The second link mentions that "bands are releasing full albums on VHS. Which, if youâ(TM)re an analog fetishist, is great news! Video tape contains audio of a quality just below that of DAT and far greater than your garden variety cassette tape."
So there are reasons for using VHS, beyond pure nostalgia, or access to videos that aren't digitised.
Though you can also use DVDs to get very high quality audio. You can use PCM audio or AC3 at 640 kbps and play it in a standard DVD player through your hifi. (I know there is a dedicated DVD audio standard, but it never took off and not all hardware supports it, and the encoders are absurdly expensive). I put all 14 Beatles' albums on one DVD in AC3 at 640 with space to spare.
TFA (http://techzwn.com/2012/02/interview-filmmakers-tell-of-the-home-video-revolution/ ) says "Something was lost when videos went from magnetic tape and plastic, to plastic discs, and now to digital streams. Browsing aisles is no more, as the once-great video shops slowly board up their windows across the country."
Which raises another point, why buy Lenovo and get pissed they don't offer a blank HDD when plenty of smaller businesses sell computers without an OS?
Because smaller businesses don't make laptops. They don't offer an international guarantee. If you want a "Thinkpad-style" laptop (and I do) then I have to buy it from Lenovo -- okay, fair enough, they designed it (and/or paid IBM for the design). But I HAVE to pay money to Microsoft to buy Windows with it.
My question is whether there isn't more to the story. If a short text message in isolation can cause this much mess, statistically there should be hundreds of such cases every day. Yet there aren't. What is the rest of the story?
He's a muslim, and used the word "explode".
Some bureaucrat felt he had to cover his ass by taking it literally.
You have to wonder what the point is of having humans in the loop at all if they don't exercise judgement.
Colonising the Oort Cloud is another issue. Though it would be a nice quiet place to live and safe from any mishaps with planets or the sun. However, that these do seem to extend way out points out a potential hazard, you don't want to run into anything, if you're travelling at any fraction of light speed. You'd need some pretty effective shielding, probably physical (slabs of rock.metal, ice), magnetic shields, perhaps lasers to vaporise anything you can't dodge.
there could be water and fuel available almost the whole way.
If you stop and start. It takes LOT of energy and time to get up to speed -- or to slow down again -- to travel interstellar if you want to get there in less than a million years.
More specifically, they applied value to the copyright materials by charging for it. It's the act of charging a fee which changes it from simple copyright violation to actual theft in my books
So , it's not the act of copying, but the selling afterwards, that makes it "theft"?
Bollocks. While selling it certainly makes it a more serious crime, it has absolutely nothing to do with "theft".
If you believe it's as serious as theft, fine, say that. But it's still NOT theft.
You're simply defining them as guilty of a crime that never was committed.
This is like those people who label anyone with a different political opinion "traitors" or "terrorists".
Pretty dumb to call them "counterfeit devices bearing the Apple trademark". They were simply USB thumbdrives. There was no "counterfeiting" (except the logo itself). It was simply a way to deliver a piece of software that accessed the servers. Maybe it acted as a dongle.
Obviously aimed at people who don't have a clue how to use a computer to download or stream content themselves; otherwise who would pay for this?
The police must love this method because they have a physical "device" to bag and tag and present in court.
What program was it, and why was it specifically a requirement? Linux can handle the generic ability to share videos that every man and his dog has had since the ability for you to click *upload* in your browser, and http servers before that.
If you can get it working in Ubuntu 11.10, let me know. It apparently worked in previous versions, but while some videos play, the GUI to find and select them doesn't work.
I think the point is that the King User (i.e. CTO), if they become an Apple user, will dictate that the IT shop *will* support Apple products.
Or Queen User. I got given an old corporate laptop that was unusable without the passwords, so I wiped it and installed Ubuntu, a painless and simple task that gave us a working machine with Firefox and Libre Office that did everything necessary for my daughter's schoolwork -- so I thought. But it didn't support a video sharing program she HAD to have, so now I have to install Windows, spend hours installing all the updates and turning off crap and then keep an eye on forever after that it doesn't get compromised..
Wouldn't his use of the song clip...be considered fair use?
He's not generating profit from this.
He's not playing the entire performance of the song...
"Fair use" for music is much more limited than an extract from a book or movie. You're even supposed to get permission to use a single line of a song or a brief sample. Anyway, this is not being used for parody, scholarly or critical evaluation, it's simply being used as part of a performance. They make Girl Guides pay for singing songs around campfires, Gingrich can and should afford to pay to use this.
So if you are a small company, you can jump on that band wagon and make some good money.
I seriously doubt that. The markets are different in many ways, not just the physical products. There is a lot more service and customisation involved in bikes than most consumer electronics. You can keep a bike running for decades with regular maintenance and replacing parts like tyres, chain, cables, bearings, etc. With most phones, laptops, you buy them and use them for a year or two, then upgrade and dispose of the old one. There is no ongoing relationship with a guy who gives you advice on what is the best brake pad for your climate and style of riding. But buying a laptop or phone, most will just ask one question: Where can I get it cheapest?
Even in the niche for "ethically produced electronics" exists, it would be tiny and do nothing to help the majority of workers in dormitories paid the minimum possible and not allowed to unionise, etc.
You were apparently replying to my post where I asked "If anyone is seriously proposing a boycott, what is the "ethical" alternative?" Bicycles are not really an alternative to an iPad, for most purposes. Though they may be healthier, I agree.
indeed. but this doesn't explain why, after detaining them for twelve hours, they were denied entry to the country. are we to believe that they were unable to convey that context successfully to their interrogators, or that those same interrogators couldn't get on some internets to investigate the whole "destroy" idiom? i can't help but think of the rob corddry character from the second 'harold and kumar' movie when i try to picture the clowns that thought these brits were an honest-to-god threat to america.
It doesn't explain why, if the DHS thought they actually intended to "destroy LA" that they put them on a plane back to the UK without any charges.
Terrorists, bent on destruction, and THEY PUT THEM ON A JUMBO JET.
Nothing could demonstrate more clearly that the DHS knew full well it was a joke and was simply punishing the tourists.
There are tiny, almost invisible, barely profitable companies who do better. Here's one
That's a bicycle company. Probably not ready to produce laptops, phones, etc.
Beating up Apple when they're not obviously worse in their practices than any other company IN THE SAME INDUSTRY is a bit hypocritical. If the idea is to improve the treatment of workers in China, then that's what should be proposed. And that should be done by China, protecting its own workers. If you give up Apple products for no-name products, you may actually be rewarding one that treats its workers worse, but is just less in the spotlight.
It doesn't excuse Apple, but are their workers worse off than others in the industry in China? I doubt it. If anyone is seriously proposing a boycott, what is the "ethical" alternative?
How about the rule: May not give the appearance of our endorsement.
This doesn't. It opens with "NBC Nightly Neews, January 1997", shows the newscast on a screen within the screen, and clearly is archival footage. I think is it fair use as such.
Besides, "May not give the appearance of our endorsement" is a pretty fuzzy rule. Anyway, this was obviously an ad produced by the Romney campaign, not the network.
he summary also makes it look like YouTube did this.
They did. That they allow UMG the ability to take down videos doesn't absolve Youtube of responsibility, legal or moral. But I'm sure they've covered their asses with disclaimers and small print.
The idea isn't. The point is that a derivative work is when you look at someone's work and make a similar one that you would not have produced without first viewing the original (at least in the US). If you are a derivative work, then you can be subject to copyright infringement. This has always been the case.
Bullshit. Look for instance at TV shows: How many CSI-clones are thers? How many "supernatural detective"? How many Twilightish vampires? How many have been sued for copyright infringement?
How many old SF books, stories and movies did Star Wars rip off? But lack of originality isn't infringement. Frank Herbert didn't copyright "Mystical warriors on desert planets" with Dune.
This red bus on the bridge is clearly inspired by the original. But the "original" didn't invent the concept either. Whole moves have been made in that style (Pleasantville, eg).
The link at the bottom indicates that running one particularly large cargo ship supposedly pollutes as much as 50 million cars each year (likely a gross exaggeration but still worth considering)
http://www.gizmag.com/shipping-pollution/11526/
Read what you link to. That article is about dirty bunker oil producing sulphur oxides and other nasty stuff. Obviously burning that produce much more poison than low-sulphur oils, or relatively clean gasoline. Which all has very little relation to the amount of CO2, which is what we're talking about. Cargo ships could burn cleaner fuels if they were compelled to -- near most ports they are.
. This is promoted as "not having to relearn menus" - well true, but you have to learn so much more!
I have my menus organised by application area. One branch for video editing, one branch for DTP, one branch for file utilities, one for wifi, etc. In applications, like Photoshop or Audacity, when trying to work out how to solve a particular problem, I often open the filters menu and browse through it and see if any strike me as useful. That's how I learn to use a new filter.
Having just installed the latest Ubuntu on a laptop, I find the launcher pretty limiting. Only room for about 10 icons. No submenus. Otherwise, you have to go to the type-command-by-name method. Having been weaned on CLI Unix, this isn't a foreign idea to me, but I found it a lot less convenient than hierarchical menus, where I choose the hierarchy that makes sense to me. And I'm trying to get my daughter to use this. She hates it and keeps asking me to install Windows. I'll probably end up doing that.
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I checked the submission, it had "isle"; the Slashdot "editor" was equally illiterate and didn't notice.
So there are reasons for using VHS, beyond pure nostalgia, or access to videos that aren't digitised.
Though you can also use DVDs to get very high quality audio. You can use PCM audio or AC3 at 640 kbps and play it in a standard DVD player through your hifi. (I know there is a dedicated DVD audio standard, but it never took off and not all hardware supports it, and the encoders are absurdly expensive). I put all 14 Beatles' albums on one DVD in AC3 at 640 with space to spare.
Which is why the label "denier" is appropriate.
TFA (http://techzwn.com/2012/02/interview-filmmakers-tell-of-the-home-video-revolution/ ) says "Something was lost when videos went from magnetic tape and plastic, to plastic discs, and now to digital streams. Browsing aisles is no more, as the once-great video shops slowly board up their windows across the country."
So the submitter actually changed it.
Sigh.
You skipped right over the part where consensus was reached that global warming was caused by man.
Here you go: http://www.ipcc.ch/publications_and_data/publications_and_data_reports.shtml
Unless you are talking about Al Gores and his group of globalist cronie climate change experts that set up companies to make profit from it.
I see you don't care about facts. Don't bother reading the reports then. Talk radio tells you all you need to know.
Which raises another point, why buy Lenovo and get pissed they don't offer a blank HDD when plenty of smaller businesses sell computers without an OS?
Because smaller businesses don't make laptops. They don't offer an international guarantee. If you want a "Thinkpad-style" laptop (and I do) then I have to buy it from Lenovo -- okay, fair enough, they designed it (and/or paid IBM for the design). But I HAVE to pay money to Microsoft to buy Windows with it.
My question is whether there isn't more to the story. If a short text message in isolation can cause this much mess, statistically there should be hundreds of such cases every day. Yet there aren't. What is the rest of the story?
He's a muslim, and used the word "explode".
Some bureaucrat felt he had to cover his ass by taking it literally.
You have to wonder what the point is of having humans in the loop at all if they don't exercise judgement.
Colonising the Oort Cloud is another issue. Though it would be a nice quiet place to live and safe from any mishaps with planets or the sun. However, that these do seem to extend way out points out a potential hazard, you don't want to run into anything, if you're travelling at any fraction of light speed. You'd need some pretty effective shielding, probably physical (slabs of rock.metal, ice), magnetic shields, perhaps lasers to vaporise anything you can't dodge.
there could be water and fuel available almost the whole way.
If you stop and start. It takes LOT of energy and time to get up to speed -- or to slow down again -- to travel interstellar if you want to get there in less than a million years.
Probably pretty much the same content, but this is free. Supposedly legal, but I wouldn't depend on that.
More specifically, they applied value to the copyright materials by charging for it. It's the act of charging a fee which changes it from simple copyright violation to actual theft in my books
So , it's not the act of copying, but the selling afterwards, that makes it "theft"?
Bollocks. While selling it certainly makes it a more serious crime, it has absolutely nothing to do with "theft". If you believe it's as serious as theft, fine, say that. But it's still NOT theft.
You're simply defining them as guilty of a crime that never was committed.
This is like those people who label anyone with a different political opinion "traitors" or "terrorists".
Obviously aimed at people who don't have a clue how to use a computer to download or stream content themselves; otherwise who would pay for this?
The police must love this method because they have a physical "device" to bag and tag and present in court.
What program was it, and why was it specifically a requirement? Linux can handle the generic ability to share videos that every man and his dog has had since the ability for you to click *upload* in your browser, and http servers before that.
It's a requirement because she requires it. It's a P2P streaming video app popular in China that uses a proprietary protocol. See http://dl.pps.tv/pps_linux_download.html (readme in Chinese: http://download.ppstream.com/linux/readme.txt )
If you can get it working in Ubuntu 11.10, let me know. It apparently worked in previous versions, but while some videos play, the GUI to find and select them doesn't work.
I think the point is that the King User (i.e. CTO), if they become an Apple user, will dictate that the IT shop *will* support Apple products.
Or Queen User. I got given an old corporate laptop that was unusable without the passwords, so I wiped it and installed Ubuntu, a painless and simple task that gave us a working machine with Firefox and Libre Office that did everything necessary for my daughter's schoolwork -- so I thought. But it didn't support a video sharing program she HAD to have, so now I have to install Windows, spend hours installing all the updates and turning off crap and then keep an eye on forever after that it doesn't get compromised..
Wouldn't his use of the song clip...be considered fair use? He's not generating profit from this. He's not playing the entire performance of the song...
"Fair use" for music is much more limited than an extract from a book or movie. You're even supposed to get permission to use a single line of a song or a brief sample. Anyway, this is not being used for parody, scholarly or critical evaluation, it's simply being used as part of a performance. They make Girl Guides pay for singing songs around campfires, Gingrich can and should afford to pay to use this.
So if you are a small company, you can jump on that band wagon and make some good money.
I seriously doubt that. The markets are different in many ways, not just the physical products. There is a lot more service and customisation involved in bikes than most consumer electronics. You can keep a bike running for decades with regular maintenance and replacing parts like tyres, chain, cables, bearings, etc. With most phones, laptops, you buy them and use them for a year or two, then upgrade and dispose of the old one. There is no ongoing relationship with a guy who gives you advice on what is the best brake pad for your climate and style of riding. But buying a laptop or phone, most will just ask one question: Where can I get it cheapest?
Even in the niche for "ethically produced electronics" exists, it would be tiny and do nothing to help the majority of workers in dormitories paid the minimum possible and not allowed to unionise, etc.
You were apparently replying to my post where I asked "If anyone is seriously proposing a boycott, what is the "ethical" alternative?" Bicycles are not really an alternative to an iPad, for most purposes. Though they may be healthier, I agree.
indeed. but this doesn't explain why, after detaining them for twelve hours, they were denied entry to the country. are we to believe that they were unable to convey that context successfully to their interrogators, or that those same interrogators couldn't get on some internets to investigate the whole "destroy" idiom? i can't help but think of the rob corddry character from the second 'harold and kumar' movie when i try to picture the clowns that thought these brits were an honest-to-god threat to america.
It doesn't explain why, if the DHS thought they actually intended to "destroy LA" that they put them on a plane back to the UK without any charges.
Terrorists, bent on destruction, and THEY PUT THEM ON A JUMBO JET.
Nothing could demonstrate more clearly that the DHS knew full well it was a joke and was simply punishing the tourists.
There are tiny, almost invisible, barely profitable companies who do better. Here's one
That's a bicycle company. Probably not ready to produce laptops, phones, etc.
Beating up Apple when they're not obviously worse in their practices than any other company IN THE SAME INDUSTRY is a bit hypocritical. If the idea is to improve the treatment of workers in China, then that's what should be proposed. And that should be done by China, protecting its own workers. If you give up Apple products for no-name products, you may actually be rewarding one that treats its workers worse, but is just less in the spotlight.
It doesn't excuse Apple, but are their workers worse off than others in the industry in China? I doubt it. If anyone is seriously proposing a boycott, what is the "ethical" alternative?
How about the rule: May not give the appearance of our endorsement.
This doesn't. It opens with "NBC Nightly Neews, January 1997", shows the newscast on a screen within the screen, and clearly is archival footage. I think is it fair use as such.
Besides, "May not give the appearance of our endorsement" is a pretty fuzzy rule. Anyway, this was obviously an ad produced by the Romney campaign, not the network.
he summary also makes it look like YouTube did this.
They did. That they allow UMG the ability to take down videos doesn't absolve Youtube of responsibility, legal or moral. But I'm sure they've covered their asses with disclaimers and small print.
The idea isn't. The point is that a derivative work is when you look at someone's work and make a similar one that you would not have produced without first viewing the original (at least in the US). If you are a derivative work, then you can be subject to copyright infringement. This has always been the case.
Bullshit. Look for instance at TV shows: How many CSI-clones are thers? How many "supernatural detective"? How many Twilightish vampires? How many have been sued for copyright infringement?
How many old SF books, stories and movies did Star Wars rip off? But lack of originality isn't infringement. Frank Herbert didn't copyright "Mystical warriors on desert planets" with Dune.
This red bus on the bridge is clearly inspired by the original. But the "original" didn't invent the concept either. Whole moves have been made in that style (Pleasantville, eg).
The link at the bottom indicates that running one particularly large cargo ship supposedly pollutes as much as 50 million cars each year (likely a gross exaggeration but still worth considering) http://www.gizmag.com/shipping-pollution/11526/
Read what you link to. That article is about dirty bunker oil producing sulphur oxides and other nasty stuff. Obviously burning that produce much more poison than low-sulphur oils, or relatively clean gasoline. Which all has very little relation to the amount of CO2, which is what we're talking about. Cargo ships could burn cleaner fuels if they were compelled to -- near most ports they are.
. This is promoted as "not having to relearn menus" - well true, but you have to learn so much more!
I have my menus organised by application area. One branch for video editing, one branch for DTP, one branch for file utilities, one for wifi, etc. In applications, like Photoshop or Audacity, when trying to work out how to solve a particular problem, I often open the filters menu and browse through it and see if any strike me as useful. That's how I learn to use a new filter.
Having just installed the latest Ubuntu on a laptop, I find the launcher pretty limiting. Only room for about 10 icons. No submenus. Otherwise, you have to go to the type-command-by-name method. Having been weaned on CLI Unix, this isn't a foreign idea to me, but I found it a lot less convenient than hierarchical menus, where I choose the hierarchy that makes sense to me. And I'm trying to get my daughter to use this. She hates it and keeps asking me to install Windows. I'll probably end up doing that.