[sarcasm] I can't imagine *why* the record execs would be opposed to losing some of their copyrights. [/sarcasm]
In a way, I can see that it shouldn't make any differnece whether the music is on CD or on the net, the copyright should remain. However, making the ability to copy something different depending on the medium is another thing entirely. I have a hard time supporting encryption of online music without a similar treatment of music on physical media, the latter of which likely violates the Home Recording Act.
1) Standard is devised by a group of companies that have a vested interest in the technology. They decide what will and what will not be done. End users get no choice in the matter, nor can they control the development with their wallets, as there is nothing to support in terms of competition.
2) Each company devises its own method for making the item. They each compete with each other in the market place. Eventually, one of them wins out. The winner may not be the technologically best - winning by virtue of marketing (e.g. Windows), but sometimes the better technology wins out (e.g. VHS vs. Betamax)
So either way, the consumer can get screwed. The advantage to the former is that we don't have potentially incompatible formats that prevent me from adding a device from Company A just because I want it to talk to a device from Company B. The problem with the latter is that it may take years before a standard wins, and even then, it may not be the best.
I wonder what the vector for the bacterial infection is in the first place. It certainly isn't sex - otherwise the mating of an infected individual with an uninfected would infect the latter.
In a sense, it is sort of fitting, seeing as there are a number of wasp species that reproduce by laying their eggs in other animals (spiders, larvae, etc... depending on the species of wasp). Now there is a species of wasp that is itself a host to a parasite that modifies its reproductive behavior.
The 760MP chipset uses DDR SDRAM. While new, it really isn't a lot more expensive that SDR SDRAM. By the time the bugs have been beaten out of the initial dual Athlon motherboards, the prices will have fallen even further.
Okay, I want to patent 'code that causes disruption or dysfunction of an intended operation of a computer application, or a novel action not planned by the software application developers.' I figure with a patent on bugs, I could retire from the royalties from Microsoft alone.
How about returning the original letter with the word 'Deceased' written on it. No sense in sending junk mail to someone who is dead, at least if you're trying to target your market by a factor other than geographical location.
I've used the tactic to some degree with telemarketers, telling them that the person of that name (me) is dead. They typically give a quick 'Sorry' and hang up.
In Georgia, we have a 'right to work' statute. It boils down to that non-competes essentially are meaningless, as no one can restrict your right to work for whomever you wish. I signed one at the first place that I worked in the IT field, and even the company's layer, who was one of the owners, admitted that it wouldn't hold up in court.
Of course, the flip side is that a company can fire you for any particular reason, as long as it doesn't violate any Federal statutes.
The 'Dilbert Principal' and the 'Peter Principal' are quite different, from the perspective of why someone is promoted. With the traditional 'Peter', a person who does well is promoted as a reward, but into a position that s/he doesn't have the skills to perform. In the 'Dilbert' version, the person is promoted because someone needs to be, and the person is the most expendable/least productive member of the present group, so it will lessen the impact on productivity as compared to promoting one of the really good people.
Either way you get a manager who doesn't know how to manage, but at least the 'Peter' variety knows how to do something productive.
Apple has always been protective of what they deem to be their designs, their 'look and feel'. Remember the long running lawsuit against MS for Windows being derived from Mac OS? They've brought litigation against groups that sought to use a logo like their multi-colored apple, iMac-styled cases, etc...
What I find interesting is that, to my recollection, there were never any such issues with NeXT, given how it is often Jobs who drives the designs. There were a number of 'NeXT-like' themes back when NeXT existed, and nary a peep from NeXT about them.
I imagine it depends on the company and how much forethought they've put into it.
I work at a data center for a large telco. We have both telco switches and Internet global hosting facilities in the building. Our feed from the local power company is four 4000A lines. There exists an agreement with the power company that should ask, we will take overselves off the grid and run off the 7MW of diesel generators that we have on hand. With something like 60,000 gallons of fuel in tanks, we could last about 3 weeks at our present load (we're nowhere near the capacity of the lines coming in, yet).
Any company that depends on having power at all times would be negligent not to have a similar arragement.
It would be one thing if the conversation was at a professional level and topic (i.e. matters within the realm of the 'Dr'). It is another thing entirely when it is something obviously outside an academic or medical venue. To use the 'Dr' title was to (attempt) to assert authority by means of society's respect given to the title - and diminished it in doing so.
I've been a 'Dr.' (of the Ph.D. variety) for some six years. I do have that I'm a Ph.D. on my business cards, but even there I don't have the 'Dr.' in front of my name. It would be pretentious and inappropriate, given that I'm no longer working in the field in which I earned that degree.
In the end, as others have noted, you can simply make an analog recording of the music as it is played, giving you a non-watermarked, non-encrypted version of the music, which you can then copy/encode/whatever.
There is only one way to make music 100% secure:
1) Distribute music only in self-contained package (like a cartidge) that operates only in a particular type of device.
2) Have it so that the package erases the music after a single use.
3) Destory/Buy/Confiscate any other publically available means of playing music than said device.
PCI 2.2 compliant motherboards supply standby 3.3V to all PCI slots (and memory and PS2 ports), even when turned off. You have to unplug the machine in order totally remove power from the system. My Tyan S1837DUANG-L is one of these boards. Once, when adding a card without having unplugging the power supply, the system started to power up. Therefore, I see no problem with the FireCard remaining powered, as long as the motherboard is up to it.
What Heisenberg siad was that you could not simultaneously determine the position and momentum of a object, which also translates to the energy and time.
xp = xmv = x^2mt^-1
Et = mv^2t = mx^2t^-1
Besides which, given that this is related to h-bar, the uncertainty that you are talking about in regards to something as massive as a person is miniscule. Unless your vision is really bad, do you really see people as a blurry as they walk across the room?
I can dial into Mindspring from anywhere there is a Sprint PCS presence from my pDQ Smartphone. The POP that I dial into is located in Atlanta, but I could be just about anywhere in the US, or anywhere else in the world that might support my phone. For all anyone could tell, however, I would be in Atlanta.
...the Unitveristies to act this way. From 1970-1975, starting as a grad student, James Goodnight developed a statistical package for data analysis at North Carolina State University. In 1976, after having been a faculty member for a couple years, he left the university. He started a company with his statistical package. You may have heard of it - SAS. Go to http://www.sas.com if you want to see what the SAS Institute looks like today.
On the matter of copyright, I know that when I submitted my dissertation, there was a requirement to have it copyrighted by the university (U of North Carolina in this case). However, given that I had done my dissertation research at a US government lab (NIEHS), and any publications from the US government are automatically in the public domain, I didn't have to (indeed could not) copyright my dissertation. What it all comes down to is what the contract you signed says, particularly if you are a research assistant as opposed to a teaching assistant.
I happen to know one of the folks developing the system here in Atlanta. In addition to Radio Shack, it will be possible to purchase it from EchoStar as a USB-based peripheral. You would need to purchase EchoStar's satellite TV service as well, and the tech who installs the dish (30" by the way) would also install the service on the PC.
One has to distinguish between the public performance/broadcast of music and the copying a recording of music. The former relates the situation in the coffee house.
For broadcast/performace, ASCAP is paid a royalty which goes to the songwriter. The record company and artist (if the artist is not the songwriter) have nothing to do with it. That is the major corporate use of copyrighted music, and where those royalties go.
For making a copy of a recorded piece of music, there are two groups that need to be paid royalties - the songwriter(s) and the record company that produced the 'sound recording' that is being copied. For the former, the Harry Fox agency handles the royalties paid to songwriters. For the latter, however, there is no centralized agent for collection of royalties to be paid to the record companies. One needs to contact each, individual company and negotiate use of the sound recording. I once asked the individual at the RIAA that deals in licensing why it is handled this way. She stated that due to anti-trust legistlation, the RIAA could not act as a collective agent like the Harry Fox Agency does.
The corporate users of music who employ the sound recording are companies that put together compilations like 'Greatest Pop Hits of the 70's Vol. 12' and the like. They purchase catalogs of recordings from the record companies. There is presently no mechanism to purchase individual songs. Even if you wanted to make a CD that had all the royalties paid to all the appropriate parties, unless you want to purchase a whole catalog of music from a prticular company, there is no legal way of doing it.
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[sarcasm] I can't imagine *why* the record execs would be opposed to losing some of their copyrights. [/sarcasm]
In a way, I can see that it shouldn't make any differnece whether the music is on CD or on the net, the copyright should remain. However, making the ability to copy something different depending on the medium is another thing entirely. I have a hard time supporting encryption of online music without a similar treatment of music on physical media, the latter of which likely violates the Home Recording Act.
Yep, you're right. I guess what I was thinking is that Sony invented both, kept Betamax and licensed out VHS, and ended up losing.
Generally, you have one of two situations:
1) Standard is devised by a group of companies that have a vested interest in the technology. They decide what will and what will not be done. End users get no choice in the matter, nor can they control the development with their wallets, as there is nothing to support in terms of competition.
2) Each company devises its own method for making the item. They each compete with each other in the market place. Eventually, one of them wins out. The winner may not be the technologically best - winning by virtue of marketing (e.g. Windows), but sometimes the better technology wins out (e.g. VHS vs. Betamax)
So either way, the consumer can get screwed. The advantage to the former is that we don't have potentially incompatible formats that prevent me from adding a device from Company A just because I want it to talk to a device from Company B. The problem with the latter is that it may take years before a standard wins, and even then, it may not be the best.
I wonder what the vector for the bacterial infection is in the first place. It certainly isn't sex - otherwise the mating of an infected individual with an uninfected would infect the latter.
In a sense, it is sort of fitting, seeing as there are a number of wasp species that reproduce by laying their eggs in other animals (spiders, larvae, etc... depending on the species of wasp). Now there is a species of wasp that is itself a host to a parasite that modifies its reproductive behavior.
The 760MP chipset uses DDR SDRAM. While new, it really isn't a lot more expensive that SDR SDRAM. By the time the bugs have been beaten out of the initial dual Athlon motherboards, the prices will have fallen even further.
Okay, I want to patent 'code that causes disruption or dysfunction of an intended operation of a computer application, or a novel action not planned by the software application developers.' I figure with a patent on bugs, I could retire from the royalties from Microsoft alone.
How about returning the original letter with the word 'Deceased' written on it. No sense in sending junk mail to someone who is dead, at least if you're trying to target your market by a factor other than geographical location.
I've used the tactic to some degree with telemarketers, telling them that the person of that name (me) is dead. They typically give a quick 'Sorry' and hang up.
In Georgia, we have a 'right to work' statute. It boils down to that non-competes essentially are meaningless, as no one can restrict your right to work for whomever you wish. I signed one at the first place that I worked in the IT field, and even the company's layer, who was one of the owners, admitted that it wouldn't hold up in court.
Of course, the flip side is that a company can fire you for any particular reason, as long as it doesn't violate any Federal statutes.
The 'Dilbert Principal' and the 'Peter Principal' are quite different, from the perspective of why someone is promoted. With the traditional 'Peter', a person who does well is promoted as a reward, but into a position that s/he doesn't have the skills to perform. In the 'Dilbert' version, the person is promoted because someone needs to be, and the person is the most expendable/least productive member of the present group, so it will lessen the impact on productivity as compared to promoting one of the really good people.
Either way you get a manager who doesn't know how to manage, but at least the 'Peter' variety knows how to do something productive.
Apple has always been protective of what they deem to be their designs, their 'look and feel'. Remember the long running lawsuit against MS for Windows being derived from Mac OS? They've brought litigation against groups that sought to use a logo like their multi-colored apple, iMac-styled cases, etc...
What I find interesting is that, to my recollection, there were never any such issues with NeXT, given how it is often Jobs who drives the designs. There were a number of 'NeXT-like' themes back when NeXT existed, and nary a peep from NeXT about them.
http://www.pcpowerandcooling.com/products/enclosur es/professional/pro_towers/index.htm
They aren't stainless steel, but they are heavy gauge steel and there is an option for a chromed one. Not cheap, but quality hardware usually isn't.I work at a data center for a large telco. We have both telco switches and Internet global hosting facilities in the building. Our feed from the local power company is four 4000A lines. There exists an agreement with the power company that should ask, we will take overselves off the grid and run off the 7MW of diesel generators that we have on hand. With something like 60,000 gallons of fuel in tanks, we could last about 3 weeks at our present load (we're nowhere near the capacity of the lines coming in, yet).
Any company that depends on having power at all times would be negligent not to have a similar arragement.
It would be one thing if the conversation was at a professional level and topic (i.e. matters within the realm of the 'Dr'). It is another thing entirely when it is something obviously outside an academic or medical venue. To use the 'Dr' title was to (attempt) to assert authority by means of society's respect given to the title - and diminished it in doing so.
I've been a 'Dr.' (of the Ph.D. variety) for some six years. I do have that I'm a Ph.D. on my business cards, but even there I don't have the 'Dr.' in front of my name. It would be pretentious and inappropriate, given that I'm no longer working in the field in which I earned that degree.
And play the unwatermarked copy on what? See point #3.
In the end, as others have noted, you can simply make an analog recording of the music as it is played, giving you a non-watermarked, non-encrypted version of the music, which you can then copy/encode/whatever.
There is only one way to make music 100% secure:
1) Distribute music only in self-contained package (like a cartidge) that operates only in a particular type of device.
2) Have it so that the package erases the music after a single use.
3) Destory/Buy/Confiscate any other publically available means of playing music than said device.
Number 3 is the real toughy, of course.
PCI 2.2 compliant motherboards supply standby 3.3V to all PCI slots (and memory and PS2 ports), even when turned off. You have to unplug the machine in order totally remove power from the system. My Tyan S1837DUANG-L is one of these boards. Once, when adding a card without having unplugging the power supply, the system started to power up. Therefore, I see no problem with the FireCard remaining powered, as long as the motherboard is up to it.
Nope.
What Heisenberg siad was that you could not simultaneously determine the position and momentum of a object, which also translates to the energy and time.
xp = xmv = x^2mt^-1
Et = mv^2t = mx^2t^-1
Besides which, given that this is related to h-bar, the uncertainty that you are talking about in regards to something as massive as a person is miniscule. Unless your vision is really bad, do you really see people as a blurry as they walk across the room?
I can dial into Mindspring from anywhere there is a Sprint PCS presence from my pDQ Smartphone. The POP that I dial into is located in Atlanta, but I could be just about anywhere in the US, or anywhere else in the world that might support my phone. For all anyone could tell, however, I would be in Atlanta.
On the matter of copyright, I know that when I submitted my dissertation, there was a requirement to have it copyrighted by the university (U of North Carolina in this case). However, given that I had done my dissertation research at a US government lab (NIEHS), and any publications from the US government are automatically in the public domain, I didn't have to (indeed could not) copyright my dissertation. What it all comes down to is what the contract you signed says, particularly if you are a research assistant as opposed to a teaching assistant.
Gilat = StarBand. They recently changed their name because people had a difficult time pronouncing 'Gilat'.
I happen to know one of the folks developing the system here in Atlanta. In addition to Radio Shack, it will be possible to purchase it from EchoStar as a USB-based peripheral. You would need to purchase EchoStar's satellite TV service as well, and the tech who installs the dish (30" by the way) would also install the service on the PC.
One has to distinguish between the public performance/broadcast of music and the copying a recording of music. The former relates the situation in the coffee house.
For broadcast/performace, ASCAP is paid a royalty which goes to the songwriter. The record company and artist (if the artist is not the songwriter) have nothing to do with it. That is the major corporate use of copyrighted music, and where those royalties go.
For making a copy of a recorded piece of music, there are two groups that need to be paid royalties - the songwriter(s) and the record company that produced the 'sound recording' that is being copied. For the former, the Harry Fox agency handles the royalties paid to songwriters. For the latter, however, there is no centralized agent for collection of royalties to be paid to the record companies. One needs to contact each, individual company and negotiate use of the sound recording. I once asked the individual at the RIAA that deals in licensing why it is handled this way. She stated that due to anti-trust legistlation, the RIAA could not act as a collective agent like the Harry Fox Agency does.
The corporate users of music who employ the sound recording are companies that put together compilations like 'Greatest Pop Hits of the 70's Vol. 12' and the like. They purchase catalogs of recordings from the record companies. There is presently no mechanism to purchase individual songs. Even if you wanted to make a CD that had all the royalties paid to all the appropriate parties, unless you want to purchase a whole catalog of music from a prticular company, there is no legal way of doing it.