"I wonder what licensing terms they have that are amenable to those goals?"
Apparently nobody bothered to ask them.
In spite of which they sent a fairly non-confrontational, non-bullying letter in defense of their rights.
Dolby doesn't have to license everybody under the same terms, but if they let anybody get away with not being licensed, then nobody will bother to negotiate a license and Dolby will have spent a lot of time and money developing something that everybody uses and nobody pays them for.
This isn't the same as burning through a bunch of capital on something nobody wants, that's one of the risks of capitalism, but if people use it without paying that's not the same thing.
If Ford brought back the Edsel and nobody bought one that'd be their tough luck, but if people started stealing them instead of buying them and nobody did anything to stop it, pretty soon they'd all get stolen, and saying that Ford has to give away cars at their own expense isn't the same as saying they have to take their chances in the marketplace just like anybody else.
Instead of Berners-Lee putting money into it, you'd think they'd pay him to attach his name to it.
Unless, of course, Tim's been thinking 'bout how everybody 'cept him got to ride the gravy train he shoveled all the coal for, and decided it was time for him to hit the jackpot too.
With TPM I was disoriented until I left the theater because of all those out of focus computer generated backgrounds. I guess it was an attempt to imitate the inability of a film camera to focus near and far at the same time, but I've never seen a film of real foreground and background where it was so distracting and dizzying. I kept wanting to reach for some sort of adjustment knob.
Thanks for the link to the Wired article (worth reading), but it's about the NMPA (National Music Publishers Association), not the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America).
The online radio station thing was a dispute over labor compensation for commercials, had nothing to do with the music. The last thing the record companies are going to do is say "You want to give us even more free publicity, we don't think we can allow that, probably have to use our near-monopoly power to nip that in the bud."
I saw that as well, but if she'd referred to Marley and the Wailers how many of the congresscritters would have gotten confused, thinking "Wait a minute, isn't that a Clapton song?"
How many people know that "After Midnight" and "Rock and Roll Heart" aren't original to him either (or "Crossroads" for that matter)?
Return of the Jedi implies a renaissance of the Jedi in general, not just one of them, so, assuming a large Jedi presence in episode 7, it's a better title.
I didn't see any of them when I was 10. I saw Star Wars in 1977 when I was 26, and it was (in my opinion) good, even very good, but not quite the "life-changing experience" others seemed to find it. Saw the second and third movies when they came out as well. Read a couple of Alan Dean Foster Star Wars books, especially impressed by "Splinter in the Mind's Eye".
Due to now being an uncle I saw the re-releases of the first 3 movies a few years ago, and they hold up pretty well, allowing for the shrinkage of theater screens and auditoriums in the interim. Then my nephew and I went to see Phantom Menace. He liked Jar-Jar just fine. I wanted to see Darth Maul grab his tongue and garrotte him with it. Slowly.
Jar-Jar aside, Phantom Menace was the quality I'd expect from a movie made by the same person that made the 1977 movie, but if he'd made it 25 years earlier, not 25 years later.
How old you were when you first saw any of the movies has nothing to do with the shortcomings of Phantom Menace.
Anybody know if there's a problem with http://www.theregister.co.uk ? I haven't been able to get it to load for several hours now. Anybody know a different link for it?
I hope you posted that so as to start a grassroots movement to get Lucas, et al, to come up with a better title than that. Even "The Clone Wars" (which I recall some mention of in one of the first 3 movies) would be better, though not much.
If you visit China, or Russia for that matter, you can expect to be arrested if it serves the aims of the government, although what those aims are and how your arrest serves them may never be known.
The question *is* whether he broke the law. That's why we have trials. If he's convicted of having broken a law, the conviction can then be appealed on the grounds of that law being unconstitutional.
Is he personally charged with having sold the software, or was the software sold in the US by the company and he was the only employee within grabbing distance (i.e., didn't have to be extradited from Russia)?
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If you hadn't changed your sig I wouldn't be catching so much flack about mine. :-)
Woz? Is that you man?
Wonder how Jon "I used to be a producer for CBS TV" Katz managed to miss that?
Fast internet connections and faster women?
Apparently Microsoft hopes to fix everything in the next release. :-)
Apparently nobody bothered to ask them.
In spite of which they sent a fairly non-confrontational, non-bullying letter in defense of their rights.
Dolby doesn't have to license everybody under the same terms, but if they let anybody get away with not being licensed, then nobody will bother to negotiate a license and Dolby will have spent a lot of time and money developing something that everybody uses and nobody pays them for.
This isn't the same as burning through a bunch of capital on something nobody wants, that's one of the risks of capitalism, but if people use it without paying that's not the same thing.
If Ford brought back the Edsel and nobody bought one that'd be their tough luck, but if people started stealing them instead of buying them and nobody did anything to stop it, pretty soon they'd all get stolen, and saying that Ford has to give away cars at their own expense isn't the same as saying they have to take their chances in the marketplace just like anybody else.
Did I misunderstand? Would Apple have fixed things for free if that extended warranty thing hadn't been purchased?
Unless, of course, Tim's been thinking 'bout how everybody 'cept him got to ride the gravy train he shoveled all the coal for, and decided it was time for him to hit the jackpot too.
So you can bankrupt some company just by sitting there clicking "reload" all day?
Yeah, no one would ever mistake 139800 for 139800.
And don't even get me started on the sound.
So the only way to get them to stand behind their products the way that they should is to bribe them in advance?
Not that far off-topic. In both cases you're paying for the marketing and the packaging.
Thanks for the link to the Wired article (worth reading), but it's about the NMPA (National Music Publishers Association), not the MPAA (Motion Picture Association of America).
The online radio station thing was a dispute over labor compensation for commercials, had nothing to do with the music. The last thing the record companies are going to do is say "You want to give us even more free publicity, we don't think we can allow that, probably have to use our near-monopoly power to nip that in the bud."
How many people know that "After Midnight" and "Rock and Roll Heart" aren't original to him either (or "Crossroads" for that matter)?
Attack of the Clones is.
See, what you said even works out of context.
A Gary Lewis and the Playboys reference on Slashdot. Now I have truly seen it all.
Return of the Jedi implies a renaissance of the Jedi in general, not just one of them, so, assuming a large Jedi presence in episode 7, it's a better title.
Due to now being an uncle I saw the re-releases of the first 3 movies a few years ago, and they hold up pretty well, allowing for the shrinkage of theater screens and auditoriums in the interim. Then my nephew and I went to see Phantom Menace. He liked Jar-Jar just fine. I wanted to see Darth Maul grab his tongue and garrotte him with it. Slowly.
Jar-Jar aside, Phantom Menace was the quality I'd expect from a movie made by the same person that made the 1977 movie, but if he'd made it 25 years earlier, not 25 years later.
How old you were when you first saw any of the movies has nothing to do with the shortcomings of Phantom Menace.
"Night of the Living Clones"
"Clones in Spaaaaaace"
"The Clone Ranger Rides Again"
"Hey Buddy, can you clone me a dime?"
Anybody know if there's a problem with http://www.theregister.co.uk ? I haven't been able to get it to load for several hours now. Anybody know a different link for it?
How about "Night of the Living Clones"?
Or maybe "Clones in Spaaaaaace". :-)
If you visit China, or Russia for that matter, you can expect to be arrested if it serves the aims of the government, although what those aims are and how your arrest serves them may never be known.
Is he personally charged with having sold the software, or was the software sold in the US by the company and he was the only employee within grabbing distance (i.e., didn't have to be extradited from Russia)?