHO, the whole roman numeral thing seems to be a red herring.