Neither are "special interest groups". They are both associations with members who are songwriters (SOCAN) or musicians (ACTRA) who have assigned them rights to manage their authoring/composition (SOCAN) and "performance" (ACTRA) royalties.
Both take administration fees from royalties collected but are not-for-profit (or at least I believe this is how they are both defined).
More than not quite. More like completely different than MPAA and RIAA.
As stated above, SOCAN is a performing rights organization. Specifically they handle the authoring and composition royalty of a piece of music. So I write a song, I become a member of SOCAN (as a Canadian), they track the usage of that song (typically radio play only) and they pay out a royalty for the authoring (lyrics) and composition (music) of the song.
ACTRA represents musicians to broker the royalties as they relate to (what is defined in Canada as) Neighbouring Rights (http://www.nrdv.ca/) which is essentially the "performance" of a recorded piece of music. So I play as a musician on a recorded piece of, it gets played (again, typically on the radio) and they pay out based on my performance on this piece.
This later concept differs greatly in the US, where terrestrial (AM/FM) radio does not owe "performance" royalties. SoundExchange via a whole heck of congress lobbying is the closest equivalent to ACTRA (or the two other Canadian associations that deal in these royalties), however, it only deals in Internet streaming and satellite radio. And, yes they totally fucked up.
SOCAN and ACTRA have historically helped to look after the little musicians. They are not inherently evil despite what the likely opinion on slashdot will be.
Now, as a musician, in Canada, who writes songs, gets airplay and, yes, has leftish values, I think that this is an acceptable compromise. Bars, restaurants, dentist offices, etc all get surcharged for playing music in Canada at their workplaces (as music is seen to add value to their business). The same argument can apply to ISPs who have more demand/usage by people looking to listen and become exposed to music. I think ultimately the impact to consumers will be negligible in terms of a rate increase (which is likely to be also monitored by the CRTC).
From what I understand, internally PostgreSQL datatypes are represented as objects/structs. The way it supports User Types suggests this. Is it really an Object Database as in the imfamous ODBMS? No, but the name seems apt.
actually i was able to get "the stills" which is a somewhat indie band from montreal... but have to agree right now the music selection is way too commercial...
also noted that their classification is really bizzare.. since when would you classify blue rodeo as "alternative"?
Actually Java was not "designed" to be used in web-based apps. Its initial design goal was to be platform independent. AWT was thought to be the killer app of Java (ok, true applets are sort-of web-based).
It only became web-based after AWT failed due to horrible performance (early VM) requiring higher client-side system requirements. It moved to the server because at that time servers had the juice to power the VM and Sun needed something to keep it alive. In fact the "web-based design" are really just extension APIs. The servlet spec only made it to the standard distro in 1.4 (maybe a version earlier I forget this).
Not to knock Java, cause it pays my bills too. It is important if we insist on getting into these stupid bickering sessions to know what the original intention of the language was and how it evolved to what it is today.
SOCAN does a number of good services for the music community in Canada. This article presents them as a cash grabbing organisation but they do fairly represent the artist. Their members are primarily artists of all walks of life (Brian Adams to little indie nobodies). They collect the royalties and send the cheque to the musicians that create the music hasssle free.
although i've often thought that gps should be embedded into a few co-workers of mine that often go mia during the course of a day (likely to locate them in a near by tim hortons or starbucks)...
i know too expensive, not practical in an office...
While some RFID chips are easily read by anybody, other RFID chips implement a security access layer. The former would be used for your Walmart-deadline inventory management solution (who cares if someone knows the serial number of a razor). One would hope the later has been used in the above payment solution.
As for the type of security it depends on the implementation, but there is anything from plain symetiric encryption of the data to mutal authentication between the chip and scanner. Unfortunately there are no standards to the security in the industry.
And credit cards... they have never been secure! Just ask the credit card companies how many billions of dollars they lose to fraud in one year.
on topic though, as unprofessional as the whole jboss has unfolded, it is really more noise in the jboss vs. the world open-source java community debate.
honestly no one will roll an app server into production based on comments on a web site without trying the product, getting under the hood, and seeing if it fits (and if you do let's hope we never cross paths). in the end the quality of the product will speak for itself, not the over zealous marketers (oss or commercial).
Before you go ahead and make some stupid close-minded comment that the US has medicine and Canada (or China) do not... think... please...
In Canada (and a number of other progressive countries) people have something called free health care.
If SARS had hit a major US city before Toronto (marking the first North American outbreak) the outcome probably could have been a great deal worst. Imagine the situation: someone in a low-income tax bracket develops a fever and a bit of a cough. These are SARS symptoms, but they are so common. No medical plan, so that person decides not to go to the hospital. SARS has a fast and efficient rate of transferal. So then that person gives SARS to their family, whos children bring it to school. All because of a hesitation to go to the hospital right away because of $.
Our health care immediately opened up special SARS clinics and our already inplace Heath Hotline (1-800 number to speak directly to a nurse) help track potential SARS infections. Although we had a large outbreak (relative to the US) and yes people died, we had a health care system that prevent a bad situation fom turning into a true epidemic.
(and no our health care isn't perfect, but it did it's job)
Repeat for all states aside from Cali and Texas, replacing southern with northern, western or eastern where necessary and igloos with stereotypical native american housing of the region.
While my inital post was Canada-centric, and the above post was probably a troll, this statement might be applicable to most of the world, saddly.
This is because it's a Canadian publication, and unfortunately our publishing industry faces far too intense competition from our southern neighbour.
Canadian magazines, books, etc not only have difficulty breaking into the states, but they can barely maintain recognition in Canada.
The competition comes from southern cultural import (infestation) into Canada. Additionally, our population is too small and cannot support special interest magazines.
Any Canadian publication, book, film, band, musician, actor, etc that makes it in the states generally succeeds, but unfortunately there is great talent just buried away and hidden in our igloos;)
BTW, Shift was a well put together magazine (that threw good schmooze parties to boot;), that with American backing probably would have done very well. It's a shame to seem them go. Go look at their web site to see what they were all about.
Changing the syntact of a language to make it quicker to type is not so important with IDEs such as Eclipse that the while/iterator combo with a few key strokes.
Not to mention, that by implementing these radically different syntax structures, new source code will be harder to maintain for backward compatibility with previous Java versions.
On thing that Java has been good at doing, up until now, is focusing the enhancements on the SDK classes, making "compile-compatibility" relatively straightforward (i.e. download the latest/appropiate JAR and add it to your classpath).
Changing syntax is a bad idea, esspecially since the majority of Java syntax is elegent. Java is not broken, and does not need to be bullied by other languages into being something it's not.
Didn't their parents tell them peer-pressure is bad!
You would think with everyones rant that this was really new technology. Vector image formats are not new.
In fact there is an age old debate, of bitmap (pixel-based) and vector. Pixel based has it's drawbacks of not being scalable, and being bigger in file size. Vector, on the otherhand is scaleable and smaller in file size.
We should, however, remember the big tradeoff for vector, and that is what is gained in scalable quality is lost in rendering processor time. I could imagine some extremely complex icons being created really grinding GNOME on the rendering. Additionally, add XML as the native format, while useful in many applications, processing/parsing XML is not the ideal...
I'll be impressed when I see it and run it on my old beater box that I currently can run GNOME on...
Although, I guess if it really " renders them faster than libpng renders the same images in png format." maybe it'll be the holy gail afterall.
While I do not want to take away attention from open source software being used in mainstream business (or in this case public sector), I find that sometimes we hype too much over everything.
So what if a "web services" company is using open source software for the government. Open source has always been at the centre of web applications since the first script kiddie made a web site using Perl.
My own company has made banking applications using open-source technologies for years, no one's written an article on us.
The point is really: their is some good free open source software out there, and we (as it's supporters) must continue using, improving and recommending it in all our projects. The software will speak for itself!
Actually, this is a good question. What is the database used for? Profile information for WHOIS searches? That would make the most sense, and isn't *that* big a deal. A database to handle name resolution is a bit of overkill I think.
And not to distract that yes it's good to see PostgreSQL getting some mainstream fame.
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Neither are "special interest groups". They are both associations with members who are songwriters (SOCAN) or musicians (ACTRA) who have assigned them rights to manage their authoring/composition (SOCAN) and "performance" (ACTRA) royalties.
Both take administration fees from royalties collected but are not-for-profit (or at least I believe this is how they are both defined).
More than not quite. More like completely different than MPAA and RIAA.
As stated above, SOCAN is a performing rights organization. Specifically they handle the authoring and composition royalty of a piece of music. So I write a song, I become a member of SOCAN (as a Canadian), they track the usage of that song (typically radio play only) and they pay out a royalty for the authoring (lyrics) and composition (music) of the song.
ACTRA represents musicians to broker the royalties as they relate to (what is defined in Canada as) Neighbouring Rights (http://www.nrdv.ca/) which is essentially the "performance" of a recorded piece of music. So I play as a musician on a recorded piece of, it gets played (again, typically on the radio) and they pay out based on my performance on this piece.
This later concept differs greatly in the US, where terrestrial (AM/FM) radio does not owe "performance" royalties. SoundExchange via a whole heck of congress lobbying is the closest equivalent to ACTRA (or the two other Canadian associations that deal in these royalties), however, it only deals in Internet streaming and satellite radio. And, yes they totally fucked up.
SOCAN and ACTRA have historically helped to look after the little musicians. They are not inherently evil despite what the likely opinion on slashdot will be.
Now, as a musician, in Canada, who writes songs, gets airplay and, yes, has leftish values, I think that this is an acceptable compromise. Bars, restaurants, dentist offices, etc all get surcharged for playing music in Canada at their workplaces (as music is seen to add value to their business). The same argument can apply to ISPs who have more demand/usage by people looking to listen and become exposed to music. I think ultimately the impact to consumers will be negligible in terms of a rate increase (which is likely to be also monitored by the CRTC).
... so they get the girls!
From what I understand, internally PostgreSQL datatypes are represented as objects/structs. The way it supports User Types suggests this. Is it really an Object Database as in the imfamous ODBMS? No, but the name seems apt.
actually i was able to get "the stills" which is a somewhat indie band from montreal... but have to agree right now the music selection is way too commercial...
also noted that their classification is really bizzare.. since when would you classify blue rodeo as "alternative"?
right before we bought four lemon submarines from the brits... say is there a submarine buyers guide that we should have sent to ottawa?
:)
oh and when we're ready to invade you all down south, we'll get 100 canadians to roll them over the border... look out!
Predicting if you need your umbrella tomorrow in Bristol does not require any super computer... yes, you do.
and make that cool whirling sound... cause a jet engine would just add too much noise pollution!
Actually Java was not "designed" to be used in web-based apps. Its initial design goal was to be platform independent. AWT was thought to be the killer app of Java (ok, true applets are sort-of web-based).
It only became web-based after AWT failed due to horrible performance (early VM) requiring higher client-side system requirements. It moved to the server because at that time servers had the juice to power the VM and Sun needed something to keep it alive. In fact the "web-based design" are really just extension APIs. The servlet spec only made it to the standard distro in 1.4 (maybe a version earlier I forget this).
Not to knock Java, cause it pays my bills too. It is important if we insist on getting into these stupid bickering sessions to know what the original intention of the language was and how it evolved to what it is today.
SOCAN does a number of good services for the music community in Canada. This article presents them as a cash grabbing organisation but they do fairly represent the artist. Their members are primarily artists of all walks of life (Brian Adams to little indie nobodies). They collect the royalties and send the cheque to the musicians that create the music hasssle free.
although i've often thought that gps should be embedded into a few co-workers of mine that often go mia during the course of a day (likely to locate them in a near by tim hortons or starbucks)...
i know too expensive, not practical in an office...
While some RFID chips are easily read by anybody, other RFID chips implement a security access layer. The former would be used for your Walmart-deadline inventory management solution (who cares if someone knows the serial number of a razor). One would hope the later has been used in the above payment solution.
As for the type of security it depends on the implementation, but there is anything from plain symetiric encryption of the data to mutal authentication between the chip and scanner. Unfortunately there are no standards to the security in the industry.
And credit cards... they have never been secure! Just ask the credit card companies how many billions of dollars they lose to fraud in one year.
and my alter-ego missed it too...
on topic though, as unprofessional as the whole jboss has unfolded, it is really more noise in the jboss vs. the world open-source java community debate.
honestly no one will roll an app server into production based on comments on a web site without trying the product, getting under the hood, and seeing if it fits (and if you do let's hope we never cross paths). in the end the quality of the product will speak for itself, not the over zealous marketers (oss or commercial).
but this isn't really me. it's my alter ego. so i really didn't make the first post.
an from what i've heard the spork was invented by the canadian army... can someone confirm this very important piece?
Before you go ahead and make some stupid close-minded comment that the US has medicine and Canada (or China) do not... think... please...
In Canada (and a number of other progressive countries) people have something called free health care.
If SARS had hit a major US city before Toronto (marking the first North American outbreak) the outcome probably could have been a great deal worst. Imagine the situation: someone in a low-income tax bracket develops a fever and a bit of a cough. These are SARS symptoms, but they are so common. No medical plan, so that person decides not to go to the hospital. SARS has a fast and efficient rate of transferal. So then that person gives SARS to their family, whos children bring it to school. All because of a hesitation to go to the hospital right away because of $.
Our health care immediately opened up special SARS clinics and our already inplace Heath Hotline (1-800 number to speak directly to a nurse) help track potential SARS infections. Although we had a large outbreak (relative to the US) and yes people died, we had a health care system that prevent a bad situation fom turning into a true epidemic.
(and no our health care isn't perfect, but it did it's job)
Repeat for all states aside from Cali and Texas, replacing southern with northern, western or eastern where necessary and igloos with stereotypical native american housing of the region.
While my inital post was Canada-centric, and the above post was probably a troll, this statement might be applicable to most of the world, saddly.
Since when did mainstream become so mainstream?
This is because it's a Canadian publication, and unfortunately our publishing industry faces far too intense competition from our southern neighbour.
Canadian magazines, books, etc not only have difficulty breaking into the states, but they can barely maintain recognition in Canada.
The competition comes from southern cultural import (infestation) into Canada. Additionally, our population is too small and cannot support special interest magazines.
Any Canadian publication, book, film, band, musician, actor, etc that makes it in the states generally succeeds, but unfortunately there is great talent just buried away and hidden in our igloos;)
BTW, Shift was a well put together magazine (that threw good schmooze parties to boot;), that with American backing probably would have done very well. It's a shame to seem them go. Go look at their web site to see what they were all about.
Can someone explain what is wrong with this?
while (iterator.next()) {
}
Changing the syntact of a language to make it quicker to type is not so important with IDEs such as Eclipse that the while/iterator combo with a few key strokes.
Not to mention, that by implementing these radically different syntax structures, new source code will be harder to maintain for backward compatibility with previous Java versions.
On thing that Java has been good at doing, up until now, is focusing the enhancements on the SDK classes, making "compile-compatibility" relatively straightforward (i.e. download the latest/appropiate JAR and add it to your classpath).
Changing syntax is a bad idea, esspecially since the majority of Java syntax is elegent. Java is not broken, and does not need to be bullied by other languages into being something it's not.
Didn't their parents tell them peer-pressure is bad!
You would think with everyones rant that this was really new technology. Vector image formats are not new.
In fact there is an age old debate, of bitmap (pixel-based) and vector. Pixel based has it's drawbacks of not being scalable, and being bigger in file size. Vector, on the otherhand is scaleable and smaller in file size.
We should, however, remember the big tradeoff for vector, and that is what is gained in scalable quality is lost in rendering processor time. I could imagine some extremely complex icons being created really grinding GNOME on the rendering. Additionally, add XML as the native format, while useful in many applications, processing/parsing XML is not the ideal...
I'll be impressed when I see it and run it on my old beater box that I currently can run GNOME on...
Although, I guess if it really " renders them faster than libpng renders the same images in png format." maybe it'll be the holy gail afterall.
Seriously, what would be the legal ramifications if illegal data was stored on someone else computer?
Would this back system, be an easy way to hide illegal content?
What if the RIAA went after someone for keeping a bunch of legal MP3s?
Too many cans... Too many worms...
While I do not want to take away attention from open source software being used in mainstream business (or in this case public sector), I find that sometimes we hype too much over everything.
So what if a "web services" company is using open source software for the government. Open source has always been at the centre of web applications since the first script kiddie made a web site using Perl.
My own company has made banking applications using open-source technologies for years, no one's written an article on us.
The point is really: their is some good free open source software out there, and we (as it's supporters) must continue using, improving and recommending it in all our projects. The software will speak for itself!
... this would be the most interest anyone has shown in this leadership race!
Actually, this is a good question. What is the database used for? Profile information for WHOIS searches? That would make the most sense, and isn't *that* big a deal. A database to handle name resolution is a bit of overkill I think.
And not to distract that yes it's good to see PostgreSQL getting some mainstream fame.