you can walk into a "head" shop around any campus and buy plenty of items which "could" be illegal, and I believe that if you mention to the store owners that you intend to use their products for non-legal uses, then they're not suppose to sell it to you. who puts tobacco in those fancy things anyway?
what about those "legal" cable tv boxes? we're all aloud to own our own cable box right? we don't have to rent the box from the local cable company. i guess if i don't buy my digital cable box from a company who advertises that i could use it to descramble copyright material, then it's ok?
if i walk into compUSA and tell the sales clerk i'm going to use the new CDRW drive i'm buying there to make mass copies if all my friends music/data cd's, should they cancel the sale?
how about when i tell the auto salesman that i plan to be driving 90 mph in the car he's selling me? at what point does my intent, or the sellers intent on the sale make the sale illegal?
somehow the MozillaQuestQuest link doesn't render at _ALL_ using IE 5.5. i then opened it in mozilla, and it displays just fine... hummm.. wonder why that is:)
why is it 800mhz? 2 years ago i would have read " any computer 200mhz or faster is bottlenecked by the software and hard drive ". my primary development desktop at work up until a year ago was a p233 mmx machine. is it the software that's changed that much? (aside from win2k).
how can their product be much different than cdrecord/mkisofs? or any other cd copying utilites?
these certainly have fair uses/ and no fair uses. there certainly has to be fair uses to being able to backup a copy of your favorite or not so favorite e-book. the dmca in this case is totally assuming guilt before any trial. is there proof this was intended for illegal use (outside the dmca?)
they're working in russia (as long as they're physically located there, and reside there).
i looked breifly into telecommuting from abroad, and it seems that for an american living abroad you don't pay federal taxes on the first 75k. and the foreign country (i was actually looking into telecomuting from mexico) doesn't tax money earned abroad (they're just glad you're spending it in their country i guess)
these are perfect for a general internet appliance. it's something you should find in the libraries or mall kiosk, but most people want to do more with their home computer than just suft the net. granted, it's the most frequent thing we do with 'um, but we still want to do more.
i also don't understand the pricing. for 400$ one could get an athlon 1.2 gz system, ith all the same other specs (probably more RAM than what's in those boxes to boot). add another 100$ and you've got yourself a decent 17" monitor. to me, the cost savings don't outway the benefits. most people would be bored with that appliance in a few months, and probably have to chuck it.
they're not putting financial records online, it's only public information.
i think it's great, it makes it easier for the public to access. as mentioned earlier, you'll find home layouts, property layouts (city auditor), as well as arrest records, warrants, etc.
what's the big deal if i can take a name/birthday and find your address (if you're a registered voter in NY City) i could just as easily look it up in the phone book without even knowing your birthday. That's not even public information, it's information published by a private company (ma bell). after all, it's just information, doesn't "it want to be free":)
even outside the case, i'de be extremely leary about it. normally with these "core meltdown in 7 seconds" cpus, you want to have LOTS of air flow through the case. hot air out, cool air in.
maybe if that sound proof foam also doubles as an fridgerator:)
the original poster seems to be referring to the integration of 2 separate entities to form something that's way out of wack. the car and horse example just seems pretty unrelated. what were horses combined with to create the car?
how about, why the hell would anyone need a friggin' SUV? when they can have a car/truck/van/jeep? there's many other gas guzzlers out there, and certainly other types of "family size" vehicles. so why the SUV? oh yeah, the off road adventure!
i agree with the other poster who mentioned that we've already got an interactive form available for the users, seems like someone is trying to get the circle in the square.
my real worry is the two faced court system. where in one case it's legal let unauthorized people distribute electronic copies, while in another it's not.
as to your point about the older music nearing public domain, it's my understanding (please correct me if i'm wrong) that the copyright has to be older than 70 or so years to enter public domain, and that congress keeps pusing that amount every time disney requests an extension. from that respect, music from the 1940's has not entered the public domain yet! i would say that's quite a gap in history. weather the record companies want to protect it or not is another thing. i'm sure the sound track to the wizzard of oz is not something they would like to be traded publicly, althought it's certainly a part of american history.
i think that in the same sense that these articles are being required to be online because the public needs to have access to them (although only through a provider that doesn't have a legitimate right to publish electronic copies), that music and other media forms including movies should be required to be available to the public online (and by the same regards, by an entity that doesn't have a legitimate right to publish electronic copies).
this really reinforces the argument that the largest pocket book (most expensive lawyers) will win in a court case. the little guy has no chance. napster lost to the unlimited checkbook of the RIAA, and the freelance writers ultimately lost to the New York Times.
creating a "hole in history".. please. aren't we creating a hole in history already by not allowing digital music to be freely traded online? 6 of 1, 1/2 doz. of the other.
it sounds more like - "hey, they offered me a month's vacation at their caribean resort, and you're not giving me jack, sorry pal"
from what i recall... music cd's are in a different format than the digital cd's (data). maybe red book.vs. blue book format, i don't remember. basically, when a computer tries to copy the tracks off an audio cd, it has to do an exact copy, and when it finds bad tracks it can't read (either the manufacturer put lossy data on the track, or maybe it's scratched all ta hell), it is unable to copy anything. gives up and quits.
this is just my general understanding.. i may be way off here.
According to this article, which is probably way outdated, but anyway, the cd drives do have digital output (weather that's 0's and 1's i don't know), but it's that most sound cards only have audio inputs, which forces the cd-rom to feed audio to the sound card.
i used peapod each and every week to order my groceries (cols, oh). to my udder dismay, all the sudden, they folded in this area. it had to be the absolute best service around. put your grocery list on line, and then the next day it gets brought to your house. no lines, no screaming kids in the stores, no parking lot hassles, no loading/unloading the minivan. groceries delivered to your door for 25$ per month for unlimited deliveries over 60$! i would probably pay double that now that i'm without service.
please peapod, reconsider us in COLS, OH !!!
i can't see this as being anything but good for both SUN and the DoD! glad to see some department is finally getting some senses (although the deal is mostly replacing applix and not 25k copies of MS Office)
perhaps napster will host the songs they licensed on their servers and use their bandwidth, not yours to distribute the music. they'll sure have to have some huge bandwidth..
the real product is that they've been forced into this position by the courts. i have some real doubts that napster will ever get the user base it was supposidly promised. (would you pay 5$ per month to use napster? - not me) napster was so last year. i wish the media would get with the times.
so why doesn't "keeping the government honest" also include defending yourself against the local punks; the government obviously isn't there to defend you.
actually, the record companies were found by the FTC to be forcing the retailers into highter prices, as well as price fixing. i think it had something to do with subsidising marketing costs and the ever popular MAP pricing.
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/05/cdpres.htm
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that is so true, but so insainly wrong.
you can walk into a "head" shop around any campus and buy plenty of items which "could" be illegal, and I believe that if you mention to the store owners that you intend to use their products for non-legal uses, then they're not suppose to sell it to you. who puts tobacco in those fancy things anyway?
what about those "legal" cable tv boxes? we're all aloud to own our own cable box right? we don't have to rent the box from the local cable company. i guess if i don't buy my digital cable box from a company who advertises that i could use it to descramble copyright material, then it's ok?
if i walk into compUSA and tell the sales clerk i'm going to use the new CDRW drive i'm buying there to make mass copies if all my friends music/data cd's, should they cancel the sale?
how about when i tell the auto salesman that i plan to be driving 90 mph in the car he's selling me?
at what point does my intent, or the sellers intent on the sale make the sale illegal?
yes, but it's always nice to remember why we don't use those product :)
go away.
somehow the MozillaQuestQuest link doesn't render at _ALL_ using IE 5.5. i then opened it in mozilla, and it displays just fine... hummm.. :)
wonder why that is
anyone know of any of these elementary school educational programs?
what a prefect reason to turn my kids computer box into a linux educational machine!
so now i can FINALLY make graphics on my pc that will compete with the mac?
why is it 800mhz? 2 years ago i would have read " any computer 200mhz or faster is bottlenecked by the software and hard drive ". my primary development desktop at work up until a year ago was a p233 mmx machine. is it the software that's changed that much? (aside from win2k).
how can their product be much different than cdrecord/mkisofs? or any other cd copying utilites?
these certainly have fair uses/ and no fair uses. there certainly has to be fair uses to being able to backup a copy of your favorite or not so favorite e-book. the dmca in this case is totally assuming guilt before any trial. is there proof this was intended for illegal use (outside the dmca?)
i think the point may have been that the value placed on software developers (salary) in this country has gone haywire.
they're working in russia (as long as they're physically located there, and reside there).
i looked breifly into telecommuting from abroad, and it seems that for an american living abroad you don't pay federal taxes on the first 75k. and the foreign country (i was actually looking into telecomuting from mexico) doesn't tax money earned abroad (they're just glad you're spending it in their country i guess)
these are perfect for a general internet appliance. it's something you should find in the libraries or mall kiosk, but most people want to do more with their home computer than just suft the net. granted, it's the most frequent thing we do with 'um, but we still want to do more.
i also don't understand the pricing. for 400$ one could get an athlon 1.2 gz system, ith all the same other specs (probably more RAM than what's in those boxes to boot). add another 100$ and you've got yourself a decent 17" monitor. to me, the cost savings don't outway the benefits. most people would be bored with that appliance in a few months, and probably have to chuck it.
they're not putting financial records online, it's only public information.
i think it's great, it makes it easier for the public to access. as mentioned earlier, you'll find home layouts, property layouts (city auditor), as well as arrest records, warrants, etc.
what's the big deal if i can take a name/birthday and find your address (if you're a registered voter in NY City) i could just as easily look it up in the phone book without even knowing your birthday. That's not even public information, it's information published by a private company (ma bell). after all, it's just information, doesn't "it want to be free" :)
sound proofing foam in the case?
even outside the case, i'de be extremely leary about it. normally with these "core meltdown in 7 seconds" cpus, you want to have LOTS of air flow through the case. hot air out, cool air in.
maybe if that sound proof foam also doubles as an fridgerator :)
the original poster seems to be referring to the integration of 2 separate entities to form something that's way out of wack. the car and horse example just seems pretty unrelated. what were horses combined with to create the car?
how about, why the hell would anyone need a friggin' SUV? when they can have a car/truck/van/jeep? there's many other gas guzzlers out there, and certainly other types of "family size" vehicles. so why the SUV? oh yeah, the off road adventure!
i agree with the other poster who mentioned that we've already got an interactive form available for the users, seems like someone is trying to get the circle in the square.I don't see how a browser effects bandwidth speed? isn't that a factor of your pipe to the net?
as to your point about the older music nearing public domain, it's my understanding (please correct me if i'm wrong) that the copyright has to be older than 70 or so years to enter public domain, and that congress keeps pusing that amount every time disney requests an extension. from that respect, music from the 1940's has not entered the public domain yet! i would say that's quite a gap in history. weather the record companies want to protect it or not is another thing. i'm sure the sound track to the wizzard of oz is not something they would like to be traded publicly, althought it's certainly a part of american history.
i think that in the same sense that these articles are being required to be online because the public needs to have access to them (although only through a provider that doesn't have a legitimate right to publish electronic copies), that music and other media forms including movies should be required to be available to the public online (and by the same regards, by an entity that doesn't have a legitimate right to publish electronic copies).
this really reinforces the argument that the largest pocket book (most expensive lawyers) will win in a court case. the little guy has no chance. napster lost to the unlimited checkbook of the RIAA, and the freelance writers ultimately lost to the New York Times.
creating a "hole in history".. please. aren't we creating a hole in history already by not allowing digital music to be freely traded online? 6 of 1, 1/2 doz. of the other.
it sounds more like - "hey, they offered me a month's vacation at their caribean resort, and you're not giving me jack, sorry pal"
from what i recall... music cd's are in a different format than the digital cd's (data). maybe red book .vs. blue book format, i don't remember. basically, when a computer tries to copy the tracks off an audio cd, it has to do an exact copy, and when it finds bad tracks it can't read (either the manufacturer put lossy data on the track, or maybe it's scratched all ta hell), it is unable to copy anything. gives up and quits.
this is just my general understanding.. i may be way off here.
According to this article, which is probably way outdated, but anyway, the cd drives do have digital output (weather that's 0's and 1's i don't know), but it's that most sound cards only have audio inputs, which forces the cd-rom to feed audio to the sound card.
i used peapod each and every week to order my groceries (cols, oh). to my udder dismay, all the sudden, they folded in this area. it had to be the absolute best service around. put your grocery list on line, and then the next day it gets brought to your house. no lines, no screaming kids in the stores, no parking lot hassles, no loading/unloading the minivan. groceries delivered to your door for 25$ per month for unlimited deliveries over 60$! i would probably pay double that now that i'm without service. please peapod, reconsider us in COLS, OH !!!
i can't see this as being anything but good for both SUN and the DoD! glad to see some department is finally getting some senses (although the deal is mostly replacing applix and not 25k copies of MS Office)
perhaps napster will host the songs they licensed on their servers and use their bandwidth, not yours to distribute the music. they'll sure have to have some huge bandwidth..
the real product is that they've been forced into this position by the courts. i have some real doubts that napster will ever get the user base it was supposidly promised. (would you pay 5$ per month to use napster? - not me) napster was so last year. i wish the media would get with the times.
so why doesn't "keeping the government honest" also include defending yourself against the local punks; the government obviously isn't there to defend you.
actually, the record companies were found by the FTC to be forcing the retailers into highter prices, as well as price fixing. i think it had something to do with subsidising marketing costs and the ever popular MAP pricing. http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2000/05/cdpres.htm