It just struk me.. breakage is a legacy clause in current contracts, left from a time where everything was pressed on vinyl (obviously more fragile than CD's) this would also explain the high packaging amount.. Today I don't see the need, not for CD's and certainly not for digital distribution..
I suppose that the artist have to pay for "fallout" and "shrink" as well?
If the artist have to pay 15% in breakage, does that mean that the record company expect no more than 15% fraud/theft at an average?.. an amount that high could be stopped or at least reduced significantly.. do other products (TV's, cars and razorblades) have the same level of 'breakage' I wonder?
You'll just be sitting there minding you're own business. And they come marching in and crawl up your leg and start biting the inside of your ass. And you'll be like. Hey. Get out of my ass you stupid rainbows.
Dualbooting Linux/WindowsXP on a normal bamboo PC has no performance impact on either system. So with a MacIntel you have a unique chance to compare the different OS'es running on the excact same hardware.. even the implementation of the video drivers would be comparable.. who did a better job? Microsoft or Apple.. the hardware is the same so, thats what it boils down to..
I was arguning that saying "x% of the population does y, so it shouldn't be illegal" is nonsensical.
You are totally right.. BUT.. if 20% of the population votes for a political party, that have copyright law on the agenda then the implications WILL be, that copyright law is bound to be changed in some way, shape or form. 5 years copyright limit might be an extreeme, but so is 99 years. (and so is changing the limit again and again and again)
I live in Denmark... some 10 years ago, a comedian was elected for the parliment for promising "Sunshine" and "wind in your back when you are riding a bike".. He promised to use all his campain money on beer and sausages and serve this 'meal' to everybody who voted for him (which he did!) I shit you not. The bottom line is; people will go and vote, if they see something they care about or simply just because they are fed up with the politicians in general.
Getting 4% of the votes (in Sweeden) might be dificult.. but if you get 10% of the people who were not going to vote anyway to leave their computer (sharing some torrent) and go vote for you on election day.. THEN you suddenly have a political voice.
the Autobahn in Germany The drivers are so civil on the Autobahn in Germany. They are FAST, but goddam, they are civil. If they cause an accident (if they can't control driving fast) they will be punished, though. NOT limiting speed actually keeps people more awake and alert in traffic.
I suppose, that in each country, the local telephone company have picked up the task of operate the backbone of that specific country. In SOME cases without being financed by the American tax payer...and that's just the clue. If ISP's around the world decide to route traffic based on something else than the DNS root servers, ICANN can do nothing. China is certainly not routing traffic according to information from DNS root.
The Internet is what it is today, because people are willing to pay their TelephoneCompany for modem/ISDN/Cable/DSL access to that thing that connects all the national backbones.. that thing (deep down) is "good faith" in the fact that you will be routed correctly.. and even then, people (in China) will pay for access.
If USA suddenly dropped from the map, most Internet users wouldn't even notice.
Well, if I bring a keg of beer to your party, can I be allowed to control it myself? Can I decide who to dance with, to talk to and to kiss.. or do I have to ask you for permission first? Do you have a SEX-ROOM and do you control if people don't just slip into the COMpany room.. can you make sure that nobody uses the wrong kind of room for the wrong things? If not, why not just take down the sign on the door and try to keep the party more or less under control so people don't throw you out of your own house for being booring. The party will go on without you, eventhough you think that it wount.
oh, and thanks for the invitation, we really just wanted a place where we could get crazy for a while:-)
In the US of A, you can drive a car when you are 15 and have sex when you are 18. In Denmark, you can have sex when you are 15 and drive a car when you are 18.
You can make a political party that has the abolishment of speed limits on the agenda. If you get voted into parliment you will have a say when drafting new laws conserning speed limits.
The key point here is, that if you find something unjust, you can form a party. And if enough people agree with you, laws will change.
Sweden IS the home of the Volvo.. which is considered a quite safe car.. but not at any speed I suppose..
It depends. Our anti-software patent lobbying has been quite effective...
First: I salute you. (I only signed a petition)
Microsoft tried to put presure on the Danish government (in the software patent case) saying they were going to move out of the country.. didn't work.. I guess they couldn't MAKE the highly educated Danish employees to move with them:-)
Last: lobbying usually (in the States) means campain contributions i.e. buying politicians..
In many countries in Europe, being a Judge or a Police Chief is not something you get elected to, it's a job like any other and you get the job based on your skill. This efficiently removes the tie to politics. A judge doesn't have any political interests at stake, when passing judgement. A police chief doesn't have to be concerned about his job, when putting the son of a politician or business man behind bars. Both a judge and a police chief (and elected politicians) have salaries that are at the higher end of the scale and if they want to keep their jobs they only have to do them. If they are found doing shady business, they will get fired and tried. Nobody is above the law.
This system means, that in many countries in Europe, companies does not have much influence over any part of the State.
Maybe Microsoft's conception of "fair" is, that lobbying in the EU is not as effective as in the USA? In that case, they are totally right, though it woun't help them to ask the american government for help.
Though not rocket science, RockBox is not for 99.9% of the iPod owners out there.
An explanation about what you get, what the advantage is and a crystal clear install guide and I will consider trying RockBox on my iPod.. I am a programmer by education and profession and I still can't be bothered to read the RockBox documentation in order to determine the risk of installing it..
It would cover the 20 years in the life of Luke Skywalker growing up that remains a mystery to most film-goers...we already know what he did.. he lived in the dessert, he helped with the harvest, he was not allowed to go out with his friends.
20 years of "just until after the harvest", "but that's a whole other year".. makes for great season finales! woohoo
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Oh, I made the Anonymous Coward mad.. I am surely going to hell...
OP claims, that perlscipts are not "source code".. they are. "Source", because they are the source from which/. comes. "Code" because, like it or not, perl is a turing complete programming language (Anything you can do in perl, you can do in any other turing complete language.. with varying amounts of effort) html is NOT turing complete.. there are things you simply can not do, if you only have html.
Yes, Taco is refering to slashcode and slashteam.. since when have/. been unbiased? We are talking about a site that have Futurama quotes as part of the html headers.. 26 new episodes WILL give fresh quotes for the SOURCE CODE that delivers Slashdot.. so, what's the problem?..troll? well, this post will be buried so deep, that nobody will ever see it. ah, well..
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Jesus Harold Christ this never ends..
I thought that "Nerds" had a basic understanding of programming.. I guess the bar has lowered over the past 8 years... to me, the distinction between a perl and html is fundamental. One is a Programming Language.. the other isn't.. and it matters.
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Perl is a Turing complete language. (go look up the implications and learn something)
html is a markup language (hence the ml part of the acronym) and does not have the features that give Turing completeness. i.e. not a programming language.
both html files and perl scripts could be refered to as source code (though not totally correct, but most people will know what you mean)
I am with you 100% on this one. I buy CD's, rip them and have an instant backup. The only thing I have to do, is keep my CD's safe. Well, not even that! If a CD get's stolen, my house insurance will cover the cost of buying replacements. You simply can't get a cheaper and better backup. I have CD's that are 20 years old and they have no problems.. how long does a CDR last?
Not all CD's are full price, after a couple of years and a lot are 70% off after a while.. prices on iTunes haven't changed for 3 years.. U2 and Madonna on iTunes.. their old albums are not as expensive on CD as they are in iTunes
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It just struk me .. breakage is a legacy clause in current contracts, left from a time where everything was pressed on vinyl (obviously more fragile than CD's) this would also explain the high packaging amount .. Today I don't see the need, not for CD's and certainly not for digital distribution..
Very informative!
.. an amount that high could be stopped or at least reduced significantly .. do other products (TV's, cars and razorblades) have the same level of 'breakage' I wonder?
I suppose that the artist have to pay for "fallout" and "shrink" as well?
If the artist have to pay 15% in breakage, does that mean that the record company expect no more than 15% fraud/theft at an average?
(too many questions, I know)
Lara Croft, sunbathing on the rooftop, then!
I couldn't care less about the price for a song in the iTunes Music Store. I will never buy anything from it anyway.
CD's solve the DRM, quality, backup and price problems in one go.
You'll just be sitting there minding you're own business. And they come marching in and crawl up your leg and start biting the inside of your ass. And you'll be like. Hey. Get out of my ass you stupid rainbows.
Dualbooting Linux/WindowsXP on a normal bamboo PC has no performance impact on either system. So with a MacIntel you have a unique chance to compare the different OS'es running on the excact same hardware .. even the implementation of the video drivers would be comparable .. who did a better job? Microsoft or Apple .. the hardware is the same so, thats what it boils down to..
I was arguning that saying "x% of the population does y, so it shouldn't be illegal" is nonsensical.
.. He promised to use all his campain money on beer and sausages and serve this 'meal' to everybody who voted for him (which he did!) I shit you not. The bottom line is; people will go and vote, if they see something they care about or simply just because they are fed up with the politicians in general.
.. THEN you suddenly have a political voice.
You are totally right.. BUT.. if 20% of the population votes for a political party, that have copyright law on the agenda then the implications WILL be, that copyright law is bound to be changed in some way, shape or form. 5 years copyright limit might be an extreeme, but so is 99 years. (and so is changing the limit again and again and again)
I live in Denmark... some 10 years ago, a comedian was elected for the parliment for promising "Sunshine" and "wind in your back when you are riding a bike"
Getting 4% of the votes (in Sweeden) might be dificult.. but if you get 10% of the people who were not going to vote anyway to leave their computer (sharing some torrent) and go vote for you on election day
the Autobahn in Germany
The drivers are so civil on the Autobahn in Germany. They are FAST, but goddam, they are civil.
If they cause an accident (if they can't control driving fast) they will be punished, though.
NOT limiting speed actually keeps people more awake and alert in traffic.
I suppose, that in each country, the local telephone company have picked up the task of operate the backbone of that specific country. In SOME cases without being financed by the American tax payer. ..and that's just the clue. If ISP's around the world decide to route traffic based on something else than the DNS root servers, ICANN can do nothing. China is certainly not routing traffic according to information from DNS root.
.. that thing (deep down) is "good faith" in the fact that you will be routed correctly.. and even then, people (in China) will pay for access.
The Internet is what it is today, because people are willing to pay their TelephoneCompany for modem/ISDN/Cable/DSL access to that thing that connects all the national backbones
If USA suddenly dropped from the map, most Internet users wouldn't even notice.
Well, if I bring a keg of beer to your party, can I be allowed to control it myself? Can I decide who to dance with, to talk to and to kiss .. or do I have to ask you for permission first? Do you have a SEX-ROOM and do you control if people don't just slip into the COMpany room .. can you make sure that nobody uses the wrong kind of room for the wrong things? If not, why not just take down the sign on the door and try to keep the party more or less under control so people don't throw you out of your own house for being booring. The party will go on without you, eventhough you think that it wount.
:-)
oh, and thanks for the invitation, we really just wanted a place where we could get crazy for a while
In the US of A, you can drive a car when you are 15 and have sex when you are 18.
In Denmark, you can have sex when you are 15 and drive a car when you are 18.
It's a strange world.
Anyway, when Swedes go in for pillage and murder on the high seas, they don't call themselves pirates. They're Vikings. Much, much scarier ;-)
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.. Danes have something to learn in _this_ day and age.
Ah, yes, back in the days when Sweden was a part of Denmark, the "outgoing" population was called Vikings
Great Balls to the Swedes for making this "Pirate Party"
yeah, and 80% of the population is not on the Internet anyway, they are on AOL! ..
You can make a political party that has the abolishment of speed limits on the agenda. If you get voted into parliment you will have a say when drafting new laws conserning speed limits.
.. which is considered a quite safe car.. but not at any speed I suppose..
The key point here is, that if you find something unjust, you can form a party. And if enough people agree with you, laws will change.
Sweden IS the home of the Volvo
It's time to raise the awareness!
Robots will uprise. HUAR will be there.
http://www.humansunitedagainstrobots.com/
..that mini-disc player was my last Sony product..(walkman --> walkman --> discman --> minidiscman -(4years)-> iPod)
It depends. Our anti-software patent lobbying has been quite effective...
.. didn't work .. I guess they couldn't MAKE the highly educated Danish employees to move with them :-)
First: I salute you. (I only signed a petition)
Microsoft tried to put presure on the Danish government (in the software patent case) saying they were going to move out of the country
Last: lobbying usually (in the States) means campain contributions i.e. buying politicians..
In many countries in Europe, being a Judge or a Police Chief is not something you get elected to, it's a job like any other and you get the job based on your skill. This efficiently removes the tie to politics. A judge doesn't have any political interests at stake, when passing judgement. A police chief doesn't have to be concerned about his job, when putting the son of a politician or business man behind bars. Both a judge and a police chief (and elected politicians) have salaries that are at the higher end of the scale and if they want to keep their jobs they only have to do them. If they are found doing shady business, they will get fired and tried. Nobody is above the law.
This system means, that in many countries in Europe, companies does not have much influence over any part of the State.
Maybe Microsoft's conception of "fair" is, that lobbying in the EU is not as effective as in the USA? In that case, they are totally right, though it woun't help them to ask the american government for help.
Though not rocket science, RockBox is not for 99.9% of the iPod owners out there.
.. I am a programmer by education and profession and I still can't be bothered to read the RockBox documentation in order to determine the risk of installing it..
An explanation about what you get, what the advantage is and a crystal clear install guide and I will consider trying RockBox on my iPod
Let's just remove the warninglables off of everything and let natural selection take care of the rest!
I totally agree!
(Nobody takes responsability for being a moron anymore)
you are one sick puppy! :-)
It would cover the 20 years in the life of Luke Skywalker growing up that remains a mystery to most film-goers. ..we already know what he did .. he lived in the dessert, he helped with the harvest, he was not allowed to go out with his friends.
.. makes for great season finales! woohoo
20 years of "just until after the harvest", "but that's a whole other year"
Oh, I made the Anonymous Coward mad .. I am surely going to hell...
.. they are. "Source", because they are the source from which /. comes. "Code" because, like it or not, perl is a turing complete programming language (Anything you can do in perl, you can do in any other turing complete language.. with varying amounts of effort) html is NOT turing complete .. there are things you simply can not do, if you only have html.
.. since when have /. been unbiased? We are talking about a site that have Futurama quotes as part of the html headers .. 26 new episodes WILL give fresh quotes for the SOURCE CODE that delivers Slashdot .. so, what's the problem? ..troll? well, this post will be buried so deep, that nobody will ever see it. ah, well..
OP claims, that perlscipts are not "source code"
Yes, Taco is refering to slashcode and slashteam
Jesus Harold Christ this never ends..
.. I guess the bar has lowered over the past 8 years... to me, the distinction between a perl and html is fundamental. One is a Programming Language .. the other isn't .. and it matters.
I thought that "Nerds" had a basic understanding of programming
Perl is a Turing complete language. (go look up the implications and learn something)
html is a markup language (hence the ml part of the acronym) and does not have the features that give Turing completeness. i.e. not a programming language.
both html files and perl scripts could be refered to as source code (though not totally correct, but most people will know what you mean)
I am with you 100% on this one. I buy CD's, rip them and have an instant backup. The only thing I have to do, is keep my CD's safe. Well, not even that! If a CD get's stolen, my house insurance will cover the cost of buying replacements. You simply can't get a cheaper and better backup. I have CD's that are 20 years old and they have no problems .. how long does a CDR last?
.. prices on iTunes haven't changed for 3 years .. U2 and Madonna on iTunes .. their old albums are not as expensive on CD as they are in iTunes
Not all CD's are full price, after a couple of years and a lot are 70% off after a while