Whew! and I thought I was weird for having that one come to mind. Those were some bad-ass apes.
The major difference would be, of course, that the kakundakari apes were extremely violent and territorial, whereas, we can't necessarily say the same thing about the mystery apes.
Ximian wasn't exactly rolling in cash either. However, just because it won't have a "material effect" doesn't mean that the amount isn't what you and I would consider large. Its just not what Novell would consider large.
That does seem to be their strategy. There are plenty of companies out there that have been trying to be/beat Microsoft for years - Novell just seems to try the hardest.
You should also note that WordPerfect and associated office products were actually a pretty solid competitor to MS Office when Novell bought them.
Its been 15 years (or 14years and a day) and Major Movie Studio A decides to turn your book into a movie. Since your copyright is expired, they opt not to pay you the millions you would have otherwise received. Sure, you made a comfortable living out of it, but thats all you made, and now someone else is going to make millions off of *your creation* and give you nothing.
True, but only to a certain extent. For example, I would really like for Ford to give me a free car -- but I think we can agree that if Ford gave out free cars, it would be bad for business.
Business is about a fine balance between making a profit and keeping the customers happy.
actually, it is life+70, as seen in one of my other posts. The life+90 figure was artificially inflated by another poster in order to bolster his/her argument.
"In the United States, Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 retroactively extended the duration of copyright from the life of author plus fifty years to the life of the author plus seventy years, in the case of individual works, and from seventy-five years to ninety-five years in the case of works of corporate authorship and works first published before January 1, 1978. "
The corporate copyright times out after 95 years. There is no "life+90" for companies. Also to note, the actual term for individuals is life+70, not 90 as was previously stated by a parent poster.
No, Congress is supposed to set the limits that best serve the public, i.e. what the PEOPLE want. And yes, it does need to be changed.
Yup. You should write your reps if you feel that your are not being sufficiently represented. Unless they know what the people want, they can't do it.
Why do they NEED to be changed?
BTW, "life + 90 years" is NOT reasonable. The copyright law needs to revert back to the 14-year limit,... if I want to run Win95 for some reason and MS doesn't sell it anymore, than I should be free as the wind to make as many copies as I desire. It's not as if I'm taking away from their revenue stream, they weren't going to sell it to me anyway...
The same holds for music, books, movies, whatever....
I disagree. I like the life + 90, and I think it is very reasonable. Perhaps the post-life extent could be shorter, but 14 years... Tell your favorite author what you want to do to their work -- most authors don't get paid as well as musicians and other artists...
Anyway, as for your Win95 example, you are hurting their business - Win95 is the ancestor of Windows XP, they would really like you to buy XP -- but if you can get Win95 for free... then they have to compete with themselves, and while they did attempt to make improvements over previous versions, free is a hard price point to beat, especially when many applications will run on either OS.
The term "overpriced" is relative. Who determines what the price should be? You? I would expect that the company selling the disk would be the one to determine its price.
Perhaps the RIAA was involved in some price-fixing, but should that really bother you? Unlike price fixing in other markets (diamonds, cars, you pick), music is not really as competitive. Does it really matter that your Michael Bolton CD costs the same amount as a Metallica CD? Would a discount Bolton CD really make you change your mind on your purchase if you are more of a Metallica fan?
The competition in the music industry happens before the CD is even released. It happens in the signing of new bands and in the recording studio.
If you were trying to make a living off of copyrighted music/books/etc., I would expect that you would feel far differently about your "respect for copyright laws as they are now." Perhaps there are aspects of those laws that you would like to see changed, but ripping off the innocent artists that created that material is not a good solution to changing them.
I don't remember an adapter to play Sega console games on the Game Gear. I think you might be thinking of the Sega Nomad -- a portable Sega Genesis, that played their console games (but not any game gear ones)
Probably because Alexander Graham Bell was a Canadian (via Scotland). He died in Nova Scotia. Of course you can attribute the development of the US/Canadian phone system to his business.
I agree. Hell, they even encode porn in DIVX nowadays...
I think, however that the format in question has nothing to do with the quality of the video and everything to do with the DRM implied in the format.
Also, do we know if these movies are going to be streamed over the net or downloaded to a user's computer. If they are streamed, then that might explain it.
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I believe you can already set XP Pro to auto update. Some of the systems we have here at school (Villanova) allready do that.
Whew! and I thought I was weird for having that one come to mind. Those were some bad-ass apes.
The major difference would be, of course, that the kakundakari apes were extremely violent and territorial, whereas, we can't necessarily say the same thing about the mystery apes.
There is no Fry's in NJ. All we get is CompUSA.
I hear about the great prices, but have yet to experience them. What is it like? Is it as good as I've hoped?
Seems you beat me to it. However, I prepared a LINK!
Seriously though, they totally stole the idea from Roy Scheider (Schneider?)...
Very true. Slashdot practically coined the acronym IANAL...
Ximian wasn't exactly rolling in cash either. However, just because it won't have a "material effect" doesn't mean that the amount isn't what you and I would consider large. Its just not what Novell would consider large.
That does seem to be their strategy. There are plenty of companies out there that have been trying to be/beat Microsoft for years - Novell just seems to try the hardest.
You should also note that WordPerfect and associated office products were actually a pretty solid competitor to MS Office when Novell bought them.
Hypothetical:
Its been 15 years (or 14years and a day) and Major Movie Studio A decides to turn your book into a movie. Since your copyright is expired, they opt not to pay you the millions you would have otherwise received. Sure, you made a comfortable living out of it, but thats all you made, and now someone else is going to make millions off of *your creation* and give you nothing.
True, but only to a certain extent. For example, I would really like for Ford to give me a free car -- but I think we can agree that if Ford gave out free cars, it would be bad for business.
Business is about a fine balance between making a profit and keeping the customers happy.
actually, it is life+70, as seen in one of my other posts. The life+90 figure was artificially inflated by another poster in order to bolster his/her argument.
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"In the United States, Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 retroactively extended the duration of copyright from the life of author plus fifty years to the life of the author plus seventy years, in the case of individual works, and from seventy-five years to ninety-five years in the case of works of corporate authorship and works first published before January 1, 1978. "
The corporate copyright times out after 95 years. There is no "life+90" for companies. Also to note, the actual term for individuals is life+70, not 90 as was previously stated by a parent poster.
the life+90 number only applies to individuals, not to corporations.
No, Congress is supposed to set the limits that best serve the public, i.e. what the PEOPLE want. And yes, it does need to be changed.
... if I want to run Win95 for some reason and MS doesn't sell it anymore, than I should be free as the wind to make as many copies as I desire. It's not as if I'm taking away from their revenue stream, they weren't going to sell it to me anyway...
...
Yup. You should write your reps if you feel that your are not being sufficiently represented. Unless they know what the people want, they can't do it.
Why do they NEED to be changed?
BTW, "life + 90 years" is NOT reasonable. The copyright law needs to revert back to the 14-year limit,
The same holds for music, books, movies, whatever.
I disagree. I like the life + 90, and I think it is very reasonable. Perhaps the post-life extent could be shorter, but 14 years... Tell your favorite author what you want to do to their work -- most authors don't get paid as well as musicians and other artists...
Anyway, as for your Win95 example, you are hurting their business - Win95 is the ancestor of Windows XP, they would really like you to buy XP -- but if you can get Win95 for free... then they have to compete with themselves, and while they did attempt to make improvements over previous versions, free is a hard price point to beat, especially when many applications will run on either OS.
Good work making that distinction - it is something we often forget.
I think that only serves to further his original point, however.
The term "overpriced" is relative. Who determines what the price should be? You? I would expect that the company selling the disk would be the one to determine its price.
Perhaps the RIAA was involved in some price-fixing, but should that really bother you? Unlike price fixing in other markets (diamonds, cars, you pick), music is not really as competitive. Does it really matter that your Michael Bolton CD costs the same amount as a Metallica CD? Would a discount Bolton CD really make you change your mind on your purchase if you are more of a Metallica fan?
The competition in the music industry happens before the CD is even released. It happens in the signing of new bands and in the recording studio.
If you were trying to make a living off of copyrighted music/books/etc., I would expect that you would feel far differently about your "respect for copyright laws as they are now." Perhaps there are aspects of those laws that you would like to see changed, but ripping off the innocent artists that created that material is not a good solution to changing them.
I don't remember an adapter to play Sega console games on the Game Gear. I think you might be thinking of the Sega Nomad -- a portable Sega Genesis, that played their console games (but not any game gear ones)
Somehow I am not worried about someone trying to get remote root on my PowerBook though.
Maybe I'm not paranoid enough? Perhaps I am just asking to be "0wn0ZeD" or whatever the cool-kids say nowadays...
Probably because Alexander Graham Bell was a Canadian (via Scotland). He died in Nova Scotia. Of course you can attribute the development of the US/Canadian phone system to his business.
Its hard to have sex while you are posting comments about Beowulf Clusters and Natalie Portman's boobs to Slashdot all day...
I agree. Hell, they even encode porn in DIVX nowadays...
I think, however that the format in question has nothing to do with the quality of the video and everything to do with the DRM implied in the format.
Also, do we know if these movies are going to be streamed over the net or downloaded to a user's computer. If they are streamed, then that might explain it.
I got that too. Its a shame when people forget that the Internet isn't a Windows application.
If it doesn't work on my OS of choice, then it probably isn't worth checking out anyway.
I assume that the same DRM that will cause it to time out will prevent the file from working for anybody else. Just my guess though.
What ever happened to Movie88.com/Film88.com, that site was great, even from Taiwan/Iran I was still able to get a pretty decent stream going on.
The RIAA uses the name "WeOwnYouNow85@Kazaa" in case anyone was wondering who that was...
Mexico and Canada came free with their purchase...
sorry, Yakov Smirnoff had to take a week off, filling in for him will be Jeff Foxworthy:
"You might be a Soviet Russian if..."