The law is a tool to create order. Those who make it often or even usually try to model that order more or less after justice, but in the end, order beats true justice nearly every time.
I think the the law should include the most justice that order can bear, however. Under that metric, the DMCA is bad. It isn't very necessary, and it can easily be employed to abuse justice terribly (at least if my concept of justice means anything at all).
A subscription system I think is practical would involve a special sound card...
And then when you buy a new computer, you call the RIAA and ask for another soundcard with your personal key on it? And make you have drivers for it and it fits your system?
I would suggest that a USB dongle or something would work much better (works with laptops, iMacs, non-tech savvy users, etc and is more portable), but that the point is ultimately moot (for me anyway)
The reason is simple: I will never buy music or any other media if I think it might stop working someday. When I'm 60, will I still have a computer where I can use my special RIAA soundcard/dongle? I can forward-migrate CD's or any other non-DRM media, but once it's encrypted, it becomes locked into the original format.
I suppose that suits the RIAA just fine, but not me.
Haven't we been expecting Microsoft to purchase a media company for a long time now?
What, (MS)NBC doesn't count?
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Beacause of the similar names, people confuse "spring-loaded folders" with "pop-up folders", but the two terms are used to refer to different things in the Mac world.
"Spring-loaded" means that when the user drags something over a folder's icon, that folder's window will open after a short delay, allowing the user to continue dragging. This allows the user to drag into a nested folder several layers deep wthout opening it first.
"Pop-up" windows, (also called drawers by some), exist only in the classic Mac OS (although there are rumors of a comeback in OS X Panther in June). These are windows that have been attached to an edge of the screen such that they normally display only as a small tab with the window's name. When the tab is clicked or dragged onto, the window slides open onto the screen, automaticaly closing into a tab again when it loses focus.
When I was a kid, I used to ride my bike over to my friends' houses and knock on their doors if I wanted to talk to them. Getting a flat was the ultimate social faux paus: it could leave you disconnected from just-in-time information on where and when you were in the social networks of time and place. What a bummer.
I would rather see Episode 3 be a good movie than have it connect every plot thread between 2 and 4. I'm not sure whether Lucas agrees with me here, though.
The cartoons could help free up time to make a good movie, yet still (somewhat) satisfy fans who demand Clone War action. Really, though, it's probably just marketing to scoop up kids in preparation for a movie that will squander the extra time it gains anyway. Sigh.
Maybe the should just call it Episode III: The Return of Jar-Jar and be done with it.
I can't give an authoritative answer, but I already did this before reading your post, and it worked fine. It may or may not be necessary (I suspect it is), but it at least hasn't broken anything on my system.
For the most part, the trailers on a movie are up to the discretion of some employee at the theater. Some movie prints come with one (or rarely two) trailers attached, which must be shown with that movie. Monsters came with the Star Wars teaser. Every other trailer spliced onto that movie came out of the theater's trailer cabinet and was selected on the basis of the tastes and sensibilities of whoever was in charge of assembling that movie for projection.
Try this sometime: go to two different screens in the same theater that are showing the same movie (just stop into a second screen for the previews after seeing the movie the first time). Most likely, the trailers will differ even within the same movie theater, unless the film person is remarkably consistent.
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The law is a tool to create order. Those who make it often or even usually try to model that order more or less after justice, but in the end, order beats true justice nearly every time.
I think the the law should include the most justice that order can bear, however. Under that metric, the DMCA is bad. It isn't very necessary, and it can easily be employed to abuse justice terribly (at least if my concept of justice means anything at all).
A subscription system I think is practical would involve a special sound card...
And then when you buy a new computer, you call the RIAA and ask for another soundcard with your personal key on it? And make you have drivers for it and it fits your system?
I would suggest that a USB dongle or something would work much better (works with laptops, iMacs, non-tech savvy users, etc and is more portable), but that the point is ultimately moot (for me anyway)
The reason is simple: I will never buy music or any other media if I think it might stop working someday. When I'm 60, will I still have a computer where I can use my special RIAA soundcard/dongle? I can forward-migrate CD's or any other non-DRM media, but once it's encrypted, it becomes locked into the original format.
I suppose that suits the RIAA just fine, but not me.
Haven't we been expecting Microsoft to purchase a media company for a long time now?
What, (MS)NBC doesn't count?
Beacause of the similar names, people confuse "spring-loaded folders" with "pop-up folders", but the two terms are used to refer to different things in the Mac world.
"Spring-loaded" means that when the user drags something over a folder's icon, that folder's window will open after a short delay, allowing the user to continue dragging. This allows the user to drag into a nested folder several layers deep wthout opening it first.
"Pop-up" windows, (also called drawers by some), exist only in the classic Mac OS (although there are rumors of a comeback in OS X Panther in June). These are windows that have been attached to an edge of the screen such that they normally display only as a small tab with the window's name. When the tab is clicked or dragged onto, the window slides open onto the screen, automaticaly closing into a tab again when it loses focus.
When I was a kid, I used to ride my bike over to my friends' houses and knock on their doors if I wanted to talk to them. Getting a flat was the ultimate social faux paus: it could leave you disconnected from just-in-time information on where and when you were in the social networks of time and place. What a bummer.
I would rather see Episode 3 be a good movie than have it connect every plot thread between 2 and 4. I'm not sure whether Lucas agrees with me here, though.
The cartoons could help free up time to make a good movie, yet still (somewhat) satisfy fans who demand Clone War action. Really, though, it's probably just marketing to scoop up kids in preparation for a movie that will squander the extra time it gains anyway. Sigh.
Maybe the should just call it Episode III: The Return of Jar-Jar and be done with it.
Actually, the last time I was at RadioShack, they asked me for my name and photo ID.
So I paid with cash.
I can't give an authoritative answer, but I already did this before reading your post, and it worked fine. It may or may not be necessary (I suspect it is), but it at least hasn't broken anything on my system.
What do you mean, "parts of the operating system"?
For the most part, the trailers on a movie are up to the discretion of some employee at the theater. Some movie prints come with one (or rarely two) trailers attached, which must be shown with that movie. Monsters came with the Star Wars teaser. Every other trailer spliced onto that movie came out of the theater's trailer cabinet and was selected on the basis of the tastes and sensibilities of whoever was in charge of assembling that movie for projection.
Try this sometime: go to two different screens in the same theater that are showing the same movie (just stop into a second screen for the previews after seeing the movie the first time). Most likely, the trailers will differ even within the same movie theater, unless the film person is remarkably consistent.
If this release of Netscape is based on Mozilla .94, ad Mozilla .95 is out, why should I use the Netscape release?