This is just the way the music business works. Apple can't change the fact that labels only license to certain territories. Just like you can go into a music store in Japan and buy thousands of CDs you can't buy elsewhere, Apple's iStore is contractually bound to operate the same way.
No, the price point the RIAA have in mind would start at $0.99 on each song listened to for more than 30 seconds (MPAA would be $9.99 for each movie, again played for more than 30 seconds; note the similarity to existing "preview" time limits, there's a correspondance to sync licensing here). This would be accompanied by "music-player" license fees collected from software and hardware digital music player distributors. Naturally, all this will be tied together with full-on DRM.
Executives in this business make a whole ton of money, and they want to make even more. They would kill us all and sell our entrails for scrap if it bought them another yacht.
A far more important improvement would be to stop munging UTF-8-encoded messages. They handle ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-1 and only ISO 8859-1, and anything else is just plain ISO 8859-1 as far as Yahoo cares.
'There's no need to own recordings any more. The record companies don't want us to be doing this, but ultimately the new technology is going to win,' said Dr Bowen.
Wow, give this man a cigar. The music industry has failed to learn this lesson for at least fifteen years, then.
I hereby patent the idea of patenting an idea. I also patent the process of suing someone for patent infringement. Patent pending, patent pending, patent pending.
Oh, fuck America. Take the goddamn Constitution and the Bill of Rights and wipe your stupid North American asses with it. Your Neocon overlords have them coated in their own shit already, so why not?
Think about it: you're a Slashdot reader. You have a girlfriend. She's annoyed with you. You're trying to ply her off with...wait for it...another video game.
My advice? Give up the games. Enjoy/please your girlfriend. Your genes will thank you in a few decades when, uh, you're dead.
Are the participants really thinking about this contest? It's being run by the Pentagon. Do they truly not comprehend their inventions will one day be used to slaughter dark-skinned people in a jungle or desert?
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I think you mean, "[your interest is] piqued."
This is just the way the music business works. Apple can't change the fact that labels only license to certain territories. Just like you can go into a music store in Japan and buy thousands of CDs you can't buy elsewhere, Apple's iStore is contractually bound to operate the same way.
Hi, Bill! How's Ballmer?
Too bad PHP's developers can't manage to integrate Unicode support into their language.
No, the price point the RIAA have in mind would start at $0.99 on each song listened to for more than 30 seconds (MPAA would be $9.99 for each movie, again played for more than 30 seconds; note the similarity to existing "preview" time limits, there's a correspondance to sync licensing here). This would be accompanied by "music-player" license fees collected from software and hardware digital music player distributors. Naturally, all this will be tied together with full-on DRM. Executives in this business make a whole ton of money, and they want to make even more. They would kill us all and sell our entrails for scrap if it bought them another yacht.
A far more important improvement would be to stop munging UTF-8-encoded messages. They handle ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-1 and only ISO 8859-1, and anything else is just plain ISO 8859-1 as far as Yahoo cares.
'There's no need to own recordings any more. The record companies don't want us to be doing this, but ultimately the new technology is going to win,' said Dr Bowen.
Wow, give this man a cigar. The music industry has failed to learn this lesson for at least fifteen years, then.
...we are the Pentagon. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
I hereby patent the idea of patenting an idea. I also patent the process of suing someone for patent infringement. Patent pending, patent pending, patent pending.
Oh, fuck America. Take the goddamn Constitution and the Bill of Rights and wipe your stupid North American asses with it. Your Neocon overlords have them coated in their own shit already, so why not?
Think about it: you're a Slashdot reader. You have a girlfriend. She's annoyed with you. You're trying to ply her off with...wait for it...another video game. My advice? Give up the games. Enjoy/please your girlfriend. Your genes will thank you in a few decades when, uh, you're dead.
This could be funny. Call them up and switch accents every sentence and test how well they adapt.
...Invasion Of The Dabber Robots? All Your Worm Are Belong To Us.
Guess what? Those "reality" shows you watch on TV are no different. As scripted and fake as a Friends episode. Sorry to rain on your parade, man.
Have you thought about Dave Chappelle? Destroy!
I, for one, welcome our new voice-actor overlords!
"Take me home, I'm drunk." "Anything you say, baby!" ;)
I wonder if this means Microsoft will finally figure out a way to utilize that pesky alpha channel translucency PNG has always had? Probably not.
I, for one, welcome our new corporate overlords! Wait, that's not funny...
Take it from this Scientician! Scientician: uhm,... That's right, you'd have to be a grade-A moron not to understand superstring theory!
Are the participants really thinking about this contest? It's being run by the Pentagon. Do they truly not comprehend their inventions will one day be used to slaughter dark-skinned people in a jungle or desert?
...and I for one welcome our new spacewalking simulated-human overlords!
Maybe in retribution the TechnoCore will now steal the original Earth away!
Would this have any relation to fart knocking? Fart knocker.
Hektor the Graffiti Robot, meet Linguo the Grammar Robot!