The orchestra's copyright is subject to the same kind of agreement as any other band's. I see no reason why an orchestra should not be able to reclaim its work just as much as the Eagles.
Actually, this is a situation I'd quite like to see. There are quite a few very fine musicians who sell their music directly (OK, here's a good example: Jacob Heringman) who apparently seem to survive. I wouldn't be heartbroken if the big recording labels lost a few dollars of revenue. If their investment in recording and marketing hasn't paid off in 30 years, then too bad. They have had a ride on the musician's back for long enough, and the time has come when they're just going to have to re-evaluate their business model as independent recording and production becomes more affordable.
My first thought was "Apple patents products that nobody will buy.
Down the page in TFA, there's this interesting little snippet:
Mr. Jobs is directly connected to this particular patent application: his name is the first listed of the five inventors. This is a rarity, occurring only four times among the 30 applications on which he is co-inventor that have been published by the patent office since March 2008.
I hope Jobs has other things in mind than attempting to actually use this "feature".
I doubt if the argument about emergency calls would work, since Skype and most of the other VOIP clients tend to explicitly claim their product isn't a full telephony replacement for that purpose. I don't know if that's ever been tested. Does anybody else?
they can finally sell their shiny, highly satisfying experience to everyone, not just the elite.
They could try. If I bought a device only to find it was using bandwidth I pay for to push ads at me, I would be back at the store demanding a return and refund.
Apple should learn that that kind of advertising doesn't work. Just like those "hover ads" that sit there obstructing content on a web-page until you click them. Whenever I come across one of these, I always leave the web-page and make damn sure I block the site in my hosts file. That kind of in-your-face advertising is offensive, and I will never reward the perpetrator by clicking on it.
There just doesn't seem to be a one-size-fits-all recipe for solving this problem, other than buying only hardware that's known to be Linux-compatible.
Years ago (after my escapades with the cheapie components I mentioned before) I adopted that policy, and it served me well. But in the last 5 years or so I haven't bothered, except for avoiding no-name components. No, I wasn't jerking your chain, I just have a different perspective.
That may well be true - however, the fact of the matter is that most of my hardware has problems functioning under Linux.
Hmmm. Apart from patchy support of phones (this tends to be flaky even on Windows), I have had precisely two pieces of hardware that failed to work properly with Linux in 14 years.
One was a parallel-port Umax scanner, and the other was a cheapie on-board SiS graphics chipset that never gave me anything better than 16-bit colour. I ran into both of those issues well over 10 years ago, and the kernel has come a long way since. My impression was that you have to try fairly hard these days to find hardware that doesn't work with Linux, especially if you stay away from no-name brands.
The person you are replying to here is also apparently unaware that teachers often (i.e. usually) do not have sufficient time allocated during school hours to produce lesson plans. Their time is taken up with marking and other activities.
So if they produce lesson plans and resources on their own time, there's no question of anybody being robbed. It's the teacher's own work, and s/he has the right to use or profit from it has s/he sees fit.
Doesn't zsh work pretty much the same on Windows these day?
I really have no idea how or whether it works on Windows. Logically, I suppose, it should work the same wherever it's installed. I was merely observing that it is agreeable that a company as committed to the GUI as Apple should provide zsh by default with their OS.
Seriously, these specific users you talk about don't find Mac's GUI immediately "easy and intuitive" nor the underlying "Unix system" "rock-solid stable" nor do they even know. These are things Mac fanboys like to say, however.
Maybe I'm not part of Apple's target market - since I use a MacBook I inherited from my wife when she upgraded - but I like Apple for many of the same reasons I like Linux (or BSD for that matter). The convenience of being able to bust out a zsh shell counts for a lot when performing operations that are actually quicker and simpler when performed from the command-line than with a GUI. I was actually somewhat (pleasantly) surprised to find that OS X in fact comes with zsh "out of the box". I had figured this would be considered an unnecessary detail on a Mac, but obviously not.
Apart from that, life with Apple is a trade-off between having everything "just work" and having an inflexible GUI of Apple's choice rather than my own.
Nowadays (having emigrated to OS X) my taste in Linux lies with Ubuntu, for the sole reason that it's easy and fast to use in a VM. Gentoo requires too much upkeep for that.
You might be interested to try Arch Linux then. Just like Slackware in its simplicity, but with a more comprehensive package system.
Gnome 2, in contrast, seems to actively get worse with each passing release... Everything else is worse.
I've been primarily a Gnome user since version 1.0, although I am not blind or indifferent to the more egregious feats of craniorectal asshattery perpretrated by some of the Gnome developers over the last decade. But I would contend that on the whole, the current release is a pretty cool and froody offering.
I was wondering the same thing. Maybe this company has managed to comercialise some aspect of mammalian cell culture, but the technology has been around for decades now. The principles aren't exactly hard to grasp; it was pretty much expected that by the 3rd year of my degree in biotechnology we should all have a solid understanding of this.
However, introducing cells thus cultured in vitro to a living patient is probably the more difficult part, and I'm not entirely sure that much has changed in this regard, since there are lots of hoops that need to be jumped through before implantation techniques become accepted.
In ancient times, slashdot used to have a points system with no ceiling
Those must have been ancient times indeed. I remember the karma on my current ID being capped at 50 points some 10 years ago. In fact, I don't remember the karma points on my long-forgotten older (3-digit number) ID ever exceeding 50, so I am curious as to where you pull your reminiscences from.
...but it would just result in GNAA posts lingering at 1 (or 2 if the guy doing it has good karma).
I think the two conditions are mutually exclusive: Anyone who has good karma isn't going to post GNAA posts. It seems to me the worst offences of troll and gratuitous abuse posts tend to come from Anonymous Cowards.
I can understand the rationale behind Slashcode permitting AC posts, but I think/. would be a better place without them. After all, there is no compulsion to supply your real name when setting up an account, so that should be sufficient to satisfy the requirement of anonymity.
There is a time and place for people to banter on but I don't want it from a news outlet.
I'm with you there. I don't know if this applies across the board, since I have neither the time nor inclination to read all the on-line newspapers (I only buy dead-tree papers when I need something to light a fire with), but I am getting a bit tired of endless screen-space devoted to the inarticulate musings of bored housewives and outraged rednecks. And newspapers aren't the only culprits. New Scientist used to be quite a useful aggregation for scientific journal content, but it's steadily turning into a soap-box.
In the days of the print media, there was something of a class barrier where contributors were expected to know at least something about a subject before pontificating. This survived for a few years with the on-line versions, but now we are seeing a situation where on slow news days we also seem to be getting lumbered with the above-mentioned kind of rubbish presented in a more fleshed-out form as "real" articles under the masthead of formerly reputable newspapers. The Age is a good example of this. I think the editor changed a while ago, and for all the content is now worth, I often feel I might as well be reading Twitter.
Microsoft will... go for somebody smaller first, then start screwing with the big guys once they've got a few decisions in their favor under their belts
Thing is, there's so much prior art around from the days when Microsoft was playing around with piddly little toy single-user operating systems, Microsoft doesn't have a prayer of defending a patent written by some overpaid half-asleep attorney.
Although sudo is available on all Linuxes, it was derived ultimately from (I think) a BSD creation dating from about 1980. Oh, hang on, Wikipedia says it was written by "Bob Coggeshall and Cliff Spencer... at the Department of Computer Science at SUNY/Buffalo. The current version is under active development and is maintained by OpenBSD developer Todd C Miller".
I'm sure Apple must use some functional equivalent to gksu in OS X for privilege escalation when required. I know sudo is available from the command line in OS X by default if one has "enabled" the root user, which I guess just about every command-line cowboy must have.
So if anybody's got any money to fight the patent in court, I guess Apple might be a good candidate if the BSD developers can't.
If aliens want to transmit information, c will always be a limit, unless our universe is non-causal, and thus fundamentally impossible to understand.
This sometimes leaves me thinking that if there were a hypothetical Intelligent Designer(TM), building a universe with such a physical limit to speed was probably a pretty good idea, since it effectively keeps us where we are, so we can't fuck up any other planets.:-)
This is good science. In 1924 we didn't have any strong reasons to think that there wasn't intelligent life on Mars.
And, just to demonstrate that good science is timeless, we have impirically proved that in 2009 there is no intelligent life to be found on Earth either.
That's an interesting approach. It exposes the idiocy of having all your currency bills with the same design except for the denomination.
I think just about every other currency I've used has bills of different size as well as design for each denomination, so I doubt if your idea would work.
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All this is music to my ears!
Only so long as we don't have to face the musack...
The orchestra's copyright is subject to the same kind of agreement as any other band's. I see no reason why an orchestra should not be able to reclaim its work just as much as the Eagles.
Actually, this is a situation I'd quite like to see. There are quite a few very fine musicians who sell their music directly (OK, here's a good example: Jacob Heringman) who apparently seem to survive. I wouldn't be heartbroken if the big recording labels lost a few dollars of revenue. If their investment in recording and marketing hasn't paid off in 30 years, then too bad. They have had a ride on the musician's back for long enough, and the time has come when they're just going to have to re-evaluate their business model as independent recording and production becomes more affordable.
My first thought was "Apple patents products that nobody will buy.
Down the page in TFA, there's this interesting little snippet:
Mr. Jobs is directly connected to this particular patent application: his name is the first listed of the five inventors. This is a rarity, occurring only four times among the 30 applications on which he is co-inventor that have been published by the patent office since March 2008.
I hope Jobs has other things in mind than attempting to actually use this "feature".
I doubt if the argument about emergency calls would work, since Skype and most of the other VOIP clients tend to explicitly claim their product isn't a full telephony replacement for that purpose. I don't know if that's ever been tested. Does anybody else?
they can finally sell their shiny, highly satisfying experience to everyone, not just the elite.
They could try. If I bought a device only to find it was using bandwidth I pay for to push ads at me, I would be back at the store demanding a return and refund.
Apple should learn that that kind of advertising doesn't work. Just like those "hover ads" that sit there obstructing content on a web-page until you click them. Whenever I come across one of these, I always leave the web-page and make damn sure I block the site in my hosts file. That kind of in-your-face advertising is offensive, and I will never reward the perpetrator by clicking on it.
There just doesn't seem to be a one-size-fits-all recipe for solving this problem, other than buying only hardware that's known to be Linux-compatible.
Years ago (after my escapades with the cheapie components I mentioned before) I adopted that policy, and it served me well. But in the last 5 years or so I haven't bothered, except for avoiding no-name components. No, I wasn't jerking your chain, I just have a different perspective.
That may well be true - however, the fact of the matter is that most of my hardware has problems functioning under Linux.
Hmmm. Apart from patchy support of phones (this tends to be flaky even on Windows), I have had precisely two pieces of hardware that failed to work properly with Linux in 14 years.
One was a parallel-port Umax scanner, and the other was a cheapie on-board SiS graphics chipset that never gave me anything better than 16-bit colour. I ran into both of those issues well over 10 years ago, and the kernel has come a long way since. My impression was that you have to try fairly hard these days to find hardware that doesn't work with Linux, especially if you stay away from no-name brands.
Yes. If it's the teacher's own time (i.e. almost always), then it's his property.
Teachers are being fucked over as it is. You don't have to contribute to the problem.
The person you are replying to here is also apparently unaware that teachers often (i.e. usually) do not have sufficient time allocated during school hours to produce lesson plans. Their time is taken up with marking and other activities.
So if they produce lesson plans and resources on their own time, there's no question of anybody being robbed. It's the teacher's own work, and s/he has the right to use or profit from it has s/he sees fit.
Doesn't zsh work pretty much the same on Windows these day?
I really have no idea how or whether it works on Windows. Logically, I suppose, it should work the same wherever it's installed. I was merely observing that it is agreeable that a company as committed to the GUI as Apple should provide zsh by default with their OS.
Seriously, these specific users you talk about don't find Mac's GUI immediately "easy and intuitive" nor the underlying "Unix system" "rock-solid stable" nor do they even know. These are things Mac fanboys like to say, however.
Maybe I'm not part of Apple's target market - since I use a MacBook I inherited from my wife when she upgraded - but I like Apple for many of the same reasons I like Linux (or BSD for that matter). The convenience of being able to bust out a zsh shell counts for a lot when performing operations that are actually quicker and simpler when performed from the command-line than with a GUI. I was actually somewhat (pleasantly) surprised to find that OS X in fact comes with zsh "out of the box". I had figured this would be considered an unnecessary detail on a Mac, but obviously not.
Apart from that, life with Apple is a trade-off between having everything "just work" and having an inflexible GUI of Apple's choice rather than my own.
Nowadays (having emigrated to OS X) my taste in Linux lies with Ubuntu, for the sole reason that it's easy and fast to use in a VM. Gentoo requires too much upkeep for that.
You might be interested to try Arch Linux then. Just like Slackware in its simplicity, but with a more comprehensive package system.
Gnome 2, in contrast, seems to actively get worse with each passing release... Everything else is worse.
I've been primarily a Gnome user since version 1.0, although I am not blind or indifferent to the more egregious feats of craniorectal asshattery perpretrated by some of the Gnome developers over the last decade. But I would contend that on the whole, the current release is a pretty cool and froody offering.
I am curious as to what your complaints are.
I was wondering the same thing. Maybe this company has managed to comercialise some aspect of mammalian cell culture, but the technology has been around for decades now. The principles aren't exactly hard to grasp; it was pretty much expected that by the 3rd year of my degree in biotechnology we should all have a solid understanding of this.
However, introducing cells thus cultured in vitro to a living patient is probably the more difficult part, and I'm not entirely sure that much has changed in this regard, since there are lots of hoops that need to be jumped through before implantation techniques become accepted.
In ancient times, slashdot used to have a points system with no ceiling
Those must have been ancient times indeed. I remember the karma on my current ID being capped at 50 points some 10 years ago. In fact, I don't remember the karma points on my long-forgotten older (3-digit number) ID ever exceeding 50, so I am curious as to where you pull your reminiscences from.
...but it would just result in GNAA posts lingering at 1 (or 2 if the guy doing it has good karma).
/. would be a better place without them. After all, there is no compulsion to supply your real name when setting up an account, so that should be sufficient to satisfy the requirement of anonymity.
I think the two conditions are mutually exclusive: Anyone who has good karma isn't going to post GNAA posts. It seems to me the worst offences of troll and gratuitous abuse posts tend to come from Anonymous Cowards.
I can understand the rationale behind Slashcode permitting AC posts, but I think
There is a time and place for people to banter on but I don't want it from a news outlet.
I'm with you there. I don't know if this applies across the board, since I have neither the time nor inclination to read all the on-line newspapers (I only buy dead-tree papers when I need something to light a fire with), but I am getting a bit tired of endless screen-space devoted to the inarticulate musings of bored housewives and outraged rednecks. And newspapers aren't the only culprits. New Scientist used to be quite a useful aggregation for scientific journal content, but it's steadily turning into a soap-box.
In the days of the print media, there was something of a class barrier where contributors were expected to know at least something about a subject before pontificating. This survived for a few years with the on-line versions, but now we are seeing a situation where on slow news days we also seem to be getting lumbered with the above-mentioned kind of rubbish presented in a more fleshed-out form as "real" articles under the masthead of formerly reputable newspapers. The Age is a good example of this. I think the editor changed a while ago, and for all the content is now worth, I often feel I might as well be reading Twitter.
Microsoft will... go for somebody smaller first, then start screwing with the big guys once they've got a few decisions in their favor under their belts
Thing is, there's so much prior art around from the days when Microsoft was playing around with piddly little toy single-user operating systems, Microsoft doesn't have a prayer of defending a patent written by some overpaid half-asleep attorney.
Although sudo is available on all Linuxes, it was derived ultimately from (I think) a BSD creation dating from about 1980. Oh, hang on, Wikipedia says it was written by "Bob Coggeshall and Cliff Spencer ... at the Department of Computer Science at SUNY/Buffalo. The current version is under active development and is maintained by OpenBSD developer Todd C Miller".
I'm sure Apple must use some functional equivalent to gksu in OS X for privilege escalation when required. I know sudo is available from the command line in OS X by default if one has "enabled" the root user, which I guess just about every command-line cowboy must have.
So if anybody's got any money to fight the patent in court, I guess Apple might be a good candidate if the BSD developers can't.
You obviously haven't seen parking inspectors or clampers in the UK at work.
Clamps are at least easy to deal with. You can just cut the lock off with bolt-cutters.
If aliens want to transmit information, c will always be a limit, unless our universe is non-causal, and thus fundamentally impossible to understand.
:-)
This sometimes leaves me thinking that if there were a hypothetical Intelligent Designer(TM), building a universe with such a physical limit to speed was probably a pretty good idea, since it effectively keeps us where we are, so we can't fuck up any other planets.
This is good science. In 1924 we didn't have any strong reasons to think that there wasn't intelligent life on Mars.
And, just to demonstrate that good science is timeless, we have impirically proved that in 2009 there is no intelligent life to be found on Earth either.
That's an interesting approach. It exposes the idiocy of having all your currency bills with the same design except for the denomination. I think just about every other currency I've used has bills of different size as well as design for each denomination, so I doubt if your idea would work.
and as a lawyer who sends C&Ds for a living...
Wow, that's sad. That's almost like admitting to being a parking inspector...
The thing that strikes me as odd is why anybody would bother taking the time to meddle with Bing. Does anybody actually use it? Really?
I know Google has its detractors, but surely no more than Microsoft. We can't all be Steve Ballmer...