9_9 -- but then I realized that just looked more like 'sleep deprived' than 'rolling eyes'. Oh well.
I'm with you, though. I've played video games for about 25 years (from using my 'square with arrow' to kill a dragon, all the way to GTA:SA) and never once was I inspired to commit a crime.
Oh oh, I know what the contrarians will say: "Maybe we should restrict games for kids to just two-color sprites; That way the depictions of cop killing wounldn't be real like in the movies." That way these ambulance chasers and media watch-dogs can get back after the TV/movie producers. Oh, and the gangster rappers. Sigh.
Geek of the Week (845): My only comment... is that I was shocked by just how long I've apparently been Slashdotting. When [Robin] said, "He's been around for a while on Slashdot user number 180805."
It made me wonder, "what if I had a question in there?" My UId is lower than Roblimo's.
But yeah, I guess it has been a long time. I wish, though, that Slashdot would join the moddern era in terms of html/css. I mean the 1995 style tables are nostalgic and all...
- jc42: "...the old Communist/Capitalist false dichotomy." - you: If you REALLY think there's no difference between capitalism and Soviet style communism, then no rational words are going to sway you.
(AL): Jon, Adept is obviously a sequel to Archon. This is something fairly new in the game world. But I see you cringe every time the word sequel is mentioned. Would you explain how Adept is or is not a sequel to Archon?
(JF): It is a sequel, in the sense that it was an attempt to do a game that would feel -- sensually and emotionally -- like Archon. The planning and pacing is similar. There are times when you sit back and think for a while. These are followed by periods of very intense excitement and action. Then you're back to thinking again. The mechanics -- such as the action board, strategy board, picking pieces and casting spells -- are the same, so that someone who plays Archon can come in, pick up the game and start playing almost at once. So in these ways, it is a sequel. However, they will not be as good at Adept as they would have thought, because the pieces and strategy are so different. Also, the whole idea of resource or energy management is totally new.
I love this comment. Back in 1993 they are talking about sequels to video games as being unusual, and cringing at the thought. Don't you just love the sweet irony?
I love milking franchises as much as the next guy, don't get me wrong, from Impossible Mission to Final Fantasy:-D I just love how in '93 they didn't see the tie-in treadmill that it is now.
I also would like to get my wife to DDR more -- I love it, but it takes practice and she gets frustrated. I don't know a geek that doesn't want to get his wife to play video games with him, so hats off to you. The suggestion of trying to lure her into doubles play is a pretty good idea though. Once you can both do Basic tracks together maybe you'll be encouraged to head down to the arcade and amuse the 13 yr olds on the real platform. Once I had enough home practice, I found playing on the metal stage to be just that much more rewarding.
Ok - I swear I'm going to stop beating this dead horse after this one. That other idiot author -- Lerner -- it looks like he's been IP law for years TOO (I mean besides teaching about it). I mean look at the scholary journals publications since 1997!
This guy may be writing the source material for when you go to law school. I'm just assuming that since you work in IP law, you must be an legal assistant or something (otherwise you would have been hitting me over the head with "I am a lawyer, neener neener!").
Anyhow, cheers. It seems like this one is pretty well covered. Jaffe and Lerner are not some slouchy IP know-nothings; You might even call them experts in their fields. You sure showed me with those 'expert wheat farmer' anologies.
National Bureau of Economic Research papers in regards to Innovation Policy as far back as 2000. He's been at it at least 5 years already.
Aw crap, wouldn't you know it: http://people.brandeis.edu/~ajaffe/ EDUCATION 1980-85 Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University. Thesis: "Quantifying the Effects of Technological Opportunity and Research Spillovers in Industrial Innovation."
1976-78 S.M. in Technology and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Thesis: "Regulating Chemicals: Product and Process Technology as a Determinant of the Compliance Response."
1973-76 S.B. in Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Full disclosure - I have a BS CS and BS Mathematics and left grad school to work in IP law. Also, I work in IP law. Granted, I'm not a professor of economics, however I spend 50 hours each week dealing with IP law and the US Patent system. And in case I was too subtle, I make every cent of my income by working in IP law.
I'm glad you took the time to mention where you are coming from. That's upstanding and respectable. I guess you've got a couple more years before you make dean (when you get tired of law).:-D Anyway, my point was that the article in question wasn't written by a bunch of USC Engineers who know more about lithography than IP, which you insinuate (you rail against the authors based soley on where the publication appears, "IEEE, they must all be idiot CS and Math majors, how could they have done enough research to write a book about IP").
And I have mine at the bottom left so the trash is always locked in the same place.
Yes there are many, many options to fool around with. Step into ~/Library/Preferences and start looking at all the stuff you can tweak with the 'defaults' command (for example, bandwidth limiting iChatAV even lower than the slider allows). I think a more interesting form of tweaking, beyond just moving the dock around is software like this:
4. Nice link to IEEE - they're clearly legal experts. Oh wait, they know about technology, not law. Patents are legal animals that have technology as content. With my thinking cap on, I declare that IEEE does NOT possess patent law expertise.
Since you can't read:
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Adam B. Jaffe is the Fred C. Hecht Professor in Economics and Dean of Arts and Sciences at Brandeis University, in Waltham, Mass. Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Mass. They cowrote Innovation and Its Discontents: How Our Broken Patent System Is Endangering Innovation and Progress, and What to Do About It, which was published in November by Princeton University Press.
Holy shit "black pages" I didn't know you were a higher authority than both a published Dean and a published Professor at Harvard. I'm totally putting you on my "friends list" because you are the obvious expert when it comes to patent law and its intersection with Economics and Business.
While we're giving full disclosure, what are your credentials? They don't appear to be listed on your user profile.
I came up with a scheme like this to send longer messages by alpha-numeric pager during the early 90s. The only drawback was you needed the program on both ends to decode it, and the internet was usurping the need for this kind of thing.:-D Oh and it wasn't terribly necessary cause you don't get a ton of compression.
Anyhow it worked pretty much just like this, except I didn't remove vowels because they could make offensive text, I removed letters that where ambiguous on the LCD 7-bar displays (like o, s, z, g, k, v [k looks like x, v looks like u]). Anyway, take a piece of [monocase, un-punctuated] text, encode it as a bunch of 2 digit codes (a = 10 b = 20... z = 62, j = 72, t = 82, space = 92 - swapped to avoid leading zero trouble) that will make a long integer (102030425262) etc, then turn this integer into a string representation of a base 30 number. Then this is what you send to the beeper. This is the stupid crap you do with Pascal in highschool.
If only I had patented the concept. One could probably re-implement it in a one line Perl program.
While it may look murky legally, I have no doubt that even Lionel Hutz would get this one thrown out of court.
Heh.:-D I wasn't trying to justify it, I'm just pointing out that there is situation where trouble arises, despite how innocuous it seems. In the same snippet of the Code you also have a problem if people you invite bring strangers (people that weren't invited)... because then all of a sudden it's 'public'. So yeah, I'm not saying that these aren't defensible cases, or that they wouldn't get thrown own by a Judge's common sense or 'intent of the law' rationale.
Additionally, OS X (not server) can also run without graphics. But, if you eschew Aqua so badly, but still want a gui you could start up X instead (god forbid) and then treat your PowerMac like any other homebrew BSD box. Oh oh, then you could run one of the myriad window managers and tweak it all crazy to have window controls at the bottom, and a dock at the TOP. You could use GTK if you are fervent about that.
Well, you know what I meant. I meant the "free" BSDs (not to be confused with FreeBSD).
Additionally to the sibling poster... Darwin is a "free" BSD. And to address your line in the great-great-grand-parent:
"The only thing that is working in Linux/*BSD's favor is multiplatform compatibility (i.e. you can run the same OS on x86 and PPC)..."
If that's the only thing working in its favor then you will hate to hear that people are getting Darwin running on x86. Of course you were probably thinking "Aqua isn't free, so I'll just rule that out," which is fair. We probably won't see Aqua on x86 anytime soon... but if your core goal is to have the same BSD running on your Mac and your Opteron, well that choice is here now (including Darwin). The difference will be that you don't have the same spread of gui apps, only the subset of X11 apps.
You: on this site, Sony is evil, and Nintendo is the last bastion of gaming hope.
This is such a load of crap. You consider the constant bashing of Nintendo and its "kiddie" games as some kind of ringing endorsement? The last bastion of gaming hope? This whole story is full of comments about how lame the GBA is and how it's all HUGE compared to the PSP and has no good games, except kiddie crap that no one likes to play (typical gamer: "No killing people with blood splashing around?! I can't wait to totally play GTA4 on my PSP in line to see Rise of the Phoenix 2"). Full disclosure: I love GTA:SA, and my wife loves Animal Crossing so that might reveal something about where I'm coming from.
The only console I haven't bought since the Atari 2600 (besides the Saturn) is the Xbox. And why? Because maybe I am some zealous nut, but frankly, I don't want Microsoft to have my sale.
If we are going to make grandiose statements about what Slashdotters do and don't think, let's go with some more mainstream stereotypes: Microsoft is evil, and anyone but Microsoft is the last bastion of gaming hope.
Finally, why does everyone take their platform choices so personally? Why was it even necessary to go on the warpath against jvmatthe's post. It's not like he was being particularly biased, just running out a pretty obvious fact: One can buy an SP for $80 bucks and some great games for $20 to $40. Compare that to a $380 bundle. Saying that the difference between $250 and $80 quenches his consumer desire is not zealotry.
(Whether or not that $250 gets you the ~200 bucks more fun and usefulness with new-format-movie playback and an analog stick is an individual decision. We don't all have agendas. Sorry for the rant, not really aimed right at you I guess.)
You ask: Are you telling me that you must pay royalties to ASCAP to play music (in this case, most US-copyrighted works from the US labels) that you have purchased in your own home during a party or gathering on private property (ed. corrected "during a party or gathering in a private residence")? I apologize if I misspoke on fair use, specifically, and will stipulate to your correction. But still, are you telling me that playing CDs you own in your own house while anyone else other than yourself is in earshot is technically illegal or infringing? Because that's the insinuation of your post.
It's actaully kinda murky. I guess it depends on how big the party or gathering was in your private resisdence and whether there was any kind of compensation.
Quoth The Law (section 110)
110. Limitations on exclusive rights: Exemption of certain performances and displays
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, the following are not infringements of copyright:...I've removed (1), (2) and (3) as they aren't relevant...
(4) performance of a nondramatic literary or musical work otherwise than in a transmission to the public, without any purpose of direct or indirect commercial advantage and without payment of any fee or other compensation for the performance to any of its performers, promoters, or organizers, if --
(A) there is no direct or indirect admission charge; or
(B) the proceeds, after deducting the reasonable costs of producing the performance, are used exclusively for educational, religious, or charitable purposes and not for private financial gain, except where the copyright owner has served notice of objection to the performance under the following conditions:
(i) the notice shall be in writing and signed by the copyright owner or such owner's duly authorized agent; and
(ii) the notice shall be served on the person responsible for the performance at least seven days before the date of the performance, and shall state the reasons for the objection; and
(iii) the notice shall comply, in form, content, and manner of service, with requirements that the Register of Copyrights shall prescribe by regulation;
The parts I bold here show that parties where you play music may not be legal if the invites say "bring beer and chips". It's kind of irrelevant how private the property or residence. You could always play a CD for your family, or while others are in earshot because then you have the intent defense. However, you could have a private party, and recieve compensation for public performance of copyrighted works (again like in a previous post) if it was 'educational' (the code talks about face to face teaching situations, you might like reading it). Also note the religious and cheritable exemption. This allows for copyrighted music (and plays, covered in a different section) to be performed as part of church services whitout being infringement.
Anyhow. I hope this has shown just how ridiculous that copyright law in the U.S. has gotten. Some CD cases will even claim rights to performance and what not, so for a little funny extra cirricular, read all the fine print on some of your more popular CDs and see what gold you can find.
I guess I should note that IANAL and this is not legal advice.
Years later, I went back for a visit. They were still using the same forms, and that same RPG-II program to fill out the student data. I seriously doubt it's still being used, but I'm too scared to ask, in case it is.
Anonymous said: Multiply out the number of iBooks and the cost per iBook and make a stink about it the next time the school board elections come around. You can say that money could have gone to science materials, bonuses for teachers, etc.
As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the cost of iBooks in a deal like this is greatly reduced, in a current deal as low as $275 per machine. Maybe you should instead thank the school board for being so frugal with the relatively meager funds they have available. Instead:
Multiply out the number of iBooks and the savings of $800 per iBook and make a [contribution] the next time the school board elections come around. You can say that the money [they saved] could go to science materials, bonuses for teachers, etc.
In educational deals like this, remember that the cost for each iBook is somewhere between $275 and $500. School systems get great bang for the buck with technology grants and the like -- they aren't even necessarily tax payer funded.:-D Just like they get huge amounts of money for sports from Coke or Pepsi (whoever has 'pouring rights' for the district). The facts are that school districts get so little money from taxes (write your governor) that they have to (or are happy to) take money from whomever is willing regardless of the agenda being pushed, whether it's Microsoft and their settlement requirements or the junk food pushers.
gp: To tread up the slippery slope aways, how would you feel about the guy who throws a large house party and plays CDs he owns for everyone to hear? He's probably breaking the letter of the law. Is he immoral too?
you: No, he's not, because he's not breaking the law. 1.) This actually IS what we call "fair use", which the downloading crowd is trying to bastardize to consider every person on earth a "friend" that they're "sharing" with...
Sorry I have to jump into this heated debate... but NO, that is not Fair Use. You cannot 'share' anything with friends and family and call it Fair Use. I can't believe I'm going to look up the code instead of telling you to Google it, but here goes:
107. Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright. In determining whether the use made of a work in any particular case is a fair use the factors to be considered shall include --
(1) the purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is of a commercial nature or is for nonprofit educational purposes;
(2) the nature of the copyrighted work;
(3) the amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the copyrighted work as a whole; and
(4) the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work.
The fact that a work is unpublished shall not itself bar a finding of fair use if such finding is made upon consideration of all the above factors.
So there you have it. Parties for your friends (I guess unless it's a musicology party, and you aren't playing the works in whole) and sharing with your family ARE NOT FAIR USE. Please to enjoy reading the whole code one time: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html
I've worked with the AS400 and I know plenty of Cobol people (hell, my dad is one). However, I don't know a soul that's ever used it [RPG], let alone currently doing development/maintainence.
Anyone here actually use RPG (or it's descendants)? Any war stories?
Additionally -- it could be my eyes -- I didn't see RPG on the non-pdf 'family tree'.
I've been watching out for people with lower UIDs. I'm afraid I may be one of the last double-digits left. I've never fiddled around to see if you could access user pages by id somehow... so you could just step through users or something.
C'mon all you guys that are bashing the parent... Maybe Microsoft employees do use a disproportionately large number of media access control addresses. I mean, with all the ethernetworked devices in their cubicles and homes, they very well could be above average!
:-D Fwiw, I still [rarely] eat at McDonalds, even though I worked their one summer. I mostly avoid it because, hey, that stuff isn't so great for your body.
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Everyone knows:
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"It's not gay if you're the dude."
9_9 -- but then I realized that just looked more like 'sleep deprived' than 'rolling eyes'. Oh well.
I'm with you, though. I've played video games for about 25 years (from using my 'square with arrow' to kill a dragon, all the way to GTA:SA) and never once was I inspired to commit a crime.
Oh oh, I know what the contrarians will say: "Maybe we should restrict games for kids to just two-color sprites; That way the depictions of cop killing wounldn't be real like in the movies." That way these ambulance chasers and media watch-dogs can get back after the TV/movie producers. Oh, and the gangster rappers. Sigh.
Geek of the Week (845): My only comment... is that I was shocked by just how long I've apparently been Slashdotting. When [Robin] said, "He's been around for a while on Slashdot user number 180805."
It made me wonder, "what if I had a question in there?" My UId is lower than Roblimo's.
But yeah, I guess it has been a long time. I wish, though, that Slashdot would join the moddern era in terms of html/css. I mean the 1995 style tables are nostalgic and all...
Anyhow, cheers.
- jc42: "...the old Communist/Capitalist false dichotomy."
- you: If you REALLY think there's no difference between capitalism and Soviet style communism, then no rational words are going to sway you.
Do you even know what "false dichotomy" means?
West Siiiiiiiiiiii-eeeeed!!
I love this comment. Back in 1993 they are talking about sequels to video games as being unusual, and cringing at the thought. Don't you just love the sweet irony?
I love milking franchises as much as the next guy, don't get me wrong, from Impossible Mission to Final Fantasy
I also would like to get my wife to DDR more -- I love it, but it takes practice and she gets frustrated. I don't know a geek that doesn't want to get his wife to play video games with him, so hats off to you. The suggestion of trying to lure her into doubles play is a pretty good idea though. Once you can both do Basic tracks together maybe you'll be encouraged to head down to the arcade and amuse the 13 yr olds on the real platform. Once I had enough home practice, I found playing on the metal stage to be just that much more rewarding.
Ok - I swear I'm going to stop beating this dead horse after this one. That other idiot author -- Lerner -- it looks like he's been IP law for years TOO (I mean besides teaching about it). I mean look at the scholary journals publications since 1997!
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http://www.people.hbs.edu/jlerner/publications.ht
This guy may be writing the source material for when you go to law school. I'm just assuming that since you work in IP law, you must be an legal assistant or something (otherwise you would have been hitting me over the head with "I am a lawyer, neener neener!").
Anyhow, cheers. It seems like this one is pretty well covered. Jaffe and Lerner are not some slouchy IP know-nothings; You might even call them experts in their fields. You sure showed me with those 'expert wheat farmer' anologies.
Oh - also - you might find the authors other works of interest, since it is your field now.
r l/index=books&field-author=Adam%20B.%20Jaffe/002-6 209548-3168005
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-u
National Bureau of Economic Research papers in regards to Innovation Policy as far back as 2000. He's been at it at least 5 years already.
Aw crap, wouldn't you know it:
http://people.brandeis.edu/~ajaffe/
EDUCATION
1980-85 Ph.D. in Economics, Harvard University. Thesis: "Quantifying the Effects of
Technological Opportunity and Research Spillovers in Industrial Innovation."
1976-78 S.M. in Technology and Policy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Thesis:
"Regulating Chemicals: Product and Process Technology as a Determinant of the
Compliance Response."
1973-76 S.B. in Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Full disclosure - I have a BS CS and BS Mathematics and left grad school to work in IP law. Also, I work in IP law. Granted, I'm not a professor of economics, however I spend 50 hours each week dealing with IP law and the US Patent system. And in case I was too subtle, I make every cent of my income by working in IP law.
:-D Anyway, my point was that the article in question wasn't written by a bunch of USC Engineers who know more about lithography than IP, which you insinuate (you rail against the authors based soley on where the publication appears, "IEEE, they must all be idiot CS and Math majors, how could they have done enough research to write a book about IP").
/ 002-6209548-3168005
I'm glad you took the time to mention where you are coming from. That's upstanding and respectable. I guess you've got a couple more years before you make dean (when you get tired of law).
Anyhow, 256 pages is pretty short, you should give it a read and let us all know if the authors are 'omgwtflolretarded', 'alamegeh', 'kradedlite' or whatever it is you kids are saying now.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/069111725X
When you get published, drop me a line.
I have the Dock at the TOP with Aqua.
And I have mine at the bottom left so the trash is always locked in the same place.
Yes there are many, many options to fool around with. Step into ~/Library/Preferences and start looking at all the stuff you can tweak with the 'defaults' command (for example, bandwidth limiting iChatAV even lower than the slider allows). I think a more interesting form of tweaking, beyond just moving the dock around is software like this:
http://www.unsanity.com/haxies/shapeshifter
Since you can't read:
Holy shit "black pages" I didn't know you were a higher authority than both a published Dean and a published Professor at Harvard. I'm totally putting you on my "friends list" because you are the obvious expert when it comes to patent law and its intersection with Economics and Business.
While we're giving full disclosure, what are your credentials? They don't appear to be listed on your user profile.
I came up with a scheme like this to send longer messages by alpha-numeric pager during the early 90s. The only drawback was you needed the program on both ends to decode it, and the internet was usurping the need for this kind of thing. :-D Oh and it wasn't terribly necessary cause you don't get a ton of compression.
... z = 62, j = 72, t = 82, space = 92 - swapped to avoid leading zero trouble) that will make a long integer (102030425262) etc, then turn this integer into a string representation of a base 30 number. Then this is what you send to the beeper. This is the stupid crap you do with Pascal in highschool.
Anyhow it worked pretty much just like this, except I didn't remove vowels because they could make offensive text, I removed letters that where ambiguous on the LCD 7-bar displays (like o, s, z, g, k, v [k looks like x, v looks like u]). Anyway, take a piece of [monocase, un-punctuated] text, encode it as a bunch of 2 digit codes (a = 10 b = 20
If only I had patented the concept. One could probably re-implement it in a one line Perl program.
While it may look murky legally, I have no doubt that even Lionel Hutz would get this one thrown out of court.
:-D I wasn't trying to justify it, I'm just pointing out that there is situation where trouble arises, despite how innocuous it seems. In the same snippet of the Code you also have a problem if people you invite bring strangers (people that weren't invited)... because then all of a sudden it's 'public'. So yeah, I'm not saying that these aren't defensible cases, or that they wouldn't get thrown own by a Judge's common sense or 'intent of the law' rationale.
Heh.
Anyhow... always fun these crazy laws of ours.
Additionally, OS X (not server) can also run without graphics. But, if you eschew Aqua so badly, but still want a gui you could start up X instead (god forbid) and then treat your PowerMac like any other homebrew BSD box. Oh oh, then you could run one of the myriad window managers and tweak it all crazy to have window controls at the bottom, and a dock at the TOP. You could use GTK if you are fervent about that.
Well, you know what I meant. I meant the "free" BSDs (not to be confused with FreeBSD).
... Darwin is a "free" BSD. And to address your line in the great-great-grand-parent:
Additionally to the sibling poster
"The only thing that is working in Linux/*BSD's favor is multiplatform compatibility (i.e. you can run the same OS on x86 and PPC)..."
If that's the only thing working in its favor then you will hate to hear that people are getting Darwin running on x86. Of course you were probably thinking "Aqua isn't free, so I'll just rule that out," which is fair. We probably won't see Aqua on x86 anytime soon... but if your core goal is to have the same BSD running on your Mac and your Opteron, well that choice is here now (including Darwin). The difference will be that you don't have the same spread of gui apps, only the subset of X11 apps.
We meet again.
You: on this site, Sony is evil, and Nintendo is the last bastion of gaming hope.
This is such a load of crap. You consider the constant bashing of Nintendo and its "kiddie" games as some kind of ringing endorsement? The last bastion of gaming hope? This whole story is full of comments about how lame the GBA is and how it's all HUGE compared to the PSP and has no good games, except kiddie crap that no one likes to play (typical gamer: "No killing people with blood splashing around?! I can't wait to totally play GTA4 on my PSP in line to see Rise of the Phoenix 2"). Full disclosure: I love GTA:SA, and my wife loves Animal Crossing so that might reveal something about where I'm coming from.
The only console I haven't bought since the Atari 2600 (besides the Saturn) is the Xbox. And why? Because maybe I am some zealous nut, but frankly, I don't want Microsoft to have my sale.
If we are going to make grandiose statements about what Slashdotters do and don't think, let's go with some more mainstream stereotypes: Microsoft is evil, and anyone but Microsoft is the last bastion of gaming hope.
Finally, why does everyone take their platform choices so personally? Why was it even necessary to go on the warpath against jvmatthe's post. It's not like he was being particularly biased, just running out a pretty obvious fact: One can buy an SP for $80 bucks and some great games for $20 to $40. Compare that to a $380 bundle. Saying that the difference between $250 and $80 quenches his consumer desire is not zealotry.
(Whether or not that $250 gets you the ~200 bucks more fun and usefulness with new-format-movie playback and an analog stick is an individual decision. We don't all have agendas. Sorry for the rant, not really aimed right at you I guess.)
It's actaully kinda murky. I guess it depends on how big the party or gathering was in your private resisdence and whether there was any kind of compensation.
Quoth The Law (section 110)
The parts I bold here show that parties where you play music may not be legal if the invites say "bring beer and chips". It's kind of irrelevant how private the property or residence. You could always play a CD for your family, or while others are in earshot because then you have the intent defense. However, you could have a private party, and recieve compensation for public performance of copyrighted works (again like in a previous post) if it was 'educational' (the code talks about face to face teaching situations, you might like reading it). Also note the religious and cheritable exemption. This allows for copyrighted music (and plays, covered in a different section) to be performed as part of church services whitout being infringement.
Anyhow. I hope this has shown just how ridiculous that copyright law in the U.S. has gotten. Some CD cases will even claim rights to performance and what not, so for a little funny extra cirricular, read all the fine print on some of your more popular CDs and see what gold you can find.
I guess I should note that IANAL and this is not legal advice.
Years later, I went back for a visit. They were still using the same forms, and that same RPG-II program to fill out the student data. I seriously doubt it's still being used, but I'm too scared to ask, in case it is.
:-D
*Chuckle* Thanks for that.
Anonymous said: Multiply out the number of iBooks and the cost per iBook and make a stink about it the next time the school board elections come around. You can say that money could have gone to science materials, bonuses for teachers, etc.
As I mentioned elsewhere in this thread, the cost of iBooks in a deal like this is greatly reduced, in a current deal as low as $275 per machine. Maybe you should instead thank the school board for being so frugal with the relatively meager funds they have available. Instead:
Multiply out the number of iBooks and the savings of $800 per iBook and make a [contribution] the next time the school board elections come around. You can say that the money [they saved] could go to science materials, bonuses for teachers, etc.
To expand on the parent's information:
:-D Just like they get huge amounts of money for sports from Coke or Pepsi (whoever has 'pouring rights' for the district). The facts are that school districts get so little money from taxes (write your governor) that they have to (or are happy to) take money from whomever is willing regardless of the agenda being pushed, whether it's Microsoft and their settlement requirements or the junk food pushers.
In educational deals like this, remember that the cost for each iBook is somewhere between $275 and $500. School systems get great bang for the buck with technology grants and the like -- they aren't even necessarily tax payer funded.
you: No, he's not, because he's not breaking the law. 1.) This actually IS what we call "fair use", which the downloading crowd is trying to bastardize to consider every person on earth a "friend" that they're "sharing" with...
Sorry I have to jump into this heated debate... but NO, that is not Fair Use. You cannot 'share' anything with friends and family and call it Fair Use. I can't believe I'm going to look up the code instead of telling you to Google it, but here goes:
So there you have it. Parties for your friends (I guess unless it's a musicology party, and you aren't playing the works in whole) and sharing with your family ARE NOT FAIR USE. Please to enjoy reading the whole code one time: http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html
http://hopl.murdoch.edu.au/showlanguage2.prx?exp=2 07
I've worked with the AS400 and I know plenty of Cobol people (hell, my dad is one). However, I don't know a soul that's ever used it [RPG], let alone currently doing development/maintainence.
Anyone here actually use RPG (or it's descendants)? Any war stories?
Additionally -- it could be my eyes -- I didn't see RPG on the non-pdf 'family tree'.
I've been watching out for people with lower UIDs. I'm afraid I may be one of the last double-digits left. I've never fiddled around to see if you could access user pages by id somehow... so you could just step through users or something.
C'mon all you guys that are bashing the parent ... Maybe Microsoft employees do use a disproportionately large number of media access control addresses. I mean, with all the ethernetworked devices in their cubicles and homes, they very well could be above average!
:-D Fwiw, I still [rarely] eat at McDonalds, even though I worked their one summer. I mostly avoid it because, hey, that stuff isn't so great for your body.