Yeah, this is kind of a goofy concept. I understand the desire to label your music as Napster-OK, but there really is no benefit to the artist to have someone modify their works. In 'All you ever wanted to know about the music business' the author talks about how copyrighting your material isn't that important for two reasons:
If someone steals your music and sells a million records, after you sue them you will be rich and famous far sooner than you would have been otherwise
Every artist believes that his songs are the best. So why would any respectable artist steal someone else's material?
The second reason above is why many artists may be hesitant to use the OAL. Music is art, not technology. Most artists wouldn't be interested in the idea of having others rewrite any parts of their songs for any reason. Though this clause also allows people to sample OAL works, which is cool, it just doesn't seem to have much appeal otherwise. And I don't think too many people would actually take the time to make modifications to anyone else's music unless it were some kind of remix (which I suppose would be cool.) The other weird thing that OAL states as a benefit to it's licensing terms is the ability to publicly perform an OAL artist's works without paying royalty. You can do that anyway. Anyone can play anyone else's music, AFAIK, live without paying royalties as long as that performance isn't recorded and sold without permission.
It's an interesting idea, but I don't see too many ways where the benefits of the GPL can work in the artistic world... IMHO.
I think this license will probably apply more to unsigned artists. It's true, the record companies own complete control of an artist's works once they are under a record contract. For an unsigned artist, this might be a way to gain some exposure, but I don't believe it will be any more helpful than playing lots of shows, touring, etc.
Actually, that's not true either. They are base-pairs. Every three base-pairs contains information to code an amino acid during translation, which go on to become proteins. They fucked that up, and the fact that the entire human genome would require somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 odd million more base pairs, and that human DNA is indistinguishable from dung-beetle DNA simply by looking at a 3D model of a double-helix. ----------------------------------- -----------------------
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non-profit organizations are.org
Except, of course, for the commercial.org hosting this discussion.
Actually, and please don't respond with a flame, it's totally not worth it, but NetBEUI is actually a really fast protocol if you're just working within a really small LAN. Sure, it's a messy broadcast protocol, but it requires very little to no administration and on 100Mbps lines would cause negligible broadcast traffic. ---------------------------------------- ------------------
Ths simple fact is that *anyone* applying to enter *college* should be well read enough to know the trivial facts that a regatta is a (sail)boat race
Actually, whether the boats in the race have sails or not has no bearing on whether or not a race is called a regatta. The Head of the Charles in Cambridge MA is also referred to as 'The Regatta' and none of the boats in it have sails. ------------------------------------------------ ----------
there's a good chance that ether the US Gov. or Microsoft will try and design that standard. Frankly, I trust neither
I hear that! Let's call up the MPAA and get whoever they hired for CSS! First Class Security! Awwwww shit yeah! ------------------------------------------- ---------------
Unlike customers in most states, residents of California and Oregon were allowed to cancel the $21.95-a-month subscription and still keep the $400 because Microsoft believed that state laws required penalty-free cancellation.
After California officials said Thursday that Microsoft misunderstood the law, the company decided to temporarily suspend the program, effective today. The suspension comes despite Best Buy advertisements that say it will continue through Feb. 29 and Office Depot ads that say it will continue until March 31. ------------------------------------------------ ----------
In California, we keep bottled water handy in case of an earthquake, by which a severed water main can either a.) cut off your water supply or b.) contaminate your water supply. But why is everyone going apeshit over hoarding water for Y2K? Is an old Win 3.1-based 486 controlling your city's water supply? I'm not an expert in municipal water or anything, but I would tend to assume that the natural-laws-of-physics-driven flow of water would continue regardless of what year it is. If you're worried about the second-coming, then you should at least be looking forward to the free wine that will be coming out of your tap! -------------------------------------------- --------------
Even more interesting, as the author noted, was how Micros~1 managed to get the NYPD to knock on this guy's door to retreive the package even 'though no crime was committed. Do they really have that much clout? God help us all if so:)
Microsoft is the largest company in the world. Their market cap is higher than the Pentagon's annual budget. Of course they have that much clout. They could probably get Guiliani to show up in person at the guy's doorstep to pick up the unit. ------------------------------------------- ---------------
Stuff that matters to people with disposable income. All this is to me is another outrageously frivolous component. Hmm... that 500MHz not enough for you? Why not shell out about a grand on a new 800MHz processor. Get less than twice the performance for over three times the price. This is silly, and hardly all that newsworthy. See this for components that people who are not Internet billionaires can afford. ----------------------------------------- -----------------
I think Lizzy Borden should get all of the top ten slots for her hacks. They are among the most infamous hacks of all time. ------------------------------------------------ ----------
You can make a killing by suing Honda. They are trying to capitalize on your invention. Of course, the rest of us are using your method in a not-for-profit context. ---------------------------------------- ------------------
Sun hardware is very good for moving alot of data very fast. The backplace is just fatter. I work with a data center backup product and the Sun boxes can move data an order of magnitude faster than any NT box I have seen. Ditto for high end SGI's.
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Why is it that NT puppets like to say stuff like you just did, I hear it all the time, usually in retort to seeing things like really high uptimes in linux
No, it's not the uptime I'm responding to. It's the claim the original poster made that his NT box must be rebooted every day in order to prevent crashes. You should read the article before you start name-calling (NT puppet). And you haven't rebooted your server? Not even for security or kernel patches? You may want to sacrifice a few reboots for the sake of security. --------------------------------------- -------------------
You know... NT isn't my favorite OS by any means, but I've got two NT servers in my comms room that have NOT been rebooted in one year for any reasons other than to update the Service Pack, which I think only happened twice and was completely voluntary. Your server must be rebooted everyday? Hmmmm... maybe you're just a terrible sysadmin, or... whatever you do.
There seems to be a lot more NT bashing than would be expected from people who claim to use Linux exclusively. I don't use Linux that much, so I won't make any comments about it, but I do know that NT does what I need it to do. It may not be very elegant, but only BeOS has any bragging rights in that department anyway.
I think that most Linux enthusiasts really take pride in knowing as much as there is to know about making sure Linux is stable. Well, NT seems to me to be just as stable, there just seems to be fewer people who actually know how to run it properly. I'm not pushing for Microsoft, I just think we're all getting a little hotter under the collar than is necessary. Personally, I prefer Apple products, and consider myself part of the Mac faithful. And I know and accept all of the shortcomings of the OS, just as Mindcraft has demonstrated some areas that can be improved with Linux. But, just because I know that there are problems with the MacOS doesn't mean I'm going to give it up. --------------------------------------------- -------------
Again, we must concede that on unrealistically high loads, in an unrealistic test scenario, a professionally tuned very-high-end PC with 4 CPU will outperform an older Linux kernel.
The first problem with your statement is the assumption that no one has servers running loads like this on a regular basis. I'm sure that Amazon.com and Yahoo would argue that for their purposes, these loads are unrealistically low.
The second problem with this statement: since when is a 4-processor server very-high-end? For many things, this type of box would be plenty, but for other tasks it would hardly even be considered as a viable option. Please see last weeks article on super-computers for data on very-high-end computers.
And finally, the NT box wasn't even tuned well. My God, they put the swap file on the same physical drive and the same partition as the OS. When using NT, this is a sure-fire way to make sure that your system is NOT performing optimally. I'm impressed with how much leeway that they allowed on this one, and you still won't pay attention to the numbers. I'm not bashing Linux or advocating Microsoft, I'm just looking at the data they've presented. BTW, Sun's SPARC chips aren't really any faster than any other processor on the market. People buy Sun stuff because they want Solaris and they want the applications that people write for Solaris and because (like Apple) the person writing the OS is likely to have a more well-oiled machine if he is also married to the hardware. But trust me, Sun gear is not any more the shit than any other mainstream hardware manufacturer. ------------------------------------------------ ----------
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If someone steals your music and sells a million records, after you sue them you will be
rich and famous far sooner than you would have been otherwise
Every artist believes that his songs are the best. So why would any respectable artist steal
someone else's material?
The second reason above is why many artists may be hesitant to use the OAL. Music is art, not technology. Most artists wouldn't be interested in the idea of having others rewrite any parts of their songs for any reason. Though this clause also allows people to sample OAL works, which is cool, it just doesn't seem to have much appeal otherwise. And I don't think too many people would actually take the time to make modifications to anyone else's music unless it were some kind of remix (which I suppose would be cool.) The other weird thing that OAL states as a benefit to it's licensing terms is the ability to publicly perform an OAL artist's works without paying royalty. You can do that anyway. Anyone can play anyone else's music, AFAIK, live without paying royalties as long as that performance isn't recorded and sold without permission.
It's an interesting idea, but I don't see too many ways where the benefits of the GPL can work in the artistic world... IMHO.
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I think this license will probably apply more to unsigned artists. It's true, the record companies own complete control of an artist's works once they are under a record contract. For an unsigned artist, this might be a way to gain some exposure, but I don't believe it will be any more helpful than playing lots of shows, touring, etc.
This is why you see much greater emphasis on arts and other trivial applications of human talents, instead of engineering and classical studies.
Dude, you can't be serious. The arts? A trivial application of human talents? What are you, a robot?
What the DNA strand was missing were AMINO ACIDS.
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Actually, that's not true either. They are base-pairs. Every three base-pairs contains information to code an amino acid during translation, which go on to become proteins. They fucked that up, and the fact that the entire human genome would require somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 odd million more base pairs, and that human DNA is indistinguishable from dung-beetle DNA simply by looking at a 3D model of a double-helix.
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non-profit organizations are
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Actually, and please don't respond with a flame, it's totally not worth it, but NetBEUI is actually a really fast protocol if you're just working within a really small LAN. Sure, it's a messy broadcast protocol, but it requires very little to no administration and on 100Mbps lines would cause negligible broadcast traffic.- ------------------
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Why not just comment out the story elements?- -------------------
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"pray for mojo"
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Ths simple fact is that *anyone* applying to enter *college* should be well read enough to know the trivial facts that a regatta is a (sail)boat race
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Actually, whether the boats in the race have sails or not has no bearing on whether or not a race is called a regatta. The Head of the Charles in Cambridge MA is also referred to as 'The Regatta' and none of the boats in it have sails.
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there's a good chance that ether the US Gov. or Microsoft will try and design that standard. Frankly, I trust neither
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I hear that! Let's call up the MPAA and get whoever they hired for CSS! First Class Security! Awwwww shit yeah!
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Here are some more links on Asteroids /Arcade/aster.html
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http://markn.users.netlink.co.uk
http://www.atarihq.com/2678/revi ews/asteroids.html
http://www.funescape.com/games/as teroids/main.htm - Java required.
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With the small point of NOT BEING ABLE TO PUT METAL IN A MICROWAVE overlooked, your suggestions are otherwise fantastic.
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Unlike customers in most states, residents of California and Oregon were allowed to cancel the $21.95-a-month subscription and still keep the $400 because Microsoft believed that state laws required penalty-free cancellation.
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After California officials said Thursday that Microsoft misunderstood the law, the company decided to temporarily suspend the program, effective today. The suspension comes despite Best Buy advertisements that say it will continue through Feb. 29 and Office Depot ads that say it will continue until March 31.
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You forgot one premise:
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That knowing something about computers makes you,
in some way, elite.
If you are arrogant about your computer knowledge
you are sure to find UF funny.
I might laugh, too, but I found out the hard way
that messing with computers is fun... but not for a living.
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In California, we keep bottled water handy in case of an earthquake, by which a severed water main can either a.) cut off your water supply or b.) contaminate your water supply. But why is everyone going apeshit over hoarding water for Y2K? Is an old Win 3.1-based 486 controlling your city's water supply? I'm not an expert in municipal water or anything, but I would tend to assume that the natural-laws-of-physics-driven flow of water would continue regardless of what year it is. If you're worried about the second-coming, then you should at least be looking forward to the free wine that will be coming out of your tap!- --------------
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Am I the only one that
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Even more interesting, as the author noted, was how Micros~1 managed to get the NYPD to knock on this guy's door to retreive the package even 'though no crime was committed. Do they really have that much clout? God help us all if so :)
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Microsoft is the largest company in the world. Their market cap is higher than the Pentagon's annual budget. Of course they have that much clout. They could probably get Guiliani to show up in person at the guy's doorstep to pick up the unit.
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Stuff that matters to people with disposable income. All this is to me is another outrageously frivolous component. Hmm... that 500MHz not enough for you? Why not shell out about a grand on a new 800MHz processor. Get less than twice the performance for over three times the price. This is silly, and hardly all that newsworthy. See this for components that people who are not Internet billionaires can afford.- -----------------
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I think Lizzy Borden should get all of the top ten slots for her hacks. They are among the most infamous hacks of all time.- ----------
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You can make a killing by suing Honda. They are trying to capitalize on your invention. Of course, the rest of us are using your method in a not-for-profit context.- ------------------
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Sun hardware is very good for moving alot of data very fast. The backplace is just fatter. I work with a data center backup product and the Sun boxes can move data an order of magnitude faster than any NT box I have seen. Ditto for high end SGI's.
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I concede.
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Why is it that NT puppets like to say stuff like you just did, I hear it all the time, usually in retort to seeing things like really high uptimes in linux
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No, it's not the uptime I'm responding to. It's the claim the original poster made that his NT box must be rebooted every day in order to prevent crashes. You should read the article before you start name-calling (NT puppet). And you haven't rebooted your server? Not even for security or kernel patches? You may want to sacrifice a few reboots for the sake of security.
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You know... NT isn't my favorite OS by any means, but I've got two NT servers in my comms room that have NOT been rebooted in one year for any reasons other than to update the Service Pack, which I think only happened twice and was completely voluntary. Your server must be rebooted everyday? Hmmmm... maybe you're just a terrible sysadmin, or... whatever you do.
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There seems to be a lot more NT bashing than would be expected from people who claim to use Linux exclusively. I don't use Linux that much, so I won't make any comments about it, but I do know that NT does what I need it to do. It may not be very elegant, but only BeOS has any bragging rights in that department anyway.
I think that most Linux enthusiasts really take pride in knowing as much as there is to know about making sure Linux is stable. Well, NT seems to me to be just as stable, there just seems to be fewer people who actually know how to run it properly. I'm not pushing for Microsoft, I just think we're all getting a little hotter under the collar than is necessary. Personally, I prefer Apple products, and consider myself part of the Mac faithful. And I know and accept all of the shortcomings of the OS, just as Mindcraft has demonstrated some areas that can be improved with Linux. But, just because I know that there are problems with the MacOS doesn't mean I'm going to give it up.
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Again, we must concede that on unrealistically high loads, in an unrealistic test scenario, a professionally tuned very-high-end PC with 4 CPU will outperform an older Linux kernel.
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The first problem with your statement is the assumption that no one has servers running loads like this on a regular basis. I'm sure that Amazon.com and Yahoo would argue that for their purposes, these loads are unrealistically low.
The second problem with this statement: since when is a 4-processor server very-high-end? For many things, this type of box would be plenty, but for other tasks it would hardly even be considered as a viable option. Please see last weeks article on super-computers for data on very-high-end computers.
And finally, the NT box wasn't even tuned well. My God, they put the swap file on the same physical drive and the same partition as the OS. When using NT, this is a sure-fire way to make sure that your system is NOT performing optimally. I'm impressed with how much leeway that they allowed on this one, and you still won't pay attention to the numbers. I'm not bashing Linux or advocating Microsoft, I'm just looking at the data they've presented. BTW, Sun's SPARC chips aren't really any faster than any other processor on the market. People buy Sun stuff because they want Solaris and they want the applications that people write for Solaris and because (like Apple) the person writing the OS is likely to have a more well-oiled machine if he is also married to the hardware. But trust me, Sun gear is not any more the shit than any other mainstream hardware manufacturer.
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