But you don't have the right to make the copy in the first place. The backup right refers to Software doesn't it? And I doubt if music is software.
You're buying recording media holding some content with legal limitations on the content's redistribution
No, limitations on copying. That's why its called copyright. Limitations on distribution are usually contained in Licences (like some commercial software). The limitations might be total or they might be mere requirements that all the software and packaging etc must be transferred.
It doesn't say the person who operates the software which is a server or which technically is a service can sue spammers. It says service so in your example it would be your copy of the browser which would be entitled to sue. I'd like to see that.
In common speech a service is clearly a service provider such as an ISP but also including Edu institutions and similar. It is quite loose though and might cover non ISP entities who for example provide access to those things to their employees.
The trick is to enter into a simple text file the location of each piece of item, taking care to fill in enough detail to search for it in the text file. Each of the containers is numbered
If I could do that I wouldn't be reading a thread about how to organize my stuff.
Plus I'd have to actually work out what some of the stuff is.
Teaching some fundamental facts or processes through rote has been out of favour for all of 15 years. So most of the stuff we are surrounded by today was invented by generations that did that. I see a generation that did not use this technique and it is a generation that cannot spell or do simple arithmetic (or understand that they can't do it)
Get your kids out of school people, you'll be doing them a huge favor.
Come on, tell us how you left at 6th grade and you succeeded in sales or avoided altogether the whole capitalist thing or some other similarly uplifting bullshit. If we all did that however I think we would be having this conversation around an open fire.
I spent the last weekend listening to a retired salesman telling me how school based education was a waste and only losers worked for someone else. He started tis 'conversation' as we drove in his car to lunch. I'm thinking "Listen asshole, salesman didn't design or build the f***ing car we are driving in and you're a sh**house cook which is why we are going to lunch out and be served by employees. As a matter of fact I'm an employee and I quite enjoy being an employee. I've been self employed and I worked out that most self employed people have fu**wits for bosses. AND they have employees/losers."
Err.. We are talking about how a Word doc is formatted not what goes into the document.
They don't want you to speak against the government; they don't want you to protest; they don't want you to THINK
You are right of course. I heard the Democrats saying just that the other day.
If you start thinking outside the box, you are a threat to them..
And if I disagree with you am I a threat to you.
Why do corporations enforce strict IP (intellectual property) laws on employees? Why do businesses not support or look down upon certain things that you do (like learning or studying "unrelated" stuff)?
what if you prefer lossless music, with coverart, booklet and printed media you can hold in your hand?
Buy Vinyl.
I just saw a copy of Santana's live recording Lotus and the cd booklet and cover art paled considerably against the triple LP I have that folds out to about 15 LP sized double sided panels in glorious technicolour with buddahs and mandalas and more stuff than you can take in in the time it takes to listen to the whole performance.
CD art is matchbox sized pages containing badly fonted lyrics unreadable on a discordantly coloured and cluttered background with at least one page devoted to shout outs to the artists peeps one of whom is invariably God. Yeah, right.
You'd be surprised. There are a number of people who post here who get angry at the thought of being asked to do anything that doesn't have an immediate beneficial effect on them personally. The sort of people who watched Homer asking about the gold coin donation to get into the Museum and not only don't understand why people were laughing but who get insulted that you would ask for a donation.
If you had offered a third choice "the TV station creates a new model of being paid and you still get your TV show without the annoying ads" then I'm sure most people would choose that option.
Most? Isn't that cable TV. And most people don't watch cable TV.
Whats the point of offering an option that doesn't exist. There are only three people involved in TV. The Viewer, the Content Provider and the Advertiser. The Advertiser pays for the content provider to put on a show in the hope that the ads shown at the same time increase their business.
If you take out the Advertiser the money has to come from the Viewer. Hell it does now but in a non-direct way that makes people feel like they are getting it for free.
The article actually suggests that the feature is turned on by default. If you believe that that means the customer has made his choice then you don't understand the large majority of users so what you say applies only to a small number of the overall population.
And advertising on the web has failed- its ineffective, it generates no revenue for the advertisers
And they are so stupid that they don't even realize it yet. Thank god we have people like you to tell them.
and its just fucking annoying
Then don't visit ad supported sites. It's real simple to do. Then those of us who are happy enough to accept the compact implicit in visiting those sites ie that we let some of our screen display ads, get on with it. If a site has popups or annoying stuff I don't go back just like you. But i'm not so sure I'd be making the Web a better place by removing all the ads.
I've been doing this stuff since before you could access the net from Compuserve and I say it gets better all the time, even with the ads.
At the scale of stuff he is talking about you don't get free applications. Seriously, If you are putting together a University Student Enrollment Management System do you download one from sourceforge or do you get someone to write it for you using the free software tools that are available. And you pay them. The only thing you don't pay for are the software that you take from the free software community.
And you end up with bespoke software that doesn't depend on some corporates willingness to conntinue to support or upgrade it.
Nowhere does anyone suggest that good development procedures should be ignored.
Of course if YOU end up with unreadable code that noone but the developer can change then its YOU that fucked up.
I suspect thats the major reason why IT managers don't like free or open source , because they have no-one to blame if its screwed up.
than ever before. At least at present the skull vibration is a peripheral aspect of the sound perception. The skull actually protects the soft tissue freom the external vibrations.
Now we are going to make the skull the primary source of some of this sound and directly hit the brain.
Why do we think this is a good idea. I would be concerned about a punch-drunk generation degenerating into parkinsons dementia before they are 30 and on autopsy having brains that look like they had been in way too many fights..
But seriously, maybe they didn't patent the actual combination of materials but the process involved (if that's possible) or parts thereof. Some trade secrets are protected by secrecy rather than patent and rely on either the difficulty in analysis or the first mover advantage to provide a competitive edge.
Much as the computer industry in the US currently acts as if the law required all companies that build computers to install Windows on them.
If I end up with the same result under either system does it always matter how the result was achieved. And I'm not a believer in the end justifying the means but whats the point of means that produce poor ends.
/. motto for the day; Today is National Existential Ennui Awareness Day.
It is preserved. The Government of VN has made its free choice and decided to use open source software. Do you think that in 5 years time if it is obvious that government is inoperable because of that choice they will not exercise their freedom of choice again and opt for something else.
In five years time its quite possible that choosing Windows will absolutely lock them out of any other architecture like free software because of hardware requirements. How will you address concerns about freedom of choice then.
Frankly freedom of choice is a term bandied about in contexts where it just doesn't come into it. It is fatuous to talk of freedom where a choice must be made between outcomes which are not relatively equal. True freedom of choice may in fact only exist where an alternative available is to not take one of the offered alternatives but to remain in your current position without loss.
You can't divide market into two and advocate free trade for one part (goods) but not the other (labor.)
A sovereign country can do anything it wants. take the US for example. It is at the forefront of free trade in services and IP but has some of the worlds most obvious and harmful barriers to free trade in primary products and some manufactured goods (eg steel).
If you restrict outsourcing, you will make the poorer country much more competitive with the goods they sell
Restricting outsourcing to low cost areas has nothing to do with competitive manufacture of goods in those areas. Are you saying that if they can't use their brains they will get better with their hands.
Some of the reasons why manufacture is based in low cost areas are that the factories are newer and so not tied to outdated tech, suply chains are able to be built up on new principles rather than again being tied to old channels,the wage costs are lower, government imposts are lower as governments seeks to develop their countries.
It goes without saying rich countries won't give up their relative wealth
Fortunately there are sufficient people in governments around the world who realize the errors of merchantilism as an economic model to avoid its worst manifestations most of the time.
But it does appeal to the uneducated doesn't it. I mean it's so intuitive. "If he wins I must have lost" and if thats not bad enough the populists who are looking to whi up the masses find someone against whom they are not winning and it becomes "If he wins I must have lost so I have to win against everybody"
Have you missed the last 50 years wherein international trade has increased along with the relative wealth of individuals in countries which have experienced a growth in international trade eg Japan, even those whose share of that trade has dropped relaitvely eg USA.
As a matter of interest what would you have done at the end of WWII with japan (economically I mean) Would you have said "OK boys back to the paddies and grow that rice to eat and maybe some other stuff as a cash crop that we can buy off you so you can afford to buy our manufactired goods. No need to make anything yourself cause we can make it for you."
Sounds far fetched but thats what Europe did to Africa after they left at the end of colonialism and look at Africa now.
This could go on but I'll stop.
Your grasp of economics is even more limited than mine.
As far as "It won't work cause stores want you to be there as long as possible" I think a store could well have you traverse the whole store but indicate as you go past stuff on the list that its there. Even I'd be happy enough with that.
You still go through the whole store subject to their ads but you haven't missed anything. If your in a hurry you push faster.
If you're only there for a few items you're not likely to take a trolley anyway , just a handbasket.
If you have a trolley you're likely going to most aisles unless you're loading up with comething.
It seems to be harder and harder for marketers to accurately target these days because it is harder to get good lists. Privacy concerns limit the availability of even public information that would allow direct marketing of products or services that a person may actually be in the market for.
Case in point. I had a friend in the landscaping and outdoor hardwear business. He was using a mailing list generated by the local authority from Building applications esp swimming pools. With the list he was able to write good marketing material that addressed things people were actually doing. He did this for a few years with some success. In his material he generally identified where he had gotten their names so they didn't think he had been spying or underhanded etc.
At some point someone took exception and the local newspaper blew it up into a big privacy thing. They raised all sorts of bogus issues like burgulars accessing details of places with lax security in the construction phase and eventually the local authority made it difficult to get multiple names from the public record in any useable format.
So my friend is back to mass mailing in areas where building is likely to take place rather than specific targeting which he would much rather do.
Less success and more angst to the recipients.
I suspect the same thing is happening in many ares of activity.
Especially with public records. They are still available but in much less usable forms.
The directors of many movies (esp comedies and horrors) obviously consider a full bladder to be an essential prerequisite to an all round movie viewing experience.
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And that has exactly what to do with his science?
You're buying recording media holding some content with legal limitations on the content's redistribution
No, limitations on copying. That's why its called copyright. Limitations on distribution are usually contained in Licences (like some commercial software). The limitations might be total or they might be mere requirements that all the software and packaging etc must be transferred.
In common speech a service is clearly a service provider such as an ISP but also including Edu institutions and similar. It is quite loose though and might cover non ISP entities who for example provide access to those things to their employees.
If I could do that I wouldn't be reading a thread about how to organize my stuff.
Plus I'd have to actually work out what some of the stuff is.
Get your kids out of school people, you'll be doing them a huge favor.
Come on, tell us how you left at 6th grade and you succeeded in sales or avoided altogether the whole capitalist thing or some other similarly uplifting bullshit. If we all did that however I think we would be having this conversation around an open fire.
I spent the last weekend listening to a retired salesman telling me how school based education was a waste and only losers worked for someone else. He started tis 'conversation' as we drove in his car to lunch. I'm thinking "Listen asshole, salesman didn't design or build the f***ing car we are driving in and you're a sh**house cook which is why we are going to lunch out and be served by employees. As a matter of fact I'm an employee and I quite enjoy being an employee. I've been self employed and I worked out that most self employed people have fu**wits for bosses. AND they have employees/losers."
They don't want you to speak against the government; they don't want you to protest; they don't want you to THINK
You are right of course. I heard the Democrats saying just that the other day.
If you start thinking outside the box, you are a threat to them..
And if I disagree with you am I a threat to you.
Why do corporations enforce strict IP (intellectual property) laws on employees? Why do businesses not support or look down upon certain things that you do (like learning or studying "unrelated" stuff)?
I could tell you but you wouldn't believe me.
Keep buying cds
what if you prefer lossless music, with coverart, booklet and printed media you can hold in your hand?
Buy Vinyl.
I just saw a copy of Santana's live recording Lotus and the cd booklet and cover art paled considerably against the triple LP I have that folds out to about 15 LP sized double sided panels in glorious technicolour with buddahs and mandalas and more stuff than you can take in in the time it takes to listen to the whole performance.
CD art is matchbox sized pages containing badly fonted lyrics unreadable on a discordantly coloured and cluttered background with at least one page devoted to shout outs to the artists peeps one of whom is invariably God. Yeah, right.
You give a lot up for convienence methinks.
You'd be surprised. There are a number of people who post here who get angry at the thought of being asked to do anything that doesn't have an immediate beneficial effect on them personally. The sort of people who watched Homer asking about the gold coin donation to get into the Museum and not only don't understand why people were laughing but who get insulted that you would ask for a donation.
Most? Isn't that cable TV. And most people don't watch cable TV.
Whats the point of offering an option that doesn't exist. There are only three people involved in TV. The Viewer, the Content Provider and the Advertiser. The Advertiser pays for the content provider to put on a show in the hope that the ads shown at the same time increase their business.
If you take out the Advertiser the money has to come from the Viewer. Hell it does now but in a non-direct way that makes people feel like they are getting it for free.
Hmmm, I like it. Has a nice ring to it.
The article actually suggests that the feature is turned on by default. If you believe that that means the customer has made his choice then you don't understand the large majority of users so what you say applies only to a small number of the overall population.
And advertising on the web has failed- its ineffective, it generates no revenue for the advertisers
And they are so stupid that they don't even realize it yet. Thank god we have people like you to tell them.
and its just fucking annoying
Then don't visit ad supported sites. It's real simple to do. Then those of us who are happy enough to accept the compact implicit in visiting those sites ie that we let some of our screen display ads, get on with it. If a site has popups or annoying stuff I don't go back just like you. But i'm not so sure I'd be making the Web a better place by removing all the ads.
I've been doing this stuff since before you could access the net from Compuserve and I say it gets better all the time, even with the ads.
So why do we have spam if 3 tenths of a % is not enough to make money.
And you end up with bespoke software that doesn't depend on some corporates willingness to conntinue to support or upgrade it.
Nowhere does anyone suggest that good development procedures should be ignored.
Of course if YOU end up with unreadable code that noone but the developer can change then its YOU that fucked up.
I suspect thats the major reason why IT managers don't like free or open source , because they have no-one to blame if its screwed up.
So which of the 4 pieces of information didn't you gain from the article
Now we are going to make the skull the primary source of some of this sound and directly hit the brain.
Why do we think this is a good idea. I would be concerned about a punch-drunk generation degenerating into parkinsons dementia before they are 30 and on autopsy having brains that look like they had been in way too many fights..
But seriously, maybe they didn't patent the actual combination of materials but the process involved (if that's possible) or parts thereof. Some trade secrets are protected by secrecy rather than patent and rely on either the difficulty in analysis or the first mover advantage to provide a competitive edge.
I think I can safely say that absolutely nothing in Australia eats dead cane toads. Or if they do they only do it once.
By the way I thought an Australian University team had done similar work on a mouse virus a couple of years ago..Anyone know of that research.
If I end up with the same result under either system does it always matter how the result was achieved. And I'm not a believer in the end justifying the means but whats the point of means that produce poor ends.
Who cares. It doesn't really matter anyway.
In five years time its quite possible that choosing Windows will absolutely lock them out of any other architecture like free software because of hardware requirements. How will you address concerns about freedom of choice then.
Frankly freedom of choice is a term bandied about in contexts where it just doesn't come into it. It is fatuous to talk of freedom where a choice must be made between outcomes which are not relatively equal. True freedom of choice may in fact only exist where an alternative available is to not take one of the offered alternatives but to remain in your current position without loss.
You can't divide market into two and advocate free trade for one part (goods) but not the other (labor.)
A sovereign country can do anything it wants. take the US for example. It is at the forefront of free trade in services and IP but has some of the worlds most obvious and harmful barriers to free trade in primary products and some manufactured goods (eg steel).
If you restrict outsourcing, you will make the poorer country much more competitive with the goods they sell
Restricting outsourcing to low cost areas has nothing to do with competitive manufacture of goods in those areas. Are you saying that if they can't use their brains they will get better with their hands.
Some of the reasons why manufacture is based in low cost areas are that the factories are newer and so not tied to outdated tech, suply chains are able to be built up on new principles rather than again being tied to old channels,the wage costs are lower, government imposts are lower as governments seeks to develop their countries.
It goes without saying rich countries won't give up their relative wealth
Fortunately there are sufficient people in governments around the world who realize the errors of merchantilism as an economic model to avoid its worst manifestations most of the time.
But it does appeal to the uneducated doesn't it. I mean it's so intuitive. "If he wins I must have lost" and if thats not bad enough the populists who are looking to whi up the masses find someone against whom they are not winning and it becomes "If he wins I must have lost so I have to win against everybody"
Have you missed the last 50 years wherein international trade has increased along with the relative wealth of individuals in countries which have experienced a growth in international trade eg Japan, even those whose share of that trade has dropped relaitvely eg USA.
As a matter of interest what would you have done at the end of WWII with japan (economically I mean) Would you have said "OK boys back to the paddies and grow that rice to eat and maybe some other stuff as a cash crop that we can buy off you so you can afford to buy our manufactired goods. No need to make anything yourself cause we can make it for you."
Sounds far fetched but thats what Europe did to Africa after they left at the end of colonialism and look at Africa now.
This could go on but I'll stop.
Your grasp of economics is even more limited than mine.
No that's call a series of bi-lateral free trade agreements.
Which is current US government policy.(See Aust-US FTA negotiations currently in progress)
It's also known as 'Divide and Conquer'
As far as "It won't work cause stores want you to be there as long as possible" I think a store could well have you traverse the whole store but indicate as you go past stuff on the list that its there. Even I'd be happy enough with that.
You still go through the whole store subject to their ads but you haven't missed anything. If your in a hurry you push faster.
If you're only there for a few items you're not likely to take a trolley anyway , just a handbasket.
If you have a trolley you're likely going to most aisles unless you're loading up with comething.
Case in point. I had a friend in the landscaping and outdoor hardwear business. He was using a mailing list generated by the local authority from Building applications esp swimming pools. With the list he was able to write good marketing material that addressed things people were actually doing. He did this for a few years with some success. In his material he generally identified where he had gotten their names so they didn't think he had been spying or underhanded etc.
At some point someone took exception and the local newspaper blew it up into a big privacy thing. They raised all sorts of bogus issues like burgulars accessing details of places with lax security in the construction phase and eventually the local authority made it difficult to get multiple names from the public record in any useable format.
So my friend is back to mass mailing in areas where building is likely to take place rather than specific targeting which he would much rather do.
Less success and more angst to the recipients.
I suspect the same thing is happening in many ares of activity.
Especially with public records. They are still available but in much less usable forms.
No, it's all to do with artistic integrity.
The directors of many movies (esp comedies and horrors) obviously consider a full bladder to be an essential prerequisite to an all round movie viewing experience.