No, I believe that I do understand fair use. Title 17, Section 106 clearly states that the owner of a copyright has exclusive authority over what is allowed and is not allowed. One of these rights is to limit reproductions and/or recordings.
Looking right here at the CD cases I have lying around, I see the phrase "Unauthorized copying, reproduction, hiring, lending, public performance, and broadcasting prohibited." This CDs 7 years old. The contract has always been there when you go to the checkout line. You purchase a copyrighted item, you fall under the rights of the copyrighter... not your own.
It's also the music recording industry's right to produce a physical piece of plastic, which they sell to you. It's the music industry's right to say what can and can't be done with the object that they've sold to you if you consider a sale of this type to be contractual...
Um, I've done this. In fact, I've learned the bass lines and chord structures and all the words to about 50% of all the CD's I own. You can't say I haven't analyzed them in depth. I can notate them for you in excruciating detail.
Cool. But that's not quite what I meant... when you memorize words, bass lines, and chords, do you analyze them for meaning? And once you've analyzed them, do you go back and do it over? It's a very interesting mental exercise and it can increase the value of a CD tenfold. If you enjoy it enough, you'll care for your CDs. If your CDs are stolen, that's your PHYSICAL property being stolen... the physical object you paid $15 for. Buy another one, them's the breaks; or get insurance. If you just want to rearrange things, that's the everything-all-the-time problem come back to haunt you. Why can't we just be happy with what we have?
So Sharp decides to go with Linux instead of something else, and Maxtor decides to go with W2K instead of something else. The comments for this article are probably going to have to be vague, because as I see it, the whole thead is about subsituting one operating system for another.
That being said, I'll throw in my real comment: I think PC makers should start shipping PCs with Linux instead of Window(s|z)! Uh... yeah, that's the ticket!
Our "must have everything now" culture (see the Slashdot story about web in the car) makes us indecisive... but demanding. We don't know what we want, but we want it now! So it's just not acceptable for people to choose 1 or 2 special CDs for the day at work, leaving 99% of thier collection at home. We are unsatisfied by not being able to have everything all of the time.
I suggest trying this: Take one CD for the day to listen to, to enjoy, to analize, and to listen to from front to back to figure out why it's a good or bad CD. Decide why you like or dislike each track. For the ones you like, listen to them again and try to find problems with them. For the ones you don't like, listen to them again and try to see the good. You may find that your attitude about the CD changes over the day!
People buy CDs and then listen to only one track! If you really listen, there's alot more to those other tracks then you may realize. If record companies insist on making you pay more, than make that money count! Fight it if you must, but don't let the "must have it now" culture suck you in!
Suddently the need to make copies of your entire collection won't seem so great...
"I think I have had at least one dollar per song's worth of enjoyment out of ever CD I own... after listening to the CD all the way through a few times."
I'll start out by saying that I have a very wide variety of musical tastes, and a large collection of CDs. Not as large as yours, but large enough. It's not uncommon for me to listen to a classical CD, then a punk CD, switch to jazz, and then move into rock mode.
Our "must have everything now" culture (see the Slashdot story about web in the car) makes us indecisive... but demanding. We don't know what we want, but we want it now! So it just seems to be not acceptable to people to leave 99% of thier collection at home and just choose 1 or 2 special CDs for the day to listen to, to enjoy, to analize, and to listen to from front to back to figure out why it's a good or bad CD. People buy CDs and then listen to only one track! If you really listen, there's alot more to those other tracks then you may realize... all the CDs I have had at least a dollar per song enjoyment from after listening to the CD all the way through a few times! And I continue to buy select CDs at the current high prices, knowing that I will spend quality time with those CDs to learn everything about them.
So my suggestion is take some time and care about what you are buying! Don't demand everything all of the time... then the need to make copies of your entire collection won't seem like such a big deal.
I have never understood this. Why do people demand that they be able to make multiple copies of music CDs to store in different places? Honestly, how hard is it to take a few CDs that you think you might like to listen to at work WITH YOU? So say you work 10 hours... that would give you enough time to listen to 11 or 12 average length CDs. Is that too many to put in a CD holder and pack in to work? Same with the car... how long are you going to be driving? An hour? Two? That's not enough time to listen to your whole collection I'm willing to bet. So pick some you want to listen to for the day and take them with you!
I guess the moral of the story is that there's only enough time in the day to listen to so much music... indescision about what you want to listen to during that limited amount of time is your problem, not the record industry's. If you're going to fight for something, fight for the lowering of CD prices instead!
(Of course, copying CDs because prices are so insanely high might be one way to get them to drop prices is one way to do that... ):)
Copyright only protects duplication... I think that the sparse, mostly useless perspective that an agency like DoubleClick gets of your web browsing habits on its affiliate sites is different enough from your actual, copyrighted "surfing habits" that it's not a violation of copyright for DoubleClick to keep them. The level of abstraction is much too great.
A recently released web bug report shows that Microsoft (via Link Exchange) is bugging more web sites than any other organization.
From the data presented, it seems LinkExchange is the most common "web bugging" service. But that's what it is, a service. The companies paying for LinkExchange ads are the ones driving the "bugging". Without companies wanting to advertise and do business cheaply on the web there would be no LinkExchange/bCentral. Just because LinkExchange seems to be the most popular of web ad services doesn't mean it's some evil MS plot to bug the world. It just seems to be doing good business. If you ran an ad service, wouldn't you dream of the same?
The market is showing this effect somewhat. Everyone bought thier cheap PCs, now the economy is down, and no one feels like upgrading because what they have is fast enough.
By no means should companies stop ramping up the clockrate/memory/speeds though! Just because we can't buy it right now doesn't mean that it won't be useful in the future. I'm sure not many people could buy the first 486s when they came out either... because a 386 "was good enough"... but they all have P3s and Athlons sitting on thier desks today!
I find it interesting that the prospective student's gauge of how much he/she is interested in computers is that he/she reloads Slashdot every 5 minutes. That's great and all, but I don't think of that as much of an indicator. Slashdot is about much more than just computers... and especially about much more than just engineering and science specifics.
Then if my name happens to be Springstein and I am trying to promote my new CD on Napster, my music will be blocked? What about if my band's name is Metallic? If they use metaphones, they might as well just give it up. Heck, if they block any music at all, they might as well give it up. Heck, they might as well give it up. Heck, they are.
Exactly. The title says it all: open source threatens the "American Way." It most definitely threatens Microsoft's "American Way." I don't know that it threatens mine, though.
From the introduction to the article I got the feeling that the authors thought 1600x1280 was as high as computer screens might ever be able to go. I don't know much about this; perhaps 1600x1280 IS a physical maximum for a CRT, but I doubt it.
The future is not one of CRTs... there's no reason that in a year we couldn't have some type of display capable of 10000x10000 with a 17" diagonal (and a video card to drive it of course.) Suddenly, anti-aliasing discussions seem like a waste of time...
Does anyone know if they fixed the "holes" in the icons on the dock? For instance, can you click in the center of Internet Explorer's e? In the public beta, clicking on transparent parts of icons was as good as not clicking the icon at all.
Is it just me or does this seem like a step towards the analog style of data storage?
On normal CDs you have 2 different "colors" (clearly, that's a binary, digital method of storing data.) This storage method is said to be flawless because an optical scanner has to distinguish between only 2 extreme opposites, and that boolean signal can be sent straight to a DA converter or to a data bus.
This new medium uses 8 "colors." Sure a binary method is being used to generate the color, but there are 8 variations that must be read accurately nontheless. What happens when you move up to 1024 gray variations, or 65536? Somewhere along the line it stops being binary and becomes a shade of gray that must be read accurately by an optical scanner, and that progression of grays easily translate to an analog waveform, which runs through a digital-analog converter to become data...
Turing said that "if a machine could convince an interrogator that it was human, then the machine should be considered intelligent". But you didn't even capture the same logic in your counter statement, so you haven't proved Turing is a fool, or anything else. Had you said Does this mean that If I were to convince an interrogator that I was Chinese I should be considered to be intelligent? you argument would have meant something... assuming you're not Chinese... I would say you are intelligent.
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like, the new Doom will never stack up
Of course, I meant, like, if they don't go "yeee" like they used to, the new Doom will never stack up.
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They can spend all the time they like on the sound code... if the demons don't go "yeee" like the new Doom will never stack up.
On the bright side, maybe now I will know which direction the "yeee" is coming from.:)
I have always wondered if a complete browser emulating site exists. This site may remove HTML tags that were not supported, but no removal of tags does justice to what the newer versions of IE and NS do to pages... it can't be explained by the compiance/non-compliance of these browsers. Things like pixel level space, how the browsers react to buggy code, etc.
My ideal brower emulation site would return a gif/jpeg that shows the page *exactly* the way it would appear in the browser... including dithering of images and pixel level accuracy. It would be a great tool for those of use who have IE5 and can't get back down the road we came from.;)
That additional 10% wouldn't buckle under the load right away, because they are *additional*, which was my point.
There was nothing in the story, besides the misleading title, to suggest that Hotmail was having load problems, or that any of the servers were stressed. I use Hotmail as a junk account and have never seen it./ed... or even seem to sweat. By adding servers the load is balanced even better.
The story, as posted, said that Microsoft has moved machines into its load-balancing pool. It made no mention of removing the BSD machines. Adding nodes can only make the system faster, regardless of whether the new nodes are Windows or BSD.
Perhaps they could have made a better choice of OS, for *name your favorite reason here*. But hey, it's Microsoft, and they're in love with thier own stuff! Aren't we all?:)
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Subsitute "virii" for "viruseses" where you like. I hate this language.:)
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This seems great and all, but compared to most things, bacteria are pretty large. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think they are smaller than an equivalent transistor. So what is the big deal here? So they act like transistors? So what? For the most part, so do vacuum tubes and light switches.
Now if they figured out a way to do something similar with viruses, this might be interesting. They are many orders of magnitude smaller than a bacterium.
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No, I believe that I do understand fair use. Title 17, Section 106 clearly states that the owner of a copyright has exclusive authority over what is allowed and is not allowed. One of these rights is to limit reproductions and/or recordings.
Looking right here at the CD cases I have lying around, I see the phrase "Unauthorized copying, reproduction, hiring, lending, public performance, and broadcasting prohibited." This CDs 7 years old. The contract has always been there when you go to the checkout line. You purchase a copyrighted item, you fall under the rights of the copyrighter... not your own.
It's also the music recording industry's right to produce a physical piece of plastic, which they sell to you. It's the music industry's right to say what can and can't be done with the object that they've sold to you if you consider a sale of this type to be contractual...
Um, I've done this. In fact, I've learned the bass lines and chord structures and all the words to about 50% of all the CD's I own. You can't say I haven't analyzed them in depth. I can notate them for you in excruciating detail.
Cool. But that's not quite what I meant... when you memorize words, bass lines, and chords, do you analyze them for meaning? And once you've analyzed them, do you go back and do it over? It's a very interesting mental exercise and it can increase the value of a CD tenfold. If you enjoy it enough, you'll care for your CDs. If your CDs are stolen, that's your PHYSICAL property being stolen... the physical object you paid $15 for. Buy another one, them's the breaks; or get insurance. If you just want to rearrange things, that's the everything-all-the-time problem come back to haunt you. Why can't we just be happy with what we have?
So Sharp decides to go with Linux instead of something else, and Maxtor decides to go with W2K instead of something else. The comments for this article are probably going to have to be vague, because as I see it, the whole thead is about subsituting one operating system for another.
That being said, I'll throw in my real comment: I think PC makers should start shipping PCs with Linux instead of Window(s|z)! Uh... yeah, that's the ticket!
Our "must have everything now" culture (see the Slashdot story about web in the car) makes us indecisive... but demanding. We don't know what we want, but we want it now! So it's just not acceptable for people to choose 1 or 2 special CDs for the day at work, leaving 99% of thier collection at home. We are unsatisfied by not being able to have everything all of the time.
I suggest trying this: Take one CD for the day to listen to, to enjoy, to analize, and to listen to from front to back to figure out why it's a good or bad CD. Decide why you like or dislike each track. For the ones you like, listen to them again and try to find problems with them. For the ones you don't like, listen to them again and try to see the good. You may find that your attitude about the CD changes over the day!
People buy CDs and then listen to only one track! If you really listen, there's alot more to those other tracks then you may realize. If record companies insist on making you pay more, than make that money count! Fight it if you must, but don't let the "must have it now" culture suck you in!
Suddently the need to make copies of your entire collection won't seem so great...
Grammar check:
"I think I have had at least one dollar per song's worth of enjoyment out of ever CD I own... after listening to the CD all the way through a few times."
All good points. I like your comment.
I'll start out by saying that I have a very wide variety of musical tastes, and a large collection of CDs. Not as large as yours, but large enough. It's not uncommon for me to listen to a classical CD, then a punk CD, switch to jazz, and then move into rock mode.
Our "must have everything now" culture (see the Slashdot story about web in the car) makes us indecisive... but demanding. We don't know what we want, but we want it now! So it just seems to be not acceptable to people to leave 99% of thier collection at home and just choose 1 or 2 special CDs for the day to listen to, to enjoy, to analize, and to listen to from front to back to figure out why it's a good or bad CD. People buy CDs and then listen to only one track! If you really listen, there's alot more to those other tracks then you may realize... all the CDs I have had at least a dollar per song enjoyment from after listening to the CD all the way through a few times! And I continue to buy select CDs at the current high prices, knowing that I will spend quality time with those CDs to learn everything about them.
So my suggestion is take some time and care about what you are buying! Don't demand everything all of the time... then the need to make copies of your entire collection won't seem like such a big deal.
I have never understood this. Why do people demand that they be able to make multiple copies of music CDs to store in different places? Honestly, how hard is it to take a few CDs that you think you might like to listen to at work WITH YOU? So say you work 10 hours... that would give you enough time to listen to 11 or 12 average length CDs. Is that too many to put in a CD holder and pack in to work? Same with the car... how long are you going to be driving? An hour? Two? That's not enough time to listen to your whole collection I'm willing to bet. So pick some you want to listen to for the day and take them with you!
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I guess the moral of the story is that there's only enough time in the day to listen to so much music... indescision about what you want to listen to during that limited amount of time is your problem, not the record industry's. If you're going to fight for something, fight for the lowering of CD prices instead!
(Of course, copying CDs because prices are so insanely high might be one way to get them to drop prices is one way to do that... )
Copyright only protects duplication... I think that the sparse, mostly useless perspective that an agency like DoubleClick gets of your web browsing habits on its affiliate sites is different enough from your actual, copyrighted "surfing habits" that it's not a violation of copyright for DoubleClick to keep them. The level of abstraction is much too great.
A recently released web bug report shows that Microsoft (via Link Exchange) is bugging more web sites than any other organization.
From the data presented, it seems LinkExchange is the most common "web bugging" service. But that's what it is, a service. The companies paying for LinkExchange ads are the ones driving the "bugging". Without companies wanting to advertise and do business cheaply on the web there would be no LinkExchange/bCentral. Just because LinkExchange seems to be the most popular of web ad services doesn't mean it's some evil MS plot to bug the world. It just seems to be doing good business. If you ran an ad service, wouldn't you dream of the same?
The market is showing this effect somewhat. Everyone bought thier cheap PCs, now the economy is down, and no one feels like upgrading because what they have is fast enough.
By no means should companies stop ramping up the clockrate/memory/speeds though! Just because we can't buy it right now doesn't mean that it won't be useful in the future. I'm sure not many people could buy the first 486s when they came out either... because a 386 "was good enough"... but they all have P3s and Athlons sitting on thier desks today!
I find it interesting that the prospective student's gauge of how much he/she is interested in computers is that he/she reloads Slashdot every 5 minutes. That's great and all, but I don't think of that as much of an indicator. Slashdot is about much more than just computers... and especially about much more than just engineering and science specifics.
Then if my name happens to be Springstein and I am trying to promote my new CD on Napster, my music will be blocked? What about if my band's name is Metallic? If they use metaphones, they might as well just give it up. Heck, if they block any music at all, they might as well give it up. Heck, they might as well give it up. Heck, they are.
Exactly. The title says it all: open source threatens the "American Way." It most definitely threatens Microsoft's "American Way." I don't know that it threatens mine, though.
From the introduction to the article I got the feeling that the authors thought 1600x1280 was as high as computer screens might ever be able to go. I don't know much about this; perhaps 1600x1280 IS a physical maximum for a CRT, but I doubt it.
The future is not one of CRTs... there's no reason that in a year we couldn't have some type of display capable of 10000x10000 with a 17" diagonal (and a video card to drive it of course.) Suddenly, anti-aliasing discussions seem like a waste of time...
I want my vector-based GUI.
Does anyone know if they fixed the "holes" in the icons on the dock? For instance, can you click in the center of Internet Explorer's e? In the public beta, clicking on transparent parts of icons was as good as not clicking the icon at all.
Is it just me or does this seem like a step towards the analog style of data storage? On normal CDs you have 2 different "colors" (clearly, that's a binary, digital method of storing data.) This storage method is said to be flawless because an optical scanner has to distinguish between only 2 extreme opposites, and that boolean signal can be sent straight to a DA converter or to a data bus. This new medium uses 8 "colors." Sure a binary method is being used to generate the color, but there are 8 variations that must be read accurately nontheless. What happens when you move up to 1024 gray variations, or 65536? Somewhere along the line it stops being binary and becomes a shade of gray that must be read accurately by an optical scanner, and that progression of grays easily translate to an analog waveform, which runs through a digital-analog converter to become data...
Turing said that "if a machine could convince an interrogator that it was human, then the machine should be considered intelligent". But you didn't even capture the same logic in your counter statement, so you haven't proved Turing is a fool, or anything else. Had you said Does this mean that If I were to convince an interrogator that I was Chinese I should be considered to be intelligent? you argument would have meant something... assuming you're not Chinese... I would say you are intelligent.
like, the new Doom will never stack up
Of course, I meant, like, if they don't go "yeee" like they used to, the new Doom will never stack up.
Spending more time on the sound code
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They can spend all the time they like on the sound code... if the demons don't go "yeee" like the new Doom will never stack up.
On the bright side, maybe now I will know which direction the "yeee" is coming from.
I have always wondered if a complete browser emulating site exists. This site may remove HTML tags that were not supported, but no removal of tags does justice to what the newer versions of IE and NS do to pages... it can't be explained by the compiance/non-compliance of these browsers. Things like pixel level space, how the browsers react to buggy code, etc.
;)
My ideal brower emulation site would return a gif/jpeg that shows the page *exactly* the way it would appear in the browser... including dithering of images and pixel level accuracy. It would be a great tool for those of use who have IE5 and can't get back down the road we came from.
But...
./ed... or even seem to sweat. By adding servers the load is balanced even better.
That additional 10% wouldn't buckle under the load right away, because they are *additional*, which was my point.
There was nothing in the story, besides the misleading title, to suggest that Hotmail was having load problems, or that any of the servers were stressed. I use Hotmail as a junk account and have never seen it
The story, as posted, said that Microsoft has moved machines into its load-balancing pool. It made no mention of removing the BSD machines. Adding nodes can only make the system faster, regardless of whether the new nodes are Windows or BSD.
:)
Perhaps they could have made a better choice of OS, for *name your favorite reason here*. But hey, it's Microsoft, and they're in love with thier own stuff! Aren't we all?
Subsitute "virii" for "viruseses" where you like. I hate this language. :)
This seems great and all, but compared to most things, bacteria are pretty large. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think they are smaller than an equivalent transistor. So what is the big deal here? So they act like transistors? So what? For the most part, so do vacuum tubes and light switches.
Now if they figured out a way to do something similar with viruses, this might be interesting. They are many orders of magnitude smaller than a bacterium.