Rip Van Winkel as a story is almost 200 years old, too.
isn't there supposed to be some sort of requirement that patent examiners be alive, breathing, and not vegetables? if so, they are surely not meeting it in their hiring.
the little guys who make the country run, or the big shots who want to limit the little guys?
the answer to the question is the heart of the argument. I don't generally expect big multinational outfits to be pushing for little guys to get their rights back as it says in the constitution.
it's a 5/$5000 penalty, class C felony, to knowingly distribute harmful software to a PC in Minnesota. 1992 law, I believe it was. demonstrating this is a rootkit is prima facie evidence that this would be harmful software.
there are no zombies. the political-types that lurch around violating laws and abusing the people are not zombies, they are just naturally gray and stinky;)
of such discoveries is medicine made. now, the difficult part is going to be getting the experiments to prove it into the public eye, infecting "32" blood with HIV in vitro, and then taking that research into the luddite chambers of policymakers.
we'll have fun galore when that happens. a true righteous moral civil war.
not just the outright thefts, like tyco and refco, and attempted at worldCON. all these interlocking board members get in their meeting in grand cayman, or hawaii, or bermuda, vote special stock dividends and options packages to the top bananas and board members, and run another thousand worker bees out the door to pay for it. getting to be the only retirement plan you can count on is guns and ammo.
and you will get folks wanting to be a part. send it all overseas, to destroy the society in order to further enrich the millionnaires, and what's the freaking reason to invest the time in educating yourself?
if Americans are going to be competition for illegal immigrants who will work for half of nothing, they damn sure will not spend two to six years learning skills they can't be hired for, and can't pay the student loans off for.
yes, it's true, the Chinese government herein signals their intention to NOT MAKE HD_DVD players cheaply for all comers, because they just have too much business going right now to take on any more.
there is no other logical explaination for the decision to make their own variant, probably in violation of patents and copyrights.
unless they want to check back on who is watching those disgusting things, and jail them at their leisure at 3 am. still Communist and scared of their own proletariat over there, you know.
NBC/Universal programming. now all we have to do is wait a week to find out whether this will be two-tier off iTunes (rent cheap, buy pricey) or what.
we had a bunch of tin-star sheriffs try it once
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called it DIVX, sold three disks and ten players, and folded. didn't help circuit city one bit, the principal money behind it, and curiously, the only place that sold those doomed discs of death. disney tried it again last year, bombed. the market doesn't want bs in a box. stop trying to sell it to us.
I have nowhere near ripped my whole CD or vinyl collection, not even close. but I have lots of stuff in my iPod that has not been made availiable for sale, and that is not availiable even on cd. always will be that way. but I do find nice things I lost track of or couldn't afford when they came out on Da Service, and like being able to two-self-divided-click them to my life. (don't want any lawsuits from amazon by using a "one-" in print where others can see it.)
consider what a "music company" is. a tower full of suits running drugola and payola, seeing and being seen in expensive fancy places, and in the case of rap imprints, the odd gangland style shooting in an expensive fancy place. there are a couple dozen A&R guys around signing acts and leading them into the studios to cut "acceptable quality" masters, at the industry's highest rates, on credit against receipts from sales. so big-hit artists start out broker as the record goes higher, due to label-paid publicity tours and the like they have to pay back.
apple doesn't need any of that. they have an eMarket that is instantly recognized and considered grade-A, they have a track record of paying their artist revenues in full and on time (which the big labels shockingly have never had,) and they have giant media buzz as well as street cred.
no, apple doesn't need any steenkin' labels. the steenkin' labels need apple. the artists can always re-contract with iTunes music service and be done with big label bullshit. ITMS needs to get an office, phone, and a couple more dealmakers, and the "major record labels" are all dead as doorknobs.
the artist as their own label, with a distribution network of millions of hits daily... that's what ITMS could be.
the line forms at One Infinite Loop, please don't block the bus stop as you snake around the block......
used to be way back in the old days when records were 78s and radio announcers had to announce, "The following program is a transcription," before playing a record... that ASCAP artists would not allow their music to be played over radio. shock! and! awe!
well, that was the ASCAP board talking, and a bunch of artists walked on down the street, rented a lawyer and a space, and established BMI as a music licensing agent. BMI has beated the schytte off ASCAP's pants in business almost every year since.
if RIAA is ready for a schism, there are plenty of great musicians that are not getting contracts or are being screwed over on royalties that are ready for an alternative. lots of musicians don't want into the present star-maker machinery and are trying everything from PatroNet to burning their own "greenies" and trying to sell them at bars and gas stations.
mp3.com was a place where a lot of them tried to get it done. iTunes could be a much hotter eMarket.
if they don't want to sell legally to podheads, screw em. I wouldn't buy anything on CD from them if I couldn't get it direct to pod. that would make warner music the first big label to crash as the business is changing, because they're cutting off the growing segment of the market because they don't own the channel all the way up, down, and sideways. the first dinosaur has roared from the tar pit.
"labels" are a bunch of suits doing payola and drugola, with a few artist and repitoire folks finding acts and working with them in the studio. apple doesn't need that at all. they are doing just fine as a retail seller of music copies with limited rights to play said music on certain physical equipment. and they are doing fookin' gangbusters, Katie bar the door, selling certain physical equipment that is compatible with iTunes.
I note by referral your Red Herring article in which Edgar Bronfman, Jr. of Warner Music is blasting away at iTunes for one-price music.
Mr. Bronfman insisting on variable pricing for his music products is rather curious, as his labels are always pushing for higher pricing. Where they look for "variable pricing" is when they have backstock, overstock, unsolds, and budget product through Warner Special Music and some other compilation albums. And that is for stuff they are trying to get additional revenue out of long after the first rush of customers is long past.
Much of that cheaper music, in line with present industry standards, is priced for less because they strike contracts with the artists to take less for the repackaged music in hopes of getting anything at all.
Mr. Bronfman, to my view, is acting an idiot. iTunes revenue is hot and fresh, top of the register tape, for all listed songs at the present time, and his back catalog is doing very nicely indeed selling on iTunes. What he's trying to do is ratchet up the price for newly-released material, most of which frankly is vastly inferior to the back catalog, because most new acts are just rubber stamp acts with the blond standing to the left, instead of to the right.
If he wants a chunk of revenues from players, he should make them. To date, Warner Music and its forebears and assigns have not been in the hardware business. Not in the days of the wind-up phonograph, not in the days of the cassette player, not ever. They have been real happy to let others create the formats, and they just provided music to fit those formats. To stand on a soapbox and demand revenue streams from Apple hardware is rather like my demanding a share of the revenue from thieving cronies in business and government taking advantage of the kickbacks, finders fees, and so on of all that moves past my eyes on the horizon. That is not the function of business. That is the function of extortionists.
iTunes as a vendor of limited rights to play music on certain hardware devices -- and face it, folks, nobody "buys" music, they buy a copy of a format and a limited license to enjoy it within the confines of the Copyright Act -- is free as any other vendor to strike a wholesale price with any supplier and sell at retail those rights to any comers. Like, for instance, Warner Music, which "buys" physical master and resale rights, creates artistic rights for packaging materials, and distributes music performed by various artistic groups to all comers on multiple media formats. Warner is an iTunes; or, if you prefer to draw more middleman lines, Warner is a wholesale packager, selling polystyrene copies to retailers like Amazon and Best Buy, and selling electronic copies to iTunes and Napster, for retail distribution.
If Warner and the other major music labels don't like it, and don't offer their acts iTunes access, maybe the acts should take their output directly to Sirius and iTunes and Napster and perhaps even to Grokster. Grokster providing that "variable pricing" model that Mr. Bronfman so desperately wants to impose on the market.
I for one would appreciate the artists making direct releases. Felix Cavaliere, for instance, has a number of fine solo albums from the 70s and 80s that are not in commercial distribution. He should make direct release to the iTunes of the world and get residual income from his talent and organization and creativity, since Warner and Columbia have seen fit to not re-release the vinyl product on CD.
rigid adherence to proprietary computer anti-standards is impeding law enforcement. the nonsense that comes out of a government that can't win a war overseas and can't drop water bottles into a flooded American city just never stops, does it?
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Rip Van Winkel as a story is almost 200 years old, too.
isn't there supposed to be some sort of requirement that patent examiners be alive, breathing, and not vegetables? if so, they are surely not meeting it in their hiring.
the little guys who make the country run, or the big shots who want to limit the little guys?
the answer to the question is the heart of the argument. I don't generally expect big multinational outfits to be pushing for little guys to get their rights back as it says in the constitution.
it's a 5/$5000 penalty, class C felony, to knowingly distribute harmful software to a PC in Minnesota. 1992 law, I believe it was. demonstrating this is a rootkit is prima facie evidence that this would be harmful software.
somebody with means should get a case opened....
there are no zombies. the political-types that lurch around violating laws and abusing the people are not zombies, they are just naturally gray and stinky ;)
of such discoveries is medicine made. now, the difficult part is going to be getting the experiments to prove it into the public eye, infecting "32" blood with HIV in vitro, and then taking that research into the luddite chambers of policymakers.
we'll have fun galore when that happens. a true righteous moral civil war.
now THAT'S innovation!
we'd have a better president in Jim Anchower, dude.
the 19th for ms windows, world standards hour 3:27 in cleveland, etc.
it's 5-o'clock somewhere, and they have a different standard there for happy hour than we do.
this message is patented in the US and the Azores, copyrighted in Italy, open-source in Belgium and Norway, and pirated everywhere else.
I suppose that also means they will require sales tax permits and business articles of incorporation for individual girl scouts selling cookies.
always wonderful to see Our Government In Action stir from Our Government Inaction for bogus purposes and flail wildly in an attempt to look useful.
pinhead idiots.
not just the outright thefts, like tyco and refco, and attempted at worldCON. all these interlocking board members get in their meeting in grand cayman, or hawaii, or bermuda, vote special stock dividends and options packages to the top bananas and board members, and run another thousand worker bees out the door to pay for it. getting to be the only retirement plan you can count on is guns and ammo.
and you will get folks wanting to be a part. send it all overseas, to destroy the society in order to further enrich the millionnaires, and what's the freaking reason to invest the time in educating yourself?
if Americans are going to be competition for illegal immigrants who will work for half of nothing, they damn sure will not spend two to six years learning skills they can't be hired for, and can't pay the student loans off for.
stop whining and bring the real jobs back home!
and that's why you find a mainframe "at every desk and in every home." it's so popular.
yes, it's true, the Chinese government herein signals their intention to NOT MAKE HD_DVD players cheaply for all comers, because they just have too much business going right now to take on any more.
there is no other logical explaination for the decision to make their own variant, probably in violation of patents and copyrights.
unless they want to check back on who is watching those disgusting things, and jail them at their leisure at 3 am. still Communist and scared of their own proletariat over there, you know.
NBC/Universal programming. now all we have to do is wait a week to find out whether this will be two-tier off iTunes (rent cheap, buy pricey) or what.
called it DIVX, sold three disks and ten players, and folded. didn't help circuit city one bit, the principal money behind it, and curiously, the only place that sold those doomed discs of death. disney tried it again last year, bombed. the market doesn't want bs in a box. stop trying to sell it to us.
I have nowhere near ripped my whole CD or vinyl collection, not even close. but I have lots of stuff in my iPod that has not been made availiable for sale, and that is not availiable even on cd. always will be that way. but I do find nice things I lost track of or couldn't afford when they came out on Da Service, and like being able to two-self-divided-click them to my life. (don't want any lawsuits from amazon by using a "one-" in print where others can see it.)
consider what a "music company" is. a tower full of suits running drugola and payola, seeing and being seen in expensive fancy places, and in the case of rap imprints, the odd gangland style shooting in an expensive fancy place. there are a couple dozen A&R guys around signing acts and leading them into the studios to cut "acceptable quality" masters, at the industry's highest rates, on credit against receipts from sales. so big-hit artists start out broker as the record goes higher, due to label-paid publicity tours and the like they have to pay back.
apple doesn't need any of that. they have an eMarket that is instantly recognized and considered grade-A, they have a track record of paying their artist revenues in full and on time (which the big labels shockingly have never had,) and they have giant media buzz as well as street cred.
no, apple doesn't need any steenkin' labels. the steenkin' labels need apple. the artists can always re-contract with iTunes music service and be done with big label bullshit. ITMS needs to get an office, phone, and a couple more dealmakers, and the "major record labels" are all dead as doorknobs.
the artist as their own label, with a distribution network of millions of hits daily... that's what ITMS could be.
the line forms at One Infinite Loop, please don't block the bus stop as you snake around the block......
used to be way back in the old days when records were 78s and radio announcers had to announce, "The following program is a transcription," before playing a record... that ASCAP artists would not allow their music to be played over radio. shock! and! awe!
well, that was the ASCAP board talking, and a bunch of artists walked on down the street, rented a lawyer and a space, and established BMI as a music licensing agent. BMI has beated the schytte off ASCAP's pants in business almost every year since.
if RIAA is ready for a schism, there are plenty of great musicians that are not getting contracts or are being screwed over on royalties that are ready for an alternative. lots of musicians don't want into the present star-maker machinery and are trying everything from PatroNet to burning their own "greenies" and trying to sell them at bars and gas stations.
mp3.com was a place where a lot of them tried to get it done. iTunes could be a much hotter eMarket.
if they don't want to sell legally to podheads, screw em. I wouldn't buy anything on CD from them if I couldn't get it direct to pod. that would make warner music the first big label to crash as the business is changing, because they're cutting off the growing segment of the market because they don't own the channel all the way up, down, and sideways. the first dinosaur has roared from the tar pit.
"labels" are a bunch of suits doing payola and drugola, with a few artist and repitoire folks finding acts and working with them in the studio. apple doesn't need that at all. they are doing just fine as a retail seller of music copies with limited rights to play said music on certain physical equipment. and they are doing fookin' gangbusters, Katie bar the door, selling certain physical equipment that is compatible with iTunes.
I note by referral your Red Herring article in which Edgar Bronfman, Jr. of Warner Music is blasting away at iTunes for one-price music.
Mr. Bronfman insisting on variable pricing for his music products is rather curious, as his labels are always pushing for higher pricing. Where they look for "variable pricing" is when they have backstock, overstock, unsolds, and budget product through Warner Special Music and some other compilation albums. And that is for stuff they are trying to get additional revenue out of long after the first rush of customers is long past.
Much of that cheaper music, in line with present industry standards, is priced for less because they strike contracts with the artists to take less for the repackaged music in hopes of getting anything at all.
Mr. Bronfman, to my view, is acting an idiot. iTunes revenue is hot and fresh, top of the register tape, for all listed songs at the present time, and his back catalog is doing very nicely indeed selling on iTunes. What he's trying to do is ratchet up the price for newly-released material, most of which frankly is vastly inferior to the back catalog, because most new acts are just rubber stamp acts with the blond standing to the left, instead of to the right.
If he wants a chunk of revenues from players, he should make them. To date, Warner Music and its forebears and assigns have not been in the hardware business. Not in the days of the wind-up phonograph, not in the days of the cassette player, not ever. They have been real happy to let others create the formats, and they just provided music to fit those formats. To stand on a soapbox and demand revenue streams from Apple hardware is rather like my demanding a share of the revenue from thieving cronies in business and government taking advantage of the kickbacks, finders fees, and so on of all that moves past my eyes on the horizon. That is not the function of business. That is the function of extortionists.
iTunes as a vendor of limited rights to play music on certain hardware devices -- and face it, folks, nobody "buys" music, they buy a copy of a format and a limited license to enjoy it within the confines of the Copyright Act -- is free as any other vendor to strike a wholesale price with any supplier and sell at retail those rights to any comers. Like, for instance, Warner Music, which "buys" physical master and resale rights, creates artistic rights for packaging materials, and distributes music performed by various artistic groups to all comers on multiple media formats. Warner is an iTunes; or, if you prefer to draw more middleman lines, Warner is a wholesale packager, selling polystyrene copies to retailers like Amazon and Best Buy, and selling electronic copies to iTunes and Napster, for retail distribution.
If Warner and the other major music labels don't like it, and don't offer their acts iTunes access, maybe the acts should take their output directly to Sirius and iTunes and Napster and perhaps even to Grokster. Grokster providing that "variable pricing" model that Mr. Bronfman so desperately wants to impose on the market.
I for one would appreciate the artists making direct releases. Felix Cavaliere, for instance, has a number of fine solo albums from the 70s and 80s that are not in commercial distribution. He should make direct release to the iTunes of the world and get residual income from his talent and organization and creativity, since Warner and Columbia have seen fit to not re-release the vinyl product on CD.
somebody check up on this german researcher's background, think we've heard this story before.....
this virus will cause the mazda sassou to ignore all attempts to make every third turn, or to slow down during that period.
you really want to transfer other stuff to the car computer? be ready for ALL of it....
rigid adherence to proprietary computer anti-standards is impeding law enforcement. the nonsense that comes out of a government that can't win a war overseas and can't drop water bottles into a flooded American city just never stops, does it?