I'm not clear on the question.. If he's been offered deals, then what's the problem? Is he being greedy, and expecting millions of dollars?
Success in the media industry requires popularity first. The money only comes once you're popular. If you sit on your work until the money comes, then you'll die a poor boy. Stop hoarding, and publish!
Anyway, here are your options:
Sell out. If you want to 'copyright, license, and receive payment', you need a label, they specialize in that sort of thing. But this path involves hoarding, and it only works for organizations with lots of music (i.e. the lables) plus it irritates the customers.
Do it yourself. Put the hi quality files on the P2P networks. Put 20-32 kbit streaming files on the web site (you obviously don't have bandwidth for the big files), then tell people how to find your work on P2P.
Sign up with mp3.com. They do all of this already -- stream, download, and publish.
No, actually, MS would not want to bundle Halo as it's selling too well. The trick with a bundle is to increase the apparant value without losing money. Games that aren't otherwise selling are the best bundle candidates.
A law is just an agreement amongst a society. We agree to be governed by laws, if the government agrees to not abuse the laws. If a government breaks the agreement, we no longer need to follow the laws.
"Copy right" is not a right at all. You can't claim any right when it interferes with someone else's right. When collision occurs, you need an agreement to straighten things out.
You do not have a right to clean air; you do not have a right to smoke. You do not have a right to copy; you do not have a right to forbid copying. You do not have a right to life; you do not have a right to take life.
All these things are agreements. We agree to forbid copying, if you agree to make cool new stories. We agree to limit smoking to the smoke room, if you agree to provide one. We agree to forbid the arbitrary taking of life, but if mother nature comes calling, there's no court of appeals.
It's very hard to argue copyright law when people keep pretending some aspect of this is a God-Given Right. I have the ability to copy everything you produce at low cost. I agree to stop copying if you agree to make your work available in a reasonable manner for reasonable prices. This agreement has already been violated, and you can see the results.
Yeah, I'm very interested in these announcements too. And the terawatt cooler looks awfully hip, dunnit? But then I see the pictures, and become disappointed. Computer games look more detailed than ever before, but they're all obviously computer generated. So I've promised myself I wouldn't get excited until I see a significant jump in actual picture quality.
I guess Carmack got it right (doesn't he always?) -- we need 100 passes per pixel.
So if there's that much energy in the magnetic field, couldn't we build a Great Loop to suck the energy out of the Earth's natural field?
The only way we could damage the field would be to affect the subsurface eddies that generate it. And if we could do that, then the reverse is true -- the Great Loop could be used to move the eddies back into position, averting this 'disaster'.
So if the Earth's magnetic field is generated by eddies, how much power would it take to push them around?
Just got one myself. $80 at overstock.com, includes 16MB of compact flash. 128 MB is $35 on PriceWatch.com, and (apparantly) $40 on eBay. Oh, you wanna know what it does? =^)
It plays MP3s, plus records movies, plus takes pictures. Color LCD shows ID3 tags, and can play back the movies and pictures. Movies can be as long as will fit in the card. Technically does well at everything, except that the sensor is crap, so the movies are low quality. On the other hand, they're recorded at 20 fps (very smooth) and it's cool to be able to listen to music, then switch over and grab a movie clip. You can delete one to make room for the other.
Uses standard Type I compact flash. It's too small for IBM's micro drive, but flash is cheap nowadays. And if you have a notebook, you can get a PCMCIA adapter, and move stuff on and off very fast, and drivers are already built into everything. If not, you can prolly get a PCMCIA reader cheap that works with Linux.
So is Debian the only OS where you can actually install cruft?
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.. for audio books. They charge full new price for used books, but buy them back at ~$5 less. So if you don't return them, you've already paid full price. If you do, it's like a rental for $5.
Amazingly enough, DeliPlayer (originally for the Amiga) has been ported to Windows. Almost completely free, you only pay (ie. "support the authors") for the save-to-disk feature.
Sony should help Microsoft along by buying X-Boxen by the crate. As a bonus, they can gut the things for parts, and sell them on the grey market. Imagine 64MB X-Chip-based video cards for PCs!
An old D&D game for the Commodore 64 had a code wheel. I just removed the rivet, copied the wheels, went 'round with an X-acto knife, and made a new code wheel.
You know the phrase.. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." We got here one step at a time, passing laws that were good for the independent author. Corporations now use these same laws to protect themselves.
Those of us with some foresight can tell that some fundamental laws need to change, but the government needs proof. So all these lawsuits will help build that proof.
Gov'ts and corps are doing what they've always done throughout history -- acquire money and power. The only way to decisively "stop this way of thinking" is war. I hope we don't come to that.
This really is significant.. real LCD projector bulbs cost around $500-600, but the good ones can last 2000 hours. From the website, he quoted $10.50 per 75 hours, which is around $280 per 2000 hours. If the bulbs are $20 a pop, then the real thing may be cheaper.
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But then they'd be known as "The Robin Williams of Print of Radio". And what would happen if Robin Williams went on SNL and parodied this band?
You can't deflect a meteor much by crashing NASA probes into it. I suppose that's why they're looking at it in Europe.
So if we switch the FOXP gene on in animals, will they gain speech and art and stuff?
No I didn't read the article, what fun is that?
I can summarize that in two sentences:
The actors grew up.
The characters did not.
Success in the media industry requires popularity first. The money only comes once you're popular. If you sit on your work until the money comes, then you'll die a poor boy. Stop hoarding, and publish!
Anyway, here are your options:
No, actually, MS would not want to bundle Halo as it's selling too well. The trick with a bundle is to increase the apparant value without losing money. Games that aren't otherwise selling are the best bundle candidates.
There's only a worldwide market for, what, 6 machines? No way to make a career out of that.
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SimPuter is a bad example -- the design is identical to a WinCE PDA, and costs $250-300. But many WinCE PDAs are already in that price range.
A law is just an agreement amongst a society. We agree to be governed by laws, if the government agrees to not abuse the laws. If a government breaks the agreement, we no longer need to follow the laws.
"Copy right" is not a right at all. You can't claim any right when it interferes with someone else's right. When collision occurs, you need an agreement to straighten things out.
You do not have a right to clean air; you do not have a right to smoke. You do not have a right to copy; you do not have a right to forbid copying. You do not have a right to life; you do not have a right to take life.
All these things are agreements. We agree to forbid copying, if you agree to make cool new stories. We agree to limit smoking to the smoke room, if you agree to provide one. We agree to forbid the arbitrary taking of life, but if mother nature comes calling, there's no court of appeals.
It's very hard to argue copyright law when people keep pretending some aspect of this is a God-Given Right. I have the ability to copy everything you produce at low cost. I agree to stop copying if you agree to make your work available in a reasonable manner for reasonable prices. This agreement has already been violated, and you can see the results.
Yeah, I'm very interested in these announcements too. And the terawatt cooler looks awfully hip, dunnit? But then I see the pictures, and become disappointed. Computer games look more detailed than ever before, but they're all obviously computer generated. So I've promised myself I wouldn't get excited until I see a significant jump in actual picture quality.
I guess Carmack got it right (doesn't he always?) -- we need 100 passes per pixel.
So if there's that much energy in the magnetic field, couldn't we build a Great Loop to suck the energy out of the Earth's natural field?
The only way we could damage the field would be to affect the subsurface eddies that generate it. And if we could do that, then the reverse is true -- the Great Loop could be used to move the eddies back into position, averting this 'disaster'.
So if the Earth's magnetic field is generated by eddies, how much power would it take to push them around?
- Cost - I only had to make 2 dozen copies, not enough to warrant anything digital.
- Speed - The copier could crank out a copy in 4 seconds. Not many USB scanners can touch that. Especially helpful when the library's about to close.
-BJust got one myself. $80 at overstock.com, includes 16MB of compact flash. 128 MB is $35 on PriceWatch.com, and (apparantly) $40 on eBay. Oh, you wanna know what it does? =^)
It plays MP3s, plus records movies, plus takes pictures. Color LCD shows ID3 tags, and can play back the movies and pictures. Movies can be as long as will fit in the card. Technically does well at everything, except that the sensor is crap, so the movies are low quality. On the other hand, they're recorded at 20 fps (very smooth) and it's cool to be able to listen to music, then switch over and grab a movie clip. You can delete one to make room for the other.
Uses standard Type I compact flash. It's too small for IBM's micro drive, but flash is cheap nowadays. And if you have a notebook, you can get a PCMCIA adapter, and move stuff on and off very fast, and drivers are already built into everything. If not, you can prolly get a PCMCIA reader cheap that works with Linux.
So is Debian the only OS where you can actually install cruft?
.. for audio books. They charge full new price for used books, but buy them back at ~$5 less. So if you don't return them, you've already paid full price. If you do, it's like a rental for $5.
Amazingly enough, DeliPlayer (originally for the Amiga) has been ported to Windows. Almost completely free, you only pay (ie. "support the authors") for the save-to-disk feature.
.. but make it up in quantity.
Sony should help Microsoft along by buying X-Boxen by the crate. As a bonus, they can gut the things for parts, and sell them on the grey market. Imagine 64MB X-Chip-based video cards for PCs!
An old D&D game for the Commodore 64 had a code wheel. I just removed the rivet, copied the wheels, went 'round with an X-acto knife, and made a new code wheel.
.. unless it has drain holes for the spilled coffee.
It'll be great until some smartass makes a track that's 45 minutes of near-silence followed by A LOUD BANG! One more fad bites the dust.
You know the phrase .. "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." We got here one step at a time, passing laws that were good for the independent author. Corporations now use these same laws to protect themselves.
Those of us with some foresight can tell that some fundamental laws need to change, but the government needs proof. So all these lawsuits will help build that proof.
Gov'ts and corps are doing what they've always done throughout history -- acquire money and power. The only way to decisively "stop this way of thinking" is war. I hope we don't come to that.
This really is significant .. real LCD projector bulbs cost around $500-600, but the good ones can last 2000 hours. From the website, he quoted $10.50 per 75 hours, which is around $280 per 2000 hours. If the bulbs are $20 a pop, then the real thing may be cheaper.