"Weird Al" seeks permission because he does not wish to offend the original artist. The courts have supported that parodies are legal, but you must recreate the original and you must still pay royalties to the copyright holder.
You cannot use the original's recording without permission even if it's a parody.
With these rules in mind, pennyarcade.com was totally legal to have what they posted.
However, they probably cannot afford the legal fees if American Greetings Corp (with their deep pockets) chooses to drag them through a year or two of legal b.s.
In this country, justice is for those who can afford it...or those who can find a good lawyer pro bono.
That's a funny concept, given that Universal dropped their DVD-Audio production because they didn't feel that the DVD-A format had enough DRM protection.
It depends on the drive, but there are two parts to the Pioneer firmware: kernel & general
What firmware updater you can apply depends upon what kernel your drive was most recently installed with. If you can get the kernel installer from Apple, you can make the drive look like an Apple-supplied unit and Apple's OS X firmware updaters will work for you. If not, you could always find a way to install the non-Apple firmware parts into Apple's firmware updater package, right?
Just like "Iron Giant" failed at the box office? Oh, wait. You mean, that failures at the box office are somehow linked to a lack of advertising and publicity?
If Disney actually pushes "Spirited Away" it'll do just fine at the box office.
I had to travel 45 minutes away from my home to find a theatre showing it back in October. More theatres and a bit of publicity can do wonders.
Does this guy ever stop coming up with Apple rumors? I remember when he used to write the back page article for MacUser magazine. He always ranted and raved about something. Then, he became a Windoze pundit and started up with the "Apple is going out of business! Here's why!" bullshit.
He's gotta be one of the most punditlicious journalists out there. Maybe we outta start calling him Vroomfondel or Majikthise.
For a beta that's really alpha or dev (I thought the definition of beta was "All features in, bug fixes only"), I don't really understand why only certain "beta" releases are acceptable for the general public to use.
Either it's a public "beta" or it's not. Which is it?
If this war was about Iraqi civilians, that would be a different story. This war is about power and money.
Bush has continually ignored and/or downplayed resistance to his war machine using the concept of "I must defend you from the menace to freedom, Saddam Hussein."
If Hussein had any real method of retaliation at the US (WMDs), Bush would not be pulling this action.
Second, there is the money part. Iraq has recently begun to trade oil with Europe in Euros instead of Dollars. This devalues the Dollar greatly and makes our economy slow further.
And let's not forget that Halliburton has been awarded the contract to clean up the burning oil fields afterwards. Let's not fool ourselves and think that our dear VP doesn't get any kickback from that.
I can see the target market. I am awaiting a very similar box from Planar today, which takes a composite video or S-Video signal and converts it to VGA. Unfortunately, the Video-Ex only reaches 1024x768, but it's only $100.
What's the point? Well, I work in Post Production Audio for films and I've replaced all the noisy, heat-generating, power-sucking CRTs from my studio and replaced them with 17" LCDs. But, the LCDs on the market that allow a video source are not nearly as nice as the Planar PL171M displays I just bought and are generally more expensive. So, I opted for the Video-Ex and will be using a third Planar PL171M for my video playback.
I would have bought the ViewSonic had the price been more reasonable.
It is unfortunate, but this concept was stolen by Clear Channel after they met with Get the Show, a group whom I was in discussions with about peforming the actual recordings. VERY sad indeed.
For a world-class studio-produced album, the costs are going to be much higher than for a smaller studio recording.
To give an idea, a world-class studio (which would have 24-track 2" recording and million-dollar consoles) is generally $1200-1900/day + an engineer and a second. Depending on the engineer, it could be between $500/day and $5000/day. A second is generally going to be between $250/day and $500/day.
An album produced this way generally costs around $150,000 to complete, including the mastering and media and all parts.
Then there are smaller facilities which will produce an excellent quality album at a fraction of the cost. Of course, they might have a Trident console instead of a classic Neve 8068 or an SSL 9000 J. Generally speaking, an album produced in this manner would amount to $10,000-$20,000.
And then, there are home studios (not of the low-end project/hobby grade) that can also produce an excellent album and $10,000 or below.
Basically, the lower-cost facilities (or the lower-cost recordings) rely in the artist being "with-it" enough to get their job done in a reasonably quick timeframe.
A small facility can cost just as much as a world-class if the artist wastes lots of time.
The way the music industry works, basically, is they sign an artist and give them $150,000 to make an album. The artist can then choose how to record their album. The label's only requirement is that they get a high-quality multi-track master, a stereo master, and often nowadays, a multi-channel master.
The artist has the option of how to spend that $150k. They can spend it on a world-class facility (which is what most artists do) or they can build themselves a studio and do it themselves (and hire a good engineer).
The more intelligent artists build a facility and consider the first album's cost-of-production a loss. Then, if they're lucky enough to get a second album, the can pocket the next $150k and hire a good engineer.
The nice thing about the second option is that even if they don't get to do another album for the label, they keep the studio and can make whatever they want, whenever they want!
And you can make a pretty damn good studio for $150k.
I used to attend COMDEX, but it became a waste of time. From a professional standpoint, COMDEX is now 100% consumer, with such a neglible amount of professional exhibitors that I couldn't justify the cost of the plane ticket.
This came to my attention when I last attended. I needed to talk to Oracle for a Dot.Bomb I was working for. It took me 2 days to find them! They had hidden themselves above the exhibition floor in a spot you'd never guess had any product exhibitors in! And, when we went up there to discuss their expensive products, they ran us through a series of tests to make sure we were really interested in their products, not just some average consumer stopping at every booth.
After seeing how Fox destroyed my favorite series with that attrocious movie in 1996 (starring Paul McGann), I suppose the BBC won't do worse.
Still, I hope they don't kill it with high production values and lots of orchestrated scores. Perhaps they'll be smart enough to hire the same composers who worked at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop back in the 70's, or, failing that, get Wendy Carlos to use her Moog goodness!
Part of the great thing about Doctor Who is how innovative the production designers were without having a budget to support them properly.
While the scripts are key, and Douglas Adams' have proved to be particularly good (i.e. "The Pirate Planet" is classic Adams), the cheesy production values are still key.
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"Weird Al" seeks permission because he does not wish to offend the original artist. The courts have supported that parodies are legal, but you must recreate the original and you must still pay royalties to the copyright holder.
You cannot use the original's recording without permission even if it's a parody.
With these rules in mind, pennyarcade.com was totally legal to have what they posted.
However, they probably cannot afford the legal fees if American Greetings Corp (with their deep pockets) chooses to drag them through a year or two of legal b.s.
In this country, justice is for those who can afford it...or those who can find a good lawyer pro bono.
That's a funny concept, given that Universal dropped their DVD-Audio production because they didn't feel that the DVD-A format had enough DRM protection.
It depends on the drive, but there are two parts to the Pioneer firmware: kernel & general
What firmware updater you can apply depends upon what kernel your drive was most recently installed with. If you can get the kernel installer from Apple, you can make the drive look like an Apple-supplied unit and Apple's OS X firmware updaters will work for you. If not, you could always find a way to install the non-Apple firmware parts into Apple's firmware updater package, right?
Bare Bones has been doing this for years, which is why I knew to look in the first place.
Last year, they announced the Personal Analog Device (PAD). 2001, I can't recall and it isn't online anymore. In 2000, BB stated that they'd bought Fenway Park. Lime iMacs run BBEdit faster, according to the 1999 Press Release! 1998 saw the announcement of BB's first hardware, the Text Accelerator Component Kit (TACK) Board for PCI.
I've got a lot of respect for a company with a history for joking around.
Just like "Iron Giant" failed at the box office? Oh, wait. You mean, that failures at the box office are somehow linked to a lack of advertising and publicity?
If Disney actually pushes "Spirited Away" it'll do just fine at the box office.
I had to travel 45 minutes away from my home to find a theatre showing it back in October. More theatres and a bit of publicity can do wonders.
Does this guy ever stop coming up with Apple rumors? I remember when he used to write the back page article for MacUser magazine. He always ranted and raved about something. Then, he became a Windoze pundit and started up with the "Apple is going out of business! Here's why!" bullshit.
He's gotta be one of the most punditlicious journalists out there. Maybe we outta start calling him Vroomfondel or Majikthise.
For a beta that's really alpha or dev (I thought the definition of beta was "All features in, bug fixes only"), I don't really understand why only certain "beta" releases are acceptable for the general public to use.
Either it's a public "beta" or it's not. Which is it?
And when N. Korea pulls out of the armistice as a result of Bush pre-emptively attacking Iraq, we'll be on three fronts.
And that will bring on the rest of the world, since N. Korea has a nuclear weapon.
Like I said before, is everyone ready for WW III?
If this war was about Iraqi civilians, that would be a different story. This war is about power and money.
Bush has continually ignored and/or downplayed resistance to his war machine using the concept of "I must defend you from the menace to freedom, Saddam Hussein."
If Hussein had any real method of retaliation at the US (WMDs), Bush would not be pulling this action.
Second, there is the money part. Iraq has recently begun to trade oil with Europe in Euros instead of Dollars. This devalues the Dollar greatly and makes our economy slow further.
And let's not forget that Halliburton has been awarded the contract to clean up the burning oil fields afterwards. Let's not fool ourselves and think that our dear VP doesn't get any kickback from that.
It was "Blitzkrieg" or "The Lightning War".
Long live Hitler, Jr. It was about time to start WW III anyhow.
I can see the target market. I am awaiting a very similar box from Planar today, which takes a composite video or S-Video signal and converts it to VGA. Unfortunately, the Video-Ex only reaches 1024x768, but it's only $100.
What's the point? Well, I work in Post Production Audio for films and I've replaced all the noisy, heat-generating, power-sucking CRTs from my studio and replaced them with 17" LCDs. But, the LCDs on the market that allow a video source are not nearly as nice as the Planar PL171M displays I just bought and are generally more expensive. So, I opted for the Video-Ex and will be using a third Planar PL171M for my video playback.
I would have bought the ViewSonic had the price been more reasonable.
I want SushiPlot for OS X. C'mon, MacHackers!!!
and I have an entire site devoted to other people with the same names.
It's certainly been an interesting thing to watch!
It is unfortunate, but this concept was stolen by Clear Channel after they met with Get the Show, a group whom I was in discussions with about peforming the actual recordings. VERY sad indeed.
For a world-class studio-produced album, the costs are going to be much higher than for a smaller studio recording.
To give an idea, a world-class studio (which would have 24-track 2" recording and million-dollar consoles) is generally $1200-1900/day + an engineer and a second. Depending on the engineer, it could be between $500/day and $5000/day. A second is generally going to be between $250/day and $500/day.
An album produced this way generally costs around $150,000 to complete, including the mastering and media and all parts.
Then there are smaller facilities which will produce an excellent quality album at a fraction of the cost. Of course, they might have a Trident console instead of a classic Neve 8068 or an SSL 9000 J. Generally speaking, an album produced in this manner would amount to $10,000-$20,000.
And then, there are home studios (not of the low-end project/hobby grade) that can also produce an excellent album and $10,000 or below.
Basically, the lower-cost facilities (or the lower-cost recordings) rely in the artist being "with-it" enough to get their job done in a reasonably quick timeframe.
A small facility can cost just as much as a world-class if the artist wastes lots of time.
The way the music industry works, basically, is they sign an artist and give them $150,000 to make an album. The artist can then choose how to record their album. The label's only requirement is that they get a high-quality multi-track master, a stereo master, and often nowadays, a multi-channel master.
The artist has the option of how to spend that $150k. They can spend it on a world-class facility (which is what most artists do) or they can build themselves a studio and do it themselves (and hire a good engineer).
The more intelligent artists build a facility and consider the first album's cost-of-production a loss. Then, if they're lucky enough to get a second album, the can pocket the next $150k and hire a good engineer.
The nice thing about the second option is that even if they don't get to do another album for the label, they keep the studio and can make whatever they want, whenever they want!
And you can make a pretty damn good studio for $150k.
Since no one answered my question, I'll do it. Yes, the software really does exist and it did, in fact, work under both Win 98 and Linux!
verrrrrrrry eeeeeenteresting!
I tried to D/L both the code and binary, but neither link worked (probably because Tripod generally SUCKS).
/. that claim to have USED the program.
Has anyone found a mirror? Or does this application actually exist? I haven't found any posts here on
Anyone? Bueller?
All of these things are correct. I was going for "Funny", not "Insightful"!
Better luck next time.
Tony Hawk is a musican?
I've got a slew of Mac Plusses with Steve Jobs' signature engraved inside and it didn't cost me $50 on top of the original $4000.
Hmm..lemme just type my information into this form and push "Submit".
Hmm...I wonder why I just got 34 new emails. Oh, wait. It's all spam. Shit. I think I just got added to another list. Fuck!
I used to attend COMDEX, but it became a waste of time. From a professional standpoint, COMDEX is now 100% consumer, with such a neglible amount of professional exhibitors that I couldn't justify the cost of the plane ticket.
This came to my attention when I last attended. I needed to talk to Oracle for a Dot.Bomb I was working for. It took me 2 days to find them! They had hidden themselves above the exhibition floor in a spot you'd never guess had any product exhibitors in! And, when we went up there to discuss their expensive products, they ran us through a series of tests to make sure we were really interested in their products, not just some average consumer stopping at every booth.
What a waste of time!
Perhaps this would be an adventageous method for Disney to permanenty extend the copyright on their Rat. Better not let them know.
After seeing how Fox destroyed my favorite series with that attrocious movie in 1996 (starring Paul McGann), I suppose the BBC won't do worse.
Still, I hope they don't kill it with high production values and lots of orchestrated scores. Perhaps they'll be smart enough to hire the same composers who worked at the BBC Radiophonic Workshop back in the 70's, or, failing that, get Wendy Carlos to use her Moog goodness!
Part of the great thing about Doctor Who is how innovative the production designers were without having a budget to support them properly.
While the scripts are key, and Douglas Adams' have proved to be particularly good (i.e. "The Pirate Planet" is classic Adams), the cheesy production values are still key.
Please, BBC, don't let us down!
Next thing you know, this guy's gonna slip into the dregs of society and start smoking pot, which of course leads directly to heroin.