Yeah, but does it stream a specific album or just random-select based on genre or an affinity matcher? The premium subscription Rhapsody allows you to listen to any album in the service on the fly at a quality pretty close to CD. Sure, I don't get to keep it when I unsubscribe, but for $10/mo, I'm happy.
HP's a different story. Unlike those of pretty much every other inkjet manufacturer, their cartridges actually contain the print head as well. I suspect they have any number of patents on their print head, so that would prevent third parties from re-implementing the cartridge. The plus side is that HPs are much less vulnerable to ink clogs; you can always just switch the cartridge if your print head stuffs up.
As a music discovery service, Rhapsody is pretty hard to beat, though Pressplay supposedly comes pretty close. Rhapsody has the bigger catalog and nicer application. Pressplay has downloads, but they're DRM-limited; Rhapsody streams only. Unfortunately, Rhapsody ties you to Windows. I assume Pressplay's DRM does as well, but I haven't explored it that closely.
Having accepted that last caveat, I'm very happy with Rhapsody. There are a few holes in their coverage--modern metal isn't well-represented, nor is old-school rap or some genres of electronica. Their coverage of anything even remotely mainstream is very good, though, and they have a surprising number of indie and semi-indie bands available. One thing that's especially nice is that they can build a streaming radio station around an artist that uses a pretty decent association engine to give you songs that would appeal to the same tastes. This feature works whether or not they have the reference artist's music available for download. Some of the selections aren't completely obvious, but most of them are quite appropriate. That in and of itself is a great discovery tool.
Copyright law on derivative work doesn't function like that, though. If I create a story with Harry Potter in it, I might not be able to distribute it as it's derivative of Rowling's copyrighted work. However, she can't distribute it either, since the story has original content--my copyright applies to that content (but not to any of the things I borrowed from her). Best case with SCO's argument is that they could block the distribution of Linux, but that doesn't mean they could distribute it themselves unless each and every little bit was derivative of their copyrighted works.
I have a Hayabusa. I've also owned sports cars. Totally different experience.
Anyways, the 'busa gets half the fuel-efficiency of this thing. I get 35mpg or so cruising, and it's (reasonably) a one-person vehicle. This gets 70mpg, and can carry two as comfortable as it can carry one. Also, I dunno what the tire costs on the TZero are, but on the Hayabusa, they're ~$300 every 3000 to 5000 miles. Lots of rubber there wearing off too...that has to have some environment impact. Big sportbikes just really aren't that efficient.
Are those numbers for the older lead-acid batteries or for the newer lithium batteries? The older model has 100mi range, and the newer version has a 300mi range. I'm guessing the specs they printed up are for the older model.
Probably it's because the car tops out at 100mph. It's a single-gear system. At 1/4 mile, any of the gas-powered supercars would have pulled well ahead of it when it hit the top of its gearing.
The distinction comes down to whether you're keeping a copy of it when you lend it out. Right of first sale has pretty much established that you can resell the media (with the content on it). What you can't do is copy the content for yourself then resell the media or conversely, keep the media but give away the content.
If you want the book analogy, you can't photocopy the book then lend it to your friend (lending is just a temporary case of selling for free), allowing you both to read it simultaneously.
Jesus Christ, man. You took a feedbag to the all-you-can-eat buffet, and pitched a fit when they decided to only let you take one plate of food at a time. 1800 files in how many days? You had to have been running an automatic downloader.
I mean, I sympathize to an extent, but if the contract doesn't mention the method of download, you're not covered one way or the other. Your ad absurdum argument re: spyware, etc., on the download service doesn't really apply. If you'd made an argument about the service being Windows-dependent (if the DM's ActiveX or a Windows executable), that may have had some wings. However, as it is, I think that the customer service team at emusic was being rather patient with you.
I believe that message originates inside ICQ's networks, not with Trillian. It always showed up on my IM as a system message, and would show up regardless of whether I was using Trillian or the official client.
It makes having a phone conversating very pain full as the person you are talking to cuts out everytime there is a noise on your side of the conversation (A loud bus, fire engine, pet, etc).
Huh? I have Verizon in the Bay Area, and mine's full-duplex. What phone are you using?
Off the top of my head, I doubt the person you posted the link to is a professional web designer. Just a hunch. Even if they were, though, I imagine most professional designers still go by Internet Explorer and Netscape. However, they may not spend enough time in the latter to find the "Disable Popups" option.
He was a tech writer and enthusiast, not a programmer. There were a handful of productivity apps that ran under Windows 1.0, Windows 2.0, Windows/386. They just didn't run particularly well.:)
Borland didn't have a competing graphical shell--they had an internal framework, later released in code as Turbovision, that allowed creation of apps with subwindows in them. GEM never really gained much of a foothold (aside from with the graphics programs that included it as their built-in environment), and neither did GeoWorks. -If- you were going to run a graphical shell of some kind (and this was a big if, prior to Windows 3.0), chances are good it was going to be one of the MS ones.
I've not seen one with that kind of battery life, but I'd be interested to know which one does. My Toshiba gets 3.5 hours on the stock battery, 5 hours on the larger replacement, and is pretty much par for the course.
Where it does come in ahead of a laptop is weight (2 lbs vs. 6+ lbs), price (~$600 new instead of ~$1K+ new), and picture/sound quality. Find me a 2lb $600 laptop that can output a progressive scan picture to an HDTV and output Dolby 5.1 and DTS, and we might be in business.
The GPL says that if you don't send out the source code, you have to include a written offer to the person receiving the binary (and transferrable to anybody else) outlining how one might request the code.
That's not to say that this hasn't been done in this case--you'd have to ask someone who actually bought a box to know for sure.
"3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:..."
Section 1 covers distributing an unmodified version. There's no exception for not modifying it. If you distribute the binary, you're on the hook to distribute the source too.
He's thinking of Steel Battalion, and he's short by $100. That's not a Microsoft game, though, that's Capcom. He also conveniently didn't mention Dance Dance Revolution for the Playstations, the fishing games and Samba di Amigo for the Dreamcast, or any number of other games that require custom controllers. Big fucking deal--no conspiracy here, please move along.
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That's only for the initially released models, because the original license agreement didn't say that you had to subscribe. They grandfathered VCR-like capabilities for those so as not to screw their customers. Anything from later batches of Series 1 or all of the Series 2 (i.e. the ones sold with the updated license agreement) requires a subscription, otherwise it stops working in any useful manner after an introductory period of time.
This, at least, is probably covered under fair use. IANAL, so anyone have any idea what happens with Fair Use specifies you can do something that a distribution license specifies you can't? I'm guessing in this case Fair Use wins out, since it trumps all copyright restrictions. Armchair lawyers?
Nah, you blew your analogy. It's not about making it look different, it's about making it do something different. In other words, it's more like the hooker shows up, and he hands her his laundry.
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Yeah, but does it stream a specific album or just random-select based on genre or an affinity matcher? The premium subscription Rhapsody allows you to listen to any album in the service on the fly at a quality pretty close to CD. Sure, I don't get to keep it when I unsubscribe, but for $10/mo, I'm happy.
HP's a different story. Unlike those of pretty much every other inkjet manufacturer, their cartridges actually contain the print head as well. I suspect they have any number of patents on their print head, so that would prevent third parties from re-implementing the cartridge. The plus side is that HPs are much less vulnerable to ink clogs; you can always just switch the cartridge if your print head stuffs up.
As a music discovery service, Rhapsody is pretty hard to beat, though Pressplay supposedly comes pretty close. Rhapsody has the bigger catalog and nicer application. Pressplay has downloads, but they're DRM-limited; Rhapsody streams only. Unfortunately, Rhapsody ties you to Windows. I assume Pressplay's DRM does as well, but I haven't explored it that closely.
Having accepted that last caveat, I'm very happy with Rhapsody. There are a few holes in their coverage--modern metal isn't well-represented, nor is old-school rap or some genres of electronica. Their coverage of anything even remotely mainstream is very good, though, and they have a surprising number of indie and semi-indie bands available. One thing that's especially nice is that they can build a streaming radio station around an artist that uses a pretty decent association engine to give you songs that would appeal to the same tastes. This feature works whether or not they have the reference artist's music available for download. Some of the selections aren't completely obvious, but most of them are quite appropriate. That in and of itself is a great discovery tool.
Copyright law on derivative work doesn't function like that, though. If I create a story with Harry Potter in it, I might not be able to distribute it as it's derivative of Rowling's copyrighted work. However, she can't distribute it either, since the story has original content--my copyright applies to that content (but not to any of the things I borrowed from her). Best case with SCO's argument is that they could block the distribution of Linux, but that doesn't mean they could distribute it themselves unless each and every little bit was derivative of their copyrighted works.
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That's not universally true. For example, Colorado Springs levies a sales tax after the first $300 of goods.
http://www.springsgov.com/Page.asp?NavID=1149
It really is a per state/county/city thing. That's what makes having universal enforcement so horribly unworkable.
I have a Hayabusa. I've also owned sports cars. Totally different experience.
Anyways, the 'busa gets half the fuel-efficiency of this thing. I get 35mpg or so cruising, and it's (reasonably) a one-person vehicle. This gets 70mpg, and can carry two as comfortable as it can carry one. Also, I dunno what the tire costs on the TZero are, but on the Hayabusa, they're ~$300 every 3000 to 5000 miles. Lots of rubber there wearing off too...that has to have some environment impact. Big sportbikes just really aren't that efficient.
Are those numbers for the older lead-acid batteries or for the newer lithium batteries? The older model has 100mi range, and the newer version has a 300mi range. I'm guessing the specs they printed up are for the older model.
Probably it's because the car tops out at 100mph. It's a single-gear system. At 1/4 mile, any of the gas-powered supercars would have pulled well ahead of it when it hit the top of its gearing.
The distinction comes down to whether you're keeping a copy of it when you lend it out. Right of first sale has pretty much established that you can resell the media (with the content on it). What you can't do is copy the content for yourself then resell the media or conversely, keep the media but give away the content.
If you want the book analogy, you can't photocopy the book then lend it to your friend (lending is just a temporary case of selling for free), allowing you both to read it simultaneously.
Jesus Christ, man. You took a feedbag to the all-you-can-eat buffet, and pitched a fit when they decided to only let you take one plate of food at a time. 1800 files in how many days? You had to have been running an automatic downloader.
I mean, I sympathize to an extent, but if the contract doesn't mention the method of download, you're not covered one way or the other. Your ad absurdum argument re: spyware, etc., on the download service doesn't really apply. If you'd made an argument about the service being Windows-dependent (if the DM's ActiveX or a Windows executable), that may have had some wings. However, as it is, I think that the customer service team at emusic was being rather patient with you.
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I believe that message originates inside ICQ's networks, not with Trillian. It always showed up on my IM as a system message, and would show up regardless of whether I was using Trillian or the official client.
You sure you're blaming the right harasser?
The nForce/nForce2 SoundStorm stuff (same as the XBox hardware) is pretty damned close to comparable to an Audigy 2, if not fully comparable.
It's an excellent sound solution.
Huh? I have Verizon in the Bay Area, and mine's full-duplex. What phone are you using?
Off the top of my head, I doubt the person you posted the link to is a professional web designer. Just a hunch. Even if they were, though, I imagine most professional designers still go by Internet Explorer and Netscape. However, they may not spend enough time in the latter to find the "Disable Popups" option.
He was a tech writer and enthusiast, not a programmer. There were a handful of productivity apps that ran under Windows 1.0, Windows 2.0, Windows/386. They just didn't run particularly well. :)
Borland didn't have a competing graphical shell--they had an internal framework, later released in code as Turbovision, that allowed creation of apps with subwindows in them. GEM never really gained much of a foothold (aside from with the graphics programs that included it as their built-in environment), and neither did GeoWorks. -If- you were going to run a graphical shell of some kind (and this was a big if, prior to Windows 3.0), chances are good it was going to be one of the MS ones.
I've not seen one with that kind of battery life, but I'd be interested to know which one does. My Toshiba gets 3.5 hours on the stock battery, 5 hours on the larger replacement, and is pretty much par for the course.
Where it does come in ahead of a laptop is weight (2 lbs vs. 6+ lbs), price (~$600 new instead of ~$1K+ new), and picture/sound quality. Find me a 2lb $600 laptop that can output a progressive scan picture to an HDTV and output Dolby 5.1 and DTS, and we might be in business.
Where do you see this? This is contrary to my understanding of the GPL, as well as statements of RMS that I've read.
I believe the idea was that pointing to another source wasn't good enough because you took no responsibility for that source still being up.
The GPL says that if you don't send out the source code, you have to include a written offer to the person receiving the binary (and transferrable to anybody else) outlining how one might request the code.
That's not to say that this hasn't been done in this case--you'd have to ask someone who actually bought a box to know for sure.
Nope. You've misread.
"3. You may copy and distribute the Program (or a work based on it, under Section 2) in object code or executable form under the terms of Sections 1 and 2 above provided that you also do one of the following:..."
Section 1 covers distributing an unmodified version. There's no exception for not modifying it. If you distribute the binary, you're on the hook to distribute the source too.
He's thinking of Steel Battalion, and he's short by $100. That's not a Microsoft game, though, that's Capcom. He also conveniently didn't mention Dance Dance Revolution for the Playstations, the fishing games and Samba di Amigo for the Dreamcast, or any number of other games that require custom controllers. Big fucking deal--no conspiracy here, please move along.
That's only for the initially released models, because the original license agreement didn't say that you had to subscribe. They grandfathered VCR-like capabilities for those so as not to screw their customers. Anything from later batches of Series 1 or all of the Series 2 (i.e. the ones sold with the updated license agreement) requires a subscription, otherwise it stops working in any useful manner after an introductory period of time.
You're ignoring the fact entirely that DirectX is, in fact, a set of COM objects. Games use COM extensively because of that.
This, at least, is probably covered under fair use. IANAL, so anyone have any idea what happens with Fair Use specifies you can do something that a distribution license specifies you can't? I'm guessing in this case Fair Use wins out, since it trumps all copyright restrictions. Armchair lawyers?
Nah, you blew your analogy. It's not about making it look different, it's about making it do something different. In other words, it's more like the hooker shows up, and he hands her his laundry.
The second Home Media option is $50, but yeah. It gets expensive.