They're still missing the most important point of music sharing; one which most -- though not all -- of the *other* legal reboots of music sharing networks have also missed:
The long tail.
The thing that made Napster cool, and that makes Gnet and ED2K cool to this day, is this: not all the cool tracks belong to you. And to expand on what I mean there: I have 19 versions of the Star Spangled Banner in my collection. Not all of those were ever even released; some are rips from TV.
But in general, music sharing services were popular, in large part -- I strongly suspect -- with people who like music that's *way* off the beaten path; it's just not practical for commercial services to have a library that deep.
Kazaa is going to sign the entire Blue Note catalog? C'mon...
They're gonna have 'Existential Blues' by Tom 'T-Bone' Stenkus?
Well, that's pretty much Amazon's problem, now isn't it.
Look up First Sale Doctrine, but more importantly, Holder In Due Course. If you had no reason to believe the transaction was encumbered, then you're not liable for anything the seller did.
And a Reasonable Man wouldn't expect bad behaviour from Amazon...
It's *always* easier to get CAPEX money than OPEX money, so you budget the tape library into the buy. Unless it's too big. Or takes too long to fill...
I expected the "640k" replies... but different currencies is an excellent point. I *still* think that's a bit too many digits, but what *is* the convertible currency with the *smallest* value relative to the US dollar; anyone know offhand?
Assuming they've located tapes with the raw slowscan on them, they almost certainly used no cameras at all. They've likely set up a way to read the tape into a PC through a sound card, and sync to it, and then create something similar to an MJPEG file, which they can then post-process anyway they like with current tools.
That'd be my bet, anyway.
If they have digital data extracted from the SSTV original tapes, somehow, then bob's yer uncle.
Is that this is pretty close to the only video tape we're *going* to see:
if any of the networks are planning anything for the anniversary, they're doing an exceptional job keeping it under wraps.
Damnit; I wish Uncle Walter wasn't sick. He'd just show up and say "let's go", and who at CBS is gonna tell him "No"? They'll just assign him a camera crew and buy him plane tickets.
Legally, your keys are not "lost", they are "mislaid".
Things which are lost can become the property of a finder; things which are merely mislaid cannot. The difference is *whether they pass out of your personal control knowingly or not*. If you put your keys down, and can't remember where, or don't remember to take them, you've mislaid them. If they fall out of your pocket, they're lost.
A good example of this: if you find an iPod in a train seat, you can probably make a case for keeping it, legally. If you find it on a restaurant table, the odds are much lower.
(If you think I'm a lawyer, you and Slashdot deserve one another.)
Cause the most prominent argument regularly put forth as to why weather control is bad is:
Do *you* want to be the one who causes lots of insurance companies to have to pay out because someone can make a reasonable case that where the hurricane landed was no longer an Act Of God?
And in any event, those are mediocre reasons not to use it as an *identifier*, but air-tight reasons not to use it for what is actually the problem.... read on down the comments.;-)
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Wow. You fail to listen *very* well. I suspect clinical problems.
Once more with feeling: they *didn't reject his app*.
They *released* his app.
It was his *bug fix update* they screwed around with.
I've kept to short sentences, to avoid reading comprehension problems.
They're still missing the most important point of music sharing; one which most -- though not all -- of the *other* legal reboots of music sharing networks have also missed:
The long tail.
The thing that made Napster cool, and that makes Gnet and ED2K cool to this day, is this: not all the cool tracks belong to you. And to expand on what I mean there: I have 19 versions of the Star Spangled Banner in my collection. Not all of those were ever even released; some are rips from TV.
But in general, music sharing services were popular, in large part -- I strongly suspect -- with people who like music that's *way* off the beaten path; it's just not practical for commercial services to have a library that deep.
Kazaa is going to sign the entire Blue Note catalog? C'mon...
They're gonna have 'Existential Blues' by Tom 'T-Bone' Stenkus?
I don't think so.
But *someone* does...
mplayer -vo aa
And now we know why he didn't.
<sigh>
...to do it again:
http://www.informationweek.com/news/personal_tech/drm/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=218501227
Well, that's pretty much Amazon's problem, now isn't it.
Look up First Sale Doctrine, but more importantly, Holder In Due Course. If you had no reason to believe the transaction was encumbered, then you're not liable for anything the seller did.
And a Reasonable Man wouldn't expect bad behaviour from Amazon...
I don't know, and *you don't either*.
I'm sure movie producers everywhere are pleased to hear this.
"Damnit, Eddie, that version of nmap is out of date!"
Yeah...
and that story's my fault. I bought what the UK tabloid was smoking, and didn't fact check it first.
How I *could* have fact-checked it, will remain undiscussed...
It's *always* easier to get CAPEX money than OPEX money, so you budget the tape library into the buy. Unless it's too big. Or takes too long to fill...
The Soviets *never accused us of NOT having landed men on the moon*.
Would they not have, if there was any way at all they could prove it?
(This is my favorite argument here, which I stole from some other poster on the earlier thread...)
I expected the "640k" replies... but different currencies is an excellent point. I *still* think that's a bit too many digits, but what *is* the convertible currency with the *smallest* value relative to the US dollar; anyone know offhand?
*My* question, though, is this:
Why do Visa's systems have the bandwitdh to *allow* 23 quadrillion dollars to make it to a credit card bill.
Is there anyone, at all, anywhere, who's gonna carry a balance of even a megabuck?
6.2, really. That's all they needed.
400 ton, and they did it with water, not glycol?
Can you talk a little more about the decisions between those 2?
*No one* has made any jokes about Otzi taking it up the ass...
She's a guy now?
Assuming they've located tapes with the raw slowscan on them, they almost certainly used no cameras at all. They've likely set up a way to read the tape into a PC through a sound card, and sync to it, and then create something similar to an MJPEG file, which they can then post-process anyway they like with current tools.
That'd be my bet, anyway.
If they have digital data extracted from the SSTV original tapes, somehow, then bob's yer uncle.
Is that this is pretty close to the only video tape we're *going* to see:
if any of the networks are planning anything for the anniversary, they're doing an exceptional job keeping it under wraps.
Damnit; I wish Uncle Walter wasn't sick. He'd just show up and say "let's go", and who at CBS is gonna tell him "No"? They'll just assign him a camera crew and buy him plane tickets.
Legally, your keys are not "lost", they are "mislaid".
Things which are lost can become the property of a finder; things which are merely mislaid cannot. The difference is *whether they pass out of your personal control knowingly or not*. If you put your keys down, and can't remember where, or don't remember to take them, you've mislaid them. If they fall out of your pocket, they're lost.
A good example of this: if you find an iPod in a train seat, you can probably make a case for keeping it, legally. If you find it on a restaurant table, the odds are much lower.
(If you think I'm a lawyer, you and Slashdot deserve one another.)
I'm pretty sure the only winning move is not to play...
And, Bush aside, that's "nuc-le-ar".
Cause the most prominent argument regularly put forth as to why weather control is bad is:
Do *you* want to be the one who causes lots of insurance companies to have to pay out because someone can make a reasonable case that where the hurricane landed was no longer an Act Of God?
Gates is used to playing God.
"Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it. Poorly." Henry Spencer at UTzoo
President Jimmy Carter.
Nuclear attack evac test.
Lots of embarassed people.
It is *epically* difficult to get and keep true physical diversity.
And in any event, those are mediocre reasons not to use it as an *identifier*, but air-tight reasons not to use it for what is actually the problem.... read on down the comments. ;-)
No, you write "supplied on hire", and then you write it on the W-4.