I'd love to see a Guitar Hero made with songs that the RIAA didn't control.
Though if you ask the RIAA they contro...er "Defend" the rights of all musicians and music(funny how abstract things gain rights these days?). Basically the RIAA tries to act as a governing agency, aka as the government in these matters.
emusic.com is another viable alternative to Itunes.
-No DRM -MP3 Format -Large Selection(Though it is true they tend to have better alternative selections and fewer name-brands) ->$1 per track. (I pay $0.21 per)
There is life in music beyond what is shoveled through the pop radio and TV ads.
While it might not be a choice for OS, you probably should consider OFFERING FOSS to your employers when you go speak to them.
Remember going with FOSS doesn't mean going whole hog linux and software vegan.
You can offer things like Open Office as an alternative to shilling out huge $ for MS Office licences.
There are a lot of good FOSS programs for windows. Offering them as an alternative will help to balance the argument that the company needs to be legal in its software usage, esp if they complain that their people don't know how to use the FOSS, because you can tell them to choose between training time or spending money.
It basically helps kill the argument/rational of "We have to pirate there is no other way."
The problem is as soon as the libertarians get into power they'll be in the same pocket. In fact as soon as they get CLOSE to being into any sort of power they will be.
Also the core ideology is well off in fantasy land.
It is one thing to download and look at a single page on the internet. It is another to have a bot go through and download every page linked off of another page and never USE those downloads by having them looked at.
Except they are not consumers or rather not doing it fairly.
By your argument a resturant shouldn't bitch and moan when a customer takes an entire bowel of free after dinner mints rather than just one.
Also by your logic people who can't buy/afford a large non-limited bandwidth connection shouldn't bother to make things publicly available on the internet.
Effectively, you're saying that only those with enough money to afford the higher cost should be allowed free speech on the Internet.
Dems have never been thrilled about 'spending money in outer space'"
Uhm... Do the initials "JFK" and "LBJ" ring any bells for you?
Dems have done plenty for spaceflight as well, and both sides like to use it as a chopping block when they need to cut spending, because voters are generally too short sighted to see the benefits.
In order to infringe on the audio book rights a person or company must do a public performance of said book with severity usually measured in monetary gain by the performing party or monetary damages done to the copyright holder(I am NOT a legal expert).
Your straw-man of a parent reading to their child is wrong because no money would be gained or lost, and it is not a public performance.
The Kindle however IS a public performance and DOES indeed profit from its performances and very likely also replaces audiobook versions of the same text taking profits away from the author.
Try looking at a problem before slotting it into good/bad categories. There are valid points made in the article and authors do INDEED have a just right to profits made from performances of their works.
Try reading the article before you judge. After reading I am more suspect that these posts are being put up by those who are more pro-Amazon looking for a sympathetic crowd.
Mr. Blunt is NOT ranting. He actually does put forth a good argument that authors should be paid for the audio rights for their books if an audio production is being sold by a third party.
There ALREADY are legal exceptions for the blind to produce and distribute free audio versions of texts, and btw the kindle uses on-screen controls that no blind person could operate in order to access the audio functions, currently.
Amazon is indeed advertising these products as an audio book(the rights of which are worth far more currently than the rights for an e-book) and an e-book in one w/o paying for the rights to sell an audio book.
The audio functions of the books are coming closer to human levels and are being marketed and sold as such.
Remember while copyright laws have been abused and in many cases are abusive and extreme in their extent; still, for every exec and RIAA stooge getting paid hand over fist there are ten creative writers and authors who make an honest living using those laws as well.
Fight the abuse and the abusers, not the people who are using Copyright as it was intended, which still despite what you might hear is the vast majority of copyright users and creative workers.
I mean if my sexbot is one of those 9,999 and my mouse is the 1 that isn't working, I don't think I'd give a damn about anything as long as my sexbot is working; I can buy another computer with a working mouse.
Not to mention the alarming scarcity of laptops, blackberries, and other web-capable equipment among the world's refugees and other suffering in various news-worthy events and disasters.
Its like these people were not expecting news to happen near them!
We send people into the remote areas because the people already there are often more concerned with surviving, and also the people "already there" often don't have the training, equipment or resources to contact the outside world.
A person who's village has been bombed is a poor reporter for an Internet news feed because if his village has been bombed it probably also hit his blackberry.
They never expected the mission to go this long. Things were calculated at a success level of 90 days.
Indeed because of the success of these two rovers the next missions will be similar. The next mission may or may not benefit as often it is the failures that teach better than the successes.
It may be that the rover happened to have landed in a particularly windy part of the planet, or a part with a particularly un-clingy(love my technical wording!) local dust conditions and the next mission may be different and fail even if the exact same equipment is used.
Good meaning a deposit of riches that is has been around long enough.
Remember the formula for wealth is Wi = Wp + Ct^2 or Wealth of an individual(Wi) is Equal to Wealth owned by Previous Generations(Wp) plus Capital(C) multiplied by the square of time(t) the capital has been owned by the individual.
Thus Bill Gates is considered only slightly wealthy because he owns so much capitol. His children will be much more wealthy then he is as they will have grown up with a greater calcification of wealth.
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I'd love to see a Guitar Hero made with songs that the RIAA didn't control.
Though if you ask the RIAA they contro...er "Defend" the rights of all musicians and music(funny how abstract things gain rights these days?). Basically the RIAA tries to act as a governing agency, aka as the government in these matters.
Oh one last thing I forgot to mention above.
-Linux Support!
Yes indeed they released their download manager(which is purely optional but useful) for Windows, Mac AND Linux officially.
emusic.com is another viable alternative to Itunes.
-No DRM
-MP3 Format
-Large Selection(Though it is true they tend to have better alternative selections and fewer name-brands)
->$1 per track. (I pay $0.21 per)
There is life in music beyond what is shoveled through the pop radio and TV ads.
Perhaps he also wanted some insights from people who have been in similar situations?
There is a big difference between a website found on google and a testimonial from someone who's done it.
Three words: "Yes they are."
remove probably and still.
If you allow ssh access and have a weak password you are vulnerable.
Seriously, unless you have the box locked down and only allow direct console access to have admin rights don't set a weak password.
While it might not be a choice for OS, you probably should consider OFFERING FOSS to your employers when you go speak to them.
Remember going with FOSS doesn't mean going whole hog linux and software vegan.
You can offer things like Open Office as an alternative to shilling out huge $ for MS Office licences.
There are a lot of good FOSS programs for windows. Offering them as an alternative will help to balance the argument that the company needs to be legal in its software usage, esp if they complain that their people don't know how to use the FOSS, because you can tell them to choose between training time or spending money.
It basically helps kill the argument/rational of "We have to pirate there is no other way."
The problem is as soon as the libertarians get into power they'll be in the same pocket. In fact as soon as they get CLOSE to being into any sort of power they will be.
Also the core ideology is well off in fantasy land.
Vista uswers were simply not ready for...
Darned users! Why can't they get off their rears and make themselves ready for MS's products?
Should MS have to do all the work of marketing, programming, and figuring out what these "users" want?
Users should what what MS provides when MS wants to provide it!
It is one thing to download and look at a single page on the internet. It is another to have a bot go through and download every page linked off of another page and never USE those downloads by having them looked at.
Except they are not consumers or rather not doing it fairly.
By your argument a resturant shouldn't bitch and moan when a customer takes an entire bowel of free after dinner mints rather than just one.
Also by your logic people who can't buy/afford a large non-limited bandwidth connection shouldn't bother to make things publicly available on the internet.
Effectively, you're saying that only those with enough money to afford the higher cost should be allowed free speech on the Internet.
Undead Lawyer == Politician?
And better yet they could do it without the criminal knowing, so there is no messy civil rights entanglements.
Flop? I don't think that word means what you think it means.
PS3 has made money. It might not have caught on like the creators hoped it would or like the PS2, but it is slowly getting its market share.
It isn't a huge success story but I'd hardly call it a flop.
What I want to know as a NC voter is who did this and when will they be running again?
It is nice to have someone worth voting for!
Dems have never been thrilled about 'spending money in outer space'"
Uhm... Do the initials "JFK" and "LBJ" ring any bells for you?
Dems have done plenty for spaceflight as well, and both sides like to use it as a chopping block when they need to cut spending, because voters are generally too short sighted to see the benefits.
Nothing.
In order to infringe on the audio book rights a person or company must do a public performance of said book with severity usually measured in monetary gain by the performing party or monetary damages done to the copyright holder(I am NOT a legal expert).
Your straw-man of a parent reading to their child is wrong because no money would be gained or lost, and it is not a public performance.
The Kindle however IS a public performance and DOES indeed profit from its performances and very likely also replaces audiobook versions of the same text taking profits away from the author.
Try looking at a problem before slotting it into good/bad categories. There are valid points made in the article and authors do INDEED have a just right to profits made from performances of their works.
Try reading the article before you judge. After reading I am more suspect that these posts are being put up by those who are more pro-Amazon looking for a sympathetic crowd.
Mr. Blunt is NOT ranting. He actually does put forth a good argument that authors should be paid for the audio rights for their books if an audio production is being sold by a third party.
There ALREADY are legal exceptions for the blind to produce and distribute free audio versions of texts, and btw the kindle uses on-screen controls that no blind person could operate in order to access the audio functions, currently.
Amazon is indeed advertising these products as an audio book(the rights of which are worth far more currently than the rights for an e-book) and an e-book in one w/o paying for the rights to sell an audio book.
The audio functions of the books are coming closer to human levels and are being marketed and sold as such.
Remember while copyright laws have been abused and in many cases are abusive and extreme in their extent; still, for every exec and RIAA stooge getting paid hand over fist there are ten creative writers and authors who make an honest living using those laws as well.
Fight the abuse and the abusers, not the people who are using Copyright as it was intended, which still despite what you might hear is the vast majority of copyright users and creative workers.
Well that depends...
I mean if my sexbot is one of those 9,999 and my mouse is the 1 that isn't working, I don't think I'd give a damn about anything as long as my sexbot is working; I can buy another computer with a working mouse.
Bravo Bravo
Not to mention the alarming scarcity of laptops, blackberries, and other web-capable equipment among the world's refugees and other suffering in various news-worthy events and disasters.
Its like these people were not expecting news to happen near them!
We send people into the remote areas because the people already there are often more concerned with surviving, and also the people "already there" often don't have the training, equipment or resources to contact the outside world.
A person who's village has been bombed is a poor reporter for an Internet news feed because if his village has been bombed it probably also hit his blackberry.
They never expected the mission to go this long. Things were calculated at a success level of 90 days.
Indeed because of the success of these two rovers the next missions will be similar. The next mission may or may not benefit as often it is the failures that teach better than the successes.
It may be that the rover happened to have landed in a particularly windy part of the planet, or a part with a particularly un-clingy(love my technical wording!) local dust conditions and the next mission may be different and fail even if the exact same equipment is used.
Good meaning a deposit of riches that is has been around long enough.
Remember the formula for wealth is Wi = Wp + Ct^2 or Wealth of an individual(Wi) is Equal to Wealth owned by Previous Generations(Wp) plus Capital(C) multiplied by the square of time(t) the capital has been owned by the individual.
Thus Bill Gates is considered only slightly wealthy because he owns so much capitol. His children will be much more wealthy then he is as they will have grown up with a greater calcification of wealth.
Trust companies anymore?
Tell me when was this mythical time when companies could be trusted?