Telephone books have been held to be copyrighted, and they're as rote as placing names in alphabetical order. Why not a tv schedule?
(I'm not saying I agree with it, just that that's the current state of the law.)
It'd be hypocrital if they said they *weren't* going to provide IE functionality, period. They're not doing that. They're getting the kinks worked out with FF first, and will get around to IE later.
I completely agree with you though if they said they were never going to develop it for IE.
Um, last you checked you were wrong. In Canada it is perfectly legal to copy music under most personal use circumstances -- including burning a copy of a CD you borrow, and including downloading an MP3 via P2P.
Actually, it's not that clear cut anymore. As Michael Geist points out, the levy is what made personal copying *clearly* legal. As it stands right now, there's nothing in the new Canadian Copyright acts which actually allows Canadians to make personal copies/backups of their music.
Encryption has already been ruled to have substantial legal use, therefore, under Betamax, they cannot attack a technology just because it encrypts.
You're forgetting, the Supreme Court will be reviewing this decision when their hear the upcoming Grokster case. Whether they'll take this opporunity to overturn, or even update the betamax ruling is to be seen, but it's a real possibility...
It costs a lot of money for the six people who view it live over a webcast to be supported. Its cheaper to record it, encode it, then host it as a file on the server.
6 People?!?! Were you not around last year, when/. itself got taken down by the hoards of people looking for Keynote information in real time???? I think it was the first time I'd ever seen slashdot get slashdotted (or in the words of one poster: "Dude, slashdot didn't get slashdotted. Slashdot got Apple'd")
If there enough people interested in it to bring down *slashdot*, then I think it's a fair guess that there are thousands which want to watch it live themselves.
Oh, and they announce the numbers for the webcasts, and they're always in the 100's of thousands, so there's that too.
What I want to know is why there's not Satelite feed. It's not like it costs them much to broadcast it, and they normally send it to all their stores so you can watch it there.
You obviously haven't seen Spike TV's Joe Schmoe, or Joe Schmoe II
They're not 'real' reality TV shows. They're set up so that most of the 'stars' of the show are actually actors. There are one or two people on the show who have no idea they compatriots are actually actors, and assume they're just regular people on a reality show like they are.
I have a feeling this is going to wind up be Joe Schmoe III.
The first two Joe Schmoe's were hilarious, and well written. Defiantely worth checking out (though I haven't been able to find them on BitTorrent)
When Akamai's system was first announced, most people thought this was a great idea. It made sure that the sites that used this technology would always have the bandwidth they needed, when they needed it.
Like with everything else in life, there's always a trade-off between preformance and reliability...
Finally... Someone is listening to the customer...
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I'm glad to see the music industry is finally finding a way to try to make moeny by giving people exactly what they want.
I for one think it's a great idea, and love hearing live recordings of my favourite bands. I know that I'd rather buy a recording of the concert I just watched (or maybe copies of other concerts?) then try to track down poor quality bootleg's on the net.
Maybe this is just a sign of things to come, and we'll soon be able to download songs at a reasonable price, instead of being gouged by high record prices, or annoying restrictions on the media was can legitimately download.
While the presensce of an Israeli on board makes one obviously question whether terrorism was invovled, let's not get into the realm of Sci-Fi here.. An EMP bomb isn't something you make in your basement.
The shuttle was flying 5 times higher then an average Airliner when it broke up, and was traveliing at about 10 times the speed.
All of Al-Qeada's attacks have been relatively low-tech. That's what's made them so hard to catch. There is no way they have access to am EMP bomb, or anything that could have hit the shuttle this high moving this fast.
If it was terrorism, it would have been something put on the shuttle before it took off. The piece of the shuttle that broke off during take off probably has much more to do with this then terrorism does.
In either case, let our prayers and wishes go out to the crews family and friends...
Don't forget that Jobs is so far up Disney's ass he only sees daylight when the Mouse yawns...
(slightly off the original topic, yes, but whatever)
Up Disney's ass?
Get your facts straight... Jobs was lauded for standing *up* to Disney after Toy Story's succes, and getting a new contract for the split of future revenues. You'll probably see Pixar go it alone after their 5 movie deal is up, much to the financially shaky Disney's dismay.
Trust me, there's no love lost between those two.
As for Apple absorbing public hacks into their OS's, I won't pick a fight with you there.
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Oh wait... I just RTFA.... Wireless *and* more space than a nomad? Wow, Sony's really hit this one out of the park!
Telephone books have been held to be copyrighted, and they're as rote as placing names in alphabetical order. Why not a tv schedule? (I'm not saying I agree with it, just that that's the current state of the law.)
It'd be hypocrital if they said they *weren't* going to provide IE functionality, period. They're not doing that. They're getting the kinks worked out with FF first, and will get around to IE later.
I completely agree with you though if they said they were never going to develop it for IE.
Um, last you checked you were wrong. In Canada it is perfectly legal to copy music under most personal use circumstances -- including burning a copy of a CD you borrow, and including downloading an MP3 via P2P.
Actually, it's not that clear cut anymore. As Michael Geist points out, the levy is what made personal copying *clearly* legal. As it stands right now, there's nothing in the new Canadian Copyright acts which actually allows Canadians to make personal copies/backups of their music.
You're forgetting, the Supreme Court will be reviewing this decision when their hear the upcoming Grokster case. Whether they'll take this opporunity to overturn, or even update the betamax ruling is to be seen, but it's a real possibility...
They got smart. Now they only have a link to the torrent there, instead of the full movie...
6 People?!?! Were you not around last year, when /. itself got taken down by the hoards of people looking for Keynote information in real time???? I think it was the first time I'd ever seen slashdot get slashdotted (or in the words of one poster: "Dude, slashdot didn't get slashdotted. Slashdot got Apple'd")
If there enough people interested in it to bring down *slashdot*, then I think it's a fair guess that there are thousands which want to watch it live themselves.
Oh, and they announce the numbers for the webcasts, and they're always in the 100's of thousands, so there's that too.
What I want to know is why there's not Satelite feed. It's not like it costs them much to broadcast it, and they normally send it to all their stores so you can watch it there.
They all *Currently* do but if you have a G3 iBook, they had processors made from IBM. Motorola made the G4's, and IBM (primarily) the G3's.
So, it is very possible he has either and iBook, or and older Lombard/Pismo/Wallstreet G3 PowerBook.
You obviously haven't seen Spike TV's Joe Schmoe, or Joe Schmoe II They're not 'real' reality TV shows. They're set up so that most of the 'stars' of the show are actually actors. There are one or two people on the show who have no idea they compatriots are actually actors, and assume they're just regular people on a reality show like they are. I have a feeling this is going to wind up be Joe Schmoe III. The first two Joe Schmoe's were hilarious, and well written. Defiantely worth checking out (though I haven't been able to find them on BitTorrent)
There are still quite a few left:
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Ummmm, they've already used that one. It was 10.1
When Akamai's system was first announced, most people thought this was a great idea. It made sure that the sites that used this technology would always have the bandwidth they needed, when they needed it. Like with everything else in life, there's always a trade-off between preformance and reliability...
I'm glad to see the music industry is finally finding a way to try to make moeny by giving people exactly what they want.
I for one think it's a great idea, and love hearing live recordings of my favourite bands. I know that I'd rather buy a recording of the concert I just watched (or maybe copies of other concerts?) then try to track down poor quality bootleg's on the net.
Maybe this is just a sign of things to come, and we'll soon be able to download songs at a reasonable price, instead of being gouged by high record prices, or annoying restrictions on the media was can legitimately download.
Well... We can dream anyway, can't we?
While the presensce of an Israeli on board makes one obviously question whether terrorism was invovled, let's not get into the realm of Sci-Fi here.. An EMP bomb isn't something you make in your basement.
The shuttle was flying 5 times higher then an average Airliner when it broke up, and was traveliing at about 10 times the speed.
All of Al-Qeada's attacks have been relatively low-tech. That's what's made them so hard to catch. There is no way they have access to am EMP bomb, or anything that could have hit the shuttle this high moving this fast.
If it was terrorism, it would have been something put on the shuttle before it took off. The piece of the shuttle that broke off during take off probably has much more to do with this then terrorism does.
In either case, let our prayers and wishes go out to the crews family and friends...
Don't forget that Jobs is so far up Disney's ass he only sees daylight when the Mouse yawns...
(slightly off the original topic, yes, but whatever)
Up Disney's ass?
Get your facts straight... Jobs was lauded for standing *up* to Disney after Toy Story's succes, and getting a new contract for the split of future revenues. You'll probably see Pixar go it alone after their 5 movie deal is up, much to the financially shaky Disney's dismay.
Trust me, there's no love lost between those two.
As for Apple absorbing public hacks into their OS's, I won't pick a fight with you there.