and "they didn't infringe on the copyright of the songwriter" then shouldn't the average person make a ring tone from any song without having to pay for it?
I realize this is a radical idea but if RIAA already won a court case to this effect the precedent is there for everyone. If RIAA doesn't have to pay the artist for such use why do consumers?
No that isn't the only reason that I continue to use Eudora but it is one feature that I really appreciate. I have had to restore customer's computers where Windows is so messed up it won't boot and it is always fun to try and get their mail back. I now know exactly where to get most of the setting but it isn't intuitive. Also, trying to restore the email account settings is impossible unless they happened to export the settings at some point.
Thunderbird is easier but I haven't needed to do that as much.
Is that it is easy to migrate the program to a new (re-installed) machine. Everything is kept in one neat little folder and you can just copy the folder to a new computer, setup a shortcut to the eudora exe file and your set.
Hopefully this won't change!
Come on!
Asking to see your reciept(sic) is not the same as being patted down. Usually (at least when it has happened to me) the person at the door just takes a quick look at the receipt and maybe a quick look through the bag. I have never (at any retail store) had some one actually pat me down prior to allowing me to leave the building. For that matter I have never been patted down before (or after) entering (leaving) a theater.
Now you may want to take exception the the original premise that DRM is similar to being patted down but that is another discussion entirely.
included in the calculation. This is the only reason that the copyright period was extended in the first place.
Copyright is no longer about giving the artist a period to profit before the work goes into the public domain. It is a now used to ensure that the work never enters the public domain so that the company that holds the copyright (the artist isn't really part of the equation anymore) can continue to profit.
I may not understand Amazon's S3 fully but to me it looks like any other online storage system just with no upper limit to the amount of storage you can use.
Is there some feature that I have missed that makes this an amazing new "invention"?
I have had several machines come with WGA errors and the only thing wrong with them was that the date was set ahead of the current date. If this is all it takes to make a Windows installation invalid something is wrong.
Forgive me but I haven't read all of the replies to your post so this may have been pointed out.
Christians are followers of Christ (hence the name). They follow Christ's teachings. The passage you quoted was from Leviticus (an old testament book). Christ issued the "golden rule" love your neighbour as you love your self (paraphased obviously). So this rule supercede your Leviticus quote (for Christians).
Therefore, whatever else the bible might say about a given subject, one must love one's neighbours as they love themselves. If you hate yourself than I guess it is ok to hate homosexuals.
This also ignores the fact that the computer will still need an OS just to connect to the network. I really doubt that computers will ever become complete dumb terminals.
I would suggest setting the computer to go into suspend mode. Most (all) modern television sets never really turn off. The CRT is kept charged so that it looks like it is coming on instantly. I know you are going to say the an LCD comes on instantly but I'm just going to ignore that for now. Once hybrid drives (HDs with flash memory caches) become common you very well could see near instant start ups as the boot information can then be stored in flash memory.
Unfortunately they didn't say that the players have stolen music on them. They did say that the players have "unpaid-for material" on them. It is the record companies' wish that every single instants of a song is paid for. So sure you may have ripped the music from a CD but RIAA would like to be able to charge you a fee for each time you rip the CD or move the music files to a new device.
This is their first step to realizing their ultimate goal.
Now its gotten so bad that absolutely anything remotely possible of causing a copyright hassle is blurred. I am find it extremely annoying to see all the blurred t-shirts, prints, televisions, etc. that may be in the background of a film. Before long (and maybe they already do) news footage will be blurring out these things as well. Just imagine a shot of Times Square in this new age of copyright worry. One big blur with only the acter seen clearly.
So I supose that those of us unlucky enough to still be on dial-up (with no other option available other than satelite which to me is no option) are going to be left behind in this new OSless world? You will always need an OS as a computer won't operate without one but trying to do all of these wonderfull "Web 2.0" things on a dial-up connection just won't work.
I realize that high speed Internet access is becoming very common but there is still a large segment of the population that just don't have access to a high speed connection. I'm limited to a 26.4K connection at home due to the local phone system and therefore not overly concerned with the 2.0 hype.
I agree.
I have always found it rather funny that counting cards is considered such a terrible thing. The only reason that casinos don't like card counters is because it pushes the odds back toward the player. If you are smart enough to keep track of the card count great. It won't guarantee a win it just means you can play smarter.
If your repair center is returning your repaired computer to you without reactivating Windows I would find another repair center. I have done countless reinstalls of Windows and have replaced hardware on computers with Windows XP already installed. In every instance I have made sure the computer is running before returning to the customer. If the machine needed new hardware that required Windows be reactivated I made sure to reactivate. I have yet to run into an instance where I was unable to reactivate Windows either over the Internet or via a phone call to the activation center.
If you reinstall every 6-9 months you won't have a problem activating XP (which I assume you were referring to with the "phone and explain" statement). The limits on number of activations resets every 120 days. So unless you reinstall on a monthly bases you should be ok.
You should let him know that if he ripped them to WMV he may have trouble playing them on portable devices. It would be much better to rip them to WMA or MP3.
Sorry I just had to reply.
I would say that Apple's DRM is actually the most restrictive only because (as far as I know anyway) songs purchased from iTMS can only be played on an iPod device (or computer but no one really wants to lug a computer around while jogging do they).
I do understand what you were referring to though so you can slap me upside the head if you wish;-)
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and "they didn't infringe on the copyright of the songwriter" then shouldn't the average person make a ring tone from any song without having to pay for it? I realize this is a radical idea but if RIAA already won a court case to this effect the precedent is there for everyone. If RIAA doesn't have to pay the artist for such use why do consumers?
No that isn't the only reason that I continue to use Eudora but it is one feature that I really appreciate. I have had to restore customer's computers where Windows is so messed up it won't boot and it is always fun to try and get their mail back. I now know exactly where to get most of the setting but it isn't intuitive. Also, trying to restore the email account settings is impossible unless they happened to export the settings at some point. Thunderbird is easier but I haven't needed to do that as much.
Is that it is easy to migrate the program to a new (re-installed) machine. Everything is kept in one neat little folder and you can just copy the folder to a new computer, setup a shortcut to the eudora exe file and your set. Hopefully this won't change!
This was true until recently. Now there is an election on a set date every 4 years unless there is a vote of no confidence.
Welcome to the (tweaked) US election model.
Come on! Asking to see your reciept(sic) is not the same as being patted down. Usually (at least when it has happened to me) the person at the door just takes a quick look at the receipt and maybe a quick look through the bag. I have never (at any retail store) had some one actually pat me down prior to allowing me to leave the building. For that matter I have never been patted down before (or after) entering (leaving) a theater. Now you may want to take exception the the original premise that DRM is similar to being patted down but that is another discussion entirely.
included in the calculation. This is the only reason that the copyright period was extended in the first place. Copyright is no longer about giving the artist a period to profit before the work goes into the public domain. It is a now used to ensure that the work never enters the public domain so that the company that holds the copyright (the artist isn't really part of the equation anymore) can continue to profit.
I may not understand Amazon's S3 fully but to me it looks like any other online storage system just with no upper limit to the amount of storage you can use. Is there some feature that I have missed that makes this an amazing new "invention"?
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I have had several machines come with WGA errors and the only thing wrong with them was that the date was set ahead of the current date. If this is all it takes to make a Windows installation invalid something is wrong.
Forgive me but I haven't read all of the replies to your post so this may have been pointed out. Christians are followers of Christ (hence the name). They follow Christ's teachings. The passage you quoted was from Leviticus (an old testament book). Christ issued the "golden rule" love your neighbour as you love your self (paraphased obviously). So this rule supercede your Leviticus quote (for Christians). Therefore, whatever else the bible might say about a given subject, one must love one's neighbours as they love themselves. If you hate yourself than I guess it is ok to hate homosexuals.
This also ignores the fact that the computer will still need an OS just to connect to the network. I really doubt that computers will ever become complete dumb terminals.
I would suggest setting the computer to go into suspend mode. Most (all) modern television sets never really turn off. The CRT is kept charged so that it looks like it is coming on instantly. I know you are going to say the an LCD comes on instantly but I'm just going to ignore that for now. Once hybrid drives (HDs with flash memory caches) become common you very well could see near instant start ups as the boot information can then be stored in flash memory.
Actually the original copyright was 0 years since there was no copyright law in place after the big bang. But I get your meaning.
I find it rather funny that these new exemptions are going to be effective for only 3 years when the length of a copyright is 90+ years.
Ok then. Show me a truely free market. Bet you can't.
Unfortunately they didn't say that the players have stolen music on them. They did say that the players have "unpaid-for material" on them. It is the record companies' wish that every single instants of a song is paid for. So sure you may have ripped the music from a CD but RIAA would like to be able to charge you a fee for each time you rip the CD or move the music files to a new device. This is their first step to realizing their ultimate goal.
Now its gotten so bad that absolutely anything remotely possible of causing a copyright hassle is blurred. I am find it extremely annoying to see all the blurred t-shirts, prints, televisions, etc. that may be in the background of a film. Before long (and maybe they already do) news footage will be blurring out these things as well. Just imagine a shot of Times Square in this new age of copyright worry. One big blur with only the acter seen clearly.
So I supose that those of us unlucky enough to still be on dial-up (with no other option available other than satelite which to me is no option) are going to be left behind in this new OSless world? You will always need an OS as a computer won't operate without one but trying to do all of these wonderfull "Web 2.0" things on a dial-up connection just won't work.
I realize that high speed Internet access is becoming very common but there is still a large segment of the population that just don't have access to a high speed connection. I'm limited to a 26.4K connection at home due to the local phone system and therefore not overly concerned with the 2.0 hype.
I agree.
I have always found it rather funny that counting cards is considered such a terrible thing. The only reason that casinos don't like card counters is because it pushes the odds back toward the player. If you are smart enough to keep track of the card count great. It won't guarantee a win it just means you can play smarter.
If your repair center is returning your repaired computer to you without reactivating Windows I would find another repair center. I have done countless reinstalls of Windows and have replaced hardware on computers with Windows XP already installed. In every instance I have made sure the computer is running before returning to the customer. If the machine needed new hardware that required Windows be reactivated I made sure to reactivate. I have yet to run into an instance where I was unable to reactivate Windows either over the Internet or via a phone call to the activation center.
If you reinstall every 6-9 months you won't have a problem activating XP (which I assume you were referring to with the "phone and explain" statement). The limits on number of activations resets every 120 days. So unless you reinstall on a monthly bases you should be ok.
I take it you must be a newspaper reporter? 8-)
You should let him know that if he ripped them to WMV he may have trouble playing them on portable devices. It would be much better to rip them to WMA or MP3.
if you compare them to a vehicle with a 2 gallon tank.
Sorry I just had to reply. I would say that Apple's DRM is actually the most restrictive only because (as far as I know anyway) songs purchased from iTMS can only be played on an iPod device (or computer but no one really wants to lug a computer around while jogging do they). I do understand what you were referring to though so you can slap me upside the head if you wish ;-)