on slashdot, you get feedback within minutes - and it's unvarnished feedback, too. very quickly you learn how many ways people can misunderstand what you're saying, and how your foes intentionally misinterpret what you write. and you learn that long-winded writing tends to be ignored completely.
wait a minute: are you saying that a more effective spell and grammar check than MS word is snark?
actually: you are artificially--and incorrectly--limiting the scope of news corp's holdings to print journalism, when that's far true. ever heard of a small media outlet known as fox"news"? which, incidentally, has its own website?:>
you know, while it's always fun to question the intelligence of some of these types of news bits, murdoch didn't become as powerful and influential as he did by completely misunderstanding new avenues of monetization. if we were talking about some middle manager, or a senior manager in an unexceptional place, i could see that.
but seriously suggesting that murdoch, who's made his fortune in making news profitable and is the biggest media mogul on the planet, doesn't understand how to monetize news successfully after ahow many years of news sites experiences is to me goofy in the extreme. you might as well suggest that redmond doesn't understand how to market a profitable OS.
while i hate ENT too, how in the world is it possible that a slashdotter--any slashdotter--hears "prequel" and doesn't immediately think of the horror of jar-jar binks?!
right: but the thing is, does anyone ever frigging audit this crap? i mean, shouldn't these things be audited at some point? if i were a rights holder, that's the first thing i'd do.
what i don't understand about all of this: how do the studios make any money whatsoever with accounting of that sort? how does this survive any kind of auditing process?
maybe gross, but am i the only slashdotter sitting here, thinking, "man, if NASA and fuji TV could get together on this, we could someday see chairman kaga say "kyo no tema wa, korodesu: silkworms!"
c'mon, that would be really, really cool!
*yes, i know that iron chef is both no longer in production in japan, and that food network has their own version, hosted by alton brown. i was just missing the original version.
apparently, there will be strict rules on what they can do on said machine too, that is, they're not allowed to start rummaging through people's personal data.
pardon my cynicism, but i see no justification for this reading in either TFA or your comment. what did i miss?
what i'm failing to understand here is what maintenance costs are there to be reduced? i mean, the code's already written, it's been developed & deployed...so what costs do multiple profiles impose?
while i disagree that even more regulation is needed in the financial services industry (SOX, anyone?), i'm worried about the imminent bloodletting as people try to find even safer investment vehicles--and the inevitable billions in lawsuits that will be filed in the coming weeks.
1. send out promo CDs clearly identifying them as property of UMG despite the fact that they're unsolicited and no exchange of money or other compensation to receive them.
screwmaster, that's a valid point. however, it isn't merely ed felten--i'm quite sure the EFF and other parties would be quite happy to take on any resulting concerns on a pro bono basis.
what new line seem to have forgotten is that the contract had a royalty clause. they probably forgot because its stated in terms of profit and everyone knows that the films never make profits after the holywood accounting and the california courts are owned by the studios.
only problem is that the contract was signed in the UK and UK law does not favor the studios on this.
o, i doubt very much that they forgot. i think it was a calculated decision to save them (new line) money and force a drawn out litgation in which they will make an offer that will wind up costing them (again, new line) less than the royalties.
"competent courts" as a legal precept is probably very, very basic for IP lawyers, esp those employed by a studio like new line.
am i the only person who misread the headline as reading "magistrate suggests firing RIAA lawyers"? i mean, not that this would be good, considering their seemingly low success rate in litigation...:>
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wait a minute: are you saying that a more effective spell and grammar check than MS word is snark?
actually: you are artificially--and incorrectly--limiting the scope of news corp's holdings to print journalism, when that's far true. ever heard of a small media outlet known as fox"news"? which, incidentally, has its own website? :>
you know, while it's always fun to question the intelligence of some of these types of news bits, murdoch didn't become as powerful and influential as he did by completely misunderstanding new avenues of monetization. if we were talking about some middle manager, or a senior manager in an unexceptional place, i could see that.
but seriously suggesting that murdoch, who's made his fortune in making news profitable and is the biggest media mogul on the planet, doesn't understand how to monetize news successfully after ahow many years of news sites experiences is to me goofy in the extreme. you might as well suggest that redmond doesn't understand how to market a profitable OS.
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assuming the study's conclusions are borne out in the future: i can easily see the legal tactic becoming known as "the reaver defense".
and to think i've incorrectly been attributing that to reality TV and youtube all this time!
while i hate ENT too, how in the world is it possible that a slashdotter--any slashdotter--hears "prequel" and doesn't immediately think of the horror of jar-jar binks?!
now that's a rejoinder that you could only find on slashdot...
right: but the thing is, does anyone ever frigging audit this crap? i mean, shouldn't these things be audited at some point? if i were a rights holder, that's the first thing i'd do.
what i don't understand about all of this: how do the studios make any money whatsoever with accounting of that sort? how does this survive any kind of auditing process?
if i had mod points i'd mod up the grandparent for the bloom county reference. ah, oliver wendell jones, how i've missed you...
i'm inclined to think that the proximity of the ROK, japan and china are precisely why deploying ordnance would be an exceedingly measured process.
ed
maybe gross, but am i the only slashdotter sitting here, thinking, "man, if NASA and fuji TV could get together on this, we could someday see chairman kaga say "kyo no tema wa, korodesu: silkworms!"
c'mon, that would be really, really cool!
*yes, i know that iron chef is both no longer in production in japan, and that food network has their own version, hosted by alton brown. i was just missing the original version.
more likely a d20, if you ask me...esp considering that we're talking about gygax...
ed
true, but then again, using gratis denies us of the need to mention "beer" and really, where's the fun in that?! :>
ed
pardon my cynicism, but i see no justification for this reading in either TFA or your comment. what did i miss?
ed
i'll take "indiana jones 4 movies i would actually have liked" for $2000, alex.
ed
can we start calling them the anti-SCO?
that change in the systray icon is b/c AVG didn't get its virus definitions updated: by default, the free version updates once/24 hrs.
ed
shouldn't that be, "in soviet russia, adapters no longer require you!"? :>
ed
what i'm failing to understand here is what maintenance costs are there to be reduced? i mean, the code's already written, it's been developed & deployed...so what costs do multiple profiles impose?
ed
while i disagree that even more regulation is needed in the financial services industry (SOX, anyone?), i'm worried about the imminent bloodletting as people try to find even safer investment vehicles--and the inevitable billions in lawsuits that will be filed in the coming weeks.
shouldn't that be...
1. send out promo CDs clearly identifying them as property of UMG despite the fact that they're unsolicited and no exchange of money or other compensation to receive them.
2. ?
3. profit!
ed
screwmaster, that's a valid point. however, it isn't merely ed felten--i'm quite sure the EFF and other parties would be quite happy to take on any resulting concerns on a pro bono basis.
o, i doubt very much that they forgot. i think it was a calculated decision to save them (new line) money and force a drawn out litgation in which they will make an offer that will wind up costing them (again, new line) less than the royalties.
"competent courts" as a legal precept is probably very, very basic for IP lawyers, esp those employed by a studio like new line.
ed
am i the only person who misread the headline as reading "magistrate suggests firing RIAA lawyers"? i mean, not that this would be good, considering their seemingly low success rate in litigation... :>
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