Most recent cached copy of Mark's site had no clearly marked permission requirements. Not that this makes it OK, but there is a difference between Linspire making poor assumptions and Linspire ignoring clearly-marked restrictions. Or more likely, a lone Linspire employee making poor assumptions/taking credit.
The real test will be Linspire's official reaction. Can they safely offer reasonable compensation without admitting guilt and greatly increasing their liability?
Really bad analogy--Only a few individual anti-spammers advocate violence as a solution for spam, and none that I know of run a major blackhole list. Anti-foo people should have the right to know businesses that support foo for the purposes of boycotting, even for causes I don't agree with. Information without business relevance but valuable for physical or personal intimidation, or advocating physical intimidation is far to the wrong side of the ethical line.
RTFA: For a static page on this system, refresh rate is effectively unlimited. Turning a page might take time, but once an image is on the page it is static, similar to ink and paper.
If you've got techs, have them test new systems to make sure they can do what you want. In fact, this is probably a good idea no matter what OS you are running.
Even if you have to add a new souncard, that's cheaper than the difference between most Linux distributions and XP/Office/Antivirus. And a cheap soundcard is worth less than my time.
Mandrake can be purchased, and includes everything a typical user needs in a sinle install--Everything I've added to my system is something I would have had to add to Windows (Limewire, Java and browser plug-ins) and the applications are fully functional rather than the crippled check-box shovelware on most cheap pre-configured PC's.
The point of the relay service is to allow deaf and hearing people equal access to the phone system. If I need a password to call a deaf person but not a hearing person, that's hardly equal access.
Problem isn't calls originating with voice and trying to scam a deaf person, it's calls originating as text and scamming an unsuspecting hearing person. Requiring a password for the internet TTY end shouldn't be a problem.
The problem is the opposite of a lack of RTFM, it's too many damn FM's. I'm sure the right answer is there somewhere, but it's mixed in with a bunch of stuff that doesn't work with my distribution for whatever reason--Obsolete, distro-specific, or just plain wrong. I'm sure I could find a forum to ask on, but I'm not at all comfortable posting before lurking, and I'd like an answer this week.
No, he'd just be a disappointed artist who has realized that morons like you have gotten so used to the convenience of piracy, they expect everything to either be free, or less than a dollar, and so he'll never make a living fulfilling his dream.
I can't speak for the original poster, but I'd like to see a system where the artist can decide how much their songs are worth, how and when they will be released, without worrying about cutting into sales of an artist more popular with the record company.
Doing club shows all year doesn't get you by, sorry. I guess you didn't know being a "professional musician" means music is your profession, which means you get paid for it.
It should take real talent to survive as a pro musician. Most musicians shouldn't quit their day jobs. What I think most of us want to see is a way that lots of good musicians can make a living, instead of a very few able to make millions. I'm sure that there are plenty of musicians who would love to survive playing club dates. Very quickly, it's getting harder and harder to make money on anything in this world. I've seen whole medical textbooks ripped and put online before.
This is an(other) odd situation, where the people paying for the book have no say in the selection. Another non-free market. My father is a college teacher, responsible for textbook selection. It's incredible what the publisher's reps are willing to give him, if he wants. Audiobooks, entire discographies, etc. The things you'll find being thrown around on P2P networks are incredible. Nobody cares about the consequences anymore. What happens when nobody can sell anything anymore? Why do people ignore the inevitable result of this?
I'm not that worried about music. There are enough people able to do it for the love and exposure that there will always be good stuff to listen to. Textbooks--Probably Podunk Community College will use the MIT courseware or similar, instead of a beginning psych book that rearranges it's chapters every 2 years to kill off the used market. Novels kind of scare me. We won't lose writers, but we will likely lose editors, and that will really suck. All the things you mention are limited by old distribution methods rather than supply. GIVE ME A BREAK. No, better, FUCK YOU. A "real musician" has to eat, because they make their living making music. That's their choice in this life. A "real musician" has the right to be successful from their music.
No. I don't have a right to make a living as a geek, either. We both have the right to try. The current label system does nothing positive for musicians, with a few statistically insignificant outliers. * Nobody should be upset over anyone not being willing to pay enough to cover expenses. Instead, everyone should be on their hands and knees, grateful and kissing the asses of those who dare--*gasp*--pay fully for shit instead of demanding it be.50 or free. You know, to "show the RIAA who's boss." Because that makes it all right...
I am upset about good musicians not being able to cover expenses, but I think the RIAA is a big part of the problem. Your attitude has to be the most pompous and misinformed I've read in a long time. "You're not a real musician if you expect to be compensated for your career choice!" Fuck off, and whatever job you do, I hope you get paid for it so you can make a living.
I'm not working as a writer, because I predict that I'd starve, even assuming I had enough talent. Geek is a close second, and I can eat and be happy with my job, so that's what I do. If nobody wants to pay me, I have to find something else. Declaring myself a writer, or musician, or whatever has nothing to do with it. You should hope the same for anyone else trying to eke out a living in this economy, especially people who try to make music and sell it in a world where it's become a "wink-wink" joke to rip it
Without knowing more, it's possible that the erratic behsvior actually did justify arrest. Mental illness isn't a get out of jail free card. The biggest issue isn't whether the arrest was justified, it's contacting random lawyers before contacting the family.
Navigation, not flash itself. I can't think of a single instance of flash navigation that was better than plain HTML links, even stipulating unlimited bandwidth.
...and they could have fake helecopter sound-effects in the background, to disguise the fact that they are in a car, likely stuck in a different jam than you are in, so can't tell you squat about what's ahead of you until it's too late. Or they could warn you about problems that cleared up already.
You might not have a choice for your connectivity provider, but you most certainly have a choice of email providers--There are a ton of third party mail providers out there, with whatever price and features you need. I've had the same email address for 8 years and 3 different ISP's. Mine is free and more reliable than any of my ISP's mail servers have been, another I know of is $10/year. Ask for advice on news.admin.net-abuse.email--That's how I got the free account I use.
I think online music is going to find the most success with extremely low prices and lots of volume. Even doing everything right, most will fail. However, barring improper RIAA actions, I think some will succeed, and it will be the low-cost/high volume methods that have the best chance.
I'm also guessing that a band will have a better chance of long-term success if it sells 10,000 copies at 5 cents band profit each instead of 5,000 copies at 10 cents each.
As much as possible the rights to the song should be seperate from all other costs--Example: For a dime I can legally keep a copy if I can find it on my own. For 20 cents, can keep a copy, and I'll get a semi-official P2P download. For 30 cents, I get a direct HTTP download, 45 cents is a high-bitrate (or low traffic) HTTP, and $12 gets me 12 songs of my choice mailed on CDR, or a standard CD-album with artwork.
Other possibilities: Subscribing to a band, getting rights to all of their music.
At 99 cents each, I'm only going to buy songs I really, really like. I'm at least 5 times more likely to buy a song if it only costs me 25 cents. You do the math.
Most of the "better" isn't part of the format, it's how the music is processed/mastered before it is placed on the media. Vinyl takes careful preperation to get maximum dynamic range, signal to noise, etc.. If bass levels are too high, the needle will skip on many turntables. The physical playback limitations of vinyl are fairly well correlated with pleasing sound.
In the early days of CD, many record companies thoguht that mastering wasn't necessary for the format. Result: Crappy sound. Nowadays there is another problem: "Louder is better". When comparing two otherwise equal sounds, the louder one usually sounds "better". CD's are now mastered in an attempt to "sound louder" than all other CD's when played back at the same setting of the volume knob. Unfortunatly when taken to extremes as is now usual, this processing severely degrades the sound without making it physically unplayable.
I'd say the reason it needs a fast processor is that Win98 isn't reasonably available and supported anymore, so you need something that runs XP. Semi-custom applications already in use are more likely running on Windows and aren't guaranteed to run under Pocket/CE/whatever. Something like this is more likely to be bug-compatible with these poorly-written Windows programs. It's cheaper to throw hardware at the problem than to do the proper fix, especially if you are relying on third-party applications.
The computer is not the best way to read an Ebook-I can't immerse myself in a computer screen, either. However for me, my PDA is better than a paper book, even though my copy of Mobipocket doesn't use high-res fonts. My book is always with me (ymmv), my next book is with me, it keeps my place, I don't need to hold the book open, I don't need a light, I can read in line, etc. The mechanics are good enough and still improving. The biggest drawback is that a lot of the books I want to read aren't in Ebook format yet.
Do you buy software based solely on what the box claims? I've bought a bunch of CD/MP3 players for myself and family. Several Phillips players have worked well, lasted a long time and done what they claimed. Koss and RCA were inexpensive, made the same claims on the box as the Phillips players. I strongly recommend the Phillips over the others I've tried. Also bought a Sony Net MD player. Technically it does what the box claims (if you read carefully), and it's decent once you get the music recorded on the minidisk, but the method of getting the music on disk is so convoluted and buggy that the player is too much trouble to use.
I don't miss them a bit...But that's because I use them on both my primary work box and my primary home box, and at my current rate of failure, I've got a 40 year supply of spares.
Get a recommendation from a well-known anti-spammer, move your outgoing mail to a host he recommends. Keep everything else where it is until it is convienient.
In the past 8 years, I'we had exactly one message where HTML or RTF or whatever added anything useful. I've had untold numbers of formatted messages at work where the formatting just made the message harder to read, or with stationary that only work in the sender's proprietary corporate mail format, and not in *my* proprietary corporate mail format.
*bold* and _italic_ can be expressed with tags like I just did, and many mail clients can be set to interpret these tags without being cryptic to non-aware clients. I can't remember the last time I used a mail client that didn't turn most URL's into clickable links without needing HTML code.
Only if you're using a misconfigured or brain-dead email client. Evolution will render HTML, but can be set so it won't connect to external images. Plain text mail clients will just show the raw HTML--This is a feature.
You're right, it wasn't a threading issue, my bad.
However, It was fairly obvious that the "not allowed to patch" was in response to one of the many, many previous comments saying that if Diebold can't do an ATM, they shouldn't be trusted with votes. Rather than flaming for RTF, flame for clicking the wrong button for a reply.
Not sure if you are aware of this, but sometimes a comment will be in response to a previous comment rather than based entirely on the Slashdot article. In these cases, OTHER RELATED TOPICS might be brought up. For instance--If a company can't keep an ATM secured, we might not want to trust them with our election results.
I think Slashdot has something called "Threaded mode" that might help demonstrate this concept.
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Most recent cached copy of Mark's site had no clearly marked permission requirements. Not that this makes it OK, but there is a difference between Linspire making poor assumptions and Linspire ignoring clearly-marked restrictions. Or more likely, a lone Linspire employee making poor assumptions/taking credit. The real test will be Linspire's official reaction. Can they safely offer reasonable compensation without admitting guilt and greatly increasing their liability?
Really bad analogy--Only a few individual anti-spammers advocate violence as a solution for spam, and none that I know of run a major blackhole list.
Anti-foo people should have the right to know businesses that support foo for the purposes of boycotting, even for causes I don't agree with. Information without business relevance but valuable for physical or personal intimidation, or advocating physical intimidation is far to the wrong side of the ethical line.
RTFA: For a static page on this system, refresh rate is effectively unlimited. Turning a page might take time, but once an image is on the page it is static, similar to ink and paper.
If you've got techs, have them test new systems to make sure they can do what you want. In fact, this is probably a good idea no matter what OS you are running.
Even if you have to add a new souncard, that's cheaper than the difference between most Linux distributions and XP/Office/Antivirus. And a cheap soundcard is worth less than my time.
Mandrake can be purchased, and includes everything a typical user needs in a sinle install--Everything I've added to my system is something I would have had to add to Windows (Limewire, Java and browser plug-ins) and the applications are fully functional rather than the crippled check-box shovelware on most cheap pre-configured PC's.
The point of the relay service is to allow deaf and hearing people equal access to the phone system. If I need a password to call a deaf person but not a hearing person, that's hardly equal access.
Problem isn't calls originating with voice and trying to scam a deaf person, it's calls originating as text and scamming an unsuspecting hearing person. Requiring a password for the internet TTY end shouldn't be a problem.
Sounds good, but sorry, Homeland Security has decided you're a Timmy...Please report for ster...I mean Candy.
The problem is the opposite of a lack of RTFM, it's too many damn FM's. I'm sure the right answer is there somewhere, but it's mixed in with a bunch of stuff that doesn't work with my distribution for whatever reason--Obsolete, distro-specific, or just plain wrong. I'm sure I could find a forum to ask on, but I'm not at all comfortable posting before lurking, and I'd like an answer this week.
No, he'd just be a disappointed artist who has realized that morons like you have gotten so used to the convenience of piracy, they expect everything to either be free, or less than a dollar, and so he'll never make a living fulfilling his dream.
.50 or free. You know, to "show the RIAA who's boss." Because that makes it all right...
I can't speak for the original poster, but I'd like to see a system where the artist can decide how much their songs are worth, how and when they will be released, without worrying about cutting into sales of an artist more popular with the record company.
Doing club shows all year doesn't get you by, sorry. I guess you didn't know being a "professional musician" means music is your profession, which means you get paid for it.
It should take real talent to survive as a pro musician. Most musicians shouldn't quit their day jobs. What I think most of us want to see is a way that lots of good musicians can make a living, instead of a very few able to make millions. I'm sure that there are plenty of musicians who would love to survive playing club dates.
Very quickly, it's getting harder and harder to make money on anything in this world. I've seen whole medical textbooks ripped and put online before.
This is an(other) odd situation, where the people paying for the book have no say in the selection. Another non-free market. My father is a college teacher, responsible for textbook selection. It's incredible what the publisher's reps are willing to give him, if he wants.
Audiobooks, entire discographies, etc. The things you'll find being thrown around on P2P networks are incredible. Nobody cares about the consequences anymore. What happens when nobody can sell anything anymore? Why do people ignore the inevitable result of this?
I'm not that worried about music. There are enough people able to do it for the love and exposure that there will always be good stuff to listen to. Textbooks--Probably Podunk Community College will use the MIT courseware or similar, instead of a beginning psych book that rearranges it's chapters every 2 years to kill off the used market. Novels kind of scare me. We won't lose writers, but we will likely lose editors, and that will really suck.
All the things you mention are limited by old distribution methods rather than supply.
GIVE ME A BREAK. No, better, FUCK YOU. A "real musician" has to eat, because they make their living making music. That's their choice in this life. A "real musician" has the right to be successful from their music.
No. I don't have a right to make a living as a geek, either. We both have the right to try. The current label system does nothing positive for musicians, with a few statistically insignificant outliers.
* Nobody should be upset over anyone not being willing to pay enough to cover expenses. Instead, everyone should be on their hands and knees, grateful and kissing the asses of those who dare--*gasp*--pay fully for shit instead of demanding it be
I am upset about good musicians not being able to cover expenses, but I think the RIAA is a big part of the problem.
Your attitude has to be the most pompous and misinformed I've read in a long time. "You're not a real musician if you expect to be compensated for your career choice!" Fuck off, and whatever job you do, I hope you get paid for it so you can make a living.
I'm not working as a writer, because I predict that I'd starve, even assuming I had enough talent. Geek is a close second, and I can eat and be happy with my job, so that's what I do. If nobody wants to pay me, I have to find something else. Declaring myself a writer, or musician, or whatever has nothing to do with it.
You should hope the same for anyone else trying to eke out a living in this economy, especially people who try to make music and sell it in a world where it's become a "wink-wink" joke to rip it
Without knowing more, it's possible that the erratic behsvior actually did justify arrest. Mental illness isn't a get out of jail free card. The biggest issue isn't whether the arrest was justified, it's contacting random lawyers before contacting the family.
Navigation, not flash itself. I can't think of a single instance of flash navigation that was better than plain HTML links, even stipulating unlimited bandwidth.
...and they could have fake helecopter sound-effects in the background, to disguise the fact that they are in a car, likely stuck in a different jam than you are in, so can't tell you squat about what's ahead of you until it's too late. Or they could warn you about problems that cleared up already.
Oh, wait...
You might not have a choice for your connectivity provider, but you most certainly have a choice of email providers--There are a ton of third party mail providers out there, with whatever price and features you need. I've had the same email address for 8 years and 3 different ISP's. Mine is free and more reliable than any of my ISP's mail servers have been, another I know of is $10/year. Ask for advice on news.admin.net-abuse.email--That's how I got the free account I use.
I think online music is going to find the most success with extremely low prices and lots of volume. Even doing everything right, most will fail. However, barring improper RIAA actions, I think some will succeed, and it will be the low-cost/high volume methods that have the best chance.
I'm also guessing that a band will have a better chance of long-term success if it sells 10,000 copies at 5 cents band profit each instead of 5,000 copies at 10 cents each.
As much as possible the rights to the song should be seperate from all other costs--Example: For a dime I can legally keep a copy if I can find it on my own. For 20 cents, can keep a copy, and I'll get a semi-official P2P download. For 30 cents, I get a direct HTTP download, 45 cents is a high-bitrate (or low traffic) HTTP, and $12 gets me 12 songs of my choice mailed on CDR, or a standard CD-album with artwork.
Other possibilities: Subscribing to a band, getting rights to all of their music.
At 99 cents each, I'm only going to buy songs I really, really like. I'm at least 5 times more likely to buy a song if it only costs me 25 cents. You do the math.
Most of the "better" isn't part of the format, it's how the music is processed/mastered before it is placed on the media. Vinyl takes careful preperation to get maximum dynamic range, signal to noise, etc.. If bass levels are too high, the needle will skip on many turntables. The physical playback limitations of vinyl are fairly well correlated with pleasing sound.
In the early days of CD, many record companies thoguht that mastering wasn't necessary for the format. Result: Crappy sound. Nowadays there is another problem: "Louder is better". When comparing two otherwise equal sounds, the louder one usually sounds "better". CD's are now mastered in an attempt to "sound louder" than all other CD's when played back at the same setting of the volume knob. Unfortunatly when taken to extremes as is now usual, this processing severely degrades the sound without making it physically unplayable.
I'd say the reason it needs a fast processor is that Win98 isn't reasonably available and supported anymore, so you need something that runs XP. Semi-custom applications already in use are more likely running on Windows and aren't guaranteed to run under Pocket/CE/whatever. Something like this is more likely to be bug-compatible with these poorly-written Windows programs. It's cheaper to throw hardware at the problem than to do the proper fix, especially if you are relying on third-party applications.
The computer is not the best way to read an Ebook-I can't immerse myself in a computer screen, either. However for me, my PDA is better than a paper book, even though my copy of Mobipocket doesn't use high-res fonts. My book is always with me (ymmv), my next book is with me, it keeps my place, I don't need to hold the book open, I don't need a light, I can read in line, etc. The mechanics are good enough and still improving. The biggest drawback is that a lot of the books I want to read aren't in Ebook format yet.
Do you buy software based solely on what the box claims? I've bought a bunch of CD/MP3 players for myself and family. Several Phillips players have worked well, lasted a long time and done what they claimed. Koss and RCA were inexpensive, made the same claims on the box as the Phillips players. I strongly recommend the Phillips over the others I've tried. Also bought a Sony Net MD player. Technically it does what the box claims (if you read carefully), and it's decent once you get the music recorded on the minidisk, but the method of getting the music on disk is so convoluted and buggy that the player is too much trouble to use.
I don't miss them a bit...But that's because I use them on both my primary work box and my primary home box, and at my current rate of failure, I've got a 40 year supply of spares.
Get a recommendation from a well-known anti-spammer, move your outgoing mail to a host he recommends. Keep everything else where it is until it is convienient.
In the past 8 years, I'we had exactly one message where HTML or RTF or whatever added anything useful. I've had untold numbers of formatted messages at work where the formatting just made the message harder to read, or with stationary that only work in the sender's proprietary corporate mail format, and not in *my* proprietary corporate mail format.
*bold* and _italic_ can be expressed with tags like I just did, and many mail clients can be set to interpret these tags without being cryptic to non-aware clients. I can't remember the last time I used a mail client that didn't turn most URL's into clickable links without needing HTML code.
Only if you're using a misconfigured or brain-dead email client. Evolution will render HTML, but can be set so it won't connect to external images. Plain text mail clients will just show the raw HTML--This is a feature.
You're right, it wasn't a threading issue, my bad.
However, It was fairly obvious that the "not allowed to patch" was in response to one of the many, many previous comments saying that if Diebold can't do an ATM, they shouldn't be trusted with votes. Rather than flaming for RTF, flame for clicking the wrong button for a reply.
Not sure if you are aware of this, but sometimes a comment will be in response to a previous comment rather than based entirely on the Slashdot article. In these cases, OTHER RELATED TOPICS might be brought up. For instance--If a company can't keep an ATM secured, we might not want to trust them with our election results.
I think Slashdot has something called "Threaded mode" that might help demonstrate this concept.