she missed completely the point. The record labels don't like music download, not because they want to protect artists but rather than because they want to protect their own distribution channels. And they are actually selling for gold these channels back to artists.
Anybody can tell us how much money is going to the artist from the total CD sales price? Including taxes, indeed! I think there is so much people making money from the artist they just don't want this gold mine going away from them.
Internet is a great mean to distribute cultural products. However, doing so, is short-circuiting the other well controlled distribution channels. And this is that control majors want to held. Copyright is just bullshit in this context to convince other to let you control the media.
As a simple example, last week-end, a well-known band in Quebec was in Paris, France for a show. Their CDs are not distributed at all anywhere in Europe. They performed before a mostly european public which was knowing their songs and were able so sing them with the band. Of course, it was a big surprise and big party. There was even a well structured fan-club.
How can this happen? Were all these files shared for the stake of the group?
one-size-fits-all makes you look like a chicken in a potato bag.
This is a endless discussion. And usually, the conclusion is not there is a best GUI. There is only an average GUI which fit better more people than others. It's not to say others are worst. They are different. If we would think exactly the same we, we would be very boring, but there will be an ultimate GUI.
But, real life is not so simple. Ask some left-handed people...
I don't know for you, but for myself, I can tell you one of my customer is running mission critical applications on Linux nodes. And by mission critical, I mean a banking system. We are talking about something like 20 critical nodes monitoring about 10000 stations and about 3000 automatic-teller machines.
The Windows servers are for the AD purpose only or as local servers in branches. So, yes, the workstation is a Windows XP station, but, it's not because it is well supported, standard or anything else, it's just because it's the de facto standard for this kind of usage.
Each Linux node is much more critical than any other Windows XP workstation. Would you pick it, if those 6 reasons were true? I mean, as a Bank?
"We're trying to understand what problem does it solve that is not already solved."
So, I guess the.NET C# competition is already contained by, by, by what?
Someone else has provided links to the discussion from Havoc Pennington on the future of the Linux desktop. Havoc is discussing the alternatives. And none is very satisfactory. Open-Sourcing Java would have a catalystic effect and would solve OUR problem. But, maybe Scott just doesn't care because he is thinking he has finally found a way to dominate the desktop market and we are supposed to sit-down, wait, see and applaude!
Guys don't assume anything. This is a ALL WOMEN team. So, it's not like guys were saying women are lesser citizen and needs some special feature on a printer to be able to use it efficiently.
Wait and see want this team will produce and it will show you how women perceived themselves different from men.
Accordingly to this document we can conclude private copy is perfectly legal in Canada. We are paying extra money on copying media (selected media, listed in the document). The Copyright Board of Canada has recognized in 1998 it is not possible to effectively control private copy and has then decided to impose a fee on a selected list of media. The fees were just revised.
However, the Internet and disks are still not considered taxable medias. Sueing peoples make no sense. What they should do, it is to trying to convince the Board to include Internet and disks in the list. And the money should go to the artists rather than to the recording industry.
Personnally, I would be willing to pay some amount for the artists, but not for the industry which seems to me always harder to justify. Dinosaurs became extincted because they were simply obsolete given the new living conditions on earth. The recording industry is simply becoming obsolete, not the artists, and I don't see any reason to perpetuate the mascarade...
However, you can setup such a system using vgetty included in the mgetty package with a voice/modem/fax. Sending the fax and the voice message is the easy part of the setup.
What would be much difficult, it's playing with the DTMF script to enable the system to behave like a automated-attendant. You can have it page you when someone leaves an urgent message or even call you on your cellphone (if you have one and don't want to give your number to everyone) and play the messages. However, in this case, it is preferable to NOT send them to your PC and leave them on the server. I found this very useful since you may not be able to answer the call, you may not want to give your number to everyone and you want to do some kind on filtering on your "urgent" calls or be able to call at the most appropriate moment. For example, you don't want your customer to ask for support on something while you are at a meeting at another customer site or billing your time on some other job.
However, vgetty is not very user friendly when it comes to DTMF scripting... In fact, it's just tricky.
Seems you forgot what OSS is about. It's about customizing, debugging, developping, sharing, documenting and contributing. That's where the cost of your software lies.
If you think you have no time for any of this item or no bucks to pay for someone else to workout on what prevent you to use it, you may be happy with a commercial package you will pay someone to install with the great advantage to open an incident report or bug report when you will be stuck with it. Or open a design change request, hoping the software vendor will consider it in any coming release of his product.
you could envision the possibility to buy these running shoes which manage to produce some electricity. Then, carry a car battery in you backpack. Walk you 15 miles and you should get enough power to feed your laptop or desktop before going to bed. Iterate...
Another more serious option would be a windmill powering a generator. Or even a small watermill.
I guess your laptop will most be usefull during the evening or when it's rainy or snowy. So, no much advantage with solar power.
I just want to believe you. However, nowhere it is clearly stated that all models support Ogg-Vorbis and the only place it refers to the Ogg-Vorbis, it is talking about the hard-drive model.
Could you please clarify...with an authoritive source.
"Open source foundation Xiph.org, founders of the Ogg Vorbis codec, released the first beta of Neurosetta, the firmware upgrade that makes the Neuros the first portable hard drive player to support Ogg Vorbis playback."
Nice, however WHY there is no low-end Ogg-portable players?
They all have a "huge" HD. I am just desesperatly seeking for a 128MB or 256MB Ogg capable player. I don't want to spend so much money on a player for my daugthers and, anyway, they don't need 600 hours of music available in their pocket. One hour or two clipped on shirts will be just enough.
Anyone listening at iRiver, Rio and the likes?
Anyway, in the mean time, I will just buy a MP3 player...
With the obvious result all internet subscriptions will be increased by, at least, 10%. And given the fact you already pay 10% extra for the music, nobody will be longer willing to pay a cent for music. And the Music store should prepare to close very soon after such a judgement.
Given the fact my internet subscription include all the music in all the world why should I buy a piece of plastic? Authors, artists, interprets, etc are now paid (in fact, only those having contracts with the Recording Industry reps).
What's the difference between people you know and those you don't? About the privacy, I meant.
The royalities paid on CD-Rs and other audio recording medias has been established recognizing there is no way to control the copies.
The current court case should rather be seen as an initiative to extend the royalities to other audio media. They just don't care if it is private copies or not. They just want more money and they think ISPs should be liable for this like any CD-Rs manufacturer.
I believe the private clause was rather about the usage intent of the copy before the internet. Something like using the copy at a trade show to increase visibility of your booth or something like that. When making the copy available for P2P, you actually don't play the music in public.
Anyway, the main point is about WHO will be liable and HOW the royalities will be calculated. Will it be fair or not for everyone?
Shouldn't composer, interpreters and other artists shift their business on shows rather than on records? Right now, they are using shows and tours to promote a record, why not using a record to promote a show or tour? In this case, the record may just be a freely available copy of the music. The only problem is with the Record's industry dinosaurs which will don't want became extinct or at least had a much more small piece of the pie.
"It's ironic that IBM, with its roots in the computer industry, doesn't supply the processors for the main portion of the personal computer industry. Intel does."
I don't know the details of the agreement IBM is having with Apple. But, it seems IBM relies only on Apple to offer a personal computer product to the mass market (not so massive considering the pricing). I am still amazed IBM has done very few to enable third party vendors to produce hardware (motherboards, etc) for the PC market using their G serie processors.
Maybe this played a role in the decision of MS to use the chip. Since it is not easily available and hacked by the community, it will prevent their next generation X-Boxes to be as easily hacked as the first generation.
This is much more closer my chinese abacus will finally get its deeply missing interface to the internet. I already run a very nice web browser on it: Me-zilla.
I also have a 10 years old 486/DX 33 with 16 MB RAM and a huge 350MB HD and a second huge 525MB HD.
It is used as a firewall/gateway since 1999. It is running 24/7 and I replaced the CPU fan sometime around 2000 and the power supply fan in 2001. I am still using the original keyboard and the VGA monitor.
It ran Linux since 1993 and has seen Soft Landing, Slackware, Suse and RedHat distros.
The goal of the government is not to save money. It's to provide basic services common to all citizen, like justice administration, vote laws to regulate relations between entities, provide security, education, health care system, collect garbages, etc.
And, BTW, doing it at the best price.
So, there is absolutely no contradiction in the mission of a government making mandatory OSS for its administration and the price tag. Making OSS a requirement is not necessarily related to the sole price consideration. As the example of Munich is showing us.
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Anybody can tell us how much money is going to the artist from the total CD sales price? Including taxes, indeed! I think there is so much people making money from the artist they just don't want this gold mine going away from them.
Internet is a great mean to distribute cultural products. However, doing so, is short-circuiting the other well controlled distribution channels. And this is that control majors want to held. Copyright is just bullshit in this context to convince other to let you control the media.
As a simple example, last week-end, a well-known band in Quebec was in Paris, France for a show. Their CDs are not distributed at all anywhere in Europe. They performed before a mostly european public which was knowing their songs and were able so sing them with the band. Of course, it was a big surprise and big party. There was even a well structured fan-club.
How can this happen? Were all these files shared for the stake of the group?
Hmmm, seems it may fit in a psychiatric institute...
You will always end up with a GUI that satisfy the most people. If this is the definition a the best GUI, I'm happy for you!
However, the average Joe is an habit beast and don't rely on him to show you innovative ways to do things.
This is a endless discussion. And usually, the conclusion is not there is a best GUI. There is only an average GUI which fit better more people than others. It's not to say others are worst. They are different. If we would think exactly the same we, we would be very boring, but there will be an ultimate GUI.
But, real life is not so simple. Ask some left-handed people...
Many sources include the SPEC file required to build the package.
The Windows servers are for the AD purpose only or as local servers in branches. So, yes, the workstation is a Windows XP station, but, it's not because it is well supported, standard or anything else, it's just because it's the de facto standard for this kind of usage.
Each Linux node is much more critical than any other Windows XP workstation. Would you pick it, if those 6 reasons were true? I mean, as a Bank?
add backdoors to the software...
So, I guess the .NET C# competition is already contained by, by, by what?
Someone else has provided links to the discussion from Havoc Pennington on the future of the Linux desktop. Havoc is discussing the alternatives. And none is very satisfactory. Open-Sourcing Java would have a catalystic effect and would solve OUR problem. But, maybe Scott just doesn't care because he is thinking he has finally found a way to dominate the desktop market and we are supposed to sit-down, wait, see and applaude!
When will we get the Y?
Wait and see want this team will produce and it will show you how women perceived themselves different from men.
However, the Internet and disks are still not considered taxable medias. Sueing peoples make no sense. What they should do, it is to trying to convince the Board to include Internet and disks in the list. And the money should go to the artists rather than to the recording industry.
Personnally, I would be willing to pay some amount for the artists, but not for the industry which seems to me always harder to justify. Dinosaurs became extincted because they were simply obsolete given the new living conditions on earth. The recording industry is simply becoming obsolete, not the artists, and I don't see any reason to perpetuate the mascarade...
However, you can setup such a system using vgetty included in the mgetty package with a voice/modem/fax. Sending the fax and the voice message is the easy part of the setup.
What would be much difficult, it's playing with the DTMF script to enable the system to behave like a automated-attendant. You can have it page you when someone leaves an urgent message or even call you on your cellphone (if you have one and don't want to give your number to everyone) and play the messages. However, in this case, it is preferable to NOT send them to your PC and leave them on the server. I found this very useful since you may not be able to answer the call, you may not want to give your number to everyone and you want to do some kind on filtering on your "urgent" calls or be able to call at the most appropriate moment. For example, you don't want your customer to ask for support on something while you are at a meeting at another customer site or billing your time on some other job.
However, vgetty is not very user friendly when it comes to DTMF scripting... In fact, it's just tricky.
If you think you have no time for any of this item or no bucks to pay for someone else to workout on what prevent you to use it, you may be happy with a commercial package you will pay someone to install with the great advantage to open an incident report or bug report when you will be stuck with it. Or open a design change request, hoping the software vendor will consider it in any coming release of his product.
There is no such thing like a free lunch!
Flashy and hugly!
Anyone has built an Eiffel tower or Golden Gate bridge computer case?
Unless someone can build a case looking like this one. I can reconsider my position...
Another more serious option would be a windmill powering a generator. Or even a small watermill.
I guess your laptop will most be usefull during the evening or when it's rainy or snowy. So, no much advantage with solar power.
Could you please clarify...with an authoritive source.
So, it seems, according to Neuros' site, the Vorbis format is NOT supported on memory only players...
They all have a "huge" HD. I am just desesperatly seeking for a 128MB or 256MB Ogg capable player. I don't want to spend so much money on a player for my daugthers and, anyway, they don't need 600 hours of music available in their pocket. One hour or two clipped on shirts will be just enough.
Anyone listening at iRiver, Rio and the likes?
Anyway, in the mean time, I will just buy a MP3 player...
Given the fact my internet subscription include all the music in all the world why should I buy a piece of plastic? Authors, artists, interprets, etc are now paid (in fact, only those having contracts with the Recording Industry reps).
The royalities paid on CD-Rs and other audio recording medias has been established recognizing there is no way to control the copies.
The current court case should rather be seen as an initiative to extend the royalities to other audio media. They just don't care if it is private copies or not. They just want more money and they think ISPs should be liable for this like any CD-Rs manufacturer.
I believe the private clause was rather about the usage intent of the copy before the internet. Something like using the copy at a trade show to increase visibility of your booth or something like that. When making the copy available for P2P, you actually don't play the music in public.
Anyway, the main point is about WHO will be liable and HOW the royalities will be calculated. Will it be fair or not for everyone?
Shouldn't composer, interpreters and other artists shift their business on shows rather than on records? Right now, they are using shows and tours to promote a record, why not using a record to promote a show or tour? In this case, the record may just be a freely available copy of the music. The only problem is with the Record's industry dinosaurs which will don't want became extinct or at least had a much more small piece of the pie.
I don't know the details of the agreement IBM is having with Apple. But, it seems IBM relies only on Apple to offer a personal computer product to the mass market (not so massive considering the pricing). I am still amazed IBM has done very few to enable third party vendors to produce hardware (motherboards, etc) for the PC market using their G serie processors.
Maybe this played a role in the decision of MS to use the chip. Since it is not easily available and hacked by the community, it will prevent their next generation X-Boxes to be as easily hacked as the first generation.
Let's go guys, keep this ball rolling!
It is used as a firewall/gateway since 1999. It is running 24/7 and I replaced the CPU fan sometime around 2000 and the power supply fan in 2001. I am still using the original keyboard and the VGA monitor.
It ran Linux since 1993 and has seen Soft Landing, Slackware, Suse and RedHat distros.
And, BTW, doing it at the best price.
So, there is absolutely no contradiction in the mission of a government making mandatory OSS for its administration and the price tag. Making OSS a requirement is not necessarily related to the sole price consideration. As the example of Munich is showing us.