Why is dimeadozen "not legal" and etree & cotapers legal? They all seem to follow the same standards (nothing commercial, bands must be taper friendly, etc). From the dimeadozen FAQ:
No torrent may distribute any official material. This includes:
OOP material and the separated audio part of VHS videos,
Laserdisc videos, and DVD videos -- even if the recording is from a different source
than the officially available material;
Alternate recording sources of any officially released performance,
unless specifically permitted by the artist's policy for trading;
Video material whose audio portion has officially released content;
Remixes or remasters of any officially available material;
So called "bastard" mixes and DJ sets.
No torrent may distribute any material of artists
respectively bands who do not agree to the electronic distribution of
their unofficially recorded live shows. For a list of bands/artists see here.
No torrent may distribute recordings (audio or video) of shows from subscription cable or broadcast channels (such as, but not limited to, HBO or Showtime, XM Radio, SIRIUS, Canal+, Wowow, and Mezzo). These stations assert and enforce copyrights on all their broadcasts. The same applies to all pay-per-view events on any station or channel.
If you are not sure if your torrent will adhere to these rules, please ask the moderators first. Torrents violating the rules or contra bonos mores of live music trading will be banned without further notice.
Why etree & etree-like sites not considered worthy of being included in a paper of legal bittorrent use is beyond me. People automatically view P2P applications was tools used to steal music and here are examples where people are using them to get music that the musicians want shared.
vandals must love that. don't like the person who just dropped off the car? knock out a tail light or something so the next person will call up the rental company and they will blame it on the first renter.
A few years ago I was almost missed my flight out of Ireland because of a minor collision with a rental car. The rental company wanted to charge me a $400-$500 for the damages and wouldn't put it on my debit card even though that's how I paid for the rental. I ended up having to call my bank and get someone there verify that I had the funds in my account before the company would run my card. Not fun when the opening time for the customer service line was a few minutes before I had to be at the airline gate.
From then on, I've always paid for the optional insurance if I had any concerns that forking over my regular insurance deductible would be a hassle with the rental company or could leave me with insufficient funds to deal with other expenses.
I'm still surprised that MSFT is as obsessed as they are with Google & Yahoo. Maybe they should focus the future versions of the products that have made them a ton of money year after year?
A new enterprise version has been added which appears to have a Lotus Notes-like element called Microsoft Groove. This is being sold as some sort of solution for online collaboration. If it is anything like Notes it will create a lot of anguish with users.
They probably ditched the paper forms entirely so they wouldn't have to pay someone to type all that information into a database. If you didn't like the experience, find a competitor that hasn't implemented that "HR cost savings" process and apply with them.
what about the ordinary Joe Schmoe with terminal cancer trying to provide for their family?
IMHO, copyrights should be limited to a fixed time period (say 20-30 years). The death of the creator of the copyrighted work should have no bearing on when the copyright expires.
I agree with the short copyright limit, but you know there will be the people who will complain that after 20 years, the work may become popular again in the retro market and the artist is getting screwed out of the profits. Oh well. But one of the reasons patents and copyrights were originally given a limited number of years by the US Constitution was to encourage production of new work. The system we have now is geared towards the one hit wonder.:(
When it comes time to move to another desk, the next employee or the people in charge of keeping track of the office furniture may not appreciate your modifications. Some nit-picky manager may even consider it willful destruction of company propery. So make sure you can return it to the condition it was in when it was assigned to you.
Also, what's your definition of 'long term usage'? If it's uncomfortable after 2-3 hours, get up and take a break. You don't have to live at your desk.
Maybe you need to investigate something like MP3::Tag that would allow you to write a simple script to iterate through your directories and add the tags that would allow iTunes to pull in your existing files. In doing so, make sure that the track number tag is set. I've found that some mp3 players will ignore naming convention and sort the songs by the name of the song in the ID3 tag if the track number isn't set. The iTunes program may be doing the same thing.
It all boils down to iTunes uses the tags in the mp3 files for determining how it arranges them in the library. It would be nice if it auto-tagged files by their directory structure if no tags exist. I don't know if someone has written a plug-in to do that or not. But, if you want iTunes to be the library for your files, you need to get those mp3s tagged.
Who is doing that? I've had the same cellphone for about the last 3 years. The only reason I got it then was the old cell phone company was bought out, the plan I had was axed, and I didn't like the replacement, so I moved to a different company. Are they being treated as disposable fashion accessories now?
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not being able to defend yourself is a good thing? I don't think so.
another reason to homeschool.
What an awesome tool for a government agency to have!
Especially if I get them to help me out when the phone company screws up the bill.I've never heard what Google & Yahoo have for spare cash, but MSFT's $40+ billion should be able to buy quite a bit.
add SD to your list of no income tax states. I'd rather pay sales tax than income tax.
Why is dimeadozen "not legal" and etree & cotapers legal? They all seem to follow the same standards (nothing commercial, bands must be taper friendly, etc). From the dimeadozen FAQ:
If you are not sure if your torrent will adhere to these rules, please ask the moderators first. Torrents violating the rules or contra bonos mores of live music trading will be banned without further notice.
Why etree & etree-like sites not considered worthy of being included in a paper of legal bittorrent use is beyond me. People automatically view P2P applications was tools used to steal music and here are examples where people are using them to get music that the musicians want shared.
http://www.dimeadozen.org/
http://www.thetradersden.org/
http://www.cotapers.org/
vandals must love that. don't like the person who just dropped off the car? knock out a tail light or something so the next person will call up the rental company and they will blame it on the first renter.
A few years ago I was almost missed my flight out of Ireland because of a minor collision with a rental car. The rental company wanted to charge me a $400-$500 for the damages and wouldn't put it on my debit card even though that's how I paid for the rental. I ended up having to call my bank and get someone there verify that I had the funds in my account before the company would run my card. Not fun when the opening time for the customer service line was a few minutes before I had to be at the airline gate.
From then on, I've always paid for the optional insurance if I had any concerns that forking over my regular insurance deductible would be a hassle with the rental company or could leave me with insufficient funds to deal with other expenses.
your grandmother's rhubarb recipe is not as good as you remember it.
nah, it's because the wife didn't want to use lard like grandma did - her rhubarb pies were awesome.I'm still surprised that MSFT is as obsessed as they are with Google & Yahoo. Maybe they should focus the future versions of the products that have made them a ton of money year after year?
yeah, we originally had to post on /. by sending in decks of punch cards.
The US has always used its military to protect its economy
just like any other power in recorded history.no, that's dynamite.
A new enterprise version has been added which appears to have a Lotus Notes-like element called Microsoft Groove. This is being sold as some sort of solution for online collaboration. If it is anything like Notes it will create a lot of anguish with users.
They probably ditched the paper forms entirely so they wouldn't have to pay someone to type all that information into a database. If you didn't like the experience, find a competitor that hasn't implemented that "HR cost savings" process and apply with them.
what about the ordinary Joe Schmoe with terminal cancer trying to provide for their family?
IMHO, copyrights should be limited to a fixed time period (say 20-30 years). The death of the creator of the copyrighted work should have no bearing on when the copyright expires.I agree with the short copyright limit, but you know there will be the people who will complain that after 20 years, the work may become popular again in the retro market and the artist is getting screwed out of the profits. Oh well. But one of the reasons patents and copyrights were originally given a limited number of years by the US Constitution was to encourage production of new work. The system we have now is geared towards the one hit wonder. :(
but the HR people will treat it as a violation of the workplace sexual harrassment policies.
hell of an incentive program, huh?
so you give people who are concerned about food borne parasites the bad steaks just because that's not the way you like it cooked?
When it comes time to move to another desk, the next employee or the people in charge of keeping track of the office furniture may not appreciate your modifications. Some nit-picky manager may even consider it willful destruction of company propery. So make sure you can return it to the condition it was in when it was assigned to you.
Also, what's your definition of 'long term usage'? If it's uncomfortable after 2-3 hours, get up and take a break. You don't have to live at your desk.
Maybe you need to investigate something like MP3::Tag that would allow you to write a simple script to iterate through your directories and add the tags that would allow iTunes to pull in your existing files. In doing so, make sure that the track number tag is set. I've found that some mp3 players will ignore naming convention and sort the songs by the name of the song in the ID3 tag if the track number isn't set. The iTunes program may be doing the same thing.
It all boils down to iTunes uses the tags in the mp3 files for determining how it arranges them in the library. It would be nice if it auto-tagged files by their directory structure if no tags exist. I don't know if someone has written a plug-in to do that or not. But, if you want iTunes to be the library for your files, you need to get those mp3s tagged.
Who is doing that? I've had the same cellphone for about the last 3 years. The only reason I got it then was the old cell phone company was bought out, the plan I had was axed, and I didn't like the replacement, so I moved to a different company. Are they being treated as disposable fashion accessories now?
So "the US can't build shit", but still accounts for 25-30% of global manufacturing?