"The movie studios, and the rest of the copyright industries, for example, are tremendously excited about the possibility of providing their products to consumers over the Internet and the digital airwaves, provided they can be assured that those products' copyrights are not infringed in the process."
No crap they're "tremendously excited". Why should the sell us a whole movie, when they can sell it to us one viewing at a time! I can see the MPAA and RIAA drooling all over themselves at this very minute!
According to Hollings, American's aren't buying into new digital technologies, like a "$2000 for a fancy HDTV set that plays analog movies". Has he seen how wholeheartedly Americans have adopted DVDs? It is a new digital technology that allows for fancy digital movies, and it has taken off like wildfire. And often because of players with broken or absent copy protection, certainly not BECAUSE of copy protection!
Uhh.. We could just use hemp paper. More efficient use of land, resources... Cheaper to produce... Less noxious chemicals and toxic leftovers to be disposed of...
Nah.. Let's just try harder to get this paper pulp thing working... Blech
For Christ's sake! It's *NOT* $.02 per song for non-commercial broadcast. It is $.0002, or 2/100 of a cent. Stop posting these ABSURD royalty calculations. Post real ones. They are still unfair.
>Last year CD sales declined for the first time in a decade.
Hmm.. Last year (or 2) the stock market declined for the first time in OVER a decade. Causation, can't say. Correlation, I'd be surprised if it didn't have SOMETHING to do with it. Also all the bubblegum pop crap they released for the last 2 years.
I have the Jensen MP5010K unit. It has great sound, supports MP3's up to 320kbps, reads CDs, CD-Rs, and CD-RWs, and is pretty cheap ($250). My *only* complaint is that you are apparently unable to search (ie: FF and REV) through MP3s. You can search through CDs, but not MP3s. To be honest, I don't miss it very often, but when it's missed, it's sorely missed.
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"Kenneth Snelson's Needletower , a tensegrity (tension gravity) sculpture built in 1969."
Umm.. The article linked to the word tensegrity specifically states that:
"The word 'tensegrity' is an invention: a contraction of 'tensional integrity.'"
C'mon editors, would it have been that tough to actually look at the page you linked to?
"The movie studios, and the rest of the copyright industries, for example, are tremendously excited about the possibility of providing their products to consumers over the Internet and the digital airwaves, provided they can be assured that those products' copyrights are not infringed in the process."
No crap they're "tremendously excited". Why should the sell us a whole movie, when they can sell it to us one viewing at a time! I can see the MPAA and RIAA drooling all over themselves at this very minute!
According to Hollings, American's aren't buying into new digital technologies, like a "$2000 for a fancy HDTV set that plays analog movies". Has he seen how wholeheartedly Americans have adopted DVDs? It is a new digital technology that allows for fancy digital movies, and it has taken off like wildfire. And often because of players with broken or absent copy protection, certainly not BECAUSE of copy protection!
Just a thought, Sen. Hollings...
Uhh.. We could just use hemp paper. More efficient use of land, resources... Cheaper to produce... Less noxious chemicals and toxic leftovers to be disposed of...
Nah.. Let's just try harder to get this paper pulp thing working... Blech
For Christ's sake! It's *NOT* $.02 per song for non-commercial broadcast. It is $.0002, or 2/100 of a cent. Stop posting these ABSURD royalty calculations. Post real ones. They are still unfair.
Uhh... your math is a bit off. The payment is $0.0002, or .02 cents per "performance", not .02 dollars. This works out to $5.18 per day.
Not that I agree with the rates, just pointing out a blatant math error.
Yeah... From the article:
>Last year CD sales declined for the first time in a decade.
Hmm.. Last year (or 2) the stock market declined for the first time in OVER a decade. Causation, can't say. Correlation, I'd be surprised if it didn't have SOMETHING to do with it. Also all the bubblegum pop crap they released for the last 2 years.
There is nothing *plain* about the mud in Boston Harbor. That stuff must be alive!
The harbor is ridiculously dirty... I wouldn't be surprised if there were lots of new life forms in that sludge!!
I have the Jensen MP5010K unit. It has great sound, supports MP3's up to 320kbps, reads CDs, CD-Rs, and CD-RWs, and is pretty cheap ($250). My *only* complaint is that you are apparently unable to search (ie: FF and REV) through MP3s. You can search through CDs, but not MP3s. To be honest, I don't miss it very often, but when it's missed, it's sorely missed.
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obviously the slashdot staff has been replaced by a beowulf cluster of monkeys
>An 802.11b wireless LAN card is supported in the
>PCMCIA slot, as are modules for GSM, GPRS, and
>Bluetooth.
The 802.11 isn't built-in, but it is *available*...
a beowulf cluster of these!