The RFID tags, when moved, trigger the camera on the razor blade display to start recording images. The place to put the sticker then, is on the lens of camera making the recordings. Extra fun comes when someone cleaning has to decide if it's worth opening a pack to get a razor to scratch off the sticker goo.
So wait... Pay-per-rankings, paying huge sums of money for existing ideas rather than innovating, seemingly random earnings expectations, and plans to be able to litigate against semi-competitors rather than cooperate/compete and grow...
So.. they're buying their way into obscolescence? Great idea guys.
Just when they could have convinced thousands of somewhat informed voters to NOT go to a physical voting location, and instead to trust technology, they mess it up by getting the less moderate technology-oriented voters riled up with the mention of Microsoft.
Regardless though, I'm sure the status of such votes would be used in much the same manner as write-in votes... only meaningful if the result of the "real" vote comes into question.
Regardless of how well this artist was paid, the nasty part of record companies going for tour/merchandising is that now they have precident to demand it up front, as just part of any contract. This just about closes the noose on artists' ability to have a musical life outside of the record company. And where the record companies play the part of marketer promoter this time around, next time, they may be playing the part of manager. And once again, just try being a career musician without signing the contract...
If I were a storeowner, I can keep an eye, literally, on all my merchandise
You must have some really messed up eyesight. How do you deal with all those eyes lying around?
Actually, my parents own a pet store... but otherwise, you're right, eyes would be hard to keep on all your products.
Speaking of which - you might be amazed to find out the things people try to shoplift at a pet store. My parents were against the whole camera idea until someone came BACK trying to steal the promotional packaging for something he stole so he could re-sell them. Now they've got a small camera array running constantly.
Aw crap - if all the really stupid people who happen to have money can just sign onto a service that sells them this crap automatically, then what value does most advertising have anymore?
Oh wait - I guess they can just all band together and have 120-second long "subscribe to the Service(tm) now" commercials.
Someone's probably already asked - but I wonder if and how much Mobile networks is asking for vendors to get added to this "service" list. Perhaps it's something like "$X per day for one topic directly related to your company. $5X for two. $100X to by added to every users list, with a yes/no question. $500X to remove the yes/no..."
Sending the 0101010's of Microsoft Windows XP + serial to your buddy for him to use without paying is not covered by the first ammendment or any other law.
Actually, that IS protected speech. However, Microsoft,etc. are also entitled to use the court system to sue you for damages, and have you punished. Laws are made to restrict freedoms, not create them. The law does not know, just in the transmission of data, whether your action is licensed, sanctioned, or anything else - it's the interpretation afterward that decides whether it was infringing on an other entity's rights. That means, to me at least, that speech in general should not be restricted, just so infringing speech can be restricted.
In this particular topic, I don't think it should be the government's responsibility to minitor all communications, or the individual's responsibility to have to actively justify their actions - RIAA, etc. should on some level have to prove specific infringement before the general public has to defend itself against their whims. We shouldn't have to pay for thier logical responsibilities.
SCO is the current owner of Unix, which originally was developed by AT&T. SCO, which used to be named Caldera, purchased the rights to Unix from a different company named SCO, which has since changed its name to Tarantella. Along with Unix, SCO purchased a number of contractual agreements, including one with IBM. SCO is alleging that IBM has violated that contract.
So... This SCO, no - Caldera... it must be... A DOPPELGANGER! Listen not to it's LIES! It was PRETENDING to help people, oh yes, and it's PRETENDING to give away it's software, but all the while, it was really laughing - hahaha! - but I know where they really came from!...DOPPEL-POLOLOUS! And what's all this about tarantulas?! That's it - Take 'em down Marco.
*The sealab suddenly explodes, when it's Unixware license unexpectedly expires*
It is the responsibility of copyright holders to find violations and defend their own hold on ideas. It is not the responsibility of everyone else to police their claim. If someone, like the moderator of an open source software development community, is notified that they are directly or indirectly violating such claims, then they have they will have to remove the proveably unsanctioned content, but that is not a blank check to stop others from speaking or sharing ideas. Until a law is passed to actively restrict all communications on the basis of "defending" the rights of copyright holders, then I'd understand such accusations - but otherwise, I can't imagine how Linus could have done anything wrong here.
Perhaps it's the ones who complain about their rights the loudest/with the most money that may end up getting their way. But here, unlike many copyright cases, you can expect everyone present to stand up for their rights, loudly. Unfortunately for SCO, it appears that IBM and many other powerful companies are in favor of Linus' and other's rights.
It was, of course, King Kong that Universal did not own - making it an even more appropriate story, because Nintendo actually showed that King Kong was public domain! Much of the 1.8 million was to pay for the damage caused by the lawsuit to companies connected to Nintendo... which will be interesting to see what happens with Linux-related companies getting in on the action.
Also, note another connection between Universal and Nintendo - yet again, the offending company had deep, friendly connections with Nintendo and their games, yet still somehow decided to go through with the worthless threats and lawsuit.
It ends up Universal didn't actually OWN the rights to Donkey Kong, but bullied several companies, and sued Nintendo anyway... and ended up paying 1.8 million for the trouble.
Your claim that artists are being cheated out of their revenue is more of a popular myth than anything else. The vast majority of musicians are dying to get contracts with record companies.
Appropriate term. At least their own unique expression of art is slowly dying while they wait to have the chance for an audience. Not that this is the RIAA's fault totally - as any good conglomeration of companies, they merely react to perceptions about public interest, and perceptions about expectation of income. They have no place for promoting art in general, or offering a forum for untested or less-than-totally-popular art.
It's just sad that this indirectly puts them as such odds against any art that is not generating income for them.
Actually, both use Lirc to let you use a remote control to control many things. It's indirect, but effective. It's a sizeable portion of the FAQ & Documentation in MythTV at least. You'll need some kind of infrared detector on your system. You can either get an independant IR card, or many Hauppauge TV models have it included.
Sure - an old ATI TV card works well on on this system, and I've seen mention of that one working just fine. I picked up an extra hauppauge model, just for the radio function a while back - but both work. The ATI TV wonder I have won't even work in windows anymore for some reason, and it does just fine in Mandrake 9.1/MythTV. I record on mpeg4, 320x240 with mid-quality MP3, and it takes about 500meg per hour of recording.
The only problem I'm having so far is trying to convert MythTV's video files (.nuv) to something I can view in mplayer. It's supposed to play nupplevideo, but no dice thus far.
This is acutally my first time running Linux - and it's been pretty good thus far. I mean, I really had to view it as a puzzle, but it wasn't too bad. Definetly a great use for an old system.
From reading the article(TM), it appears a little easier to figure out than that, at least in this case. The idea here is that what you see on the screen is just eye candy. The actual result has been determined ahead of time, win or lose. The win/lose is determined by the ratio the game is set to. So all you have to do is somehow keep track of which machines have accumulated more losses than wins for the time period the machine keeps track of such things, then play on the games that the machine would be statistically likely to "pick" winning games.
Normally, the old mind-game of "I've lost so many times, I'm bound to win now" is complete crap... but in this one case, it might be valid.
That article about chickens/teech = baldness cure reads just like a randomly generated SimCity article. Ack - here's hoping President bush stays away from that 'Disaster' menu!
If a student copies Shakespeare, and claims it as their own original work, it is plaigerism, and by tradition, they will get a failure on whatever assignment they plagierized on. Here, the public domain appears at first glance to be open to legal plagiarism.
So then, this opens the debate: Is public plagiarism of public domain works a bad thing? If it could lead to new copyrights on old work, then it is definetly a bad thing for the public good... but if no evidence survived to show that the public domain work exists now in the public domain, is it not better that at least someone preserved the work, even if just to own it for life+x years? After all, the ownership of a work in the public domain cannot be defended in court, which makes the copyright directly on the work nearly useless.
There will likely be some interesting cases that come forth from this ruling, and what happens afterward.
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The RFID tags, when moved, trigger the camera on the razor blade display to start recording images. The place to put the sticker then, is on the lens of camera making the recordings. Extra fun comes when someone cleaning has to decide if it's worth opening a pack to get a razor to scratch off the sticker goo.
Ryan Fenton
I know EXACTLY where I'd put the price sticker when I was walking by with a sticker gun.
Any other fun non-destructive vandelism/protest ideas?
Ryan Fenton
So wait... Pay-per-rankings, paying huge sums of money for existing ideas rather than innovating, seemingly random earnings expectations, and plans to be able to litigate against semi-competitors rather than cooperate/compete and grow...
So.. they're buying their way into obscolescence? Great idea guys.
Ryan Fenton
10% claimed up, 15% claimed down, that means we should see a 22.5% up counter-claim.
Unless aces are wild, which could throw the whole thing off.
Ryan Fenton
Just when they could have convinced thousands of somewhat informed voters to NOT go to a physical voting location, and instead to trust technology, they mess it up by getting the less moderate technology-oriented voters riled up with the mention of Microsoft.
Regardless though, I'm sure the status of such votes would be used in much the same manner as write-in votes... only meaningful if the result of the "real" vote comes into question.
Ryan Fenton
Regardless of how well this artist was paid, the nasty part of record companies going for tour/merchandising is that now they have precident to demand it up front, as just part of any contract. This just about closes the noose on artists' ability to have a musical life outside of the record company. And where the record companies play the part of marketer promoter this time around, next time, they may be playing the part of manager. And once again, just try being a career musician without signing the contract...
Ryan Fenton
Actually, my parents own a pet store... but otherwise, you're right, eyes would be hard to keep on all your products.
Speaking of which - you might be amazed to find out the things people try to shoplift at a pet store. My parents were against the whole camera idea until someone came BACK trying to steal the promotional packaging for something he stole so he could re-sell them. Now they've got a small camera array running constantly.
Ryan Fenton
Famous last words.
Ryan Fenton
Forget copyright violations - How long before it's shut down for bandwidth loss due to slashdotting?
Ryan Fenton
I'm getting a bit dizzy. I can't tell the spin from the sarcasm anymore. Any chance the fine folks from SomethingAwful are behind any of this?
Ryan Fenton
Aw crap - if all the really stupid people who happen to have money can just sign onto a service that sells them this crap automatically, then what value does most advertising have anymore?
Oh wait - I guess they can just all band together and have 120-second long "subscribe to the Service(tm) now" commercials.
Someone's probably already asked - but I wonder if and how much Mobile networks is asking for vendors to get added to this "service" list. Perhaps it's something like "$X per day for one topic directly related to your company. $5X for two. $100X to by added to every users list, with a yes/no question. $500X to remove the yes/no..."
Ryan Fenton
Actually, that IS protected speech. However, Microsoft,etc. are also entitled to use the court system to sue you for damages, and have you punished. Laws are made to restrict freedoms, not create them. The law does not know, just in the transmission of data, whether your action is licensed, sanctioned, or anything else - it's the interpretation afterward that decides whether it was infringing on an other entity's rights. That means, to me at least, that speech in general should not be restricted, just so infringing speech can be restricted.
In this particular topic, I don't think it should be the government's responsibility to minitor all communications, or the individual's responsibility to have to actively justify their actions - RIAA, etc. should on some level have to prove specific infringement before the general public has to defend itself against their whims. We shouldn't have to pay for thier logical responsibilities.
Ryan Fenton
"Uh-oh!"
**not funny unless this thread continues for another dozen posts or so.. *starts the inexplicable 70's music***
So... This SCO, no - Caldera... it must be... A DOPPELGANGER! Listen not to it's LIES! It was PRETENDING to help people, oh yes, and it's PRETENDING to give away it's software, but all the while, it was really laughing - hahaha! - but I know where they really came from!
*The sealab suddenly explodes, when it's Unixware license unexpectedly expires*
Ryan Fenton
It is the responsibility of copyright holders to find violations and defend their own hold on ideas. It is not the responsibility of everyone else to police their claim. If someone, like the moderator of an open source software development community, is notified that they are directly or indirectly violating such claims, then they have they will have to remove the proveably unsanctioned content, but that is not a blank check to stop others from speaking or sharing ideas. Until a law is passed to actively restrict all communications on the basis of "defending" the rights of copyright holders, then I'd understand such accusations - but otherwise, I can't imagine how Linus could have done anything wrong here.
Perhaps it's the ones who complain about their rights the loudest/with the most money that may end up getting their way. But here, unlike many copyright cases, you can expect everyone present to stand up for their rights, loudly. Unfortunately for SCO, it appears that IBM and many other powerful companies are in favor of Linus' and other's rights.
Ryan Fenton
It was, of course, King Kong that Universal did not own - making it an even more appropriate story, because Nintendo actually showed that King Kong was public domain! Much of the 1.8 million was to pay for the damage caused by the lawsuit to companies connected to Nintendo... which will be interesting to see what happens with Linux-related companies getting in on the action.
Also, note another connection between Universal and Nintendo - yet again, the offending company had deep, friendly connections with Nintendo and their games, yet still somehow decided to go through with the worthless threats and lawsuit.
Amazing.
Ryan Fenton
Of a case involving MCA Universal, Nintendo and Donkey Kong.
It ends up Universal didn't actually OWN the rights to Donkey Kong, but bullied several companies, and sued Nintendo anyway... and ended up paying 1.8 million for the trouble.
Ryan Fenton
Appropriate term. At least their own unique expression of art is slowly dying while they wait to have the chance for an audience. Not that this is the RIAA's fault totally - as any good conglomeration of companies, they merely react to perceptions about public interest, and perceptions about expectation of income. They have no place for promoting art in general, or offering a forum for untested or less-than-totally-popular art.
It's just sad that this indirectly puts them as such odds against any art that is not generating income for them.
Ryan Fenton
And definetly on-topic, what with all the commercial-skipping going out of commercial products!
Ryan Fenton
Actually, both use Lirc to let you use a remote control to control many things. It's indirect, but effective. It's a sizeable portion of the FAQ & Documentation in MythTV at least. You'll need some kind of infrared detector on your system. You can either get an independant IR card, or many Hauppauge TV models have it included.
Ryan Fenton
Sure - an old ATI TV card works well on on this system, and I've seen mention of that one working just fine. I picked up an extra hauppauge model, just for the radio function a while back - but both work. The ATI TV wonder I have won't even work in windows anymore for some reason, and it does just fine in Mandrake 9.1/MythTV. I record on mpeg4, 320x240 with mid-quality MP3, and it takes about 500meg per hour of recording.
The only problem I'm having so far is trying to convert MythTV's video files (.nuv) to something I can view in mplayer. It's supposed to play nupplevideo, but no dice thus far.
This is acutally my first time running Linux - and it's been pretty good thus far. I mean, I really had to view it as a puzzle, but it wasn't too bad. Definetly a great use for an old system.
Ryan Fenton
MythTV v.0.9 was released yesterday
Works great on the 500mhz system I found in the trash a couple of months ago.
Freevo also works quite nicely.
Ryan Fenton
From reading the article(TM), it appears a little easier to figure out than that, at least in this case. The idea here is that what you see on the screen is just eye candy. The actual result has been determined ahead of time, win or lose. The win/lose is determined by the ratio the game is set to. So all you have to do is somehow keep track of which machines have accumulated more losses than wins for the time period the machine keeps track of such things, then play on the games that the machine would be statistically likely to "pick" winning games.
Normally, the old mind-game of "I've lost so many times, I'm bound to win now" is complete crap... but in this one case, it might be valid.
Ryan Fenton
That article about chickens/teech = baldness cure reads just like a randomly generated SimCity article. Ack - here's hoping President bush stays away from that 'Disaster' menu!
Ryan Fenton
If a student copies Shakespeare, and claims it as their own original work, it is plaigerism, and by tradition, they will get a failure on whatever assignment they plagierized on. Here, the public domain appears at first glance to be open to legal plagiarism.
So then, this opens the debate: Is public plagiarism of public domain works a bad thing? If it could lead to new copyrights on old work, then it is definetly a bad thing for the public good... but if no evidence survived to show that the public domain work exists now in the public domain, is it not better that at least someone preserved the work, even if just to own it for life+x years? After all, the ownership of a work in the public domain cannot be defended in court, which makes the copyright directly on the work nearly useless.
There will likely be some interesting cases that come forth from this ruling, and what happens afterward.
Ryan Fenton