"Copyright expires upon the death of the copyright holder."
Oh hell no. I can't even begin to imagine the types of strange "accidents" that people might start to have if that happens. Especially considering the questionable activities of corporations lately.
From what I saw the crowd was (for all the SW flicks) about 10% StarWars fanatics(costumes etc, 30-40% big time fans and, get this, the rest were a mix of attitude-rich high school kids and drunk college frat types. Truely bizarre. But I mus say the biggest bunch of a**holes where the TV news media. Rude annoying bastards for the most part.
That and the deriviative nature that some movie series are starting to aquire. Am I the only one who noticed how much of Ep1 seems like a remake/rip-off of the other prior films?
True enough, but even then that still isn't an accurate measure of things.
The stats in question only account for theatre box office monies, nothing about rentals, purchases, or how many individual people have actually SEEN the film. Which is the only true measure of success I'd imagine.
And fewer screens for EP2 means a higher density of idiots. Blah. (Disclaimer: I DID camp out for the re-issues of 4-6 and for Ep1 so I have first hand knowledge of the crowds =P)
Why is it so essential to try to analyze something that should just be left alone. Let it be what it is, don't try to explain it, compare it, what ever. Those of us who read/saw/etc Spiderman etc and those who didn't really don't need the effort. Its part of your life and it relates to you, or it doesn't, you learn what you can from it, the experience is solely yours. Sheesh.
Perhaps you can learn a bit from Ben Parker: "With great power comes great responsibility".
Now how about adapting that to more meaningful journalism, instead of trying to over analyze everything.
OK this is art about the same as that idiot pipe-bombing art student's "smiley face" project was art. I've attended one of the US's highest ranked art colleges and lemme tell you something, art is crap. Most of what I have seen in the art world is a waste of energy. This isn't art, it _IS_ a cool hack (which frankly I place more value on) but it's not art and shouldn't be construed as such.
The fair user may find it more difficult to engage in certain fair uses with regard to electronic books, but nevertheless, fair use is still available.
IANAL but that statement sounds to me like pretty explicit permission do defeat devices/"protections" that impede fair use BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY so long as you are excercising your fair use rights. Difficult is most definately NOT impossible. And since there is no banning in place, there is no legal impossiblity, and most certainly no technical one, and there never will be.
Now if I can just get an eBook converted to speech mp3 and drop it on the new Sony Net MD Player/Recorder. Heh.
True, the Senator is an excellent venue for any film, but it isn't as independant as I wish it were. Movie industry BS still abounds. They have been locked out of running certain films (Lord of the Rings, for example, altho they did run it later on for a brief time) because a GCC theatre in Towson (outside Baltimore city) was running it. Its practically the last screen left in Baltimore, which is a shame, but having camped out for all the special editions and ep1 I can tell you its a great experience.
Anyway, the digital theatres might be great image quality, but NOTHING beat a good old-fashion 70mm film in a place like the Senator.
Given: "It is a legal requirement that pre-installed operating systems remain with a machine for the life of the machine. If a company or individual donates a machine to your school, it must be donated with the operating system that was installed on the PC."
At what point in the nearly constant component part upgrade cycle my machines go thru, does the original machine cease to be? I have boxes that have only the case as the only remaining part of the original unit, and I have a (mostly) Dell thats in a generic case.
"If only they would devote a little bit of the millions of dollars they're spending on this ad campaign to help stop illegal downloading... but that wouldn't help them sell more CD burners, would it," said Hilary Rosen, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America.
I see, it would seem that the RIAA is still of the mindset that the tool maker is responsible for the use of the tool.
There is no way that the tech industry is going to voluntarily cripple its equipment on just the media companies' say so.
Thankfully there has been NO support for the SSSCA/CD...whatever they're calling it today. Not that that means it's dead.
Rosen and company should realize that forced DRM will pan out in one of 2 directions. Either it will be defeated by some 13 year old in a matter of minutes, or it (if *unbreakable* =P )will annihilate the market for new equipment and create a huge aftermarket for pre-DRM equipment.
Both are failures for the media folk, but the second option promises to make an already ugly looking ecomony even worse. And potentially turn millions of people into felons for effectively sitting still.
There are laws already in place to handle every issue they keep bringing up, but appearantly it won't be enough until they can force feed use everything.
If they want to kick the piracy issue I have a suggestion for them. PUT SOME PORDUCTION QUALITY INTO THEIR PRODUCTS! I'm not talking about the quality of the music itself, but everything that goes along with it. Case in point, the soundtrack for "Queen of the Damned". Retailing at the local Walmart for $13.99. I think it a pretty good soundtrack, personally. However, the packaging and liner notes are TERRIBLE! No lyric sheet, tracks aren't even listed in order as they are on the disk, it's just a simple tri-fold. How about a little something more for my $14? Seriously, give me one good reason why I shoud not just d/l the tracks that I want, aside from the (il)legallity issue. There is NOTHING, no added value whatsoever in purchasing the actual CD.
This is primarily their greatest problem, they fail to see that they are selling more than simply music, and until they realize it, 'pirating' (I still hate that term) looks very appealing.
Nope, I'll fess up to that right now. I don't know every piece of hardware. But after over 15 years working with and around computers, I know what a manual is, I know where to d/l drivers (MCSE didn't), I know that after I have to ask the same question 5 times maybe I shouldn't be dealing with what I'm asking about. That's all. I just want some common sense in people, thats all. The worst part of it all is that all the blatantly unqualified MCSEs are harming the rep of the few actually skilled ones. Now an MSCE simply means Must Consult Someone Experienced.
"Obscurity is the first line of defense. The building is unmarked, its address unspecified in company literature and its managers tight-lipped about disclosing driving directions or identifying markings to strangers. While the location of the building is not a true secret -- dozens if not hundreds of Internet addressing insiders know where it is -- it would be difficult for a casual vandal or criminal to stumble across it, Rippe said.
And the casual vandal or criminal would be interested in it because?
For crying out loud, a 1 second Google search on "Verisign NOC" reveals the COMPLETE ADDRESS in a PARTY INVITATION!?!? in the very first result!
I see, like those MCSE's that they claim earn an average of $80k a year. Hmmm. An AVERAGE of $80k doesn't sound that inexpensive to me.
Especially since most of the ones I've run into know little to nothing about computers. We actually hired one (don't ask me why) who didn't know you could hook up a printer thru a zip drive, I wish I were making this up.
Sounds like MS is experiencing a panic attack of some sort.
Actually, I saw it last night (thurs), looks fantastic. I know some things have needed to be left out of the films, but man, Jackson looks to have done an excellent job.
On a side note, when can we get a prop auction or something? The things they created for the films are just awesome.
I propose that next wednesday, we get ourselves together, and everyone else we can find, and call EVERY elected official, federal, state, and local level, who's number we can find. Tell them how you feel, all at once. Senators and Representatives are handling the issue now, but tell the state and local folks how you feel too. Make them understand that if they want your support furthering their career it would be in their best interest to lend their voices to our cause.
Hell, if we get enough traffic that it drops the phone system, even better.
Wednesday, April 3rd, call the bastards, call them ALL.
"Wherify's GPS Personal Locator helps keep loved ones safe"
OK, so how exactly do they back this claim up? It does nothing to PREVENT something from happening to the wearer. Just another after-the-fact tool to help find the (hopefully alive) body and build a case against the criminal. Like unwatched security cameras.
Not that I don't see uses for it, but the marketing is WAY off. This thing would be great for people like hikers in remote regions, or skiers and the like. It'd be much more helpful in locating those who are simply LOST, perhaps victims of accidental injury or foul weather, than as an anti-crime device.
At what point will basic economics conquer this latest "boom". Everything inevitably will have to bolster the bottom line, otherwise costs are going to be passed on to the customer, or paycuts to the staff. My guess will be both, and all this new spending will, in the long run, just further injure the economy.
Oh, yeah, and exactly where is the proof that we've gotten rid of Osama and company anyway?
Now just throw it in a lunch-box style case with an integrated LCD (doesn't have to be great quality, I always have the TV out) and a hide-away keyboard and pointing device of some kind and I'm sold.
Smaller system units are great, but if you're gonna go that route you may as well make it a true portable.
I'd imagine that all of the school systems that are handing out laptops to their students could benefit from this if the price was right, although I'm still of the opinion that accidental physical damage is a greater threat to laptops (in any deployment locale) than theft. And more often than not the real value is in the data and program code, not the machinery itself.
And my employer has ceased to deploy physical security measures, figuring that insurance will replace anything, and usually with more up to date equipment.
Now whether or not this is cost effective is another issue.
Or even if they did, you could sit back and laugh, knowing that half the device drivers don't even exist. =P
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Most people I know don't have broadband (at least not anymore) simply because they're outta work, or so under-employed that they can't justify the expense.
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"Copyright expires upon the death of the copyright holder."
Oh hell no. I can't even begin to imagine the types of strange "accidents" that people might start to have if that happens. Especially considering the questionable activities of corporations lately.
From what I saw the crowd was (for all the SW flicks) about 10% StarWars fanatics(costumes etc, 30-40% big time fans and, get this, the rest were a mix of attitude-rich high school kids and drunk college frat types. Truely bizarre. But I mus say the biggest bunch of a**holes where the TV news media. Rude annoying bastards for the most part.
Hahahaha!
Actually I predate the web, but I guess I've just grown tired of it all. =P
That and the deriviative nature that some movie series are starting to aquire. Am I the only one who noticed how much of Ep1 seems like a remake/rip-off of the other prior films?
True enough, but even then that still isn't an accurate measure of things.
The stats in question only account for theatre box office monies, nothing about rentals, purchases, or how many individual people have actually SEEN the film. Which is the only true measure of success I'd imagine.
And fewer screens for EP2 means a higher density of idiots. Blah. (Disclaimer: I DID camp out for the re-issues of 4-6 and for Ep1 so I have first hand knowledge of the crowds =P)
Why is it so essential to try to analyze something that should just be left alone. Let it be what it is, don't try to explain it, compare it, what ever. Those of us who read/saw/etc Spiderman etc and those who didn't really don't need the effort. Its part of your life and it relates to you, or it doesn't, you learn what you can from it, the experience is solely yours. Sheesh.
Perhaps you can learn a bit from Ben Parker: "With great power comes great responsibility".
Now how about adapting that to more meaningful journalism, instead of trying to over analyze everything.
OK this is art about the same as that idiot pipe-bombing art student's "smiley face" project was art. I've attended one of the US's highest ranked art colleges and lemme tell you something, art is crap. Most of what I have seen in the art world is a waste of energy. This isn't art, it _IS_ a cool hack (which frankly I place more value on) but it's not art and shouldn't be construed as such.
The fair user may find it more difficult to engage in certain fair uses with regard to electronic books, but nevertheless, fair use is still available.
IANAL but that statement sounds to me like pretty explicit permission do defeat devices/"protections" that impede fair use BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY so long as you are excercising your fair use rights. Difficult is most definately NOT impossible. And since there is no banning in place, there is no legal impossiblity, and most certainly no technical one, and there never will be.
Now if I can just get an eBook converted to speech mp3 and drop it on the new Sony Net MD Player/Recorder. Heh.
True, the Senator is an excellent venue for any film, but it isn't as independant as I wish it were. Movie industry BS still abounds. They have been locked out of running certain films (Lord of the Rings, for example, altho they did run it later on for a brief time) because a GCC theatre in Towson (outside Baltimore city) was running it. Its practically the last screen left in Baltimore, which is a shame, but having camped out for all the special editions and ep1 I can tell you its a great experience.
Anyway, the digital theatres might be great image quality, but NOTHING beat a good old-fashion 70mm film in a place like the Senator.
I'm sorry, if my educational institution is site licensed for all the MS OS's we use, I'll take any machine thats useful, OEM OS with it or not.
Given: "It is a legal requirement that pre-installed operating systems remain with a machine for the life of the machine. If a company or individual donates a machine to your school, it must be donated with the operating system that was installed on the PC."
At what point in the nearly constant component part upgrade cycle my machines go thru, does the original machine cease to be? I have boxes that have only the case as the only remaining part of the original unit, and I have a (mostly) Dell thats in a generic case.
What constitutes a PC?
"If only they would devote a little bit of the millions of dollars they're spending on this ad campaign to help stop illegal downloading ... but that wouldn't help them sell more CD burners, would it," said Hilary Rosen, CEO of the Recording Industry Association of America.
I see, it would seem that the RIAA is still of the mindset that the tool maker is responsible for the use of the tool.
There is no way that the tech industry is going to voluntarily cripple its equipment on just the media companies' say so.
Thankfully there has been NO support for the SSSCA/CD...whatever they're calling it today. Not that that means it's dead.
Rosen and company should realize that forced DRM will pan out in one of 2 directions. Either it will be defeated by some 13 year old in a matter of minutes, or it (if *unbreakable* =P )will annihilate the market for new equipment and create a huge aftermarket for pre-DRM equipment.
Both are failures for the media folk, but the second option promises to make an already ugly looking ecomony even worse. And potentially turn millions of people into felons for effectively sitting still.
There are laws already in place to handle every issue they keep bringing up, but appearantly it won't be enough until they can force feed use everything.
If they want to kick the piracy issue I have a suggestion for them. PUT SOME PORDUCTION QUALITY INTO THEIR PRODUCTS! I'm not talking about the quality of the music itself, but everything that goes along with it. Case in point, the soundtrack for "Queen of the Damned". Retailing at the local Walmart for $13.99. I think it a pretty good soundtrack, personally. However, the packaging and liner notes are TERRIBLE! No lyric sheet, tracks aren't even listed in order as they are on the disk, it's just a simple tri-fold. How about a little something more for my $14? Seriously, give me one good reason why I shoud not just d/l the tracks that I want, aside from the (il)legallity issue. There is NOTHING, no added value whatsoever in purchasing the actual CD.
This is primarily their greatest problem, they fail to see that they are selling more than simply music, and until they realize it, 'pirating' (I still hate that term) looks very appealing.
Tell me the cow's name is Hillary!
Nope, I'll fess up to that right now. I don't know every piece of hardware. But after over 15 years working with and around computers, I know what a manual is, I know where to d/l drivers (MCSE didn't), I know that after I have to ask the same question 5 times maybe I shouldn't be dealing with what I'm asking about. That's all. I just want some common sense in people, thats all. The worst part of it all is that all the blatantly unqualified MCSEs are harming the rep of the few actually skilled ones. Now an MSCE simply means Must Consult Someone Experienced.
"Obscurity is the first line of defense. The building is unmarked, its address unspecified in company literature and its managers tight-lipped about disclosing driving directions or identifying markings to strangers.
While the location of the building is not a true secret -- dozens if not hundreds of Internet addressing insiders know where it is -- it would be difficult for a casual vandal or criminal to stumble across it, Rippe said.
And the casual vandal or criminal would be interested in it because?
For crying out loud, a 1 second Google search on "Verisign NOC" reveals the COMPLETE ADDRESS in a PARTY INVITATION!?!? in the very first result!
Yeah, I feel safe.
"It requires you to pay for expensive experts."
I see, like those MCSE's that they claim earn an average of $80k a year. Hmmm. An AVERAGE of $80k doesn't sound that inexpensive to me.
Especially since most of the ones I've run into know little to nothing about computers. We actually hired one (don't ask me why) who didn't know you could hook up a printer thru a zip drive, I wish I were making this up.
Sounds like MS is experiencing a panic attack of some sort.
Actually, I saw it last night (thurs), looks fantastic. I know some things have needed to be left out of the films, but man, Jackson looks to have done an excellent job.
On a side note, when can we get a prop auction or something? The things they created for the films are just awesome.
I propose that next wednesday, we get ourselves together, and everyone else we can find, and call EVERY elected official, federal, state, and local level, who's number we can find. Tell them how you feel, all at once. Senators and Representatives are handling the issue now, but tell the state and local folks how you feel too. Make them understand that if they want your support furthering their career it would be in their best interest to lend their voices to our cause.
Hell, if we get enough traffic that it drops the phone system, even better.
Wednesday, April 3rd, call the bastards, call them ALL.
"Wherify's GPS Personal Locator helps keep loved ones safe"
OK, so how exactly do they back this claim up? It does nothing to PREVENT something from happening to the wearer. Just another after-the-fact tool to help find the (hopefully alive) body and build a case against the criminal. Like unwatched security cameras.
Not that I don't see uses for it, but the marketing is WAY off. This thing would be great for people like hikers in remote regions, or skiers and the like. It'd be much more helpful in locating those who are simply LOST, perhaps victims of accidental injury or foul weather, than as an anti-crime device.
Seriously. Who's footing the bill for all this?
At what point will basic economics conquer this latest "boom". Everything inevitably will have to bolster the bottom line, otherwise costs are going to be passed on to the customer, or paycuts to the staff. My guess will be both, and all this new spending will, in the long run, just further injure the economy.
Oh, yeah, and exactly where is the proof that we've gotten rid of Osama and company anyway?
Interesting offering, but I'm still inclined to wait a few months for Sprint's rumored 3G debut.
Anyone heard anything reliable about their roll-out?
Now just throw it in a lunch-box style case with an integrated LCD (doesn't have to be great quality, I always have the TV out) and a hide-away keyboard and pointing device of some kind and I'm sold.
Smaller system units are great, but if you're gonna go that route you may as well make it a true portable.
I'd imagine that all of the school systems that are handing out laptops to their students could benefit from this if the price was right, although I'm still of the opinion that accidental physical damage is a greater threat to laptops (in any deployment locale) than theft. And more often than not the real value is in the data and program code, not the machinery itself.
And my employer has ceased to deploy physical security measures, figuring that insurance will replace anything, and usually with more up to date equipment.
Now whether or not this is cost effective is another issue.
Or even if they did, you could sit back and laugh, knowing that half the device drivers don't even exist. =P
Most people I know don't have broadband (at least not anymore) simply because they're outta work, or so under-employed that they can't justify the expense.