When I read about Hatch's little idea, this is what I came up with as responses:
1. What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty? 2. What ever happened to getting a warrant? 3. What ever happened to a fair trial in front of a jury of peers? 4. What ever happened to the government running the police, instead of the corporations. 5. What ever happens when someone at a record label royally screws up and fries the hard drive of someone with legiminate copies of MP3's (say of my band or ripped legally from CD's I own)?
Corporations this is your chance to become a world power by buying your very own aircraft carrier! Of course you have to fund the personnel to run the carrier and then get some fighter jets but imagine the countries you can frighten into accepting your tyrannical contracts!
Blizzards are nothing. You just sit inside all day and wait for the roads to clear. They don't total houses (unless you get like 4 feet of snow on a roof and that never happens) or rip out trees. Most businesses and schools close anyways, so there is really no excuse to go on the roads. Anyone who gets killed thanks to a blizzard most likely was stupid enough to be on the roads.
People make it sound like blizzards are the worst thing on the planet. I'll take my 1 blizzard per year in NH over any earthquake, tornado, or hurricane.
Sampling is basically taking an exact copy of a section of another group's/artist's song and adding it to your own song unaltered or changed somewhat but still recognizable. Great examples include just above every single Puff Daddy/P.Diddy song in existance. Usually it is either a lyric or a riff or two from a song that is sampled.
A cover is pretty much an exact copy or different version of a song by another group, usually with almost the exact same lyrics (if not the same) and just about the same music (maybe "modernized" to fit the style of the band who is playing it).
In order to sample or cover other groups music, you have to ask for permission and most likely have to agree to pay some kind of royalities. Credit must be given to who wrote the song as well (you can read the credits for covers in the jewel case inserts that every CD with a cover on it comes with).
However recording a riff that you write on the guitar (for example) that is similar to another song by another band is quite different. There are only a finite number of riffs and the chance of someone accidently using a riff that was already used by another song is very great. I'm sure everyone has heard songs on the radio that at first glance sound like another song at the first listen.
You can get in trouble for recording a similar riff if you did so on purpose and with the intent on confusing listeners to the music. I might be wrong, but there was a controversy about a Michael Jackson (what's new eh?) song (the one used in that Free Willy movie) that sounded just about exactly like another song music wise that an artist claimed to have wrote before Jackson wrote his song. I can't remember if either party sued the other and what the outcome of the case was, but every once in awhile you do hear about bands and artists suing each other over possibily stealing each other's songs.
I go to SNHU in Manchester and will be spending the summer living on campus since I got an internship in the area. Looks like I will have to go searching for places where I have internet access.
BTW, that cafe called Fusion is great. Nothing like doing research for a paper with my laptop while having a coffee.
I would ask them to consider how they would feel if Microsoft decided to rename Powerpoint as Microsoft Mozilla - in their (mozilla's) legal teams opinion it would cause no confusion?
Mozilla is an invented word, Firebird is so common in the English language that it is no longer an invented work. Hence, no one can use Mozilla in any product (just try to name a store "Coca-Cola", you'll last at most 24 hours). Everyone can use Firebird, as long as there isn't competiting products with the same name in the same area. Since Mozilla Firebird is a web browser and the Firebird DB is a database, there is no competition and therefor no conflict.
1. I can see mozilla users ending up at firebird.sourceforge.net looking for information on mozilla-firebird.
Mozilla users? Any Mozilla user knows that http://www.mozilla.org is the Mozilla web site. The media and all download sites correctly link to the Mozilla web site whenever talking/promoting the product. If a user is looking for the Mozilla Firebird web browser on Google and stumbles upon the Firebird DB project, a simple click on the back button and they are back to their search. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Firebird DB and Mozilla Firebird were ranked 1 and 2 in Google. No confusion if they are clearly labeled.
3. I can see package confusion occuring on most linux distributions - install which firebird rpm? Once again, it is MOZILLA FIREBIRD not just plain Firebird. Hence, any RPM'S for Mozilla Firebird will probably be something like mozilla-firebird-1.5.rpm
4. Security releases for "Firebird" are likely to overlapping on searches by product name. Once again, in the media and official web sites, Mozilla Firebird will be used whenever describing a security issue. The security information will always make it clear that it is a web browser. A simple google search for Firebird + Security NOT "Mozilla Firebird" will bring up all the relevant issues for the Firebird database.
5. My (limited) exposure to legal issues, was that just being another software product is cause enough to create user confusion. So Im supprised at their legal advice (but am not a lawyer). In my business law class at my university, I asked a question about this. The answer I got was as long as a software product wasn't competiting directly with another software product in the same market (hence, the web browser market or database market), then it is ok to have similar names. For years I have seen various products with the same names by different companies for different purposes. Pick up the latest software catalog and see how many names are the same or very similar.
6. Web applications often include browsers and databases. Scripting languages often support both , so what will something like PHP with Firebird support mean. My feeling is after a year, noone will remember it was a database. Clearly label any mentions of the web browser Mozilla Firebird and label any mentions of the database Firebird DB. Even put a 1 line disclaimer if you are so worried ("Mozilla Firebird web browser and the Firebird DB are two completely unrelated products by different vendors"). Problem solved.
7. I don't want to spend the rest of my life explaining to people that Firebird (our project) is not a web browser.
Don't have to, everyone will call the web browser Mozilla Firebird. Anyone who can figure out how to use the Firebird DB cannot possibily be confused with Mozilla Firebird. Everyone knows what a web browser looks like. The icons for these applications will be very different. Mozilla Firebird will be written underneath the icon. No confusion.
*Ignorant Person reads ad saying Microsoft products are hacker-proof and security bug free*
Ignorant Person: "This is what I have been waiting for!"
*Ignorant Person runs to the nearest Wal-Mart and buys a copy of Windows 2000 Server.*
*Ignorant Person tries to install it over his previous server OS, Windows 95 original release.*
*Ignorant Person is satisfied once Windows 2000 Server is installed and IIS is running*
*Ignorant Person's web site is hacked, Code Red I-IV finds a new home, and Nimda exploits every unpatched bug and then some. Not to mention the original Melissa virus from the W95 days*
How many times do the people at Mozilla.org have to tell you to NOT link to Bugzilla so the poor servers can actually be usable by companies who are spending real money on employees to work on Mozilla?
Only oversight I saw was what the money from touring? Supposedly that is where a band makes all their money.
Also there is that little thing called the record contract. Most bands sign away the rights to their songs, so they don't own the original masters, the record companies do.
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Non-profit means that whatever money you do have, you pour right back into the organization. No one gets extra salaries (if there is any salaries to begin with) if the organization makes a "profit". All of that "profit" is just spent only for the station.
So in a college radio context, the "profit" the station gets from advertising after all of the planned expenses will more likely go towards replacing equipment, buying whatever CD's they can't get for free from the record companies, new computers, etc.
It looks like (don't quote me on this) that if your college radio station is non-commerical/non-profit (which pretty much all of them are), then all royalty payments are suspended until June 30, 2003. This addition time gained for these types of broadcasters gives "both sides time to work out a new voluntary royalty structure."
So in a nut shell, if you are non-commerical/non-profit, you don't have to pay till June 30th, 2003. After that, my guess is there will be a very low yearly fee or royalty plan that you may or may not have to pay.
Again, don't quote me on this. But if it is what it sounds like, I am one very happy e-board member for my university's radio station!
I know that not having broadband here in my small hometown in New Hampshire (about 700 people) is what is making me want to move out of the area once I graduate from my university next year.
If I had broadband, would I stay in the area? Yes I would, because it could allow me to run my own business without shelling out insane $$$ for a T1. But judging by the fact that my town doesn't even have cable (of course the next town over has it) it'll take another 10-15 years to get broadband, unless a national rollout plan similar to what was done with the telephone happens.
As the IT Director for my university's student-run radio station, I will offer the following tips.
1. Become an official club at your college/university. This way, you can ask the Student Government Association (or whatever it is on your campus) for startup money and could even get a yearly budget as well from them. Also benefit from whatever promotion they do of student clubs.
2. Plan your organization out. I assume that you will be the General Manager. You need a program director (which handles the schedule, training of DJ's, problems with DJ's, etc.), a music director (to get record companies to send you free music), a secretary (to keep track of station finances, etc.), and so on. At my station, I happen to be the IT Director (running all of the computers).
3. Start small and work from there. According to my station's history, we started off as the 2nd college radio station in the USA to broadcast online (don't ask me how we found that out, it was before my time). Start off webcasting. The costs to startup is not bad and everyone in your club can get practice running a station. Then slowly work from there. Last year, my university's station added a AM signal that is available only on-campus right now. In the future, as soon as an FCC filing window comes around, we will apply for an FM frequency. Nothing would suck more then to go all out, build a state-of-the-art FM station, and have no listeners!
4. Get an advisor. Usually whoever runs the Audio/Video department at your school would be a good choice, or someone that works for a real radio station. Very helpful when you have a problem (THE MIXER DIED!?!) and need someone to run to.
5. Talk with the college's lawyer about royalties and such. Go to saveinternetradio.org for more information on how the royalties are working out for webcasting.
6. Try to get the radio broadcast rights for your college's sports teams. Not only will students listen on campus, but countless parents and friends back home will tune in as well (via the webcast). Great way to spread the word about the station and to gain a ton of listeners.
7. If you are going to do webcasting, do it internally. Don't rely on an outside server for your broadcast...it isn't reliable. Instead, get a server, load up Shoutcast or Windows Media (whatever your choice is), and webcast that way. Removes a lot of headaches when everything is working fine, yet your webcaster server in Colorado is down. Not to mention, students would make the connection on the local LAN and not eat up as much valuable bandwidth on your college's T1 (just parents and friends would use the T1 to connect).
As for equipment, talk with your advisor, they would know what you need. Assume that you would want 2 professional CD decks, a mixer with lots of inputs/outputs (to allow for future additions to the station), a computer that plays MP3's when no DJ is in the station, a server for the internet broadcast, etc.
Good luck. It's a struggle to get started, but it is well worth it in the end.
Of course in rural New Hampshire, your lucky to get 28.8 modem speeds for $21 per month. DSL? I'd be lucky if they have that 5 towns over, nevermind in my town? Cable? We have to have regular TV here folks unless we shell out the money for satellite TV (which my parents do). Although I fail to understand why the cable company in the next town over can wire tht town for cable and not my town (it's been like that for years). Satellite internet? Not for $70 per month, where you get high ping times and much slower downloads then $42 cable internet provides. Wireless? Too bad there are too many mountains and valleys (nevermind trees) to make it cost effective.
I would of hate to had seen how long it took to get phone service here back when it was coming out...it's really pathetic that these companies can't work to get broadband to rural areas that would have real uses for it.
Isn't this pretty much giving these corporations the power to say that Joe Sixpack is guilty of downloading illegal MP3's and sharing them out to the world? I thought everyone is innocent until proven guilty, given the right to trial in front of a jury made up of his/her peers, etc. Does this so called law have protections so these corporations don't all the sudden DoS the living hell out of your computer without giving the evidence to the police and having a trial by jury? Last I heard, every citizen of the United States has the constitutional right to a trial by jury to prove whether they are guilty or not of a crime (in this case, illegal trading of copyrightted works). No law can take this right away, short of a constitional ammendment.
Now I can understand doing this when a person is given a fair trial under this law and is proven guilty...then they just as well fine the fella and let him/her be instead of DoS him/her.
Not to mention, I'd like to see how the cable companies react when their shared internet access gets DoS cuz one user on their network is sharing illegally copyrighted works. Modem users just have to disconnect and connect to a new local access number and continue to surf free.
P.S. (Just thought of this). I wish I could switch to linux, but it's pretty hard when your college information techonology major requires windows, office, visual basic, visual C++, dreamweaver, etc. So I run Windows 2000. So I can't use Evolution (which I wish I could, it looks like exactly what I need).
My main point in my post is that I hope StarOffice will someday offer this type of component to their office suite. I work at a bank during the summer and the workers there use Outlook (which is how I got exposed to it) to manage all of their e-mail accounts, tasks, and calender stuff (all intergrated). If there were any hope of them switching to a different office suite (they hate Microsoft's licensing pratices), it will have to have an Outlook-type application within it. The main thing everyone likes about Outlook is how similar it is to other Microsoft products...learn one, you can pretty much use them all. And trust me...with some of the workers there at the bank who need someone holding their hand if someone rearranges their desktop icons, they need applications that are as close as possible in look and feel. Sure, I (or the bank) "could" download a separate e-mail client that does all of the stuff Outlook does and use that alongside StarOffice, but that kinda defeats the purpose of an office suite, that should offer a Word processor, spreadsheet program, presentation program, and a e-mail/tasklist/calender program, all with a similar interface. I don't want 3 separate programs running to duplicate what Outlook does, since none of them will be intergrated with each other.
I want a e-mail program with the same features of Outlook 2000/XP. I'm a college student and I love the Outlook Today feature, which displays your calender, task list, and what new messages you have in your mail folders. It's perfect for me, since reminders always pop-up at the time I set them to and I can, at a quick glance, tell exactly what is going on in the next 7 days + what assignments I need to do. I've switched to Mozilla for browsing, and I am testing StarOffice 6 Beta with my hundreds of Word Documents. But I won't switch e-mail programs until someone offers a program on Windows that offers an Outlook Today-like feature. Until then, I pray that Norton AntiVirus will pick up any viruses that come through the e-mail.
1. Might as well tax mouses and keyboards because they allow users to input their desire to burn CD's, whether the burning is illegal or not.
2. Tax the monitors because they allow you to actually use the computer which allows you to burn a CD and see what it is doing, whether or not you actually know how to do it.
3. Add a tax to mail packages that "could" possibily hold blank CD's (say you purchased them from Amazon or a friend).
4. Tax radios and TV's since they allow you to hear and like the songs you might possibily burn to CD.
5. Tax magazines such as Rolling Stone that have reviews of music, sometimes helping you decide if you should buy the music or download it, which eventually could end up being burned to CD.
6. Tax paper, since it could be made into jewel case inserts for these burned CD's...
Anything else I missed?
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Last year, which was my freshman year at New Hampshire College (this year we are now known as Southern New Hampshire University), I moved into my dorm room, plugged in my laptop, and amazing, it worked PERFECTLY, with no configuration. My laptop, a Acer TravelMate 602TER has an intergrated network card (Intel). The college...eh, university now, uses DHCP and hands out little brochures that describe the process of hooking up to the campus network. I thought it was really easy, then again, I am a CIS major. I ended up hooking up maybe 1/2 to 3/4 of the computers on my floor to the internet cuz no one bothered to read the brochure. *Sigh* The way they have the network setup here is really strange...it appears that the classrooms run on a Netware network, while the dorms, apartments, and townhouses run on a peer-to-peer and the networks are separated from each other. There is a T1 connection to the outside world I believe. Let me tell you, last year with the Napster stuff going on, there were NO bandwith to speak of. Trust me, when it takes 3 minutes to load www.yahoo.com or www.google.com, THAT IS BAD. Of course...the college should of had a ton more bandwidth due to the fact there is like 3000 students on campus (all going through a T1? riiighhttt). It wasn't till the college limited P2P bandwidth and blocked napster did the internet speed up somewhat...and that was to maybe 4-6K a sec during the day (modem speeds) to about 4-15k speeds at night. And don't get me started on the lab computers here...they are very nice Dell's, but whoever sets up the software on them needs a headcheck. Talk about illegal operations and invaild page faults...I swear I could never get work done in there without me or someone else blowing up about 3 computers.
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When I read about Hatch's little idea, this is what I came up with as responses:
1. What ever happened to innocent until proven guilty?
2. What ever happened to getting a warrant?
3. What ever happened to a fair trial in front of a jury of peers?
4. What ever happened to the government running the police, instead of the corporations.
5. What ever happens when someone at a record label royally screws up and fries the hard drive of someone with legiminate copies of MP3's (say of my band or ripped legally from CD's I own)?
Corporations this is your chance to become a world power by buying your very own aircraft carrier! Of course you have to fund the personnel to run the carrier and then get some fighter jets but imagine the countries you can frighten into accepting your tyrannical contracts!
Gator can kiss my Ad-Aware and Mozilla Firebird pop-up blocker!
Blizzards are nothing. You just sit inside all day and wait for the roads to clear. They don't total houses (unless you get like 4 feet of snow on a roof and that never happens) or rip out trees. Most businesses and schools close anyways, so there is really no excuse to go on the roads. Anyone who gets killed thanks to a blizzard most likely was stupid enough to be on the roads.
People make it sound like blizzards are the worst thing on the planet. I'll take my 1 blizzard per year in NH over any earthquake, tornado, or hurricane.
Sampling is basically taking an exact copy of a section of another group's/artist's song and adding it to your own song unaltered or changed somewhat but still recognizable. Great examples include just above every single Puff Daddy/P.Diddy song in existance. Usually it is either a lyric or a riff or two from a song that is sampled.
A cover is pretty much an exact copy or different version of a song by another group, usually with almost the exact same lyrics (if not the same) and just about the same music (maybe "modernized" to fit the style of the band who is playing it).
In order to sample or cover other groups music, you have to ask for permission and most likely have to agree to pay some kind of royalities. Credit must be given to who wrote the song as well (you can read the credits for covers in the jewel case inserts that every CD with a cover on it comes with).
However recording a riff that you write on the guitar (for example) that is similar to another song by another band is quite different. There are only a finite number of riffs and the chance of someone accidently using a riff that was already used by another song is very great. I'm sure everyone has heard songs on the radio that at first glance sound like another song at the first listen.
You can get in trouble for recording a similar riff if you did so on purpose and with the intent on confusing listeners to the music. I might be wrong, but there was a controversy about a Michael Jackson (what's new eh?) song (the one used in that Free Willy movie) that sounded just about exactly like another song music wise that an artist claimed to have wrote before Jackson wrote his song. I can't remember if either party sued the other and what the outcome of the case was, but every once in awhile you do hear about bands and artists suing each other over possibily stealing each other's songs.
I go to SNHU in Manchester and will be spending the summer living on campus since I got an internship in the area. Looks like I will have to go searching for places where I have internet access.
BTW, that cafe called Fusion is great. Nothing like doing research for a paper with my laptop while having a coffee.
I would ask them to consider how they would feel if Microsoft decided to rename Powerpoint as Microsoft Mozilla - in their (mozilla's) legal teams opinion it would cause no confusion?
Mozilla is an invented word, Firebird is so common in the English language that it is no longer an invented work. Hence, no one can use Mozilla in any product (just try to name a store "Coca-Cola", you'll last at most 24 hours). Everyone can use Firebird, as long as there isn't competiting products with the same name in the same area. Since Mozilla Firebird is a web browser and the Firebird DB is a database, there is no competition and therefor no conflict.
1. I can see mozilla users ending up at firebird.sourceforge.net looking for information on mozilla-firebird.
Mozilla users? Any Mozilla user knows that http://www.mozilla.org is the Mozilla web site. The media and all download sites correctly link to the Mozilla web site whenever talking/promoting the product. If a user is looking for the Mozilla Firebird web browser on Google and stumbles upon the Firebird DB project, a simple click on the back button and they are back to their search. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if Firebird DB and Mozilla Firebird were ranked 1 and 2 in Google. No confusion if they are clearly labeled.
3. I can see package confusion occuring on most linux distributions - install which firebird rpm?
Once again, it is MOZILLA FIREBIRD not just plain Firebird. Hence, any RPM'S for Mozilla Firebird will probably be something like mozilla-firebird-1.5.rpm
4. Security releases for "Firebird" are likely to overlapping on searches by product name.
Once again, in the media and official web sites, Mozilla Firebird will be used whenever describing a security issue. The security information will always make it clear that it is a web browser. A simple google search for Firebird + Security NOT "Mozilla Firebird" will bring up all the relevant issues for the Firebird database.
5. My (limited) exposure to legal issues, was that just being another software product is cause enough to create user confusion. So Im supprised at their legal advice (but am not a lawyer).
In my business law class at my university, I asked a question about this. The answer I got was as long as a software product wasn't competiting directly with another software product in the same market (hence, the web browser market or database market), then it is ok to have similar names. For years I have seen various products with the same names by different companies for different purposes. Pick up the latest software catalog and see how many names are the same or very similar.
6. Web applications often include browsers and databases. Scripting languages often support both , so what will something like PHP with Firebird support mean. My feeling is after a year, noone will remember it was a database.
Clearly label any mentions of the web browser Mozilla Firebird and label any mentions of the database Firebird DB. Even put a 1 line disclaimer if you are so worried ("Mozilla Firebird web browser and the Firebird DB are two completely unrelated products by different vendors"). Problem solved.
7. I don't want to spend the rest of my life explaining to people that Firebird (our project) is not a web browser.
Don't have to, everyone will call the web browser Mozilla Firebird. Anyone who can figure out how to use the Firebird DB cannot possibily be confused with Mozilla Firebird. Everyone knows what a web browser looks like. The icons for these applications will be very different. Mozilla Firebird will be written underneath the icon. No confusion.
The admin's can't even scroll about 3/4's of the way down the front page to see if there was a dupe? Pathetic
*Ignorant Person reads ad saying Microsoft products are hacker-proof and security bug free*
Ignorant Person: "This is what I have been waiting for!"
*Ignorant Person runs to the nearest Wal-Mart and buys a copy of Windows 2000 Server.*
*Ignorant Person tries to install it over his previous server OS, Windows 95 original release.*
*Ignorant Person is satisfied once Windows 2000 Server is installed and IIS is running*
*Ignorant Person's web site is hacked, Code Red I-IV finds a new home, and Nimda exploits every unpatched bug and then some. Not to mention the original Melissa virus from the W95 days*
Ignorant Person: "Ah shit"
How many times do the people at Mozilla.org have to tell you to NOT link to Bugzilla so the poor servers can actually be usable by companies who are spending real money on employees to work on Mozilla?
Only oversight I saw was what the money from touring? Supposedly that is where a band makes all their money.
Also there is that little thing called the record contract. Most bands sign away the rights to their songs, so they don't own the original masters, the record companies do.
Sign me up...oh wait, I am in New Hampshire :(
Don't know what else to say.
Non-profit means that whatever money you do have, you pour right back into the organization. No one gets extra salaries (if there is any salaries to begin with) if the organization makes a "profit". All of that "profit" is just spent only for the station.
So in a college radio context, the "profit" the station gets from advertising after all of the planned expenses will more likely go towards replacing equipment, buying whatever CD's they can't get for free from the record companies, new computers, etc.
It looks like (don't quote me on this) that if your college radio station is non-commerical/non-profit (which pretty much all of them are), then all royalty payments are suspended until June 30, 2003. This addition time gained for these types of broadcasters gives "both sides time to work out a new voluntary royalty structure."
So in a nut shell, if you are non-commerical/non-profit, you don't have to pay till June 30th, 2003. After that, my guess is there will be a very low yearly fee or royalty plan that you may or may not have to pay.
Again, don't quote me on this. But if it is what it sounds like, I am one very happy e-board member for my university's radio station!
I know that not having broadband here in my small hometown in New Hampshire (about 700 people) is what is making me want to move out of the area once I graduate from my university next year.
If I had broadband, would I stay in the area? Yes I would, because it could allow me to run my own business without shelling out insane $$$ for a T1. But judging by the fact that my town doesn't even have cable (of course the next town over has it) it'll take another 10-15 years to get broadband, unless a national rollout plan similar to what was done with the telephone happens.
As the IT Director for my university's student-run radio station, I will offer the following tips.
1. Become an official club at your college/university. This way, you can ask the Student Government Association (or whatever it is on your campus) for startup money and could even get a yearly budget as well from them. Also benefit from whatever promotion they do of student clubs.
2. Plan your organization out. I assume that you will be the General Manager. You need a program director (which handles the schedule, training of DJ's, problems with DJ's, etc.), a music director (to get record companies to send you free music), a secretary (to keep track of station finances, etc.), and so on. At my station, I happen to be the IT Director (running all of the computers).
3. Start small and work from there. According to my station's history, we started off as the 2nd college radio station in the USA to broadcast online (don't ask me how we found that out, it was before my time). Start off webcasting. The costs to startup is not bad and everyone in your club can get practice running a station. Then slowly work from there. Last year, my university's station added a AM signal that is available only on-campus right now. In the future, as soon as an FCC filing window comes around, we will apply for an FM frequency. Nothing would suck more then to go all out, build a state-of-the-art FM station, and have no listeners!
4. Get an advisor. Usually whoever runs the Audio/Video department at your school would be a good choice, or someone that works for a real radio station. Very helpful when you have a problem (THE MIXER DIED!?!) and need someone to run to.
5. Talk with the college's lawyer about royalties and such. Go to saveinternetradio.org for more information on how the royalties are working out for webcasting.
6. Try to get the radio broadcast rights for your college's sports teams. Not only will students listen on campus, but countless parents and friends back home will tune in as well (via the webcast). Great way to spread the word about the station and to gain a ton of listeners.
7. If you are going to do webcasting, do it internally. Don't rely on an outside server for your broadcast...it isn't reliable. Instead, get a server, load up Shoutcast or Windows Media (whatever your choice is), and webcast that way. Removes a lot of headaches when everything is working fine, yet your webcaster server in Colorado is down. Not to mention, students would make the connection on the local LAN and not eat up as much valuable bandwidth on your college's T1 (just parents and friends would use the T1 to connect).
As for equipment, talk with your advisor, they would know what you need. Assume that you would want 2 professional CD decks, a mixer with lots of inputs/outputs (to allow for future additions to the station), a computer that plays MP3's when no DJ is in the station, a server for the internet broadcast, etc.
Good luck. It's a struggle to get started, but it is well worth it in the end.
Kinda hard when you live with your parents and are currently in college :p
Of course in rural New Hampshire, your lucky to get 28.8 modem speeds for $21 per month. DSL? I'd be lucky if they have that 5 towns over, nevermind in my town? Cable? We have to have regular TV here folks unless we shell out the money for satellite TV (which my parents do). Although I fail to understand why the cable company in the next town over can wire tht town for cable and not my town (it's been like that for years). Satellite internet? Not for $70 per month, where you get high ping times and much slower downloads then $42 cable internet provides. Wireless? Too bad there are too many mountains and valleys (nevermind trees) to make it cost effective.
I would of hate to had seen how long it took to get phone service here back when it was coming out...it's really pathetic that these companies can't work to get broadband to rural areas that would have real uses for it.
Isn't this pretty much giving these corporations the power to say that Joe Sixpack is guilty of downloading illegal MP3's and sharing them out to the world? I thought everyone is innocent until proven guilty, given the right to trial in front of a jury made up of his/her peers, etc. Does this so called law have protections so these corporations don't all the sudden DoS the living hell out of your computer without giving the evidence to the police and having a trial by jury? Last I heard, every citizen of the United States has the constitutional right to a trial by jury to prove whether they are guilty or not of a crime (in this case, illegal trading of copyrightted works). No law can take this right away, short of a constitional ammendment.
Now I can understand doing this when a person is given a fair trial under this law and is proven guilty...then they just as well fine the fella and let him/her be instead of DoS him/her.
Not to mention, I'd like to see how the cable companies react when their shared internet access gets DoS cuz one user on their network is sharing illegally copyrighted works. Modem users just have to disconnect and connect to a new local access number and continue to surf free.
P.S. (Just thought of this). I wish I could switch to linux, but it's pretty hard when your college information techonology major requires windows, office, visual basic, visual C++, dreamweaver, etc. So I run Windows 2000. So I can't use Evolution (which I wish I could, it looks like exactly what I need).
My main point in my post is that I hope StarOffice will someday offer this type of component to their office suite. I work at a bank during the summer and the workers there use Outlook (which is how I got exposed to it) to manage all of their e-mail accounts, tasks, and calender stuff (all intergrated). If there were any hope of them switching to a different office suite (they hate Microsoft's licensing pratices), it will have to have an Outlook-type application within it. The main thing everyone likes about Outlook is how similar it is to other Microsoft products...learn one, you can pretty much use them all. And trust me...with some of the workers there at the bank who need someone holding their hand if someone rearranges their desktop icons, they need applications that are as close as possible in look and feel. Sure, I (or the bank) "could" download a separate e-mail client that does all of the stuff Outlook does and use that alongside StarOffice, but that kinda defeats the purpose of an office suite, that should offer a Word processor, spreadsheet program, presentation program, and a e-mail/tasklist/calender program, all with a similar interface. I don't want 3 separate programs running to duplicate what Outlook does, since none of them will be intergrated with each other.
I want a e-mail program with the same features of Outlook 2000/XP. I'm a college student and I love the Outlook Today feature, which displays your calender, task list, and what new messages you have in your mail folders. It's perfect for me, since reminders always pop-up at the time I set them to and I can, at a quick glance, tell exactly what is going on in the next 7 days + what assignments I need to do. I've switched to Mozilla for browsing, and I am testing StarOffice 6 Beta with my hundreds of Word Documents. But I won't switch e-mail programs until someone offers a program on Windows that offers an Outlook Today-like feature. Until then, I pray that Norton AntiVirus will pick up any viruses that come through the e-mail.
1. Might as well tax mouses and keyboards because they allow users to input their desire to burn CD's, whether the burning is illegal or not.
2. Tax the monitors because they allow you to actually use the computer which allows you to burn a CD and see what it is doing, whether or not you actually know how to do it.
3. Add a tax to mail packages that "could" possibily hold blank CD's (say you purchased them from Amazon or a friend).
4. Tax radios and TV's since they allow you to hear and like the songs you might possibily burn to CD.
5. Tax magazines such as Rolling Stone that have reviews of music, sometimes helping you decide if you should buy the music or download it, which eventually could end up being burned to CD.
6. Tax paper, since it could be made into jewel case inserts for these burned CD's...
Anything else I missed?
Last year, which was my freshman year at New Hampshire College (this year we are now known as Southern New Hampshire University), I moved into my dorm room, plugged in my laptop, and amazing, it worked PERFECTLY, with no configuration. My laptop, a Acer TravelMate 602TER has an intergrated network card (Intel). The college...eh, university now, uses DHCP and hands out little brochures that describe the process of hooking up to the campus network. I thought it was really easy, then again, I am a CIS major. I ended up hooking up maybe 1/2 to 3/4 of the computers on my floor to the internet cuz no one bothered to read the brochure. *Sigh* The way they have the network setup here is really strange...it appears that the classrooms run on a Netware network, while the dorms, apartments, and townhouses run on a peer-to-peer and the networks are separated from each other. There is a T1 connection to the outside world I believe. Let me tell you, last year with the Napster stuff going on, there were NO bandwith to speak of. Trust me, when it takes 3 minutes to load www.yahoo.com or www.google.com, THAT IS BAD. Of course...the college should of had a ton more bandwidth due to the fact there is like 3000 students on campus (all going through a T1? riiighhttt). It wasn't till the college limited P2P bandwidth and blocked napster did the internet speed up somewhat...and that was to maybe 4-6K a sec during the day (modem speeds) to about 4-15k speeds at night. And don't get me started on the lab computers here...they are very nice Dell's, but whoever sets up the software on them needs a headcheck. Talk about illegal operations and invaild page faults...I swear I could never get work done in there without me or someone else blowing up about 3 computers.