Actually, if the experts predictions pan out there will be an incredible difference in the quantity observed at midnight and the eastern US peak which is actually 0500-0530.
For instance the four major teams that are providing rate predictions show that between 2300-0200 you might see anywhere from 4-160 meteors per hour.
The predicted range per hour at 0500-0530 is 800-3500!!!
"Giving them to friends for gifts", if your friends don't own legal copies of the individual tracks of their own, IS a violation of existing copyright law, not just the newer, unreasonable laws and proposed laws.
WRONG. The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 provides for the non-commercial copying of material using devices covered under the act. Covered devices include analog cassettes, DAT and Minidiscs. So if he makes a mix on an MD as he says he does he is not going to be sued for copyright infringement. However, if he makes a mix on a normal computer CD he could "technically" be found liable but unless he were distributing thousands of the discs it is very doubtful that anyone would try to prosecute him.
If the SSSCA passed, then the recorder has to have copy-prevention in it. But if it's recording from speakers, as you say, the digital copy-prevention part of the signal is gone...as well as your example of taking speaker output from one device through the line-in on another.
I recall reading a couple of years ago about a copy protection scheme that claimed that (assuming one was trying to record to a device that had the copy protection chip built into it)that you could not record succesfully even from loudspeakers. Apparently it injected some sequence of tones into the music that the chip would detect and thereby cease recording. Haven't heard anything more about that - perhaps it didn't work well enough to put into practice or the supposedly "inaudible" tones were too noticeable to golden-ear testers. Anyone recall anything about such a copy protection scheme??
Quick...somebody mod this AC up (s)he hit the nail right on the head.
The main problem we are experiencing in the IP debate is the ability of corporations to buy legislation that continues to lengthen the duration of and keep a stranglehold on control of copyrighted material. In their attempt to treat everything as if it were actually earning millions of dollars for "poor starving artists" they are obscuring the cold, hard reality...
A simple observable fact is that after the initial publication of the vast majority of books, movies, music, etc., for which the content creator would have been compensated, most of this "stuff" could be placed into the public domain within a year of publication without harming future earnings for the original creator. Why? Because of the hundreds of thousands of books, movies, songs, etc. published each year only a figurative handful ever gain enough of a buying public following to continue to earn any income. Most simply disappear, go out of print, sit on the shelf, etc., never to be seen again.
What if copyright law duration was based upon the ability of the creative work and the marketplace to keep a piece of work in print? Meaning that if the marketplace shows enough demand for an item that it is worth a publisher keeping something in print they should be able to continue to earn a dollar (figuratively) for that item. However, if after the marketplace has shown that an item is no longer wanted (valued) and therefore the incentive for a publisher to keep that item in print also vanishes that the copyright for a book also expires when it goes out of print. In a system like this the vast majority of "stuff" could enter the public domain fairly quickly with little financial harm to the original creator and for those few blockbuster items that continue to sell for decades...let them maintain that copyright for an extended period of time.
So, if I were King, I would revamp the copyright laws so that the original term is, say, 10 years with the possibility of further extensions of 10 years if one can show that the item has been in continuous publication and available for public purchase during the previous 10 year period.
Let's hear some flaws with this kind of approach...
When you're calling 800 numbers, they can always get your number. (They *are* paying for the call.)
Call them on your cell phone - they will not be able to use caller id to get that number.
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Actually, anything before 1923 is in the public domain.
Recent changes to the copyright laws just means that it's going to be many mire years before anything else enters the public domain!
Remember, this is the same country where you can fly in a MiG-29 jet fighter.
At least when you go to Russia to take a joy ride in a Mig the taxpayer doesn't pay for it.
In the US whenever the Blue Angel's takes a VIP or a media personality (who gets the same "training" as the Mig joy riders) up for a joy ride the taxpayer pays for the ride. I believe the Blue Angels provides about 100 "joy rides" a year. Sadly though, in light of the submarine incident, the new rules for civilians on such a flight no longer allow them to take the stick for a few minutes...bummer!
How is this different from what NASA did in sending a senator into space? Oh, except that in Glenn's case, the US public paid the bill.
Glenn was not even the first US Senator to go into space... Jake Garn was on STS-51 in 1985. Ostensbily, he was "trained" as a Mission Specialist - he took peoples temperatures and made some pretty graphs or such.
Realistically, his ride was just the ultimate political junket with no scientific value (Garn was on one of the NASA oversight committees) - NASA just wanted to help get their funding. His flight was met with much derision in the press at the time.
In 1986 Florida Congresscritter Bill Nelson was flown aboard STS-61 as a payload specialist - I think he made sure that the seatbacks were in the upright and locked position before landing.
So... NASA's attempt to interefere with Russia taking Tito into space due to his "lack of training" (though he has been training in Russia for over 8 months) is hypocritical at best and shameful at worst.
you can sometimes find a good deal on late model refurbished pc's (without monitors) on the auction section of egghead.com.
I have picked up a few 400mhz Celeron emachines for about $300 each to use as simple web/email access nodes on my home network. A lot of folks will trash emachines but I haven't had any problems with them and they have suited my purposes just fine. Like you I wanted something fairly recent - mainly cuz I also wanted each node to have USB support. All the emachines I have bought have also had Win98SE so USB support is pretty solid.
egghead.com also usually has some other brands such as Compaq or HP available but they often get bid up to the point where you really aren't saving much/any money.
Again, as long as you're not in any hurry (availability and prices varies from week to week) you may be able to snag a good deal on a fairly recent pc there.
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Actually, if the experts predictions pan out there will be an incredible difference in the quantity observed at midnight and the eastern US peak which is actually 0500-0530.
For instance the four major teams that are providing rate predictions show that between 2300-0200 you might see anywhere from 4-160 meteors per hour.
The predicted range per hour at 0500-0530 is 800-3500!!!
Quite a difference I would say.
WRONG. The Audio Home Recording Act of 1992 provides for the non-commercial copying of material using devices covered under the act. Covered devices include analog cassettes, DAT and Minidiscs. So if he makes a mix on an MD as he says he does he is not going to be sued for copyright infringement. However, if he makes a mix on a normal computer CD he could "technically" be found liable but unless he were distributing thousands of the discs it is very doubtful that anyone would try to prosecute him.
If the SSSCA passed, then the recorder has to have copy-prevention in it. But if it's recording from speakers, as you say, the digital copy-prevention part of the signal is gone...as well as your example of taking speaker output from one device through the line-in on another.
I recall reading a couple of years ago about a copy protection scheme that claimed that (assuming one was trying to record to a device that had the copy protection chip built into it)that you could not record succesfully even from loudspeakers. Apparently it injected some sequence of tones into the music that the chip would detect and thereby cease recording. Haven't heard anything more about that - perhaps it didn't work well enough to put into practice or the supposedly "inaudible" tones were too noticeable to golden-ear testers. Anyone recall anything about such a copy protection scheme??
The main problem we are experiencing in the IP debate is the ability of corporations to buy legislation that continues to lengthen the duration of and keep a stranglehold on control of copyrighted material. In their attempt to treat everything as if it were actually earning millions of dollars for "poor starving artists" they are obscuring the cold, hard reality...
A simple observable fact is that after the initial publication of the vast majority of books, movies, music, etc., for which the content creator would have been compensated, most of this "stuff" could be placed into the public domain within a year of publication without harming future earnings for the original creator. Why? Because of the hundreds of thousands of books, movies, songs, etc. published each year only a figurative handful ever gain enough of a buying public following to continue to earn any income. Most simply disappear, go out of print, sit on the shelf, etc., never to be seen again.
What if copyright law duration was based upon the ability of the creative work and the marketplace to keep a piece of work in print? Meaning that if the marketplace shows enough demand for an item that it is worth a publisher keeping something in print they should be able to continue to earn a dollar (figuratively) for that item. However, if after the marketplace has shown that an item is no longer wanted (valued) and therefore the incentive for a publisher to keep that item in print also vanishes that the copyright for a book also expires when it goes out of print. In a system like this the vast majority of "stuff" could enter the public domain fairly quickly with little financial harm to the original creator and for those few blockbuster items that continue to sell for decades...let them maintain that copyright for an extended period of time.
So, if I were King, I would revamp the copyright laws so that the original term is, say, 10 years with the possibility of further extensions of 10 years if one can show that the item has been in continuous publication and available for public purchase during the previous 10 year period.
Let's hear some flaws with this kind of approach...
Call them on your cell phone - they will not be able to use caller id to get that number.
Actually, anything before 1923 is in the public domain. Recent changes to the copyright laws just means that it's going to be many mire years before anything else enters the public domain!
At least when you go to Russia to take a joy ride in a Mig the taxpayer doesn't pay for it.
In the US whenever the Blue Angel's takes a VIP or a media personality (who gets the same "training" as the Mig joy riders) up for a joy ride the taxpayer pays for the ride. I believe the Blue Angels provides about 100 "joy rides" a year. Sadly though, in light of the submarine incident, the new rules for civilians on such a flight no longer allow them to take the stick for a few minutes...bummer!
Glenn was not even the first US Senator to go into space... Jake Garn was on STS-51 in 1985. Ostensbily, he was "trained" as a Mission Specialist - he took peoples temperatures and made some pretty graphs or such. Realistically, his ride was just the ultimate political junket with no scientific value (Garn was on one of the NASA oversight committees) - NASA just wanted to help get their funding. His flight was met with much derision in the press at the time. In 1986 Florida Congresscritter Bill Nelson was flown aboard STS-61 as a payload specialist - I think he made sure that the seatbacks were in the upright and locked position before landing. So... NASA's attempt to interefere with Russia taking Tito into space due to his "lack of training" (though he has been training in Russia for over 8 months) is hypocritical at best and shameful at worst.
I have picked up a few 400mhz Celeron emachines for about $300 each to use as simple web/email access nodes on my home network. A lot of folks will trash emachines but I haven't had any problems with them and they have suited my purposes just fine. Like you I wanted something fairly recent - mainly cuz I also wanted each node to have USB support. All the emachines I have bought have also had Win98SE so USB support is pretty solid.
egghead.com also usually has some other brands such as Compaq or HP available but they often get bid up to the point where you really aren't saving much/any money.
Again, as long as you're not in any hurry (availability and prices varies from week to week) you may be able to snag a good deal on a fairly recent pc there.