These drives aren't meant to be removed from the device they are installed in, so data transfer is limited to firewire. I'd prefer a MicroDrive. It can be removed and used as a removable drive by any device with a Compact Flash reader. Much more useful, and supposedly a 4GB version is available later this year. This item will be used only in low end products where price outweighs features. Any device I can think of that can store that much data, eventually you'd want to be able to transfer it somewhere else.
I assume the correct term is Variants. I realize this is "leading edge" of java development, but are there any links that don't require being a member of the Java Development Consortium?
The real problem, of course, is that it wasn't until Andrew learned about the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture that he figured out the method for proving Fermat's Last Theorem. He then waited for 2 years before starting.
Actually it wasn't learning about the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture that was necessary, it was learning that Ken Ribet had proven that Fermat's Last Theorem was a consequence of the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture. Prove the latter and you prove the former. That didn't happen until 1986
What do you mean next? The Online Guitar Archive was hit hard by the Harry Fox Agency back in 1998. It made the front pages of USA Today, even. Xerox's PARC website stopped hosting Digital Tradition, an early online archive of song lyrics, back in 1996 because of copyright issues. It's resurfaced on www.mudcat.org and is primarily devoted to traditional (i.e. public domain) songs.
Go back and read the history of drafting the Constitution. The bicameral legislature is a compromise to prevent the most populous states from running roughshod over the less populous states in Congress. Similarly, by having the House apportioned by population, states are represented proportionately to population.
Look at it this way, do you *REALLY* want the 15 most populous states dictating the laws to the other 35? That was tried once before by controlling which new states were admitted, and we had the Civil War as a result.
Assuming these stations have paid the Australian equivalent ASCAP and BMI fees, have the rights to broadcast this material.
Actually, the RIAA would argue differently. The station has not paid for a mechanical reproduction royalty. US stations don't have to under current agreement with the RIAA, and due to the inertia of history, won't have to for a long time to come. Internet stations, however, since they are new, have to pay a royalty for digital reproduction rights (made famous on Slashdot as the CARP fiasco). The RIAA would love to force traditional radio stations to pay mechanical reproduction royalties. Maybe they will try using DRM as leverage. The odds are against it, but I wouldn't put it past them to try.
Radio stations today use a wide variety of digital tools to automate broadcasting. Given that record companies reserve the right to authorize who can broadcast the contents of a CD, what additional effects do you see the DMCA having on radio and eventually web-based broadcasting besides the stratification of the market into megacorps and everyone else (which has already occurred.)? Should copy-protected CD's become the norm, would a "broadcast license" be implemented, with restrictions on the broadcasters? I can't see the record companies providing "protection-free" cd's to record stations, because the resale market for DJ-promotional copies would become even more fierce. Or would we see more mega-companies like AOL-Time-Warner, which own both content and distribution channels?
Who has access to the "Do-Not-Call" list? If someone with an unlisted number puts that number on the Do-Not-Call list to avoid calls from "business partners" as the phone companies, credit card companies etc. like to call themselves, is he or she opening the door for anyone to get the number by obtaining the "Do-Not-Call" list?
Sen. Dianne Feinstein is pushing for public hearings against TIA and for cutting its funding!?!? This is the same woman who walked out on testimony by Phil Zimmerman and Bruce Schneier during the crypto debates, absolutely refusing to listen to them. Color me shocking blue.
One precedent for music sharing that is not mentioned was the Online Guitar Archive (OLGA) and its struggles with the Harry Fox Agency. The debate took place in 1997 over whether users posting tablature arrangements of copyrighted songs infringed on the publishing rights of HFA. The HFA won in court.
There are compulsory license rules for the songwriter's copyright. Any artist can cover another artist's work, provided he or she pays the compulsory license fee. I agree with the original article that there should be compulsory licensing for the physical and digital recording. It would also clear up issues with "sampling" as done by rap and other artists.
1. Hiring practices in the IT industry (age discrimination, H1B, etc.) Here is a good place to read more.
2. Software licensing practices, UCITA etc.
3. Copyright and Patent issues, especially related to the corporate "land grab" mentality towards ideas and code. This has the most drastic long term effects, while the previous two are easier (I think) issues for Congress to address.
Technically, APHC is not an National Public Radio (NPR) show. It is distributed by Public Radio International (PRI). Your local public radio station has to be a subscriber to PRI in order to broadcast the show.
I volunteer at a public radio station, and we use an Arrakis automation system. (Basically an MP3 jukebox software package hooked up to the mixing board). If the "CD" is incompatible with this system, what do you think the likelihood is of it getting any airplay?
This issue has spread through several DJ-related email lists since many DJ's with large collections like to reduce the number of CD's they have to carry by burning just the tracks they want to CD-R. Again, what is the likelihood of a "copy-protected CD" getting airplay?
Third, many DJ's record their shows in advance on a PC and burn them to CD-R. Once again what is the likelihood of a "copy-protected CD" getting airplay?
(quoting Tom Lehrer) "Now let's not see all the same hands!"
As it is, the songwriter royalty system is based almost entirely on radio airplay "surveys". Voting rights in ASCAP and BMI are allocated based on royalties received, and as part of the membership agreement, artist agree not to challenge the system for determining royalties, further empowering the "haves" and disenfranchising the "have-nots". Add that to the creative accounting used by the record companies to recoup their advances from the artist royalties, and most artists never receive a royalty check. Artist royalties are the RIAA's smokescreen. The RIAA wants to maintain a tight control on the distribution of music, and maintain their power base.
First off, thanks to you and to Christine Lavin for eloquently voicing the artist and consumer side of this issue and puncturing the facade presented by the RIAA.
In the 1940's the musicians' union shut down the record industry for 2 years. In today's market, that would be next to impossible. Artists like you, Christine Lavin, and Ani DiFranco have proven that it's possible to survive and prosper away from the major labels. What do you envision as a fair balance between artist, label, radio, and consumer, especially for artists outside the mainstream? How can we as fans and consumers be effective in pushing the mass media towards that balance? Would it make sense for independent artists and smaller labels to form their own coalition, say as BMI was formed as an answer to ASCAP?
By your analogy then, a camera is a toy, because a picture is a visual representation of an event or place and you do not actually experience being there. Yet still cameras and video cameras have many uses beyond that of a toy.
Note I used the terms "realistic impression" and "raise awareness". I don't contend that someone who has experienced the simulator knows what it's like to have schizophrenia any more than spending a day in a wheelchair makes someone understand what it's like to be paraplegic. For some people, a picture is more effective than a verbal description. If the simulator helps a physician relate to his patients better than just having a clinical knowledge of the symptoms, or, as the NPR segment mentions, teaches a friend or family member that a schizophrenic patient can't "just ignore" the sensory input, then it is a worthwhile pursuit. In your last sentence you mention that most people think schizophrenia is multiple personality disorder. If this "toy" helps a large segment of the population recognize what schizophrenia actually is, then doesn't that make it worth pursuing?
Yes, it is a simulation. It was developed with the help of schizophrenia patients, who tested it and gave feedback to the developer. One of the patients interviewed said it was realistic enough that he couldn't finish the simulation.
The goal of the simulation is to educate the families and physicians of schizophrenic patients, giving them a realistic impression of what the patients endure. It's not going to be perfect, obviously, but it raises awareness and understanding.
I think the biggest hurdle the telecoms and cable are going to have revolves around the above question. Telcos are used to smart networks and want them so they can charge for quality of service, premium content, etc. (Hence a lot of the articles about why business doesn't understand Internet.) Here they want to say "Don't shoot me, I'm just the messenger. I can't know what my users are doing!" By pushing for smarter networks, the telecoms open themselves up to the type of pressure the RIAA is applying.
Hey, in my case at least, there are several artists on that list whom I like, so it's easy. The point is simply to encourage artists to stand for something that is in their best interest. It's about preserving a chance to be heard, so it's easier for people to discover artists they've never heard of, but might like.
How many people use the groupware features? Which ones do they use? If you're mainly using them as top-down push (e.g. putting a meeting on everyone's calendar, which sends them an email), why not just have the Linux clients use Exchange as an IMAP server?
The newly discovered skull finally puts to rest any idea that there might be a single missing link between humans and chimpanzees, they say.
Wasn't that claim made about the Piltdown Man, which was in the textbooks for a number of years, before it was found to be a fake? Good science means extensive and thorough testing. Once said testing has taken place, then that claim be made.
Amen. She seems to completely miss the point that free downloads are exposure at a cost, where the cost is the opportunity cost of having the music available for free (i.e. lost sales since the songs in question are already available).
Check out some of her other articles in Performing Songwriter. She is very aware of record sales, exposure, and the interrelated cost. For artists who don't sell millions of CD's, the biggest source of revenue is touring, unless another artist has a mega-hit with a song you wrote. The cost of exposure via downloads is worth it if it means larger attendence at concerts.
Christine Lavin had a great article on the cost, and why it was worthwhile in Billboard. She has a copy of the article here at her website
Her latest album is "God and the FBI." She spent close to 10 years using the FOIA to see the FBI files collected on her father. It turns out her father was branded a communist. Every 3 or 4 years they'd have to move because her father lost a teaching position. It turns out that the FBI would come by, ask a few questions, and then folks would get scared and fire him.
She's one of the regular columnists for "Performing Songwriter" magazine. She and Christine Lavin have written several good commentaries on the music industry and how the Internet has helped independent singer-songwriters. And she's a big Science Fiction fan to boot!
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That's an error in the article. According to Cornice's website, It's a 1.5GB drive.
These drives aren't meant to be removed from the device they are installed in, so data transfer is limited to firewire. I'd prefer a MicroDrive. It can be removed and used as a removable drive by any device with a Compact Flash reader. Much more useful, and supposedly a 4GB version is available later this year. This item will be used only in low end products where price outweighs features. Any device I can think of that can store that much data, eventually you'd want to be able to transfer it somewhere else.
I assume the correct term is Variants. I realize this is "leading edge" of java development, but are there any links that don't require being a member of the Java Development Consortium?
Actually it wasn't learning about the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture that was necessary, it was learning that Ken Ribet had proven that Fermat's Last Theorem was a consequence of the Taniyama-Shimura conjecture. Prove the latter and you prove the former. That didn't happen until 1986
What do you mean next? The Online Guitar Archive was hit hard by the Harry Fox Agency back in 1998. It made the front pages of USA Today, even. Xerox's PARC website stopped hosting Digital Tradition, an early online archive of song lyrics, back in 1996 because of copyright issues. It's resurfaced on www.mudcat.org and is primarily devoted to traditional (i.e. public domain) songs.
Go back and read the history of drafting the Constitution. The bicameral legislature is a compromise to prevent the most populous states from running roughshod over the less populous states in Congress. Similarly, by having the House apportioned by population, states are represented proportionately to population.
Look at it this way, do you *REALLY* want the 15 most populous states dictating the laws to the other 35? That was tried once before by controlling which new states were admitted, and we had the Civil War as a result.
Actually, the RIAA would argue differently. The station has not paid for a mechanical reproduction royalty. US stations don't have to under current agreement with the RIAA, and due to the inertia of history, won't have to for a long time to come. Internet stations, however, since they are new, have to pay a royalty for digital reproduction rights (made famous on Slashdot as the CARP fiasco). The RIAA would love to force traditional radio stations to pay mechanical reproduction royalties. Maybe they will try using DRM as leverage. The odds are against it, but I wouldn't put it past them to try.
Radio stations today use a wide variety of digital tools to automate broadcasting. Given that record companies reserve the right to authorize who can broadcast the contents of a CD, what additional effects do you see the DMCA having on radio and eventually web-based broadcasting besides the stratification of the market into megacorps and everyone else (which has already occurred.)? Should copy-protected CD's become the norm, would a "broadcast license" be implemented, with restrictions on the broadcasters? I can't see the record companies providing "protection-free" cd's to record stations, because the resale market for DJ-promotional copies would become even more fierce. Or would we see more mega-companies like AOL-Time-Warner, which own both content and distribution channels?
Who has access to the "Do-Not-Call" list? If someone with an unlisted number puts that number on the Do-Not-Call list to avoid calls from "business partners" as the phone companies, credit card companies etc. like to call themselves, is he or she opening the door for anyone to get the number by obtaining the "Do-Not-Call" list?
Sen. Dianne Feinstein is pushing for public hearings against TIA and for cutting its funding!?!? This is the same woman who walked out on testimony by Phil Zimmerman and Bruce Schneier during the crypto debates, absolutely refusing to listen to them. Color me shocking blue.
There are compulsory license rules for the songwriter's copyright. Any artist can cover another artist's work, provided he or she pays the compulsory license fee. I agree with the original article that there should be compulsory licensing for the physical and digital recording. It would also clear up issues with "sampling" as done by rap and other artists.
1. Hiring practices in the IT industry (age discrimination, H1B, etc.) Here is a good place to read more.
2. Software licensing practices, UCITA etc.
3. Copyright and Patent issues, especially related to the corporate "land grab" mentality towards ideas and code. This has the most drastic long term effects, while the previous two are easier (I think) issues for Congress to address.
NPR
PRI
This issue has spread through several DJ-related email lists since many DJ's with large collections like to reduce the number of CD's they have to carry by burning just the tracks they want to CD-R. Again, what is the likelihood of a "copy-protected CD" getting airplay?
Third, many DJ's record their shows in advance on a PC and burn them to CD-R. Once again what is the likelihood of a "copy-protected CD" getting airplay?
(quoting Tom Lehrer) "Now let's not see all the same hands!"
As it is, the songwriter royalty system is based almost entirely on radio airplay "surveys". Voting rights in ASCAP and BMI are allocated based on royalties received, and as part of the membership agreement, artist agree not to challenge the system for determining royalties, further empowering the "haves" and disenfranchising the "have-nots". Add that to the creative accounting used by the record companies to recoup their advances from the artist royalties, and most artists never receive a royalty check. Artist royalties are the RIAA's smokescreen. The RIAA wants to maintain a tight control on the distribution of music, and maintain their power base.
Charge for (in)security! Raise the TCO! Push even more people to other platforms!
First off, thanks to you and to Christine Lavin for eloquently voicing the artist and consumer side of this issue and puncturing the facade presented by the RIAA.
In the 1940's the musicians' union shut down the record industry for 2 years. In today's market, that would be next to impossible. Artists like you, Christine Lavin, and Ani DiFranco have proven that it's possible to survive and prosper away from the major labels. What do you envision as a fair balance between artist, label, radio, and consumer, especially for artists outside the mainstream? How can we as fans and consumers be effective in pushing the mass media towards that balance? Would it make sense for independent artists and smaller labels to form their own coalition, say as BMI was formed as an answer to ASCAP?
By your analogy then, a camera is a toy, because a picture is a visual representation of an event or place and you do not actually experience being there. Yet still cameras and video cameras have many uses beyond that of a toy.
Note I used the terms "realistic impression" and "raise awareness". I don't contend that someone who has experienced the simulator knows what it's like to have schizophrenia any more than spending a day in a wheelchair makes someone understand what it's like to be paraplegic. For some people, a picture is more effective than a verbal description. If the simulator helps a physician relate to his patients better than just having a clinical knowledge of the symptoms, or, as the NPR segment mentions, teaches a friend or family member that a schizophrenic patient can't "just ignore" the sensory input, then it is a worthwhile pursuit. In your last sentence you mention that most people think schizophrenia is multiple personality disorder. If this "toy" helps a large segment of the population recognize what schizophrenia actually is, then doesn't that make it worth pursuing?
Yes, it is a simulation. It was developed with the help of schizophrenia patients, who tested it and gave feedback to the developer. One of the patients interviewed said it was realistic enough that he couldn't finish the simulation.
The goal of the simulation is to educate the families and physicians of schizophrenic patients, giving them a realistic impression of what the patients endure. It's not going to be perfect, obviously, but it raises awareness and understanding.
I think the biggest hurdle the telecoms and cable are going to have revolves around the above question. Telcos are used to smart networks and want them so they can charge for quality of service, premium content, etc. (Hence a lot of the articles about why business doesn't understand Internet.) Here they want to say "Don't shoot me, I'm just the messenger. I can't know what my users are doing!" By pushing for smarter networks, the telecoms open themselves up to the type of pressure the RIAA is applying.
Hey, in my case at least, there are several artists on that list whom I like, so it's easy. The point is simply to encourage artists to stand for something that is in their best interest. It's about preserving a chance to be heard, so it's easier for people to discover artists they've never heard of, but might like.
How many people use the groupware features? Which ones do they use? If you're mainly using them as top-down push (e.g. putting a meeting on everyone's calendar, which sends them an email), why not just have the Linux clients use Exchange as an IMAP server?
Wasn't that claim made about the Piltdown Man, which was in the textbooks for a number of years, before it was found to be a fake? Good science means extensive and thorough testing. Once said testing has taken place, then that claim be made.
Check out some of her other articles in Performing Songwriter. She is very aware of record sales, exposure, and the interrelated cost. For artists who don't sell millions of CD's, the biggest source of revenue is touring, unless another artist has a mega-hit with a song you wrote. The cost of exposure via downloads is worth it if it means larger attendence at concerts.
Christine Lavin had a great article on the cost, and why it was worthwhile in Billboard. She has a copy of the article here at her website
She's one of the regular columnists for "Performing Songwriter" magazine. She and Christine Lavin have written several good commentaries on the music industry and how the Internet has helped independent singer-songwriters. And she's a big Science Fiction fan to boot!