Since his very first hit in the sixties (called 'changes' by the way), Bowie has always been on the cutting edge, but in a more subdued, British (read: classy) way.
I think that if things were to naturally evolve, he would be absolutely correct.... BUT...(unfortunately) we have Congress and the courts putting their noses into the water where they really shouldn't. What they're doing is akin to passing laws requiring all electronic equipment to have at least three vaccum tubes so the vacuum tube industry doesn't fall to obsolence...or to require at least one buggy whip on every horseless carriage. What's really ironic is that the mantra that our leaders have had the past few years (and what they seem to go to over and over and over to justify all the deregulation they've done) is: "Let the marketplace decide!". Why then do they seem to want to apply this selectively then? I think the answer is: $$$$$$$$$. They want the flow to continue into their wallets and Swiss bank accounts.
It's well past time that we as consumers stopped beign passive over big business' land grab. I for one would gladly provide time and money to sue the RIAA and the movie studios back into the stone age. How dare they try to sue away our rights?!
Right now, distribution is the single biggest cost in film. Making prints isn't cheap nor is Fedex, which is how most films arew shipped to theatres. Also, most theatres now splice film reels (and previews) into one big pancake which gets run as a single film. When the film has to be shipped back, it has to be disassembled and put back onto its original reels. This operation is very labor intensive.
Costs notwithstanding, probably the main reason that the studios want this form of distribution is control. The digital films most certainly will be encrypted, and this allows them to shut off the performance to any location (or locations) for any reason they choose.
Board 25 in greater Providence, RI.
We named the BBS after the lead phone number we got: 252-5252. Ran PC Board v15.22 software.
Had gangs of shareware using a 5 CD (1X!) changer (remember those shareware CD's?), text chat, community forums, echoes, door games, email, newsgroups and a whole other bunch of stuff. The BBS ran on a single 486SX-25 with 8 megs of RAM. DOS,QEMM and Deskview ran the whole thing.
Those were the days.....
" (Valenti)The average number of cassettes per household -- this is fascinating -- Mrs. Schroeder, was 27.7, 28 cassettes. Now, if you are just time shifting, all you are doing is you are away from home and you are taping something and you come back and you watch the commercial, then you time shift, you don't need 28 cassettes. You need one cassette or at the most two. Why do you have 28? Why? Because of the next line. Seventy-five percent have a permanent collection. My own home, we do it in our on home. I know about that. Anybody that has a VCR, talk to them, and I ask you to use your own commonsense, Mr. Chairman, Mrs. Schroeder, Mr. Railsback, just think of you as human beings. If you had the power to sit on a playback of a recording and you could wipe out the commercials or not wipe out the commercials, what would you do? You would do exactly what you said, sir. That is terrific. Of course. We all do it.
But when you do it, you strip away the reason for free television. Now, let me --
Mr. KASTENMEIER. Jack, let me ask you. Do you consider yourself and your family infringers when you engage in that practice?
Mr. VALENTI. I consider myself and my family believing what the plaintiffs in this lawsuit said and they said publicly, they have said it to the press, they have said it to the lawyers, they have said it to the courts. They do not intend to file any actions against homeowners now or in the future. I mean, that is obvious and they have said that publicly, Mr. Chairman, so I believe them. As far as I am concerned, I am going to continue taping because the plaintiffs have said they aren't going to do anything to me. I am not committing any crime."
This guy needs to be taken out back and shot!
"Sony Music will soon open a hybrid SACD pressing plant somewhere in the US, which will allow SACD prices to fall to around $23 or even below"
I guess they're not happy with CD prices of ONLY $16.99.....
I wonder if any of the extra $6.00 will go to the artists.
I saw this stuff at the NAB convention. Looked really good and not that expensive..
Here is the literature and prices you requested for the Trango Microwave Systems. www.trangosys.com
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Resellar pricing is also available.
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Diversified Marketing
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The title: "Learned Jurist" may well be the biggest oxymoron in the English language.
My experience with judges is that they are one step below the moron, which places then one step above the idiot.
But..remember this: Judges were mostly lawyers before they became judges. Considering this, what should we expect anyway?
That's why Lucas is doing this... for the $$$$$. Why not do it? By re-releasing the original trilogy, not only does he get a chance to make a pile of dough from those who were babies (or not even born) when the original come out, but he also gets to do it for a fraction of the cost of three new movies. Then by throwing in a bit of fluff, he figures that he'll also be able to attract older people who have already seen the movie before.
The dark side has and always will be (greed for)money. Pure and simple.....
"The collapse of Kazaa, however, is not expected to slow trading activity on the company's network, one of the most popular file-sharing sites in the world. Kazaa said it has sold the network to another firm that the music and film industry has not sued yet. "
They sold off all their assets and now they're cashing out.
Big deal.
The DMCA makes it a crime to decrypt (or for that matter even discuss decryption) of encrypted, copyrighted works even if your use of these would be (for) non-infringing (legal) purposes.
Now, this clueless judge comes out and says that the DMCA notwithstanding, it's still possible to use these encrypted works for the
(non-infringing) purpose of fair use.
HOW????????????????
If it's a crime to decrypt these for ANY reason, how do I then GET the use of them for fair use?
I mean the copyright holder encrypted them to KEEP ME from using them; he's not going to give them to me.
Maybe I'm a moron, but this judge's logic doesn't seem to be there!
The Supreme Court already decided in the Betamax case that it doesn't MATTER if video recorders can be used for infringement, because they can ALSO be used for NON-INFRINGING uses as well
Didn't the Supreme Court already decide this case with Betamax? Why is this clueless judge even allowing this to move forward? Do they (the content providers) have something on him?
Seems to me that the only difference between this and a VCR is the storage medium involved
(a disk platter instead of tape).
The DMCA is one of the biggest land grabs ever given to special interests by Congress. The thought that Congress was able to so twist our processes allowing them to take away free speech rights guarenteed by the Bill of Rights truly sickens me.
And the proscecutors and courts have proven to be no better! They've swooped in like vultures over a carcass (the carcass is people's rights by the way), making a mockery of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
The DMCA is simply an awful law...and the 'man' knows it. Why do you think that he quickly drops cases AFTER using it to do harm? Because he knows that this law would be struck down in court if it was ever challenged....easier to bust and run after ruining another person and/or company. Personally, I think that it's well about time that Congress was able to be punished for making obvious bad laws for their cronies in business with deep pockets.
Our forefathers must be truly turning over in their graves at the blockheads occupying Congress today....
Here in L.A. the radio SUCKS! There are about five hip/hop/R&B/top 40 stations, a couple of classic rock stations and the rest pretty much is spanish. I listen to the music I love by going to a couple of stations' websites (wxrv.com and wbos.com)., looking at their playlists and downloading the music. If I find an artist that I like, generally I buy that CD. So far this year, I've bought perhaps 15-20 CD's due to my ability to listen to the songs this way. There's no other way to hear this type of music here in L.A. as it's not played on the radio. For me, downloading music is an alternative to listening to it on the radio. Let me state this again, as it's an important point: Downloading has replaced the radio as my preferred (ne' my ONLY way) way of discovering new music. Now, I can't understand why the RIAA is so clueless as to think that all of us want to listen to Mary J. Blige and N'Sync. My 17 year old daughter doesn't even listen to that stuff (though my 14 year old does). The reason that that music sales are down is simple: the recording industry isn't serving the consumer! If I get a bad meal at a restaurant I don't go there any more. If there's a TV show that I don't like, I don't watch it. If a store rips me off, I don't shop there. None of these receive govt. assistance. THE MARKETPLACE serves them, and they live or die based upon it. Why should the music industry receive special treatment from the Government then? If the record industry is producing a poor product that I have no desire to buy, why should Congress stifle their competition to try and force me to buy their product? Can anyone explain this to me...like I was a six year old?
The quality is very good. I have a 201 area code which has a real local number. Unfortunately, the local 201 number is in Oradel, NJ (the middle of nowhere). Your number is hard coded into the Cisco adaptor. The service is best for making outgoing calls. For that purpose, 40 bucks a month is a steal.
I think I'm going to try to change my number to a 212 (NYC) one. The 201 is useless to me because of where it is.
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Since his very first hit in the sixties (called 'changes' by the way), Bowie has always been on the cutting edge, but in a more subdued, British (read: classy) way.
I think that if things were to naturally evolve, he would be absolutely correct....
BUT...(unfortunately) we have Congress and the courts putting their noses into the water where they really shouldn't. What they're doing is akin to passing laws requiring all electronic equipment to have at least three vaccum tubes so the vacuum tube industry doesn't fall to obsolence...or to require at least one buggy whip on every horseless carriage.
What's really ironic is that the mantra that our leaders have had the past few years (and what they seem to go to over and over and over to justify all the deregulation they've done) is:
"Let the marketplace decide!". Why then do they seem to want to apply this selectively then?
I think the answer is: $$$$$$$$$. They want the flow to continue into their wallets and Swiss bank accounts.
It's well past time that we as consumers stopped beign passive over big business' land grab. I for one would gladly provide time and money to sue the RIAA and the movie studios back into the stone age.
How dare they try to sue away our rights?!
It's time to organize against these creeps!
Anyone else agree and is willing to get on board?
Right now, distribution is the single biggest cost in film. Making prints isn't cheap nor is Fedex, which is how most films arew shipped to theatres. Also, most theatres now splice film reels (and previews) into one big pancake which gets run as a single film. When the film has to be shipped back, it has to be disassembled and put back onto its original reels. This operation is very labor intensive. Costs notwithstanding, probably the main reason that the studios want this form of distribution is control. The digital films most certainly will be encrypted, and this allows them to shut off the performance to any location (or locations) for any reason they choose.
That is the question.
That way, they get more $$ for it when they auction it off.
The 'steward' of the public's airwaves has become nothing more then a money grubbing whore, whose main existance is to fill the treasury's coffers.
Channel 1 was a granddaddy of a BBS based out of Cambridge, MA. Their BBS file archives are posted online and there's TONS of stuff there.
Board 25 in greater Providence, RI. We named the BBS after the lead phone number we got: 252-5252. Ran PC Board v15.22 software. Had gangs of shareware using a 5 CD (1X!) changer (remember those shareware CD's?), text chat, community forums, echoes, door games, email, newsgroups and a whole other bunch of stuff. The BBS ran on a single 486SX-25 with 8 megs of RAM. DOS,QEMM and Deskview ran the whole thing. Those were the days.....
As anyone who has ever been forced to use their service knows, Qwest can (and regularly does) screw up a wet dream.
" (Valenti)The average number of cassettes per household -- this is fascinating -- Mrs. Schroeder, was 27.7, 28 cassettes. Now, if you are just time shifting, all you are doing is you are away from home and you are taping something and you come back and you watch the commercial, then you time shift, you don't need 28 cassettes. You need one cassette or at the most two. Why do you have 28? Why? Because of the next line. Seventy-five percent have a permanent collection. My own home, we do it in our on home. I know about that. Anybody that has a VCR, talk to them, and I ask you to use your own commonsense, Mr. Chairman, Mrs. Schroeder, Mr. Railsback, just think of you as human beings. If you had the power to sit on a playback of a recording and you could wipe out the commercials or not wipe out the commercials, what would you do? You would do exactly what you said, sir. That is terrific. Of course. We all do it. But when you do it, you strip away the reason for free television. Now, let me -- Mr. KASTENMEIER. Jack, let me ask you. Do you consider yourself and your family infringers when you engage in that practice? Mr. VALENTI. I consider myself and my family believing what the plaintiffs in this lawsuit said and they said publicly, they have said it to the press, they have said it to the lawyers, they have said it to the courts. They do not intend to file any actions against homeowners now or in the future. I mean, that is obvious and they have said that publicly, Mr. Chairman, so I believe them. As far as I am concerned, I am going to continue taping because the plaintiffs have said they aren't going to do anything to me. I am not committing any crime." This guy needs to be taken out back and shot!
"Sony Music will soon open a hybrid SACD pressing plant somewhere in the US, which will allow SACD prices to fall to around $23 or even below" I guess they're not happy with CD prices of ONLY $16.99..... I wonder if any of the extra $6.00 will go to the artists.
I saw this stuff at the NAB convention. Looked really good and not that expensive.. Here is the literature and prices you requested for the Trango Microwave Systems. www.trangosys.com Falcon Plus 5.8 Ghz - 1 mile system - $ 2250.00 Falcon Plus 5.8 Ghz - 4 mile system - $ 2749.00 Falcon Plus 5.8 Ghz - 7 mile system - $ 2849.00 Eagle Plus 2.4 Ghz - 1 mile system - $ 1168.00 Eagle Plus 2.4 Ghz - 4 mile system - $ 1408.00 Complete systems include: transmitter and receiver, transmit and receive antenna suitable for distance, all weather nema enclosures, hardware, antenna to radio cable, power supplies, manual. Resellar pricing is also available. Thanks Aaron Davis Diversified Marketing 509-585-9377 Phone 509-585-9455 FAX
Ham Operators can run big power in this band (hundreds of watts)..and the license is code free.
The title: "Learned Jurist" may well be the biggest oxymoron in the English language. My experience with judges is that they are one step below the moron, which places then one step above the idiot. But..remember this: Judges were mostly lawyers before they became judges. Considering this, what should we expect anyway?
That's why Lucas is doing this... for the $$$$$.
Why not do it? By re-releasing the original trilogy, not only does he get a chance to make a pile of dough from those who were babies (or not even born) when the original come out, but he also gets to do it for a fraction of the cost of three new movies. Then by throwing in a bit of fluff, he figures that he'll also be able to attract older people who have already seen the movie before.
The dark side has and always will be (greed for)money. Pure and simple.....
"The collapse of Kazaa, however, is not expected to slow trading activity on the company's network, one of the most popular file-sharing sites in the world. Kazaa said it has sold the network to another firm that the music and film industry has not sued yet. " They sold off all their assets and now they're cashing out. Big deal.
The DMCA makes it a crime to decrypt (or for that matter even discuss decryption) of encrypted, copyrighted works even if your use of these would be (for) non-infringing (legal) purposes. Now, this clueless judge comes out and says that the DMCA notwithstanding, it's still possible to use these encrypted works for the (non-infringing) purpose of fair use. HOW???????????????? If it's a crime to decrypt these for ANY reason, how do I then GET the use of them for fair use? I mean the copyright holder encrypted them to KEEP ME from using them; he's not going to give them to me. Maybe I'm a moron, but this judge's logic doesn't seem to be there!
RIAA
The Supreme Court already decided in the Betamax case that it doesn't MATTER if video recorders can be used for infringement, because they can ALSO be used for NON-INFRINGING uses as well Didn't the Supreme Court already decide this case with Betamax? Why is this clueless judge even allowing this to move forward? Do they (the content providers) have something on him? Seems to me that the only difference between this and a VCR is the storage medium involved (a disk platter instead of tape).
The DMCA is one of the biggest land grabs ever given to special interests by Congress. The thought that Congress was able to so twist our processes allowing them to take away free speech rights guarenteed by the Bill of Rights truly sickens me. And the proscecutors and courts have proven to be no better! They've swooped in like vultures over a carcass (the carcass is people's rights by the way), making a mockery of the Constitution and Bill of Rights. The DMCA is simply an awful law...and the 'man' knows it. Why do you think that he quickly drops cases AFTER using it to do harm? Because he knows that this law would be struck down in court if it was ever challenged....easier to bust and run after ruining another person and/or company. Personally, I think that it's well about time that Congress was able to be punished for making obvious bad laws for their cronies in business with deep pockets. Our forefathers must be truly turning over in their graves at the blockheads occupying Congress today....
Here in L.A. the radio SUCKS! There are about five hip/hop/R&B/top 40 stations, a couple of classic rock stations and the rest pretty much is spanish. I listen to the music I love by going to a couple of stations' websites (wxrv.com and wbos.com)., looking at their playlists and downloading the music. If I find an artist that I like, generally I buy that CD. So far this year, I've bought perhaps 15-20 CD's due to my ability to listen to the songs this way. There's no other way to hear this type of music here in L.A. as it's not played on the radio. For me, downloading music is an alternative to listening to it on the radio. Let me state this again, as it's an important point: Downloading has replaced the radio as my preferred (ne' my ONLY way) way of discovering new music.
Now, I can't understand why the RIAA is so clueless as to think that all of us want to listen to Mary J. Blige and N'Sync. My 17 year old daughter doesn't even listen to that stuff (though my 14 year old does).
The reason that that music sales are down is simple: the recording industry isn't serving the consumer! If I get a bad meal at a restaurant I don't go there any more. If there's a TV show that I don't like, I don't watch it. If a store rips me off, I don't shop there. None of these receive govt. assistance. THE MARKETPLACE serves them, and they live or die based upon it. Why should the music industry receive special treatment from the Government then? If the record industry is producing a poor product that I have no desire to buy, why should Congress stifle their competition to try and force me to buy their product?
Can anyone explain this to me...like I was a six year old?
Fuck you!
J a m i e --- K e l l n e r
How about an update to the video card arrest last week? I emailed Best Buy a complaint, and heard...nothing from them.
The quality is very good. I have a 201 area code which has a real local number. Unfortunately, the local 201 number is in Oradel, NJ (the middle of nowhere). Your number is hard coded into the Cisco adaptor. The service is best for making outgoing calls. For that purpose, 40 bucks a month is a steal. I think I'm going to try to change my number to a 212 (NYC) one. The 201 is useless to me because of where it is.
For $19.95. It took my order now let's see if they deliver.