Maybe Microsoft's problem with virtualization is that Microsoft is behind and so, and I don't where they learned this trick, they are using their licensing to slow down the market until they have things in place.
Aren't we hearing of data mining projects which are aimed towards taking internet postings and revealing identity? If you had billions of dollars in r&d, wouldn't you test something like this on vetting job applicants? No? Me, neither.
But isn't there a point within the next 60 months when they will have to fork and maintain their own GPL2 licensed versions of vi, gcc, emacs, grep, awk, bash, tar, etc.? If they can't afford a conference table of employees, where will that support come from? Will Microsoft do it?
So, the schematics are the object? The plans are the building? The sheet music is the performance?
I've seen guitar tabs and I've seen performances. (It sure seemed to me that the tabs weren't documenting every note in every bar, but 99% of the guitar tabs I've looked at were in magazines and hit the guitar part highlights.) I cannot hand a guitar tab to my non-guitar playing brother and expect to hear Clapton. For that matter, granted I'm better at playing by ear than sight reading and better at the latter than reading guitar tab, you won't hear Clapton if I'm looking at the guitar tab. One real reason is that showing the probable fret and the approximate moment the note started overlooks the specifics of phrasing, vibrato, talent and taste, let alone tone qualities created by amp settings and guitar set up.
Let's go with your supposedly closer analogue: so the in-theater video can be played at home on the video player. What device do you put the guitar tab into in order to hear the record? And even assuming you had a player-piano like guitar device, how do the parts for the other instruments in the recording, especially the non-fretted ones, get extrapolated?
You seem to be concerned with performance infringement. But, it's not the record companies (who hold the rights on the publications of the peformances) who are sending the nastygrams. It's being pursued by the music publishers, who hold rights acquired from the songwriters regarding uses of melody and lyric. If the guitar tab includes the lyrics or documents the melody, they have a point about it being an unlicensed derivative work. But a guitar tab that shows a solo or the counterpoint to the melody is a transcription of something that is unprotectable.
Guitar tabs aren't copying. It's a transcription and summary created by someone who knows the notation and can ascertain an approximation of what happened.
So what about Cliff's Notes? Outlines? Chord charts? Sentence diagrams? Sitting down and listening to the record over and over to figure out the lyric?
The record company has copyrighted the recording. The songwriter has copyrighted the melody and lyrics. The publisher has control over sheet music. Is the arrangement copyrightable? Nope. The 16 bar blues progression? Nope. How about whether the rhythm guitarist used open D tuning or played barre chords? Nope. Seems to me a map of fingering -- which may not be strictly correct -- is more like Cliff's notes than photocopying the sheet music, a clear infringement. I suppose the concept of derivative work may be applied and maybe this means the commercial exploitation of guitar tab formatted transcriptions would be infringement. Sounds pretty gray to this non-lawyer.
But these nastygrams are an aggressive expansion of copyright practice on behalf of the music publishers, who would prefer to get a share of nothing to having no share in something. Sounds like the legal department needed a reason to keep employed.
I'm working though learning Haskell as well. I started work on a sudoku game program and made some progress, but it was going to be command line only, the code looked a little long (and it wasn't near finished), and my algorithms seemed inefficient, so, I set the program aside to do some more woodshedding. Regarding inefficiency, since we were talking about 81 cells, this was okay, but, one technique for getting O(1) access to a cell would be using arrays and these seem to be a data structure of last resort.
Before I could start applying it to work issues, I would need to nail down how a program communicates with a database back end, draws and handles an mvc gui, and generates xml. I've found some libraries, but, to be honest, if someone asked me to do something on the clock, I'd have to go with java because I'm so much more facile with all the libraries for what I do.
Another real problem is that I'm just too used to thinking of state, and, in my layman mostly-ignorant way of thinking, it is side-effect state change that
degrades the program's ability to parallelize cleanly.
Pardon a little Marxism, but the the states with the worst policies still have great policies for the ruling class. If you think people voting with their feet meant any thing to deep south white supremacists from 1890-1970, well, sorry, that's not how it went down.
This meant that now, unlike for terrestrial radio, things like Internet radio would have to pay a royalty not just to the songwriter, but also to the performer.
performer should be replaced by publisher. The degree to which the publisher will share these revenues with the performers will be governed by the terms of the contract between the publisher and performer. With the record labels' track record (performance royalties from ITMS sales are still netted a percentage for breakage) getting a taste of the SoundExchange revenues will occur only for the top hitmakers.
I believe Windows NT will be the most important operating system of all time.
It's widely adopted, that's true. But, if someone wants to learn what computer science issues are addressed by an operating system, do they crack open some NT code? Nope. Unix was then and is now the most important operating system: it provides a standard and it may be adapted into places where only the insane would put NT or its descendants.
I live in a Southern California district that will vote Democrat until that party get us into a stupid war. My Congress-critter is chair of a committee and doing real good work. He will support Hollywood on any request because they've been there for his fund-raising for years. Feinstein, our Senator, is co-sponsoring Hollywood-friendly copyright legislation as we speak. It's a problem, because sane copyright and patent laws do not fit into the liberal theology (though it should, it's up there with good public education and government support of the arts and sciences as ways to make it easier for the future to arrive.)
I earn my living using software, just as some people earn a living using the telephone. I kinda like it how real powerful stuff doesn't cost a lot of money, and every year it gets better. Frankly I'm every bit as concerned about how software developers will make their next dollar to the degree they're concerned about architects making their next dollar. Have you hired an AIA architect to redesign your kitchen, lately? What? You want architecture to disappear?
The performance is measured against Microsoft's public predictions. The stock market punishes severely any company that underperforms the predictions, thus, there is a real incentive to understate expectations, if one can still show growth.
So, is Vista a failure if it causes more XP licenses to sell? Money is money, one may argue. I expect that Microsoft really thinks about targets for the cash cow products not in terms of revenue goals, but in terms of installed base goals. If we see Vista discount pricing, it may be to accelerate progress towards those goals. After all, there will come a day when a customer will not have the choice to buy a new copy of XP and the OEM XP licenses die with the OEM machine.
Novell's number one motivation for aggressively defending the slander of libel suit was to not cede the Unix copyrights (whatever those might be) to Caldera/SCO.
The copyrights had a value, Santa Cruz/SCO didn't have the scratch to pay, and so Novell didn't sell them. I suspect Novell bought SuSE to nail the point that whatever Unix ip had escaped (and it could be none) into Linux, Novell's Linux customers had a clear, unambiguous license to Linux. In other words, Novell had no interest -- in 2003/2004 -- to be the Tripoli Pirates to Linux, but they sure as h e double hockey sticks weren't going to let Caldera/SCO get away with any plundering.
Today, Novell's problem is making money with what they have, and I offer this merely to provide perspective and not absolution. As for Microsoft, they may have gotten the point that they are unable to kill Linux, so without closing the Plan A playbook, they've started plan B which is to establish a revenue stream for Linux use by customers.
Know one guy at work who tried it. Accurender wouldn't work and that was the deal breaker for him. He went out, got a Mac Pro, installed XP over Parallels and is very very happy. The Accurender folks told him that Vista breaks their app and they had no estimate on when their product would be compatible.
In my town, Los Angeles, there's a guy on the news station with a weekend show. It sounds like he's using Vista and week before last he was telling a computer newbie that rather than getting a Mac, as the newbie was leaning towards, Vista was the ticket as it's made great improvements toward being as easy to use as a Mac. (Yes, I know, "improvement towards" still sounds to me like not there yet.) After spending all fall telling the listeners that the safe way to try Vista was to get a neighbor to be a guinea pig, we don't hear that any more. (Perhaps the neighbor's machine needs more memory and a better video card, I suggest, snarkily.) I think that the host of the program likes Vista and he has it installed on one of his laptops.
Week before last, a bookkeeping person was calling into show looking for help about finding a usb numeric keypad that would work with Vista. Apparently that accessory lacks compatible drivers. Wasn't there a problem with USB storage that was the fundamental problem of iTunes and iPods on Vista? Did Vista bork USB and was there a compelling reason why? (I don't like Microsoft but no point in being unreasonable about it.)
Better example. Before the 2006 election Bush is asked about Rumsfeld and he said the S of D was his man to the end of time. After the election, it turned out that they were already choosing R's successor at the time of the statement. Ironically, if George W. had told the truth, the GOP might not have been skunked in November. Pretty sobering thought: these guys lie even when telling the truth is the politically expedient thing to do!
Near as I can tell, the management at the law firm knows that working hard doesn't matter, so I guess they're not working hard. If they want hard workers, it must be because the company needs the hard workers it doesn't have, so it.... must.... matter.... Thank God I'm not a computer on Star Trek, I would be lights out and smoking.
The State of California is a customer and, like you, has to right to choose what it buys based on measurements of price vs. performance. If California says it requires software for its bureaus that uses neutral file formats, then the expression of that requirement is no more legislating people out of business than a requirement that paint bought for state buildings meet minimum performance and environmntal standards. As California, the great state where I reside, is spending taxpayer money, there are occasional efforts towards ensuring that the money isn't being spent in stupid ways. (I shall not be reimbursing any one for keyboards lost while reading the prior sentence.)
Something I'm really curious about: where are the Microsoft shareholders on these questions. Why do they think that when large customers start to evolve different requirements, the proper response is to spend money on publicity, lobbying, and advocacy advertising and to play chicken with the customers, rather than evolving with the market?
During much, if not all, of the first five years of MTV, it was not a commercial success, in that advertising revenues did not defray costs. There were also other music video outlets, though the others were weekly programs (90 minutes late Friday nights on NBC) or three hour blocks on Friday and Saturday night (who had Night Flight, was that US Network?). At the time there was this concept of the world premiere video, which really meant that one channel would have it exclusively for a 6-13 week period (the effective life span of a hit). When MTV launched, i arrived at a time when US record companies did not consider making promotional videos, but the English bands and indie artists had been. For the Europeans, I hear that music videos (which were advertising) would play in movie theaters. For US indie artists, it was about mixing avant gard video art with music. Between the lack of videos for current US hits, exclusive deals which denied some hits to MTV when the songs were on the chart and the necessity to fill 24 hours, MTV was playing anything which meant English bands and avant garde (sort of) US artists. What happened was that the weird stuff, which had no prayer of getting of the radio, sold records. And sold records where the cable provider had MTV as a choice. Look up Barnes and Barnes Fish Heads. I also think that except for that cheesy video of the lead singer with the goofy haircut and one finger keyboard technique, there would have been no US hit for Flock of Seagulls' I Ran.
Something else about the first few years of MTV, though I don't have any way to judge whether this had any significance, there was no West Coast feed, so those of us in the Pacific time zone could watch the weirder and low rotation stuff at 10 and 11 at night.
About 1984, the exclusive world premiere deals had faded away; by not committing to 24 hours of video, the other network's programs had fallen by the wayside and MTV was the only game in town. The record companies, seeing proof that videos on MTV sell records, started trying to get their videos onto MTV (instead of trying to figure out how to get MTV to pay them for their videos) and a new generation of pop superstars were created by virtue of the way they wrote good pop hooks and had entertaining videos. Madonna, Michael Jackson, Van Halen, Bruce Springsteen all had breakout records in that time period and due to MTV.
Oh, as for cool bands: MTV was never about cool bands, except for fringe shows that had more personalized programming (though even those folks were, based on the videos I recall, picking the least objectionable from the list of allowed items.)
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Maybe Microsoft's problem with virtualization is that Microsoft is behind and so, and I don't where they learned this trick, they are using their licensing to slow down the market until they have things in place.
Aren't we hearing of data mining projects which are aimed towards taking internet postings and revealing identity? If you had billions of dollars in r&d, wouldn't you test something like this on vetting job applicants? No? Me, neither.
Easier:
sudo fink install whatever
There's also darwinports
sudo port install whatever
sudo port upgrade installed
I'm neither student nor teacher. I am a satisfied NeoOffice user and find it (and OO.o on Linux and Windows) more productive than Office.
Okay for the short term.
But isn't there a point within the next 60 months when they will have to fork and maintain their own GPL2 licensed versions of vi, gcc, emacs, grep, awk, bash, tar, etc.? If they can't afford a conference table of employees, where will that support come from? Will Microsoft do it?
So, the schematics are the object? The plans are the building? The sheet music is the performance?
I've seen guitar tabs and I've seen performances. (It sure seemed to me that the tabs weren't documenting every note in every bar, but 99% of the guitar tabs I've looked at were in magazines and hit the guitar part highlights.) I cannot hand a guitar tab to my non-guitar playing brother and expect to hear Clapton. For that matter, granted I'm better at playing by ear than sight reading and better at the latter than reading guitar tab, you won't hear Clapton if I'm looking at the guitar tab. One real reason is that showing the probable fret and the approximate moment the note started overlooks the specifics of phrasing, vibrato, talent and taste, let alone tone qualities created by amp settings and guitar set up.
Let's go with your supposedly closer analogue: so the in-theater video can be played at home on the video player. What device do you put the guitar tab into in order to hear the record? And even assuming you had a player-piano like guitar device, how do the parts for the other instruments in the recording, especially the non-fretted ones, get extrapolated?
You seem to be concerned with performance infringement. But, it's not the record companies (who hold the rights on the publications of the peformances) who are sending the nastygrams. It's being pursued by the music publishers, who hold rights acquired from the songwriters regarding uses of melody and lyric. If the guitar tab includes the lyrics or documents the melody, they have a point about it being an unlicensed derivative work. But a guitar tab that shows a solo or the counterpoint to the melody is a transcription of something that is unprotectable.
Guitar tabs aren't copying. It's a transcription and summary created by someone who knows the notation and can ascertain an approximation of what happened.
So what about Cliff's Notes? Outlines? Chord charts? Sentence diagrams? Sitting down and listening to the record over and over to figure out the lyric?
The record company has copyrighted the recording. The songwriter has copyrighted the melody and lyrics. The publisher has control over sheet music. Is the arrangement copyrightable? Nope. The 16 bar blues progression? Nope. How about whether the rhythm guitarist used open D tuning or played barre chords? Nope. Seems to me a map of fingering -- which may not be strictly correct -- is more like Cliff's notes than photocopying the sheet music, a clear infringement. I suppose the concept of derivative work may be applied and maybe this means the commercial exploitation of guitar tab formatted transcriptions would be infringement. Sounds pretty gray to this non-lawyer.
But these nastygrams are an aggressive expansion of copyright practice on behalf of the music publishers, who would prefer to get a share of nothing to having no share in something. Sounds like the legal department needed a reason to keep employed.
I'm working though learning Haskell as well. I started work on a sudoku game program and made some progress, but it was going to be command line only, the code looked a little long (and it wasn't near finished), and my algorithms seemed inefficient, so, I set the program aside to do some more woodshedding. Regarding inefficiency, since we were talking about 81 cells, this was okay, but, one technique for getting O(1) access to a cell would be using arrays and these seem to be a data structure of last resort.
Before I could start applying it to work issues, I would need to nail down how a program communicates with a database back end, draws and handles an mvc gui, and generates xml. I've found some libraries, but, to be honest, if someone asked me to do something on the clock, I'd have to go with java because I'm so much more facile with all the libraries for what I do.
Another real problem is that I'm just too used to thinking of state, and, in my layman mostly-ignorant way of thinking, it is side-effect state change that degrades the program's ability to parallelize cleanly.
Pardon a little Marxism, but the the states with the worst policies still have great policies for the ruling class. If you think people voting with their feet meant any thing to deep south white supremacists from 1890-1970, well, sorry, that's not how it went down.
And amnesty from what: a notation in the personnel file?
I'd suggest a correction: where you write
performer should be replaced by publisher. The degree to which the publisher will share these revenues with the performers will be governed by the terms of the contract between the publisher and performer. With the record labels' track record (performance royalties from ITMS sales are still netted a percentage for breakage) getting a taste of the SoundExchange revenues will occur only for the top hitmakers.Okay. Let's make the substitution:
It's widely adopted, that's true. But, if someone wants to learn what computer science issues are addressed by an operating system, do they crack open some NT code? Nope. Unix was then and is now the most important operating system: it provides a standard and it may be adapted into places where only the insane would put NT or its descendants.
It is responding to an observation with a hypothetical.
So if Windows market share decreased, it'd be safer to use? Let's get to work securing Windows.
I live in a Southern California district that will vote Democrat until that party get us into a stupid war. My Congress-critter is chair of a committee and doing real good work. He will support Hollywood on any request because they've been there for his fund-raising for years. Feinstein, our Senator, is co-sponsoring Hollywood-friendly copyright legislation as we speak. It's a problem, because sane copyright and patent laws do not fit into the liberal theology (though it should, it's up there with good public education and government support of the arts and sciences as ways to make it easier for the future to arrive.)
I earn my living using software, just as some people earn a living using the telephone. I kinda like it how real powerful stuff doesn't cost a lot of money, and every year it gets better. Frankly I'm every bit as concerned about how software developers will make their next dollar to the degree they're concerned about architects making their next dollar. Have you hired an AIA architect to redesign your kitchen, lately? What? You want architecture to disappear?
One summary of the article said they weren't going to be specific because then the patents would be challenged.
Hmmm.
Why would challenges be a problem?
Somebody has a vacation flight coming up and wants avoid any TSA entanglements.
The performance is measured against Microsoft's public predictions. The stock market punishes severely any company that underperforms the predictions, thus, there is a real incentive to understate expectations, if one can still show growth.
So, is Vista a failure if it causes more XP licenses to sell? Money is money, one may argue. I expect that Microsoft really thinks about targets for the cash cow products not in terms of revenue goals, but in terms of installed base goals. If we see Vista discount pricing, it may be to accelerate progress towards those goals. After all, there will come a day when a customer will not have the choice to buy a new copy of XP and the OEM XP licenses die with the OEM machine.
Novell's number one motivation for aggressively defending the slander of libel suit was to not cede the Unix copyrights (whatever those might be) to Caldera/SCO.
The copyrights had a value, Santa Cruz/SCO didn't have the scratch to pay, and so Novell didn't sell them. I suspect Novell bought SuSE to nail the point that whatever Unix ip had escaped (and it could be none) into Linux, Novell's Linux customers had a clear, unambiguous license to Linux. In other words, Novell had no interest -- in 2003/2004 -- to be the Tripoli Pirates to Linux, but they sure as h e double hockey sticks weren't going to let Caldera/SCO get away with any plundering.
Today, Novell's problem is making money with what they have, and I offer this merely to provide perspective and not absolution. As for Microsoft, they may have gotten the point that they are unable to kill Linux, so without closing the Plan A playbook, they've started plan B which is to establish a revenue stream for Linux use by customers.
Know one guy at work who tried it. Accurender wouldn't work and that was the deal breaker for him. He went out, got a Mac Pro, installed XP over Parallels and is very very happy. The Accurender folks told him that Vista breaks their app and they had no estimate on when their product would be compatible.
In my town, Los Angeles, there's a guy on the news station with a weekend show. It sounds like he's using Vista and week before last he was telling a computer newbie that rather than getting a Mac, as the newbie was leaning towards, Vista was the ticket as it's made great improvements toward being as easy to use as a Mac. (Yes, I know, "improvement towards" still sounds to me like not there yet.) After spending all fall telling the listeners that the safe way to try Vista was to get a neighbor to be a guinea pig, we don't hear that any more. (Perhaps the neighbor's machine needs more memory and a better video card, I suggest, snarkily.) I think that the host of the program likes Vista and he has it installed on one of his laptops.
Week before last, a bookkeeping person was calling into show looking for help about finding a usb numeric keypad that would work with Vista. Apparently that accessory lacks compatible drivers. Wasn't there a problem with USB storage that was the fundamental problem of iTunes and iPods on Vista? Did Vista bork USB and was there a compelling reason why? (I don't like Microsoft but no point in being unreasonable about it.)
Back to the point, I count 1-1/2 users.
Better example. Before the 2006 election Bush is asked about Rumsfeld and he said the S of D was his man to the end of time. After the election, it turned out that they were already choosing R's successor at the time of the statement. Ironically, if George W. had told the truth, the GOP might not have been skunked in November. Pretty sobering thought: these guys lie even when telling the truth is the politically expedient thing to do!
Near as I can tell, the management at the law firm knows that working hard doesn't matter, so I guess they're not working hard. If they want hard workers, it must be because the company needs the hard workers it doesn't have, so it.... must.... matter.... Thank God I'm not a computer on Star Trek, I would be lights out and smoking.
The State of California is a customer and, like you, has to right to choose what it buys based on measurements of price vs. performance. If California says it requires software for its bureaus that uses neutral file formats, then the expression of that requirement is no more legislating people out of business than a requirement that paint bought for state buildings meet minimum performance and environmntal standards. As California, the great state where I reside, is spending taxpayer money, there are occasional efforts towards ensuring that the money isn't being spent in stupid ways. (I shall not be reimbursing any one for keyboards lost while reading the prior sentence.)
Something I'm really curious about: where are the Microsoft shareholders on these questions. Why do they think that when large customers start to evolve different requirements, the proper response is to spend money on publicity, lobbying, and advocacy advertising and to play chicken with the customers, rather than evolving with the market?
During much, if not all, of the first five years of MTV, it was not a commercial success, in that advertising revenues did not defray costs. There were also other music video outlets, though the others were weekly programs (90 minutes late Friday nights on NBC) or three hour blocks on Friday and Saturday night (who had Night Flight, was that US Network?). At the time there was this concept of the world premiere video, which really meant that one channel would have it exclusively for a 6-13 week period (the effective life span of a hit). When MTV launched, i arrived at a time when US record companies did not consider making promotional videos, but the English bands and indie artists had been. For the Europeans, I hear that music videos (which were advertising) would play in movie theaters. For US indie artists, it was about mixing avant gard video art with music. Between the lack of videos for current US hits, exclusive deals which denied some hits to MTV when the songs were on the chart and the necessity to fill 24 hours, MTV was playing anything which meant English bands and avant garde (sort of) US artists. What happened was that the weird stuff, which had no prayer of getting of the radio, sold records. And sold records where the cable provider had MTV as a choice. Look up Barnes and Barnes Fish Heads. I also think that except for that cheesy video of the lead singer with the goofy haircut and one finger keyboard technique, there would have been no US hit for Flock of Seagulls' I Ran.
Something else about the first few years of MTV, though I don't have any way to judge whether this had any significance, there was no West Coast feed, so those of us in the Pacific time zone could watch the weirder and low rotation stuff at 10 and 11 at night.
About 1984, the exclusive world premiere deals had faded away; by not committing to 24 hours of video, the other network's programs had fallen by the wayside and MTV was the only game in town. The record companies, seeing proof that videos on MTV sell records, started trying to get their videos onto MTV (instead of trying to figure out how to get MTV to pay them for their videos) and a new generation of pop superstars were created by virtue of the way they wrote good pop hooks and had entertaining videos. Madonna, Michael Jackson, Van Halen, Bruce Springsteen all had breakout records in that time period and due to MTV.
Oh, as for cool bands: MTV was never about cool bands, except for fringe shows that had more personalized programming (though even those folks were, based on the videos I recall, picking the least objectionable from the list of allowed items.)
Also missing, from cursory glance, Haskell, Scheme and OCaml. I knew there was a reason I was working through the tutorials.