James Taylor for me, thank you. One you listen to the Live CD(s), you can't go back to the doctored and primped studio stuff. No that there's anything wrong with Rush...Hold Your Fire is my favorite (non-live), but that was from my "era", so it may be a particularly biased choice.
Well, unless their lying in their FAQ, they pay 15% royalties directly to ROMS. Supposedly they have been paying up through 09/2006, actfa.
I'm not about to claim that it's easy to register in a foreign country for an individual, but I would suggest that if there's not enough money to make it worthwhile to register, then there's not enough money to worry about. This is, after all, business. If it's really that expensive, get together with a few dozen other "wronged" artists and split the translation and lawyer fees. I pay over $1000 dollars _every year_ to register in order to practice engineering in just 5 US states. The cost to register, in lost time, after I had passed all the exams to register in those five states came in at over $8,000. And when I was done, I got not a cent in residuals - all that paperwork just allowed me to get paid for my work (also covered under copyright, btw, if you were wondering). I have to continue to pay those fees every year, and pay for additional training every year, even if I only re-sell existing designs and do no new work. If I wanted to work in Quebec, I'd not only have to get a bunch of translators and lawyers to help me with the paperwork, I'd actually have to pass a law test in French. I can guarantee you that physics does not change when you cross province lines, but if I wanted to work there, I would have to pay the money. It's just business.
It sounded from TFA like compliance will not happen until June 1, 2007. Well, "The government will be expected to begin complying by June 1, 2007." to be exact. So, really we have until at least June 1, 2007 before anything can be expected to occur. Just want to make sure my balance there is zero by the time the turn the lights out.
Did David Gilmour register with the Russian Organization on Collective Management of Rights of Authors and Other Rightholders in Multimedia, Digital Networks & Visual Arts (ROMS)? If not, then it's his fault. If you think that's unfair that he would have to register, then I ask you - has he registered with ASCAP, BMI and/or SESAC?
You see, there's the rub - as an artist, you have to do the footwork, or have your label do it for you. The RIAA didn't want to play ball with the Russians - primarily because their cut under Russian law was not as big as they get in the west, and not as big as they liked. If Mr. Gilmou's label is a member of the RIAA, then his loss is a result of their inaction, and I do not take responsibility for the money chain between my retailer and the artist. I don't do it when I buy a physical CD, and I don't do it when I download an album.
Yes, but wouldn't it be nice not to have to pay $1k plus hardware to get a MS server with Exchange just to share contacts and calendar between two people? That's the way my office is. I'm too busy (and don't want to be interrupted) to do that stuff, and my admin needs access to my contacts and calendar. Unfortunately, that isn't possible in any realtime way using exchange. I would switch if there were sonething else out there, but apparently there isn't anything mature enough to use in a business envronment under a grand. What makes it worse is that I sync my pda so I have my info with me, but - again - there don't seem to be programs that will integrate with a PDA, especially a win based pda (my next smartphone will be one).
When I look for alernatives, all I see are big solutions for big dollars, to be administered by full time professionals.
FWIW, I ended up getting SBS and installing it on a temporarily vacant machine to see if I could get everything to sync up. We'll see if it works.
You must not have Verizon. Sorry 'bout that. My rant made little sense to begin with. It makes no sense with the "not" missing. *shrug* serves me right for not hitting preview.
You must have Verizon. You see, Verizon has sandboxed all of their phones - they can because they use a backwater standard that prevents anyone from bringing in a non-approved device to their network. All phones with advanced functionality are hobbled before they hit the streets. You get what you pay for. That's not wisdom, it's a slogan - on Verizon, you only get what you have paid for, and you must pay for it each time you want it. That's one reason I'm not switching to Verizon when I break free of US Cellular (who is just as bad) in two months.
It's really no coincidence that the voice of Verizon is also the voice of Darth Vader.
depending on where they are in their upgrade cycle
Yeah, 'cause they, like, just dropped this HDTV thing on everybody all of a sudden. Now, if they'd had ten years to plan for it...oh, right.
One reason everyting is more expensive is because nobody had the balls to say "the new standard shall be X". No, inteead we got ATSC, which was a fucked up menagerie of resultions and broadcast styles. Had they simply picked 720p as the single, only standard, we'd have been far better off. What? You say that we would have been behind the times already, with 1080p already available in displays? I call bullshit - despite the royal cluster over the resolutions, they locked us into mpeg2, foregoing any extensibility in the codec. They should have just chosen a single format and made a hard deadline. By eeking it out over the years, the volume of productin (and viewing) equipment was so slow that the engineering never paid off - each year the (low volume of) current round of adopters footed a year-long engineering bill at all the HD equipment makers. It was possibly the worst, most expensive solution.
Whoops - you're right. I meant zero reflectivity. A perfectly emissive body, e=1.0, is also a black body, and will have neither a reflective nor transmissive component. Stray light control is really what I presume was meant, as it's use as an actual detector (as the article suggested) makes very little sence for most optical detectors (yes, I've worked with optics).
I would presume that this is a very thin portion of the surface, since there is no data given, and that it sounds like it heats the metal to a vapor (maybe plasma?) and allows it to cool so quickly that it "freezes" in microstructures (excuse me - nanostructures). For all soft metals, then, a simple scratch would reveal the shiny surface free of the effects below the new "coating". Also, a surface with near zero emissivity and high conductivity would likely cause burns very quickly if left in the sun on a summer day. How would you like a nice burn from your car should you accidentally graze your spiffy black racing stripe? Also, wouldn't there be a propensity for these nano-strucutures to foul due to a microseive-like effect - collecting all the crud that just floated by? Seems like a nightmare to clean after pollen season.
It certainly does have some applications, and optics seems to be the obvious place. Having an emissivity of (well, they didn't say) 1e-8 would certainly make baffles more efficient.
Actually, that's exactly the situation for a Peltier cooler (Seebeck (sp) device if run in "reverse" to get electricity). The mismatch in electrical vs thermal conductivity is, in fact the key, if I remember. I played with them for a while, trying to get a working model for a countertop cooler (candymaking/culinary uses), but never really got the time to perfect it withing the application parameters normally encountered in residential kitchens. Fun little things, but brutally inefficient.
Should they consider using either a mouth swab or finger prick to get DNA from each motorist? Fingerprints are so 20th century.
BTW - any progress on requiring mandatory dander and skin sampling from the cars interior as well as personal clothing to determine likely associations, so that a UK-wide personal interaction map? You know they've thought of it, but just haven't figured out the logistics for a full roll-out.
Yikes, that's a pretty big stretch to make - regardless of the numbers. Of course, it makes it easy to dismiss when you see the headquarters of the Election Defense Alliance leaders all working at someone's kitchen table on laptops. That's to say they aren't entirely legitimate and correct, but I might put there chances at, say, 10,000 to 1.;-)
I seem to remember somehting about the studio selling the merchandising rights for a very small sum (to a subsidiary or partner company without direct GL connection). The vast sums of money from marketing the merchandise were never accounted for on the film studio side, except for the (absurdly low) fixed fee paid. Thus the studio execs made money, while denying anyone with net points on the film a whiff of the money from merchandising. All legal, all underhanded.
What if it's a copy for non-commercial use made by the owner's agent? Can my son make a copy of The Matrix from my original and load it onto my ipod, at my request? Can a service take my CDs and rip them to a hard drive (providing the service of tagging in the process) so that I can use a digital media player on my home system (one company is doing this right now with apparently zero interest from the RIAA). Does the buy the disc and then rip it for me for my personal use violate copyrights?
Actually, they do, but it is not applied to data CDs, only to "music" cds. Consumer standalone CD recorders, I believe, are supposed to require music cds for burning, regardless of source. This may or may not solve the problem because the RIAA isn't claiming that the defendant copied songs from someone else, but rather they offered their songs to others. Owning a stack of music CDs doesn't help if you never used them, and effectively couldn't have used them for the act they are accused of.
This really starts looking like more of the anti-terrorism laws passed lately (and speed limits, for that matter, as an historical note). Everybody is violating someone elses IP, so the "big" players can really just pick a target out of the crowd and start firing away. Everyone knows its there, and everyone does it, it is just rarely enforced.
Maybe Ballmer will get hit by a bus. Accidentally, of course.
Oh, it's not that they are ignorant of it, but that they see no clear way to control it, craft it, make it bow to their will. For most of those in power, they have good reason to fear it.
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Don't worry, they charged $500 and hour, and most of the time spent was triple billed anyway, so its not like anyone lost any money. ;-)
I've seen the Zune, and based on the color of the case, I'd say they've already taken your advice.
James Taylor for me, thank you. One you listen to the Live CD(s), you can't go back to the doctored and primped studio stuff. No that there's anything wrong with Rush...Hold Your Fire is my favorite (non-live), but that was from my "era", so it may be a particularly biased choice.
Well, unless their lying in their FAQ, they pay 15% royalties directly to ROMS. Supposedly they have been paying up through 09/2006, actfa.
I'm not about to claim that it's easy to register in a foreign country for an individual, but I would suggest that if there's not enough money to make it worthwhile to register, then there's not enough money to worry about. This is, after all, business. If it's really that expensive, get together with a few dozen other "wronged" artists and split the translation and lawyer fees. I pay over $1000 dollars _every year_ to register in order to practice engineering in just 5 US states. The cost to register, in lost time, after I had passed all the exams to register in those five states came in at over $8,000. And when I was done, I got not a cent in residuals - all that paperwork just allowed me to get paid for my work (also covered under copyright, btw, if you were wondering). I have to continue to pay those fees every year, and pay for additional training every year, even if I only re-sell existing designs and do no new work. If I wanted to work in Quebec, I'd not only have to get a bunch of translators and lawyers to help me with the paperwork, I'd actually have to pass a law test in French. I can guarantee you that physics does not change when you cross province lines, but if I wanted to work there, I would have to pay the money. It's just business.
...or could that have really been considered DOA?
It sounded from TFA like compliance will not happen until June 1, 2007. Well, "The government will be expected to begin complying by June 1, 2007." to be exact. So, really we have until at least June 1, 2007 before anything can be expected to occur. Just want to make sure my balance there is zero by the time the turn the lights out.
Did David Gilmour register with the Russian Organization on Collective Management of Rights of Authors and Other Rightholders in Multimedia, Digital Networks & Visual Arts (ROMS)? If not, then it's his fault. If you think that's unfair that he would have to register, then I ask you - has he registered with ASCAP, BMI and/or SESAC?
You see, there's the rub - as an artist, you have to do the footwork, or have your label do it for you. The RIAA didn't want to play ball with the Russians - primarily because their cut under Russian law was not as big as they get in the west, and not as big as they liked. If Mr. Gilmou's label is a member of the RIAA, then his loss is a result of their inaction, and I do not take responsibility for the money chain between my retailer and the artist. I don't do it when I buy a physical CD, and I don't do it when I download an album.
Yes, but wouldn't it be nice not to have to pay $1k plus hardware to get a MS server with Exchange just to share contacts and calendar between two people? That's the way my office is. I'm too busy (and don't want to be interrupted) to do that stuff, and my admin needs access to my contacts and calendar. Unfortunately, that isn't possible in any realtime way using exchange. I would switch if there were sonething else out there, but apparently there isn't anything mature enough to use in a business envronment under a grand. What makes it worse is that I sync my pda so I have my info with me, but - again - there don't seem to be programs that will integrate with a PDA, especially a win based pda (my next smartphone will be one).
When I look for alernatives, all I see are big solutions for big dollars, to be administered by full time professionals.
FWIW, I ended up getting SBS and installing it on a temporarily vacant machine to see if I could get everything to sync up. We'll see if it works.
You must not have Verizon. Sorry 'bout that. My rant made little sense to begin with. It makes no sense with the "not" missing. *shrug* serves me right for not hitting preview.
You must have Verizon. You see, Verizon has sandboxed all of their phones - they can because they use a backwater standard that prevents anyone from bringing in a non-approved device to their network. All phones with advanced functionality are hobbled before they hit the streets. You get what you pay for. That's not wisdom, it's a slogan - on Verizon, you only get what you have paid for, and you must pay for it each time you want it. That's one reason I'm not switching to Verizon when I break free of US Cellular (who is just as bad) in two months.
It's really no coincidence that the voice of Verizon is also the voice of Darth Vader.
depending on where they are in their upgrade cycle
Yeah, 'cause they, like, just dropped this HDTV thing on everybody all of a sudden. Now, if they'd had ten years to plan for it...oh, right.
One reason everyting is more expensive is because nobody had the balls to say "the new standard shall be X". No, inteead we got ATSC, which was a fucked up menagerie of resultions and broadcast styles. Had they simply picked 720p as the single, only standard, we'd have been far better off. What? You say that we would have been behind the times already, with 1080p already available in displays? I call bullshit - despite the royal cluster over the resolutions, they locked us into mpeg2, foregoing any extensibility in the codec. They should have just chosen a single format and made a hard deadline. By eeking it out over the years, the volume of productin (and viewing) equipment was so slow that the engineering never paid off - each year the (low volume of) current round of adopters footed a year-long engineering bill at all the HD equipment makers. It was possibly the worst, most expensive solution.
Whoops - you're right. I meant zero reflectivity. A perfectly emissive body, e=1.0, is also a black body, and will have neither a reflective nor transmissive component. Stray light control is really what I presume was meant, as it's use as an actual detector (as the article suggested) makes very little sence for most optical detectors (yes, I've worked with optics).
I would presume that this is a very thin portion of the surface, since there is no data given, and that it sounds like it heats the metal to a vapor (maybe plasma?) and allows it to cool so quickly that it "freezes" in microstructures (excuse me - nanostructures). For all soft metals, then, a simple scratch would reveal the shiny surface free of the effects below the new "coating". Also, a surface with near zero emissivity and high conductivity would likely cause burns very quickly if left in the sun on a summer day. How would you like a nice burn from your car should you accidentally graze your spiffy black racing stripe? Also, wouldn't there be a propensity for these nano-strucutures to foul due to a microseive-like effect - collecting all the crud that just floated by? Seems like a nightmare to clean after pollen season.
It certainly does have some applications, and optics seems to be the obvious place. Having an emissivity of (well, they didn't say) 1e-8 would certainly make baffles more efficient.
Instead of voting on parties, why not vote on issues?
That would be called "democracy."
Actually, that's exactly the situation for a Peltier cooler (Seebeck (sp) device if run in "reverse" to get electricity). The mismatch in electrical vs thermal conductivity is, in fact the key, if I remember. I played with them for a while, trying to get a working model for a countertop cooler (candymaking/culinary uses), but never really got the time to perfect it withing the application parameters normally encountered in residential kitchens. Fun little things, but brutally inefficient.
The boxes go out in a distinctive black bag with PS3 graphics on it.
Does it also say "Steal Me!" in bright graphics, too?
Should they consider using either a mouth swab or finger prick to get DNA from each motorist? Fingerprints are so 20th century.
BTW - any progress on requiring mandatory dander and skin sampling from the cars interior as well as personal clothing to determine likely associations, so that a UK-wide personal interaction map? You know they've thought of it, but just haven't figured out the logistics for a full roll-out.
Yikes, that's a pretty big stretch to make - regardless of the numbers. Of course, it makes it easy to dismiss when you see the headquarters of the Election Defense Alliance leaders all working at someone's kitchen table on laptops. That's to say they aren't entirely legitimate and correct, but I might put there chances at, say, 10,000 to 1. ;-)
I seem to remember somehting about the studio selling the merchandising rights for a very small sum (to a subsidiary or partner company without direct GL connection). The vast sums of money from marketing the merchandise were never accounted for on the film studio side, except for the (absurdly low) fixed fee paid. Thus the studio execs made money, while denying anyone with net points on the film a whiff of the money from merchandising. All legal, all underhanded.
What if it's a copy for non-commercial use made by the owner's agent? Can my son make a copy of The Matrix from my original and load it onto my ipod, at my request? Can a service take my CDs and rip them to a hard drive (providing the service of tagging in the process) so that I can use a digital media player on my home system (one company is doing this right now with apparently zero interest from the RIAA). Does the buy the disc and then rip it for me for my personal use violate copyrights?
It will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Actually, they do, but it is not applied to data CDs, only to "music" cds. Consumer standalone CD recorders, I believe, are supposed to require music cds for burning, regardless of source. This may or may not solve the problem because the RIAA isn't claiming that the defendant copied songs from someone else, but rather they offered their songs to others. Owning a stack of music CDs doesn't help if you never used them, and effectively couldn't have used them for the act they are accused of.
Well, the OP is a lawyer, and is particularly involved in such cases. I suspect that he wouldn't have bothered to post it if it was without merit.
Of course, he could be sitting back and thinking, "Oh, he is so going to get his butt kicked by the RIAA," but I doubt it.
This really starts looking like more of the anti-terrorism laws passed lately (and speed limits, for that matter, as an historical note). Everybody is violating someone elses IP, so the "big" players can really just pick a target out of the crowd and start firing away. Everyone knows its there, and everyone does it, it is just rarely enforced.
Maybe Ballmer will get hit by a bus. Accidentally, of course.
Oh, it's not that they are ignorant of it, but that they see no clear way to control it, craft it, make it bow to their will. For most of those in power, they have good reason to fear it.
You forgot OS/2 ;-)