think the comparison is to that same professional using the same software, just not paying Adobe anything for it.
Well in that case the potential is fine and loss of reputation. Fines may or may not be serious, loss of reputation can be huge for a small business.
I simply don't pirate stuff at all - I'll pay if it's worth it to me, look for open source alternatives if not. A case in point would be spreadsheets - I need them in what I do, but not enough so that I can justify buying Office, or even standalone Excel, under OS X. As a result I use NeoOffice, which gets trotted out once a quarter purely for the spreadsheet component as I do some fairly simple calculations.
Now, I could have copied Excel and paid nothing to Microsoft. I'd have arguably better functionality if I had done that. But should I ever be busted (remote, but possible) the loss of reputation to my business has such potential that I never even consider pirating the stuff.
$500 ?!? No wonder we have so much bile spewed about Gimp vs Photoshop. Hey, tell me, how does spending $500 on a tool put you ahead profit-wise, as opposed to obtaining a free tool that you can improve yourself legally?
That's easy - buying the tool may free up time that could be spent on chargeable tasks. The two tools do not offer comparable levels of functionality. In this case, though I am certainly not suggesting it's the situation in every case, the $500 tool is more powerful than the free one. Consequently, if you expect to earn more than $500 by using it then the cost of the tool is fully justified.
As for 'improve it yourself legally' - two points here. The first is that the graphic designer probably isn't a programmer and so couldn't do such a thing, the second is that in the rare case where the graphic designer actually is a programmer it is possible they would earn more by paying for a finished tool and using it for graphic design than they would for using a free tool but having to put development and testing time in.
$500 is nothing for a professional firm. I run a one-man contracting company, and have paid roughly about £700 for my software over the last three years or so. A high price, but a miniscule cost in terms of what it allowed me to do (and charge clients for doing).
Apparently the BSA lives in REVERSO-LAND, where paying Adobe $500 for PhotoShop makes YOU RICH!
Not that I support the BSA's conclusion in this case, but there will certainly be many graphic professionals who use Photoshop to earn more than the $500 it cost them. Software and hardware as a professional tool certainly can have a value greater than the sticker amount.
No, it isn't. If it were that, it would be useless to me. Why? Because I listen to podcasts, which I've previously downloaded, in situations where I have have no net link, usually on the train. So streaming it most definitely isn't.
It's a simple idea - an RSS feed of MP3 links, which a client will auto-fetch for you. But 'an RSS feed of MP3 links' is a let less catchy than 'podcast', so I'm happy to use the term.
"...hey, stop flying! Rover can't follow you! Get back here! No!"
Appreciate the humour. To ruin it with an inappropriately po-faced response however:-)....
6 did actually try to fly out of the village. He commandeered a helicopter and flew out in the the first episode, but the helicopter's controls were overridden by the Village and he was forced back down again.
And yes, I know I shouldn't have responded to a joke like that. Can't help it I'm afraid.
The oldest computer I have is a Pentium 266 MMX laptop with 64MB of RAM
I have a Compaq P100 laptop. I set up a dual-boot for Debian and FreeDOS, and it now spends its days as a slave to my C64, bypassing the notoriously slow 1541 snaildrive.
Since I can't read the article to find out, can someone please tell me who McG is, as referred to in the summary? To me McG means Patrick McGoohan, and I'd actually like to see him get involved with the films.
A good portion of the people murdered in Britian have been murdered by police: google "table leg" or "Menezes".
Bollocks. A "good portion of the people murdered in Britain"? And you cite two examples? Both examples caused absolute outcry here, although the first one polarised opinion as opposed to the universal condemnation and shock caused by the second.
I don't know the count of people murdered in this country last year, but sad to say it's likely to be an awful lot higher than two. The police have made some appalling mistakes recently, but my god - a "good portion of the people murdered"? Nope.
Cheers,
Ian
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Its democratic dream offers no defence against viruses, spammers, criminals, hucksters or deranged individuals
...and also offers no opportunity for centralised authority to be exercised. Web forums simply cannot offer the same protection.
If user.hasCD() is false but user.hasRightToMusic() is true, then the if fails and you don't need to delete the copies.
If the user has the CD but does not have the right to the music, you still don't have to delete the copies. Must be covered under burglary laws by that stage....
If the user does not have the CD and has no more rights to the music (eg. CD has been sold on), then all copies must be deleted
The copyright on the piece of music belongs to the artist (or label). What you are doing is creating an arrangement of it, which still falls under the original copyright.
I couldn't, for example, pick a Radiohead track then release my smash-hit ukulele'n'kazoo remix without expecting Radiohead's label to come knocking on the door*. It's just an arrangement of someone else's idea.
(*or hordes of music fans to come baying for my blood...)
A question for anyone with a new iMac G5 who has also bought a video from the music store. Do these videos integrate with Front Row at all?
It's my (utterly unsubstantiated) belief that Front Row will appear in iLife 06, and that then a Mac Mini playing these videos on a TV will start to make quite a lot of sense.
When you get it working with TiVo2Go files, then you'll have something worth plugging.
Not its purpose - I actually did this so that I could listen to BBC radio programmes on my iPod whilst commuting into work. To do offline conversion, look into ffmpegx and mencoder. You'll still need the descrambling hack for certain models installed as far as I'm aware though.
You're looking for TivoTool, an excellent OS X conversion utility. Will handle conversion to MPEG-2 in various varieties (.mpeg,.vob etc.), XViD MP4 and will also integrate well with iTunes.
For offline conversion (ie. you already have the.ty or.tivo), it includes a pre-compiled vsplit binary which will do the conversion on the command line. ffmpegx will also convert a.ty to a DiVX AVI.
Blatent plug for me: v3 of my Tivo Podcast software is planned to do this too. Tivo Podcast software is Perl/Java and uses two support binaries available on both Linux, OS X and Windows, so this will run on any platform. At the moment it just handles audio, as it was written before the video iPods came out. I've got a v2.1 release planned, which will be an efficiency release and still audio, then 3.0 is going to go for for video.
Um, skip this submission and don't read the coments?
Agreed, and apart from checking replies to my post that's what I'm doing. But then the same argument could be applied to any of the existing preferences too, yet they're there. My comment is just to help fine-tune an already working system, I'm not sitting here fuming about this article's existence or anything. Just a suggestion.
I'm not interested in this, but I fully recognise that many people are. Solution? A Comics section so that people who like comics can continue to read, and people that don't can have the article removed from the front page.
PS. My last dates have been met online. It allows me to meet women with similar interests instead of just going to a bar and scanning whats available.
I think I can see the flaw in your technique. It's traditional to scan who's available, not merely what's available. I mean, I'm pretty sure the fire extinguisher has no previous engagements but...
Aluminium is the 'correct' and internationally recommended way of writing it, with aluminum being a local variant. Personally, even as a Brit I think the second sounds more correct, but there you go.
From the summary: it is difficult to know whether an e-mail message is worth interrupting your work for unless you open and read it - at which point you have, of course, interrupted yourself.' What could be done to change computing to help mitigate this multitasking?"
At work, I've taken the approach of turning off all notifications that I have new mail. That way I avoid the problem above - I don't know there's anything to interrupt me, so no interruption occurs. Higher priority is given to (work-related) IM and higher priority is given to a phone call. Note that 'higher' doesn't automatically guarantee I'll drop what I'm doing to answer, but you have the second-best chance of getting my attention. The very best method? Be at my desk and speak to me. That's not practical for all situations of course, working from home springs to mind as do remote offices etc., but for my normal work-day that's a fine approach.
My following the order above has resulted in me getting time to concentrate and think a lot more, and and I'm working better for it I feel.
Wonder if one of them could find time to update their maps data to be correct. I'm in the UK - put in my postcode and it has me in a completely different town. Reported as a bug about three months ago (within a week of Google Maps UK launching, don't know exact date), reported by others since and still more people I know have reported that they've been placed incorrectly too.
It's the only mapping service to get me in the wrong place. Streetmap.co.uk is fine, multimap.com is fine, the MS one whose name temporarily escapes me is fine...just Google. Wonder where they're sourcing their data from?
For bugs in the code you write? For bugs in the compiler which compiled it? For bugs in the operating system which ran the code? For bugs in the design of processor which executed it? For impurities in the particular processor the code was run with which caused it to malfunction at a certain clock speed?
When I first heard this idea mooted, I assumed that this was the reason the Dirac codec was being worked on. I more or less assumed that the service would roll out cross-platform specifically because they used their own codec.
Instead, we get a single platform-only affair. I'm aware they claim they're working on Mac and Linux clients, but unless they're going to a) switch formats or b) strong-arm Microsoft into developing their DRM restrictions for the Mac and Linux (!) then I can't really see that claim as being believable.
My initial reaction then is one of frustration. A really nice idea, something I really want to see, but built on the wrong foundations right from the start. I doubt I'm going to be able to use this anytime soon (UK-based OS X user) despite the platitudes.
As an aside, I'm aware that this has all been done by an external contractor rather than the BBC. That figures, because if there's one media organisation anywhere in the world that really seems to 'get' the internet, it's the Beeb.
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Well in that case the potential is fine and loss of reputation. Fines may or may not be serious, loss of reputation can be huge for a small business.
I simply don't pirate stuff at all - I'll pay if it's worth it to me, look for open source alternatives if not. A case in point would be spreadsheets - I need them in what I do, but not enough so that I can justify buying Office, or even standalone Excel, under OS X. As a result I use NeoOffice, which gets trotted out once a quarter purely for the spreadsheet component as I do some fairly simple calculations.
Now, I could have copied Excel and paid nothing to Microsoft. I'd have arguably better functionality if I had done that. But should I ever be busted (remote, but possible) the loss of reputation to my business has such potential that I never even consider pirating the stuff.
Cheers,
Ian
That's easy - buying the tool may free up time that could be spent on chargeable tasks. The two tools do not offer comparable levels of functionality. In this case, though I am certainly not suggesting it's the situation in every case, the $500 tool is more powerful than the free one. Consequently, if you expect to earn more than $500 by using it then the cost of the tool is fully justified.
As for 'improve it yourself legally' - two points here. The first is that the graphic designer probably isn't a programmer and so couldn't do such a thing, the second is that in the rare case where the graphic designer actually is a programmer it is possible they would earn more by paying for a finished tool and using it for graphic design than they would for using a free tool but having to put development and testing time in.
$500 is nothing for a professional firm. I run a one-man contracting company, and have paid roughly about £700 for my software over the last three years or so. A high price, but a miniscule cost in terms of what it allowed me to do (and charge clients for doing).
Cheers,
Ian
Not that I support the BSA's conclusion in this case, but there will certainly be many graphic professionals who use Photoshop to earn more than the $500 it cost them. Software and hardware as a professional tool certainly can have a value greater than the sticker amount.
Cheers,
Ian
No, it isn't. If it were that, it would be useless to me. Why? Because I listen to podcasts, which I've previously downloaded, in situations where I have have no net link, usually on the train. So streaming it most definitely isn't.
It's a simple idea - an RSS feed of MP3 links, which a client will auto-fetch for you. But 'an RSS feed of MP3 links' is a let less catchy than 'podcast', so I'm happy to use the term.
Cheers,
Ian
Appreciate the humour. To ruin it with an inappropriately po-faced response however :-) ....
6 did actually try to fly out of the village. He commandeered a helicopter and flew out in the the first episode, but the helicopter's controls were overridden by the Village and he was forced back down again.
And yes, I know I shouldn't have responded to a joke like that. Can't help it I'm afraid.
Cheers,
Ian
I have a Compaq P100 laptop. I set up a dual-boot for Debian and FreeDOS, and it now spends its days as a slave to my C64, bypassing the notoriously slow 1541 snaildrive.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
Bollocks. A "good portion of the people murdered in Britain"? And you cite two examples? Both examples caused absolute outcry here, although the first one polarised opinion as opposed to the universal condemnation and shock caused by the second.
I don't know the count of people murdered in this country last year, but sad to say it's likely to be an awful lot higher than two. The police have made some appalling mistakes recently, but my god - a "good portion of the people murdered"? Nope.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
if( ! (user.hasCD() || user.hasRightToMusic()) {
deleteCopies = true;
}
else {
deleteCopies = false;
}
Implications:
Sony's statement does make sense.
Cheers,
Ian
I couldn't, for example, pick a Radiohead track then release my smash-hit ukulele'n'kazoo remix without expecting Radiohead's label to come knocking on the door*. It's just an arrangement of someone else's idea.
(*or hordes of music fans to come baying for my blood...)
Cheers,
Ian
It's my (utterly unsubstantiated) belief that Front Row will appear in iLife 06, and that then a Mac Mini playing these videos on a TV will start to make quite a lot of sense.
Cheers,
Ian
Not its purpose - I actually did this so that I could listen to BBC radio programmes on my iPod whilst commuting into work. To do offline conversion, look into ffmpegx and mencoder. You'll still need the descrambling hack for certain models installed as far as I'm aware though.
Cheers,
Ian
For offline conversion (ie. you already have the .ty or .tivo), it includes a pre-compiled vsplit binary which will do the conversion on the command line. ffmpegx will also convert a .ty to a DiVX AVI.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian
Agreed, and apart from checking replies to my post that's what I'm doing. But then the same argument could be applied to any of the existing preferences too, yet they're there. My comment is just to help fine-tune an already working system, I'm not sitting here fuming about this article's existence or anything. Just a suggestion.
Cheers
Ian
Could we have a comics section please?
Cheers,
Ian
I think I can see the flaw in your technique. It's traditional to scan who's available, not merely what's available. I mean, I'm pretty sure the fire extinguisher has no previous engagements but...
Cheers,
Ian
What is with that, anyway?
Aluminium is the 'correct' and internationally recommended way of writing it, with aluminum being a local variant. Personally, even as a Brit I think the second sounds more correct, but there you go.
As ever, Wikipedia reveals all.
Cheers,
Ian
it is difficult to know whether an e-mail message is worth interrupting your work for unless you open and read it - at which point you have, of course, interrupted yourself.' What could be done to change computing to help mitigate this multitasking?"
At work, I've taken the approach of turning off all notifications that I have new mail. That way I avoid the problem above - I don't know there's anything to interrupt me, so no interruption occurs. Higher priority is given to (work-related) IM and higher priority is given to a phone call. Note that 'higher' doesn't automatically guarantee I'll drop what I'm doing to answer, but you have the second-best chance of getting my attention. The very best method? Be at my desk and speak to me. That's not practical for all situations of course, working from home springs to mind as do remote offices etc., but for my normal work-day that's a fine approach.
My following the order above has resulted in me getting time to concentrate and think a lot more, and and I'm working better for it I feel.
Cheers,
Ian
It's the only mapping service to get me in the wrong place. Streetmap.co.uk is fine, multimap.com is fine, the MS one whose name temporarily escapes me is fine...just Google. Wonder where they're sourcing their data from?
Cheers,
Ian
Nonsense.
Cheers,
Ian
Yes, the linked review says they're using WMV and WMV-HD.
Cheers,
Ian
Instead, we get a single platform-only affair. I'm aware they claim they're working on Mac and Linux clients, but unless they're going to a) switch formats or b) strong-arm Microsoft into developing their DRM restrictions for the Mac and Linux (!) then I can't really see that claim as being believable.
My initial reaction then is one of frustration. A really nice idea, something I really want to see, but built on the wrong foundations right from the start. I doubt I'm going to be able to use this anytime soon (UK-based OS X user) despite the platitudes.
As an aside, I'm aware that this has all been done by an external contractor rather than the BBC. That figures, because if there's one media organisation anywhere in the world that really seems to 'get' the internet, it's the Beeb.
Cheers,
Ian
Cheers,
Ian