HEY, That cardboard house SUCKS! but did you look at the rest of that site? "The YBE 2004 Houses of the Future project which will feature six houses, each made of a different base material. Each architect-designed house will be environmentally-sustainable, affordable and futuristic:"
Yeah, they are just doing the online equivalent of a good old fashioned ghetto 'shoot up the door'. "what ? we can't come in to the club?" (goes to trunk of car, squeezes 6 off into the front door) pop pop pop pop pop pop screeeeeeeeeeeetch What, you haven't ever been to one of those clubs?
Ever know anyone who recorded a football game but heard in the news that their team lost but planned to watch anyway? Now, what was their reaction if you told them not only that the team lost, but by how much and about the final play?
This was a subplot of a Seinfeld episode, where he tries to not find out the outcome of a knicks game he has taped. Pure genius. Funny because its true, etc....
Everyone I know (including me) charges $75 an hour, but this is in New York City, where even the air costs more. If I feel like they can't afford it, I'll bust it down to $50/hr. Otherwise it is time taken away from my family. If they balk at the price I really don't care, they can get their nephew that thinks he knows everything to look at it. I also prefer mac housecalls because of the hardware regularity. You never know kind of mess you are getting yourself into on windows housecalls (95, 98, 200, xp ?), borked operating system install, the mysteries of pc calls go on and on. At work at least we have uniform hardware and can simply reimage a machine if more than 45 minutes of troubleshooting is required. I went to one guys house and his celeron took almost 8 full minutes to boot, and I had to reboot windows (imagine that) several times. On mac calls I just bring a rescue disk, a spare HD, and a bootable firewire drive, and can work on any machine back to a blue and white g3.
This has always been a problem with mp3, there was the gapless plugin for winamp, itunes attempts it with 'crossfade' except with a zero value crossfade there is still a wierd little skip or gap between tracks. I have seen the rip groups using one big mp3 and a cue file, but as far as I know no mp3 portable supports them, and itunes certainly does not, not sure what windows app does but obviously there is one. Surely this is one thing the mp3 scene has not dealt with. I don't mind ripping mixes as one joined track, since the ipod's scrubbing is excellent, and it is easy to skip forward _and_ backward through a mix using scrub. I have found that most people that I talk to and people that I sell custom mixes to prefer tracked cd's though.
Greatest is indeed subjective, but Watchmen was a seminal work. Perhaps you should pick up a copy and you will see why it is one of the greatest graphic novels of all time, insanely great.
I knew if I had the physical addresses of these spammers blah blah blah, links his moderngeek.com website,/me does a quick google or 2, hilarity ensues
Slashthugz. Listen, bad boy... I don't think that you, or your friends
have the spammers quaking in their proverbial boots.
I would be more scared of getting pwned, or molotov cocktailed from your types. Nice macquarium, though.
This is an old time honored IT tradition. I have been entering bgates@microsoft.com in online forms for years and years, broken only by a 6 month period of using my ex boss's email address (You hear that, Tim? You little prick! Have some spam for lunch!). I am glad to know that all of my hard work has paid off and is employing people.
And it sucks ass. When you delete a message in email you can count to three before the screen updates. Very very poor responsiveness..... It is horridly slow, even on a dual processor G5. It lacks filters for email, and spellcheck is not through yet. Also you have to tell it which applications to open attachments with, no preconfiguration in this area at all. Did I mention the horrible slowness of it yet? I keep hearing that java apps can be fast, but then something like this comes out and I thrown right back onto the "JAVA APPS SUCK" side of the fence.
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Good point and well taken. It is just another facet of humans keeping a recorded history. This is after all one of the things that sets us apart from other species.
You know you're an addict when!!!! Seriously, this is what I have to do to stop playing a game. We had a developer that was a magnitude better than all of us at q3a, and he got so heavily into it he had to uninstall too to keep himself from playing in our daily deathmatches.
however, your evidence is anecdotal, and you are fighting against a larger conspiracy involving the DuPont family, oil $$$, ans space aliens, so it will be an uphil climb.
Good Martha WWN Tie in !!!!!!! I have a friend that worked for weider publications. Turns out weider sold the magazine properties to the publisher that does WWN, so now he works in the same office as them. I can't get any good info about the inner sanctum of the weekly world news though, seems he has been recruited into the cult and sworn to silence... I'll have to pay the office a visit someday.
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I stand corrected, it seems that he was talking about 2 specific examples that fall clearly into a grey area, and 1 isn't even related to copyright... his response follows unedited, and even included a story about reissuing old blues records (relevant to this discussion):
David, Two incidents come to mind. When I was at Laney College I met a woman who owned the last complete 35 mm copy of "Freaks". Anyone who wanted to show the film had to use one of her copies and pay her a fee. She did quite well until someone made a pirate copy from one of her copies. This was not an issue of copyright but of control. I believe the original copyright had expired.
Someone can copyright a new arrangement of a piece of music that is otherwise in public domain. Or a new translation of a public domain book can likewise be copyrighted.
In the past you could renew copyright several times and the work would remain copyrighted until 32 years after the author's death. Now I think the US has jacked that up to more than 70 years (120 years?). In any event the US doesn't harmonize with the rest of the world. There was a recent story about several well known books whose copyright in valid here but has expired in Australia.
If you have the only surviving copy of something and the copyright ownership is murky, you might be king dog. It depends on value as to whether someone else will try and extablish copyright control. Without your copy they don't have much.
Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records and Downhome Music issued records of old blues signers that he'd gotten from his collection of 78s. He kept a royalty fund in the event one of the singers ever surfaced and wanted to be paid. All the record companies involved were long gone. I don't know that he ever had to pay anyone a performance royalty.
There is a story about the singer Kate Smith who, during WWII, approached Irving Berlin about a patriotic song. The two of them went through some trunks where he had a number of projects he'd set aside. They came up with "God Bless America", which Kate had to sing at every personal appearance she made for the rest of her career. Berlin signed the copyright over to the Boy Scouts. One of the recent extensions of copyright period had to do with the Scouts continuing to collect royalties. Berlin, for his part, lived to be over 100. Dad
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What he is trying to do is literally impossible. Furthermore he already has more music in his collection than he could ever listen to in his lifetime. I have been collecting vinyl for some 25 years, and come across his species before. They collect and collect and bag the records up in protective sleeves and lord over their super rare *SEALED* original pressing of "The Skullsnaps", or "24 Karat Black", which has never had a chip of diamond touch it to release the magic contained within. Compare this to the mindset of a deejay, who buys record upon record, and can't wait to play it in public so anyone within earshot can enjoy (or hate, some dj's have a cruel streak).... Just because you are an obsessive collector doesn't mean you can actually enjoy what you collect. Its like the plot from Toy Story 2, where they are collecting rare toys, when they really should be in the loving hands of a child.
I have several chicago blues indie records from the 1940's and 1950's that are one of a kinds I am not too familiar with copyright law, but my father told me that when you become the owner of a recording that noone else has, you gain the rights to reproduce and sell said recording. There have been several precedents of this. Maybe you should copy your one of a kinds and get it out to some other collectors before something happens and they are lost to the world altogether.
i have one more invite. email me at dave dot trouble @ gmail dot com, and i will use it for you, or reply to this message with your email address and you shall receive, superpulpsicle.
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The Christian Science Monitor is widely respected as a news source, do your research.
HEY, That cardboard house SUCKS! but did you look at the rest of that site?
"The YBE 2004 Houses of the Future project which will feature six houses, each made of a different base material. Each architect-designed house will be environmentally-sustainable, affordable and futuristic:"
So there are 6 houses, concrete, steel, timber, cardboard, glass and clay.
I know the old joke, but that glass house looks cool!
Yeah, they are just doing the online equivalent of a good old fashioned ghetto 'shoot up the door'.
"what ? we can't come in to the club?"
(goes to trunk of car, squeezes 6 off into the front door)
pop pop pop pop pop pop
screeeeeeeeeeeetch
What, you haven't ever been to one of those clubs?
It's only funny til someone gets hurt.......... then it's hilarious !
Ever know anyone who recorded a football game but heard in the news that their team lost but planned to watch anyway? Now, what was their reaction if you told them not only that the team lost, but by how much and about the final play?
This was a subplot of a Seinfeld episode, where he tries to not find out the outcome of a knicks game he has taped. Pure genius. Funny because its true, etc....
Everyone I know (including me) charges $75 an hour, but this is in New York City, where even the air costs more. If I feel like they can't afford it, I'll bust it down to $50/hr. Otherwise it is time taken away from my family. If they balk at the price I really don't care, they can get their nephew that thinks he knows everything to look at it. I also prefer mac housecalls because of the hardware regularity. You never know kind of mess you are getting yourself into on windows housecalls (95, 98, 200, xp ?), borked operating system install, the mysteries of pc calls go on and on. At work at least we have uniform hardware and can simply reimage a machine if more than 45 minutes of troubleshooting is required. I went to one guys house and his celeron took almost 8 full minutes to boot, and I had to reboot windows (imagine that) several times. On mac calls I just bring a rescue disk, a spare HD, and a bootable firewire drive, and can work on any machine back to a blue and white g3.
This has always been a problem with mp3, there was the gapless plugin for winamp, itunes attempts it with 'crossfade' except with a zero value crossfade there is still a wierd little skip or gap between tracks. I have seen the rip groups using one big mp3 and a cue file, but as far as I know no mp3 portable supports them, and itunes certainly does not, not sure what windows app does but obviously there is one. Surely this is one thing the mp3 scene has not dealt with. I don't mind ripping mixes as one joined track, since the ipod's scrubbing is excellent, and it is easy to skip forward _and_ backward through a mix using scrub.
I have found that most people that I talk to and people that I sell custom mixes to prefer tracked cd's though.
Yeah i was annoyed I couldn't block them with pith helmet on safari.
Greatest is indeed subjective, but Watchmen was a seminal work. Perhaps you should pick up a copy and you will see why it is one of the greatest graphic novels of all time, insanely great.
Totally off topic, pure hilarity !
I knew if I had the physical addresses of these spammers blah blah blah, links his moderngeek.com website, /me does a quick google or 2, hilarity ensues
Slashthugz. Listen, bad boy... I don't think that you, or your friends have the spammers quaking in their proverbial boots. I would be more scared of getting pwned, or molotov cocktailed from your types. Nice macquarium, though.
ROFL! Really though, I bet the Professor could figure something out, he always does...
Not only that, they also ROCK !
This is an old time honored IT tradition. I have been entering bgates@microsoft.com in online forms for years and years, broken only by a 6 month period of using my ex boss's email address (You hear that, Tim? You little prick! Have some spam for lunch!). I am glad to know that all of my hard work has paid off and is employing people.
And it sucks ass. When you delete a message in email you can count to three before the screen updates. Very very poor responsiveness..... It is horridly slow, even on a dual processor G5. It lacks filters for email, and spellcheck is not through yet. Also you have to tell it which applications to open attachments with, no preconfiguration in this area at all.
Did I mention the horrible slowness of it yet? I keep hearing that java apps can be fast, but then something like this comes out and I thrown right back onto the "JAVA APPS SUCK" side of the fence.
Good point and well taken. It is just another facet of humans keeping a recorded history. This is after all one of the things that sets us apart from other species.
I eventually quit and uninstalled it.
You know you're an addict when!!!! Seriously, this is what I have to do to stop playing a game. We had a developer that was a magnitude better than all of us at q3a, and he got so heavily into it he had to uninstall too to keep himself from playing in our daily deathmatches.
I'll smoke to that !
however, your evidence is anecdotal, and you are fighting against a larger conspiracy involving the DuPont family, oil $$$, ans space aliens, so it will be an uphil climb.
Good Martha WWN Tie in !!!!!!! I have a friend that worked for weider publications. Turns out weider sold the magazine properties to the publisher that does WWN, so now he works in the same office as them. I can't get any good info about the inner sanctum of the weekly world news though, seems he has been recruited into the cult and sworn to silence... I'll have to pay the office a visit someday.
I stand corrected, it seems that he was talking about 2 specific examples that fall clearly into a grey area, and 1 isn't even related to copyright... his response follows unedited, and even included a story about reissuing old blues records (relevant to this discussion):
David,
Two incidents come to mind. When I was at Laney College I met a woman who
owned the last complete 35 mm copy of "Freaks". Anyone who wanted to show
the film had to use one of her copies and pay her a fee. She did quite well
until someone made a pirate copy from one of her copies. This was not an
issue of copyright but of control. I believe the original copyright had
expired.
Someone can copyright a new arrangement of a piece of music that is
otherwise in public domain. Or a new translation of a public domain book can
likewise be copyrighted.
In the past you could renew copyright several times and the work would
remain copyrighted until 32 years after the author's death. Now I think the
US has jacked that up to more than 70 years (120 years?). In any event the
US doesn't harmonize with the rest of the world. There was a recent story
about several well known books whose copyright in valid here but has expired
in Australia.
If you have the only surviving copy of something and the copyright ownership
is murky, you might be king dog. It depends on value as to whether someone
else will try and extablish copyright control. Without your copy they don't
have much.
Chris Strachwitz of Arhoolie Records and Downhome Music issued records of
old blues signers that he'd gotten from his collection of 78s. He kept a
royalty fund in the event one of the singers ever surfaced and wanted to be
paid. All the record companies involved were long gone. I don't know that he
ever had to pay anyone a performance royalty.
There is a story about the singer Kate Smith who, during WWII, approached
Irving Berlin about a patriotic song. The two of them went through some
trunks where he had a number of projects he'd set aside. They came up with
"God Bless America", which Kate had to sing at every personal appearance she
made for the rest of her career. Berlin signed the copyright over to the Boy
Scouts. One of the recent extensions of copyright period had to do with the
Scouts continuing to collect royalties. Berlin, for his part, lived to be
over 100.
Dad
Mornington Crescent
"You're a jerk, a complete kneebiter."
What he is trying to do is literally impossible. Furthermore he already has more music in his collection than he could ever listen to in his lifetime. I have been collecting vinyl for some 25 years, and come across his species before. They collect and collect and bag the records up in protective sleeves and lord over their super rare *SEALED* original pressing of "The Skullsnaps", or "24 Karat Black", which has never had a chip of diamond touch it to release the magic contained within. Compare this to the mindset of a deejay, who buys record upon record, and can't wait to play it in public so anyone within earshot can enjoy (or hate, some dj's have a cruel streak).... Just because you are an obsessive collector doesn't mean you can actually enjoy what you collect. Its like the plot from Toy Story 2, where they are collecting rare toys, when they really should be in the loving hands of a child.
I have several chicago blues indie records from the 1940's and 1950's that are one of a kinds
I am not too familiar with copyright law, but my father told me that when you become the owner of a recording that noone else has, you gain the rights to reproduce and sell said recording. There have been several precedents of this. Maybe you should copy your one of a kinds and get it out to some other collectors before something happens and they are lost to the world altogether.
exactly !
i have one more invite. email me at dave dot trouble @ gmail dot com, and i will use it for you, or reply to this message with your email address and you shall receive, superpulpsicle.