The composer (not the recording "artist") receives payment when a song is played on the radio. If you remember, this caused a lot of complaining when the Librarian of Congress set the rates for webcast radio, since web radio stations don't have any money to spend.
alost all greatest hits/compilation albums now feature a couple bonus songs that you can't find elsewhere (studio outtakes, singles that never made it onto a full album, live versions, etc.) And of course, there are movie soundtracks where you're only interested in one band. It's also common to see remastered re-releases of classic 60s/70s/80s albums that contain outtakes and demos that weren't originally available.
Here's a couple examples:
Michael Jackson: Almost all of his previous albums have been re-released with extra tracks. I think his new #1s CD and HIStory had a couple songs that can't be found elsewhere.
Tom Petty + Heartbreakers: Greatest hits CD containst 2 new songs (Last Dance with Mary Jane, and Something in the Air).
Nirvana: Post-mortem "Nirvana" CD features 2 new tracks - You know you're right, and a remix of Penny Royal Tea.
Elvis: 2nd To None features unrelaeased track "Rubberneckin"
Bob Dylan: Greatest hits #1 features 1 single no longer available. Greatest hits #2 features 6 songs unavailable elsewhere. Greatest Hits #3 has 1. The Essential Bob Dylan has 1 new song. Biograph has 1 disc of new music, 2 discs of greatest hits.
Kernel: Linux2.6
Processor: 4-way iTanium
Distribution: gentoo
Video Card: None
Experience: Downloaded the driver. Realized I don't have a video card on the computer since I use it in a production environment to do DNS. Spent half an hour trying to pull ungreased yoda doll out of my ass (don't ask).
I'd never buy a full CD from one of these places. However, for individual songs, they're great.
For example, if I'm a Nirvana fan, I have all their albums. Then they release a "greatest hits" CD with 10 songs I already have, and 2 new ones. Spend $15 for stuff I already have, -- or -- $2 for the ones I don't have. It's a no-brainer.
I'd add a second point to that. Joe Plumber doesn't get paid everytime you take a shit in the toilet he installed.
If the band writes their own songs, they can get a nice chunk of change everytime it's played on the radio, or sold on CD. If they didn't write their own songs, they are a commodity. With today's technology (boob jobs, nose jobs, as well as pitch shifting and overdubbing), anyone could sound and look like the next one-hit wonder.
Session musicians almost never recieve residuals. They get paid to show up, play, and go home. Should some of these bands/artists be treated any different?
iTMS/MP4 files can be authorized to play on 3 computers. Or Rather 3 computers can be authorized to play them. I suspect the DRM is tied to your iTMS id (email + password). Not that I know -- I've only played them on one computer.
In a previous slashdot story, someone mentioned he had a computer stolen, or broken, or such, and an email to Apple got that computer unauthorized.
DMCA allows for header files and constants and such for compatbility purposes.
DMCA don't mean shit, here, though. It's all about POSIX (and the C-standards for ctype.h). POSIX lists the posix-compatable system calls, return types, and constant declarations.
why Intel and AMD do not use this technology to build those 3times faster CPUs?
They do. MMX, SSE, etc. do parallel math operations. Except for the intel compiler, you need to specifically write code yourself (in asm or gcc's psuedo-high level front end). And most general-purpose computing doesn't deal in math that can be optimized by it.
you must have missed the story about the magnetic north/south flipping.
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The bodies of three people have been found in a public toilet in Holland, Michigan.
Police were called to the premises on South Orchard street, by a cleaner who arrived for work at 8:00 AM on Saturday.
She raised the alarm after spotting what she thought was one body, though police later found the bodies of two men and a woman. They have been identified as Rob Malda, his wife Kathleen (Fent) Malda, and their homo-erotic lover, Jeff Bates.
Detectives have cordoned off the area while they investigate but say there is a strong possibility the deaths are sexaul related. "The girl was wearing a strap-on, and the other two may have been anally inserting gerbils," stated Detective Dick Hertz.
A spokeswoman said: "The door to the toilets was locked. The fire department attended and using their ladders they got into the toilet and confirmed no signs of life on any of the three."
Detectives say they are still keeping an "open mind" about how the three died.
But Holland Police have issued a warning to homosexuals to beware of a heavyset man known only as "Cowboy Neil." "We don't know if he was involved, but er believe he may be able to provide more details," said Hurtz.
maybe you don't realize it, but USAns have a fundamental right to associate with whom we would like to associate with. Conversely, we have a right to *not* socialize with those whome we don't wish to.
For example, the gov't doesn't pick a bride for you and force you to marry. (although that may be the only way most slashdot readers have a fighting chance at getting laid). The Boyscouts are designed as an association of boys. Simile the Girlscouts.
Surely you wouldn't tell the boyscouts that they must accept a 40 year old woman into their ranks? And surely you wouldn't make the girlscouts accept male members (no pun intended!). And while you might like to tell Heidi Klum to marry you, you probably don't want someone else telling you whom to marry.
Yet you somehow find a society devoted to black homosexuality offensive.
Since you accept the premise of freedom of association and congregation, you must be a racist, or a homophobe.
Even if they did use the approach that "we noticed this illegal file going to his IP address" they would need to prove that you were the one willfully hosting and distributing the file, not your neighbor in apt 44b.
The RIAA has a habit of filing lawsuits against the elderly and 12 year-old girls first and asking questions later. Unless your bandwidth-borrowing neighbor plans on paying your legal bills, that doesn't help much.
Did you catch the irony? He thinks he has a first amendment right to be obscene, but doesn't think anyone has a 2nd amendment right to bear arms.
Walmart happens to be raised in the south. The south is more conservative than other areas, and has a strong ruralness. Hence the HUNTING rifles and shotguns.
I live within 10 minutes of 4 stores that sell nothing but CDs/DVDs. Plus a Borders', Barnes + Noble, Circuit City, KMart, and Best Buy. I've never bought a CD at walmart. Far too many mouth-breathing missing-links, not to mention kids crying and fat dopey welfare housewives/baby factories.
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The composer (not the recording "artist") receives payment when a song is played on the radio. If you remember, this caused a lot of complaining when the Librarian of Congress set the rates for webcast radio, since web radio stations don't have any money to spend.
CmdrTaco's gently-used sex-toy emporium.
Having read half a dozen of his books, I'd agree with the publishers that turned him down.
Yes, he's popular, but so are Windows 98 and Brittany Spears, and soap operas.
Now fuck off you capitalist pig.
check slashcode for the database table/column layouts. You'll probably gag. I'm surprised slashdot manages to work as well as it does!
Here's a couple examples:
I hope that makes enough sense to you.
Kernel: Linux2.6
Processor: 4-way iTanium
Distribution: gentoo
Video Card: None
Experience: Downloaded the driver. Realized I don't have a video card on the computer since I use it in a production environment to do DNS. Spent half an hour trying to pull ungreased yoda doll out of my ass (don't ask).
For example, if I'm a Nirvana fan, I have all their albums. Then they release a "greatest hits" CD with 10 songs I already have, and 2 new ones. Spend $15 for stuff I already have, -- or -- $2 for the ones I don't have. It's a no-brainer.
If the band writes their own songs, they can get a nice chunk of change everytime it's played on the radio, or sold on CD. If they didn't write their own songs, they are a commodity. With today's technology (boob jobs, nose jobs, as well as pitch shifting and overdubbing), anyone could sound and look like the next one-hit wonder.
Session musicians almost never recieve residuals. They get paid to show up, play, and go home. Should some of these bands/artists be treated any different?
In a previous slashdot story, someone mentioned he had a computer stolen, or broken, or such, and an email to Apple got that computer unauthorized.
They *do* enable recognition of some builtin mmx/sse functions (which are front ends for the asm instructions of the same name).
See here for the mmx header.
DMCA don't mean shit, here, though. It's all about POSIX (and the C-standards for ctype.h). POSIX lists the posix-compatable system calls, return types, and constant declarations.
They do. MMX, SSE, etc. do parallel math operations. Except for the intel compiler, you need to specifically write code yourself (in asm or gcc's psuedo-high level front end). And most general-purpose computing doesn't deal in math that can be optimized by it.
you must have missed the story about the magnetic north/south flipping.
The bodies of three people have been found in a public toilet in Holland, Michigan.
Police were called to the premises on South Orchard street, by a cleaner who arrived for work at 8:00 AM on Saturday.
She raised the alarm after spotting what she thought was one body, though police later found the bodies of two men and a woman. They have been identified as Rob Malda, his wife Kathleen (Fent) Malda, and their homo-erotic lover, Jeff Bates.
Detectives have cordoned off the area while they investigate but say there is a strong possibility the deaths are sexaul related. "The girl was wearing a strap-on, and the other two may have been anally inserting gerbils," stated Detective Dick Hertz.
A spokeswoman said: "The door to the toilets was locked. The fire department attended and using their ladders they got into the toilet and confirmed no signs of life on any of the three."
Detectives say they are still keeping an "open mind" about how the three died.
But Holland Police have issued a warning to homosexuals to beware of a heavyset man known only as "Cowboy Neil." "We don't know if he was involved, but er believe he may be able to provide more details," said Hurtz.
For example, the gov't doesn't pick a bride for you and force you to marry. (although that may be the only way most slashdot readers have a fighting chance at getting laid). The Boyscouts are designed as an association of boys. Simile the Girlscouts.
Surely you wouldn't tell the boyscouts that they must accept a 40 year old woman into their ranks? And surely you wouldn't make the girlscouts accept male members (no pun intended!). And while you might like to tell Heidi Klum to marry you, you probably don't want someone else telling you whom to marry.
Yet you somehow find a society devoted to black homosexuality offensive.
Since you accept the premise of freedom of association and congregation, you must be a racist, or a homophobe.
if there's grass on the field, you can play ball
I'm pretty sure sexual preference can be associated with sticking your cock up another man's asshole, too.
The RIAA has a habit of filing lawsuits against the elderly and 12 year-old girls first and asking questions later. Unless your bandwidth-borrowing neighbor plans on paying your legal bills, that doesn't help much.
slashdot also has 8 letters.
And the buick 88, what about that?
What about Ike Turner's 'Rocket 88'?
What about you scavenger87 (725098)?!?!!??!
Did you catch the irony? He thinks he has a first amendment right to be obscene, but doesn't think anyone has a 2nd amendment right to bear arms.
Walmart happens to be raised in the south. The south is more conservative than other areas, and has a strong ruralness. Hence the HUNTING rifles and shotguns.
I live within 10 minutes of 4 stores that sell nothing but CDs/DVDs. Plus a Borders', Barnes + Noble, Circuit City, KMart, and Best Buy. I've never bought a CD at walmart. Far too many mouth-breathing missing-links, not to mention kids crying and fat dopey welfare housewives/baby factories.