Because it's the same as reading a copyrighted book or newspaper (even free ones!) and then re-typing the text on your computer and posting it on the web without permission from the copyright holder. You can argue this is just documenting what you read. It's still copyright infringement, however.
What the MPA should be doing here instead of sending cease & desists or threatening people with jail is to either set up their own lyrics site with ads (and perhaps a premium version without ads) or negotiating with these sites to get a piece of their revenue (I'm sure many of them are profitable from their ads). Of course the music industry is very shortsighted...
You assume groups adhere to political borders. If that were true, the Muslims in France would consider themselves French and not Arab or Parsi or wherever they came from. Saudi Arabia is a construct from the early part of the 20th century, when many tribes unified to kick out the colonial powers. Religious divisions or whether you are Arab or not mean much more than the silly borders on the map, which haven't had much time to coalesce anyway.
Your point is just as silly as saying that 9/11 was not why Californians fought in Afghanistan, becase 9/11 happened to New Yorkers and Washingtonians, not Californians.
I don't think this is true anymore. When an anime first hits the market, it is often quite expensive (much like how movies are quite expensive at the theater compared to how much they cost later on DVD). After the series is complete, however, ADV and others are releasing it as a thinpak collection for not a whole lot of money. Azumanga Daioh, one of my favorite series, was about $25 per disc (for 5-6 discs) originally, but is now available as a thinpak set (5 discs) for the entire season/series for $45 from Best Buy. Compare that to Star Trek: TNG Season 1 (quite an old series), which goes for $107 at the same place. Or Buffy Season 2 (Season 1 seems to have fewer episodes, and is therefore cheaper) for $50.
Except that Virtual PC 2004 only runs on Windows (and Mac if you get Virtual PC 7) and only supports Microsoft guest OSs (plus OS/2). Not terribly useful for Linux and Unix types.
Why is it either/or? I do or have done all those things - setup Netware boxes (2.x, not 3.x), use grep (well, the Linux command line in total) daily, play WoW, explain the latest tech on nvidia cards and hook up iPods (never done a shuffle, but I imagine it's not particularly different). Ultimately you have to constantly learn new stuff but not forget the things you have already done. That's one of the great things about the tech industry, it changes so rapidly. If you don't keep up, you will be left behind.
Gigabyte makes an entire line of cards that are passive, from FX5200s all the way up to X800XLs and 6800GTs. You'll pay more for the high end cards than other manufacturers, but you get silence in exchange.
Uhhh, Netflix has the 8-at-a-time plan for $48. Login to your account, click on "Your Account" at the top, then click on "Change" on the line that says "Membership: 3-at-a-time Program". You can pick whatever plan you want (from 1 to 8 at a time).
> I can't understand how anyone would allow themselves to be subjected to MUSIC RENTAL. It's got to be the DUMBEST idea since Divx. (the dvd "rental" model.)
Righto. I can't believe that anyone would want to rent a DVD went they could own it. Those Blockbuster and Netflix companies are just losing money left and right.
Oh, wait...
Why is this any different for music? Because in the US there is a law saying that music rental of the physical variety (i.e. a store that rents CDs) is illegal. Other countries don't have this law and do have CD rental stores.
Napster and whatnot are getting around this law by renting electronically. I personally don't have a problem with this. How is it any different than renting DVDs at Netflix? At least with Napster I get to listen to ANY of the music I've EVER downloaded from them at any time as long as I keep paying. With Netflix I can only watch the 3 movies that I have currently "checked out", again only as long as I keep paying. And yet Netflix is a big success (witness Blockbuster and even Walmart trying to copy them). Why do you think Napster won't be? I personally rather like their model. They just need more portable devices supported.
Incidentally, getting around Napster's DRM is not much more difficult than Apple's.
- One man may marry one woman of the same race. - One man may NOT marry anyone other than one woman of the same race. - One woman may NOT marry anyone other than one man of the same race.
In each of the three previous lines, it DOES NOT MATTER whether said man or said woman is black or white. The rules apply to everyone equally! So how is this discrimination?
Personally, I am glad that the Supreme Court found the inherent discrimination in the above rules (which are pretty much as they were written in Virginia and other states) in 1967. If they had not, then I would not have been able to get married to my current wife.
So I sympathize completely with gays today, because the court decision that made my current family possible did not happen all that long ago...
How about trying a different tactic. Texas is currently ruled by a conservative Republican legislature. How about instead of blocking porn at these truck-stops they simply blocked all references to Democrats and all Democrat and liberal websites. Meaning that they are blocking speech that they don't agree with.
How about if Massachusetts did the same at their truckstops for all Republican websites?
Texas also (I assume) has payphones at truck stops. How about if they blocked all calls to Democrat phone numbers from those phones? Or to any Muslim organizations. Or to anyone who didn't have an Anglo-Saxon name. They are under no obligation to provide those payphones, so they should be able to say how those phones are used, by your argument.
I don't see much of a difference between this and blocking porn (or violence, or racism, or whatever) on their WAPs.
I would argue that forcing everyone to be in the army at some point would reduce the number of aggressive actions the US takes.
After all, only 1 (!) member of Congress has a child in the armed services (or did last year). How do you think they would vote if they knew it was their children who would have to fight the war?
This would also affect popular support for war considerably. If it's someone else that you don't know fighting the war, it's much easier to support it.
Install Slimserver (http://www.slimdevices.com/index.html) on a central server with all your music. Put a P3 laptop (or some other machine) with wireless in every room you will want music. Run SoftSqueeze (http://softsqueeze.sourceforge.net/) on each client, connecting to the server. Get a PDA with wireless and use Slimserver's built-in handheld skin to control your music.
C/C++ programmers used to make this exact argument in favor of C/C++ over Java. Java has evolved to allow almost all of the complex things that C/C++ has. Ultimately Ruby will too.
Yes, but he was saying the ink cartridge was more expensive than the microwave. I can believe the printer costs more to make than the microwave, but the ink?
There were good Holodeck episodes - I thought the ones with Dr. Moriarty were brilliant, because they explored what would happen if these characters on the holodeck became sentient.
Exactly, which is why communism fails whereas capitalism seems to work. The entire might of the Soviet Union (nukes, secret police, and all) was unable to overcome this part of human nature. Why does the MPAA think with far less resources that they will be successful?
Umm, I drink tap water (here in Pasadena). In fact I prefer the taste of tap water to that of most bottled water or filtered water (we have a Pur pitcher that my wife uses since she doesn't like the taste of tap water). In fact I think the water here tastes much better than it did in Denver, where I used to live, and did use a filter for all my drinking water.
Yes, we have those right here in Pasadena, California (a suburb of Los Angeles). Granted, only a few intersections allow this, and those are heavily trafficked.
Personally I kind of like them, because:
no pedestrians can cross when either light is green. safer for both cars and pedestrians.
pedestrians can get to the opposite corner quickly.
Windows XP loves RAM. 512 MB is probably the minimum for reasonable performance on daily stuff. So if these new machines only have 256 MB (or less), that's probably why they're dogs.
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Because it's the same as reading a copyrighted book or newspaper (even free ones!) and then re-typing the text on your computer and posting it on the web without permission from the copyright holder. You can argue this is just documenting what you read. It's still copyright infringement, however.
What the MPA should be doing here instead of sending cease & desists or threatening people with jail is to either set up their own lyrics site with ads (and perhaps a premium version without ads) or negotiating with these sites to get a piece of their revenue (I'm sure many of them are profitable from their ads). Of course the music industry is very shortsighted...
You assume groups adhere to political borders. If that were true, the Muslims in France would consider themselves French and not Arab or Parsi or wherever they came from. Saudi Arabia is a construct from the early part of the 20th century, when many tribes unified to kick out the colonial powers. Religious divisions or whether you are Arab or not mean much more than the silly borders on the map, which haven't had much time to coalesce anyway.
Your point is just as silly as saying that 9/11 was not why Californians fought in Afghanistan, becase 9/11 happened to New Yorkers and Washingtonians, not Californians.
I don't think this is true anymore. When an anime first hits the market, it is often quite expensive (much like how movies are quite expensive at the theater compared to how much they cost later on DVD). After the series is complete, however, ADV and others are releasing it as a thinpak collection for not a whole lot of money. Azumanga Daioh, one of my favorite series, was about $25 per disc (for 5-6 discs) originally, but is now available as a thinpak set (5 discs) for the entire season/series for $45 from Best Buy. Compare that to Star Trek: TNG Season 1 (quite an old series), which goes for $107 at the same place. Or Buffy Season 2 (Season 1 seems to have fewer episodes, and is therefore cheaper) for $50.
Except that Virtual PC 2004 only runs on Windows (and Mac if you get Virtual PC 7) and only supports Microsoft guest OSs (plus OS/2). Not terribly useful for Linux and Unix types.
Why is it either/or? I do or have done all those things - setup Netware boxes (2.x, not 3.x), use grep (well, the Linux command line in total) daily, play WoW, explain the latest tech on nvidia cards and hook up iPods (never done a shuffle, but I imagine it's not particularly different). Ultimately you have to constantly learn new stuff but not forget the things you have already done. That's one of the great things about the tech industry, it changes so rapidly. If you don't keep up, you will be left behind.
Gigabyte makes an entire line of cards that are passive, from FX5200s all the way up to X800XLs and 6800GTs. You'll pay more for the high end cards than other manufacturers, but you get silence in exchange.
Only partially correct. He was a member of the NRA as a Boy Scout growing up. He became a lifetime member to run against Heston after Columbine.
Yes.
Uhhh, Netflix has the 8-at-a-time plan for $48. Login to your account, click on "Your Account" at the top, then click on "Change" on the line that says "Membership: 3-at-a-time Program". You can pick whatever plan you want (from 1 to 8 at a time).
> I can't understand how anyone would allow themselves to be subjected to MUSIC RENTAL. It's got to be the DUMBEST idea since Divx. (the dvd "rental" model.)
Righto. I can't believe that anyone would want to rent a DVD went they could own it. Those Blockbuster and Netflix companies are just losing money left and right.
Oh, wait...
Why is this any different for music? Because in the US there is a law saying that music rental of the physical variety (i.e. a store that rents CDs) is illegal. Other countries don't have this law and do have CD rental stores.
Napster and whatnot are getting around this law by renting electronically. I personally don't have a problem with this. How is it any different than renting DVDs at Netflix? At least with Napster I get to listen to ANY of the music I've EVER downloaded from them at any time as long as I keep paying. With Netflix I can only watch the 3 movies that I have currently "checked out", again only as long as I keep paying. And yet Netflix is a big success (witness Blockbuster and even Walmart trying to copy them). Why do you think Napster won't be? I personally rather like their model. They just need more portable devices supported.
Incidentally, getting around Napster's DRM is not much more difficult than Apple's.
Here is a different set of rules:
- One man may marry one woman of the same race.
- One man may NOT marry anyone other than one woman of the same race.
- One woman may NOT marry anyone other than one man of the same race.
In each of the three previous lines, it DOES NOT MATTER whether said man or said woman is black or white. The rules apply to everyone equally! So how is this discrimination?
Personally, I am glad that the Supreme Court found the inherent discrimination in the above rules (which are pretty much as they were written in Virginia and other states) in 1967. If they had not, then I would not have been able to get married to my current wife.
So I sympathize completely with gays today, because the court decision that made my current family possible did not happen all that long ago...
How about trying a different tactic. Texas is currently ruled by a conservative Republican legislature. How about instead of blocking porn at these truck-stops they simply blocked all references to Democrats and all Democrat and liberal websites. Meaning that they are blocking speech that they don't agree with.
How about if Massachusetts did the same at their truckstops for all Republican websites?
Texas also (I assume) has payphones at truck stops. How about if they blocked all calls to Democrat phone numbers from those phones? Or to any Muslim organizations. Or to anyone who didn't have an Anglo-Saxon name. They are under no obligation to provide those payphones, so they should be able to say how those phones are used, by your argument.
I don't see much of a difference between this and blocking porn (or violence, or racism, or whatever) on their WAPs.
I would argue that forcing everyone to be in the army at some point would reduce the number of aggressive actions the US takes.
After all, only 1 (!) member of Congress has a child in the armed services (or did last year). How do you think they would vote if they knew it was their children who would have to fight the war?
This would also affect popular support for war considerably. If it's someone else that you don't know fighting the war, it's much easier to support it.
I was going to post your exact comment.
Install Slimserver (http://www.slimdevices.com/index.html) on a central server with all your music. Put a P3 laptop (or some other machine) with wireless in every room you will want music. Run SoftSqueeze (http://softsqueeze.sourceforge.net/) on each client, connecting to the server. Get a PDA with wireless and use Slimserver's built-in handheld skin to control your music.
Done!
C/C++ programmers used to make this exact argument in favor of C/C++ over Java. Java has evolved to allow almost all of the complex things that C/C++ has. Ultimately Ruby will too.
Yes, but he was saying the ink cartridge was more expensive than the microwave. I can believe the printer costs more to make than the microwave, but the ink?
There were good Holodeck episodes - I thought the ones with Dr. Moriarty were brilliant, because they explored what would happen if these characters on the holodeck became sentient.
Exactly, which is why communism fails whereas capitalism seems to work. The entire might of the Soviet Union (nukes, secret police, and all) was unable to overcome this part of human nature. Why does the MPAA think with far less resources that they will be successful?
yes. it's fully backwards compatible.
Because if they called it SkyNet then it would nuke the planet and send Aahnald to the past to take out some pesky kid.
Umm, I drink tap water (here in Pasadena). In fact I prefer the taste of tap water to that of most bottled water or filtered water (we have a Pur pitcher that my wife uses since she doesn't like the taste of tap water). In fact I think the water here tastes much better than it did in Denver, where I used to live, and did use a filter for all my drinking water.
It doesn't seem to have harmed me yet...
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Personally I kind of like them, because
Windows XP loves RAM. 512 MB is probably the minimum for reasonable performance on daily stuff. So if these new machines only have 256 MB (or less), that's probably why they're dogs.