Obviouly the Recording Rndustry is wanting more excusivity on the right to enforce thier copyright, but as a balance I think it's time to return the copyright law to a more fair "limit" of time such as 28 years from creation (if the artist dies the right is passed to next of kin but still limited to 28 years).
And for the owner it should be explicitly retained by the human(s) who actually created the work and only usable by corporation through a contract with said creators/owners (breech of contract, all rights return to the creator, not the company). That way if a company wants to make money from thier music they actually have to pay the artist fairly during the period they wish to have that right.
(should be same for other "Intelectual Property" too)
For the latter, a dual G4 tower that boots into classic (as opposed to running it in the background) can be had on the used market for a song nowadays (I've seen single proc. G4 500's for less than $100.)
As I said, infortuinate for Apple, no new sale on that computer.
In my situation I have a sizable DB application in FoxBASE+/Mac (bought and dropped by MS, ran on OS6+) which has been solid all the way into Classic on OSX, but without classic it's gone. I am re-coding it now, this time using FOSS - PHP and Postgres to get away from being stuck in some dead-end OS and having to go through this all over again. Once that is complete it can run just about on anything.
What is to prevent Apple (or Microsoft) letting the same thing to otrher Applications (especially with such transisations like OSX, Intel Mac, XP, Vista, etc.) nothing, nothing at all. It just makes me realize how much we all get jerked around by various companies looking to improve thier revenue share.
What drives company's business is not the OS, it's the applications you use, and if the OS company is messing with your business operations then maybe you need to look for a more stable OS. Apple hasn't been all that stable since going to OSX (18 months per major upgrade) and Microsoft is heading that way with Vista, I am sure many of us are going to live in "interesting times."
As a long-time Mac user (with Macs at work) I am more interested in learning what doesn't work on the new Intel Macs than what does.
So far Classic is a dead issue (pun intended, but unfortunate for us and Apple) and I'm sure there will be more.
To me it's just another cycle of waiting (hoping) vendors update thier products (as well as making the upgrades affordable) or manufacturers bother to re-code thier device drivers to work on yet anothewr new Apple platform.
I remember the bit about the World bank leveraging thier code into a lot of scanner drivers and pgorams like Photoshop to indentify money being scanned (including a module to snich on whoever was doing it) to thwart counterfitters.
Yep that's what I see, I read an article that the intel Mac adoption isn't going as fast has hoped, by seeding the cream of the OSS development community with some free Mac Book Pros and admission to the Developers conference, they are probably hoping for some returns on thier investment with some intel-mac projects springing up.
These two caught my interest a while back, looks like it does what you want and more. eGroupware is a fork of PHP groupware, itseems eGroupware is most active.
Or inverting the algorithm to "correct" a picture, it may not be that easy, but it does provide a guideline to those that want to make stuff up a way to validte it as real.
When I read a couple years back about the Windows Warship, that really got me worried, not of the descructive power but envisioning critital systems fail at a crucial moment due to some minor flaw in the code.
I know Linux has been reviewed better and is much more stable/secure as well as open enough that if there is a pressing glitch there is a very good chance it could be overcome quickly (on site) without a call to some proprietary OS company.
That's the question, why would someone want to go to your site on thier phone? Does it fit a need? Is it useful to the 'on the go' crowd?
Would I want to visit the site while I'm out with friends, while in another town, or waiting for a plane?
That's it. If you feel your potential client would, then I would go for it, but if you are met with a bunch of hypothetical maybes, then maybe it's not worth it.
Well I like Bill Gates as a nerd and techie, obviously he's a man who got to live a dream many of us envy. Im not a fan of Windows, but I appreciate the guys' efforts to keep with doing tech and not becoming some PHB, also from what accounts I've read he's not a bad dude to talk with either. (he is quite the hacker, in that MS sometimes gets important stuff done too quick and dirty)
Steve Jobs I admire for not taking second best, he may be a tyrant to get things done but he knows (or at least knew, I'm not too fond of OSX's shortcommings either) how to get his crew to code the extra hour and make something absoutely great into insanely great (at least he did).
Even if you didn't write the OSS I think there is a business in it, not everyone is a techie, and not every techie is a Linux geek (or whatever).
As an example I can see a profitable service doing phone installation and configuration, maintenece with Asterisk, you supply the knowledge for setup and expansion and be there for the customer when problems occur. Given such a complex system (even for proprietary like Cisco) businesses are going to be paying for support subscriptions, except the software costs/licensing (TCO) are less.
Now if you did write the software and are the project lead then you have even a better in as your customers would have knowledge that thier problems will be resolved in a reasonable timespace. Depending on the application that could be a bump in fees (even if the code is OSS). But that could bite you if some PHB customer twists your arm to install some laming feature or compromise into your product.
Looking from the performers side it looks pretty dicrininatory, it give the power to the "performing rights organizations" which are not really organizatons but corporations instead. Sure limits the ability of the poor struggling artist from making an honest dollar.
I think some legislation to abolish the MPAA and RIAA and create some more fair public organization is in order if these things go into place.
At LinuxWorld I saw the Twiki demo and it got mymnd racing, a couple of these were from it.
Agenda tool, (non-profit here, lots of meetings), you create an agenda wikipage for the next meeting, participants add or make changes to the topic list after the meeting the notetaker completes the page by ading in the outcomes and creates the next agenda page, not only do you have less paperwork you also have a building history that all can refer back to without hving to look up file names.
Staff directory - (assuming you don't have like AD or LDAP), includes addresses emails, etc. Changes are made on the spot and therefore most up to date.
Knowledgebase - either a replacment or an extension to the job procedure manuals, all staff can add into it and make changes as needed, as well as add content as special circumstances arise.
Documentor - if the apps are web based you can even program wiki links into your pages to the documentation (as well as link in your job procedures if on the same wiki) As program changes or as better instructions/definitions the documntation gets updated.
Project notes repository - self explanitory
Simple CMS - Keep the editing behind a password/access system but offer up the content as read-only to the public, opens the sirte for editing beyond just the webmaster.
I recall an article that was as old if not older though, not fron the internet, probably from a newspaper or even some book. I'm sure it wasn't the fiberous thing they mentioned here; but more of a self-exapnding foam in between two walls of the cabin. So the concept has been out there for a while but the materials to accomplish it may not have been.
As many had said this is your descision the way I see it you have to look at two factors, your customer base and your business plans.
Cuistomer Base
What's your target audience, is it kids, or early 20s (which probably all have newer machines), or are they anyone with low income - potentially elderly/disabld with restricted (library/hand-me-down pc) access. As many have said if you want to serve the blind and disabled you will have to factor that in though you can keep your site modern.
Business Plans
If you guys are planning on rolling out some digital content as a key factor of your business strategy, there is another line for you, some media may not even work on older machines, best to start the PR to let people know wqhat is coming down the road instead of an overnight fiasco as many are not able tro access your new features when they hit.
If you are doing it merely to capture more market atttention maybe you should do a market study by interviewing current and potential clients and seeing what they really need or expect to have in such a site.
They don't mention it on Wikipedia but Gordon Shumway (aka ALF) was one of the guys destroying space debris in orbit (one of the reasons he was able to escape the Melmac explision IIRC).
In the Alf Tales cartoon the starting sequence showed him zapping stuff in space before returning to Melmac wand rejoining with family and friends.
As I see my guts splattered on that highly rendered wall for the umpteenth time! Thanks for improving my game experience! (how about some better games to go with it?)
If no ones seen it before what use is the history? It might be interesting to review the pre release development cycle but to the intial user it's not going to matter.
The only use it might be is to illustrate the evolution of the code from using one method to another and the reasons for such changes (to lay to rest anyone proposing a former method).
Your audience isn't starting at vers. 5.5 but at the intial version (in thier perspective)
I being in the non-profit sector with the increasing demand for better data security measures maybe she would be interested in researching ways to secure private information in databases.
The most obvious method is to encrypt the data but in order to selectively retrieve it becomes a problem (and over the years we do come back to our archives).
Another method I think might be great, is a way to just encrypt/protect the sensitive/identifying fields in a database and leave the statistical data unencrypted (that way you can have an archive/backup to run stats on but to get more sensitive info you need some sort of decryptioon technolog also if the machine/data was stolen the sensitive data would be safe.
When you detect a Windows system give them a different app that strips out all the images for thier own safety and inform them of the fact (also mention that accessing the site via Mac or Linux, being more secure, allows image viewing). Why hide the fact from the user, it's thier computer at risk.
The DVD "Cash Cow" is dead, time to start milking the consumer with another "new" gimmick again.
I've stll have a bunch of VHS tapes that have not made it to DVD, and from the looks of things, those never will legally.
As I said in a previous thread until they can think of something TRULY better then DVD (and Quality isn't it, talk to the Laserdisc guys about that one) I think an expensive new touy is really going to be a hard sell.
Slashdot Mirror
And for the owner it should be explicitly retained by the human(s) who actually created the work and only usable by corporation through a contract with said creators/owners (breech of contract, all rights return to the creator, not the company). That way if a company wants to make money from thier music they actually have to pay the artist fairly during the period they wish to have that right.
(should be same for other "Intelectual Property" too)
I had to change my signature because of this. :-/
As I said, infortuinate for Apple, no new sale on that computer.
In my situation I have a sizable DB application in FoxBASE+/Mac (bought and dropped by MS, ran on OS6+) which has been solid all the way into Classic on OSX, but without classic it's gone. I am re-coding it now, this time using FOSS - PHP and Postgres to get away from being stuck in some dead-end OS and having to go through this all over again. Once that is complete it can run just about on anything.
What is to prevent Apple (or Microsoft) letting the same thing to otrher Applications (especially with such transisations like OSX, Intel Mac, XP, Vista, etc.) nothing, nothing at all. It just makes me realize how much we all get jerked around by various companies looking to improve thier revenue share.
What drives company's business is not the OS, it's the applications you use, and if the OS company is messing with your business operations then maybe you need to look for a more stable OS. Apple hasn't been all that stable since going to OSX (18 months per major upgrade) and Microsoft is heading that way with Vista, I am sure many of us are going to live in "interesting times."
So far Classic is a dead issue (pun intended, but unfortunate for us and Apple) and I'm sure there will be more.
To me it's just another cycle of waiting (hoping) vendors update thier products (as well as making the upgrades affordable) or manufacturers bother to re-code thier device drivers to work on yet anothewr new Apple platform.
I better get some sleep. :)
Or is that not not considered spyware?
Yep that's what I see, I read an article that the intel Mac adoption isn't going as fast has hoped, by seeding the cream of the OSS development community with some free Mac Book Pros and admission to the Developers conference, they are probably hoping for some returns on thier investment with some intel-mac projects springing up.
These two caught my interest a while back, looks like it does what you want and more. eGroupware is a fork of PHP groupware, itseems eGroupware is most active.
Or inverting the algorithm to "correct" a picture, it may not be that easy, but it does provide a guideline to those that want to make stuff up a way to validte it as real.
When I read a couple years back about the Windows Warship, that really got me worried, not of the descructive power but envisioning critital systems fail at a crucial moment due to some minor flaw in the code. I know Linux has been reviewed better and is much more stable/secure as well as open enough that if there is a pressing glitch there is a very good chance it could be overcome quickly (on site) without a call to some proprietary OS company.
Would I want to visit the site while I'm out with friends, while in another town, or waiting for a plane?
That's it. If you feel your potential client would, then I would go for it, but if you are met with a bunch of hypothetical maybes, then maybe it's not worth it.
Don't forget television overload.
Steve Jobs I admire for not taking second best, he may be a tyrant to get things done but he knows (or at least knew, I'm not too fond of OSX's shortcommings either) how to get his crew to code the extra hour and make something absoutely great into insanely great (at least he did).
As an example I can see a profitable service doing phone installation and configuration, maintenece with Asterisk, you supply the knowledge for setup and expansion and be there for the customer when problems occur. Given such a complex system (even for proprietary like Cisco) businesses are going to be paying for support subscriptions, except the software costs/licensing (TCO) are less.
Now if you did write the software and are the project lead then you have even a better in as your customers would have knowledge that thier problems will be resolved in a reasonable timespace. Depending on the application that could be a bump in fees (even if the code is OSS). But that could bite you if some PHB customer twists your arm to install some laming feature or compromise into your product.
I think some legislation to abolish the MPAA and RIAA and create some more fair public organization is in order if these things go into place.
Agenda tool, (non-profit here, lots of meetings), you create an agenda wikipage for the next meeting, participants add or make changes to the topic list after the meeting the notetaker completes the page by ading in the outcomes and creates the next agenda page, not only do you have less paperwork you also have a building history that all can refer back to without hving to look up file names.
Staff directory - (assuming you don't have like AD or LDAP), includes addresses emails, etc. Changes are made on the spot and therefore most up to date.
Knowledgebase - either a replacment or an extension to the job procedure manuals, all staff can add into it and make changes as needed, as well as add content as special circumstances arise.
Documentor - if the apps are web based you can even program wiki links into your pages to the documentation (as well as link in your job procedures if on the same wiki) As program changes or as better instructions/definitions the documntation gets updated.
Project notes repository - self explanitory
Simple CMS - Keep the editing behind a password/access system but offer up the content as read-only to the public, opens the sirte for editing beyond just the webmaster.
I like the story board idea.
I recall an article that was as old if not older though, not fron the internet, probably from a newspaper or even some book. I'm sure it wasn't the fiberous thing they mentioned here; but more of a self-exapnding foam in between two walls of the cabin. So the concept has been out there for a while but the materials to accomplish it may not have been.
As many had said this is your descision the way I see it you have to look at two factors, your customer base and your business plans.
Cuistomer Base
What's your target audience, is it kids, or early 20s (which probably all have newer machines), or are they anyone with low income - potentially elderly/disabld with restricted (library/hand-me-down pc) access. As many have said if you want to serve the blind and disabled you will have to factor that in though you can keep your site modern.
Business Plans
If you guys are planning on rolling out some digital content as a key factor of your business strategy, there is another line for you, some media may not even work on older machines, best to start the PR to let people know wqhat is coming down the road instead of an overnight fiasco as many are not able tro access your new features when they hit.
If you are doing it merely to capture more market atttention maybe you should do a market study by interviewing current and potential clients and seeing what they really need or expect to have in such a site.
They don't mention it on Wikipedia but Gordon Shumway (aka ALF) was one of the guys destroying space debris in orbit (one of the reasons he was able to escape the Melmac explision IIRC).
In the Alf Tales cartoon the starting sequence showed him zapping stuff in space before returning to Melmac wand rejoining with family and friends.
As I see my guts splattered on that highly rendered wall for the umpteenth time! Thanks for improving my game experience! (how about some better games to go with it?)
If no ones seen it before what use is the history? It might be interesting to review the pre release development cycle but to the intial user it's not going to matter.
The only use it might be is to illustrate the evolution of the code from using one method to another and the reasons for such changes (to lay to rest anyone proposing a former method).
Your audience isn't starting at vers. 5.5 but at the intial version (in thier perspective)
The most obvious method is to encrypt the data but in order to selectively retrieve it becomes a problem (and over the years we do come back to our archives).
Another method I think might be great, is a way to just encrypt/protect the sensitive/identifying fields in a database and leave the statistical data unencrypted (that way you can have an archive/backup to run stats on but to get more sensitive info you need some sort of decryptioon technolog also if the machine/data was stolen the sensitive data would be safe.
an idea, good luck!.
When you detect a Windows system give them a different app that strips out all the images for thier own safety and inform them of the fact (also mention that accessing the site via Mac or Linux, being more secure, allows image viewing). Why hide the fact from the user, it's thier computer at risk.
I've stll have a bunch of VHS tapes that have not made it to DVD, and from the looks of things, those never will legally.
As I said in a previous thread until they can think of something TRULY better then DVD (and Quality isn't it, talk to the Laserdisc guys about that one) I think an expensive new touy is really going to be a hard sell.
Also considering they are going to take in over 5 times that amount with spectrum revenue ($10B estimate) I wonder where that is going?