this was well before most people ever touched any online/internet service, and when they did, it was brief because you were charged per minute, which adds up fast
Maybe I was just lucky, but I started using local ISPs in 1992 or 1993, and I've never paid by the minute. I remember when AOL came online, and I couldn't figure out why people were letting themselves get jacked so seriously.
Depending on the idea of being able to "fool" someone into thinking you can hurt them more than you really can is a bad, bad idea. If someone who feels in danger of being mugged is unwilling or unable to carry a real weapon, they should go New York style and carry one wallet for their cash and one for their ID, cards, etc., so they can lose as little as possible when they hand the cash wallet over.
Region protection doesn't cost anything, it's done in software.
It costs money to have people program the routines, or license them. Even if it's only a small amount, what it amounts to is consumers paying for a "feature" that allows major studios to scam them for more money and have unnecessary control over what the consumer is watching.
By default it does not use FAT16/32. That means that normal partioning(FDISK) will not work if you decide to remove.
What does the file system have to do with partitioning?
This is true, but so is the original poster's comment (essentially). Have you ever tried to delete Linux partitions with DOS Fdisk? It doesn't work. You either have to snag yourself a copy of BigFdisk, or boot into Linux to get rid of them.
That would be cool, but the advantage of having a zeppelin is that you can deploy the hot chicks to any location on the globe. Hot chicks in your Imperial throne room? Okay! Hot chicks on top of the Golden Gate Bridge, where everyone can see, but no one except you and other zeppelin-enabled billionaires can get to? No problem! Heck, you could deploy them as a smokescreen to cover your entry into otherwise inaccessible areas. Go to Area 51 and swipe some Switchblades! Install your favourite multi-monitor capable games on the computers at Cheyenne Mountain! The possibilities are endless. And only a zeppelin full of hot chicks can make it all a reality.
What kind of marketing drones did they poll to make this list? Especially "The Geek." Big Macs and a Russian bride? Where are the orbital weapons platforms, zeppelins full of hot chicks, and house with audience chamber built from the actual Imperial throne room set from Return of the Jedi? And what's up with their "the cost to bail out the Catholic Church from pending sexual misconduct charges"? If they're going to equate being liberal with being a NAMBLA member, they could at least have tried going over-the-top to make it funny.
four notes is the best statistical approximation of "substantially similar" that I have ever found. Do you have a better one?
Well, that's the thing. The law is deliberately left vague to allow the courts room to interpret. There is no set figure because in one case, four notes might be more than enough to indicate a copyright violation, whereas in another someone might get away with using ten.
The best advice is just to use your best judgment when sampling, at least if you plan on selling the work. If you think using a sample makes your music sound noticeably similar to the original, the courts probably would too.
Exactly. Sampling is the art of collage on a sonic level. Incorporating parts of popular culture into a work can be a very effective commentary, as well as a way to call up people's conscious and subconscious associations with the sampled source. Skinny Puppy is an excellent example of how sampling can be used in the right hands. I don't think anyone would argue that their use of - say - brief samples of a Bugs Bunny cartoon would detract from the value of the original work, which is all the should really matter as far as copyright law is concerned.
A clarification: while there was a lawsuit over four notes, that does not mean there is a "four note rule." As the second article you link to states, the test is for the tune being "substantially similar." It can be one, four, or whatever. The "four note rule" is in many ways equivalent to the "24 hour rule" and "after X years it's abandonware rule" for pirated software - an urban legend that can prove dangerous to people who put faith in it.
It's backed by Visa as long as the transaction occurs on their network.
The Zero Liability policy covers all Visa credit and debit card transactions processed over the Visa network--online or off. The only transactions not covered under the Zero Liability policy are commercial card, ATM, and non-Visa-branded PIN transactions.
For transactions on other networks, the liability decision is left to the financial institution that issued your card. The Issuer has the option of extending the same protections afforded by Visa's Zero Liability policy.
It's better protection than I thought it might have, but it's still not as good as a credit card, which is required by law to limit the holder's liability.
That's funny, I thought they fucked up by not including the normal cut of the film on one of the discs. It was interesting to see the alternate takes and shots, but I really prefer the non-Director's-edition.
I think part of the problem was that the machines were totally non-humanoid. When you have a little wedge running around on wheels, most people are not going to be able to anthropomorphize it and care whether it wins or loses*. Humanoid shapes are obviously not optimal for most machine combat applications, but IMO this type of series would be a lot more popular if the robots were at least five feet tall and walked on two legs... and were armed with more interesting weapons. Something like those big-gun radio controlled warship games people play, but with scale battlemechs instead of WWII naval craft.
I agree on both counts. The page is cleverly written, but the actual wav files sound like he sampled the record, then looped some synthesized or shortwave-radio noise over the top of it. Also, in dneedle1.wav there is a pop that IMO could not have been generated by anything except a turntable needle hitting a scratch.
Wow, that's unfortunate. I'm really surprised. Even total copyright zealots like Viacom/Paramount don't seem to give people trouble if they're not making money from their fan sites.
...is that the site owners who were hassled were trying to make money from their sites. I don't think *any* corporation has a problem with fan sites that are put together as a resource or community for their subject matter. Most of them are even generous about letting them use their IP. What becomes an issue is when the owners of those sites decide to try and use their position for their own gain - for example, selling unauthorized merchandise, as at least one of the people quoted in the article did. This is simply the difference between running a Star Trek fan site and using your site to sell bootleg CDRs of the episodes. Even if you're just covering the cost of hosting, it's still a crime, and naive to think that any copyright holder will allow it.
The thing is, some of us don't want our (in my case still hypothetical) children hearing every curse word, seeing every head blown off, and seeing every sex scene in every movie.
The solution is simple: don't watch those films with your hypothetical children. Your argument supposes a non-existent right to watch movies the way you want to see them.
No one is forced to have children. Anyone who chooses to do so needs to accept the consequences, which will likely include not being able to consume certain entertainment with them.
Aside from the other comments people have posted, I doubt that even a white-hot rock travelling at slingshot velocities would stay in contact with the balloon long enough to damage it. It would just bounce off, and burn whatever it landed on.
I don't feel the slightest pity for you. If you chain yourself to a single vendor with no way out you are asking for being raped. And it's irrelevant if that single vendor is called Microsoft, Apple or Sun.
I can imagine that since the original poster is a professional developer, it would be very productive for him to go to his employer and say "sorry guys, M$ sux0rz, I'm going to install *ix/OS X/whatever, and you'll have to retool your entire operation to take that into account. But don't worry, I've got WINE!"
Actually, as others have posted, this turns out not to be the case. Betacam is a broadcast format. Betamax (AKA "Beta") is a home format. They have little in common other than both being made by Sony.
From an email exchange I had with some friends on this topic:
"Alien abductions of rednecks are extraordinarily common, and if you have any doubt of that, watch Fire in the Sky!
Scottish warriors nearly overthrowing the British were extraordinarily common centuries ago, and if you have any doubt of that, watch Braveheart!
Roman generals being cast down in shame, then working their way up through the ranks of the gladiators and ultimately engaging the emperor in single-handed combat and winning at the cost of their own life were extraordinarily common in ancient Rome, and if you have any doubt of that watch Gladiator!"
Slashdot Mirror
Oh, shut up. Take your Zantac and calm down. Don't be so easily offended. Grow some skin, and so forth and so on.
Funny that I never see this kind of response to people going off the handle about M$, DRM, etc.
Whats the difference?
One strengthens the gene pool, the other doesn't.
this was well before most people ever touched any online/internet service, and when they did, it was brief because you were charged per minute, which adds up fast
Maybe I was just lucky, but I started using local ISPs in 1992 or 1993, and I've never paid by the minute. I remember when AOL came online, and I couldn't figure out why people were letting themselves get jacked so seriously.
Depending on the idea of being able to "fool" someone into thinking you can hurt them more than you really can is a bad, bad idea.
If someone who feels in danger of being mugged is unwilling or unable to carry a real weapon, they should go New York style and carry one wallet for their cash and one for their ID, cards, etc., so they can lose as little as possible when they hand the cash wallet over.
Region protection doesn't cost anything, it's done in software.
It costs money to have people program the routines, or license them. Even if it's only a small amount, what it amounts to is consumers paying for a "feature" that allows major studios to scam them for more money and have unnecessary control over what the consumer is watching.
By default it does not use FAT16/32. That means that normal partioning(FDISK) will not work if you decide to remove.
What does the file system have to do with partitioning?
This is true, but so is the original poster's comment (essentially). Have you ever tried to delete Linux partitions with DOS Fdisk? It doesn't work. You either have to snag yourself a copy of BigFdisk, or boot into Linux to get rid of them.
That would be cool, but the advantage of having a zeppelin is that you can deploy the hot chicks to any location on the globe. Hot chicks in your Imperial throne room? Okay! Hot chicks on top of the Golden Gate Bridge, where everyone can see, but no one except you and other zeppelin-enabled billionaires can get to? No problem!
Heck, you could deploy them as a smokescreen to cover your entry into otherwise inaccessible areas. Go to Area 51 and swipe some Switchblades! Install your favourite multi-monitor capable games on the computers at Cheyenne Mountain! The possibilities are endless. And only a zeppelin full of hot chicks can make it all a reality.
What kind of marketing drones did they poll to make this list? Especially "The Geek." Big Macs and a Russian bride? Where are the orbital weapons platforms, zeppelins full of hot chicks, and house with audience chamber built from the actual Imperial throne room set from Return of the Jedi?
And what's up with their "the cost to bail out the Catholic Church from pending sexual misconduct charges"? If they're going to equate being liberal with being a NAMBLA member, they could at least have tried going over-the-top to make it funny.
four notes is the best statistical approximation of "substantially similar" that I have ever found. Do you have a better one?
Well, that's the thing. The law is deliberately left vague to allow the courts room to interpret. There is no set figure because in one case, four notes might be more than enough to indicate a copyright violation, whereas in another someone might get away with using ten.
The best advice is just to use your best judgment when sampling, at least if you plan on selling the work. If you think using a sample makes your music sound noticeably similar to the original, the courts probably would too.
Exactly.
Sampling is the art of collage on a sonic level. Incorporating parts of popular culture into a work can be a very effective commentary, as well as a way to call up people's conscious and subconscious associations with the sampled source.
Skinny Puppy is an excellent example of how sampling can be used in the right hands. I don't think anyone would argue that their use of - say - brief samples of a Bugs Bunny cartoon would detract from the value of the original work, which is all the should really matter as far as copyright law is concerned.
A clarification: while there was a lawsuit over four notes, that does not mean there is a "four note rule." As the second article you link to states, the test is for the tune being "substantially similar." It can be one, four, or whatever.
The "four note rule" is in many ways equivalent to the "24 hour rule" and "after X years it's abandonware rule" for pirated software - an urban legend that can prove dangerous to people who put faith in it.
It's backed by Visa as long as the transaction occurs on their network.
The Zero Liability policy covers all Visa credit and debit card transactions processed over the Visa network--online or off. The only transactions not covered under the Zero Liability policy are commercial card, ATM, and non-Visa-branded PIN transactions.
For transactions on other networks, the liability decision is left to the financial institution that issued your card. The Issuer has the option of extending the same protections afforded by Visa's Zero Liability policy.
-- Zero Liability
It's better protection than I thought it might have, but it's still not as good as a credit card, which is required by law to limit the holder's liability.
Are you sure that your debit card has fraud protection? most debit cards do not, as they are regulated differently than credit cards.
My Visa debit card, for example, does not, so I put all my online transactions on my actual credit card.
I realize that was their plan, but not everyone is as big of a dork and willing to buy the same movie twice as I am.
That's funny, I thought they fucked up by not including the normal cut of the film on one of the discs.
It was interesting to see the alternate takes and shots, but I really prefer the non-Director's-edition.
I think part of the problem was that the machines were totally non-humanoid. When you have a little wedge running around on wheels, most people are not going to be able to anthropomorphize it and care whether it wins or loses*.
Humanoid shapes are obviously not optimal for most machine combat applications, but IMO this type of series would be a lot more popular if the robots were at least five feet tall and walked on two legs... and were armed with more interesting weapons. Something like those big-gun radio controlled warship games people play, but with scale battlemechs instead of WWII naval craft.
* I realize these are remote-controlled machines.
I agree on both counts. The page is cleverly written, but the actual wav files sound like he sampled the record, then looped some synthesized or shortwave-radio noise over the top of it.
Also, in dneedle1.wav there is a pop that IMO could not have been generated by anything except a turntable needle hitting a scratch.
Wow, that's unfortunate. I'm really surprised. Even total copyright zealots like Viacom/Paramount don't seem to give people trouble if they're not making money from their fan sites.
...is that the site owners who were hassled were trying to make money from their sites.
I don't think *any* corporation has a problem with fan sites that are put together as a resource or community for their subject matter. Most of them are even generous about letting them use their IP.
What becomes an issue is when the owners of those sites decide to try and use their position for their own gain - for example, selling unauthorized merchandise, as at least one of the people quoted in the article did.
This is simply the difference between running a Star Trek fan site and using your site to sell bootleg CDRs of the episodes. Even if you're just covering the cost of hosting, it's still a crime, and naive to think that any copyright holder will allow it.
The thing is, some of us don't want our (in my case still hypothetical) children hearing every curse word, seeing every head blown off, and seeing every sex scene in every movie.
The solution is simple: don't watch those films with your hypothetical children. Your argument supposes a non-existent right to watch movies the way you want to see them.
No one is forced to have children. Anyone who chooses to do so needs to accept the consequences, which will likely include not being able to consume certain entertainment with them.
Aside from the other comments people have posted, I doubt that even a white-hot rock travelling at slingshot velocities would stay in contact with the balloon long enough to damage it. It would just bounce off, and burn whatever it landed on.
I don't feel the slightest pity for you. If you chain yourself to a single vendor with no way out you are asking for being raped. And it's irrelevant if that single vendor is called Microsoft, Apple or Sun. I can imagine that since the original poster is a professional developer, it would be very productive for him to go to his employer and say "sorry guys, M$ sux0rz, I'm going to install *ix/OS X/whatever, and you'll have to retool your entire operation to take that into account. But don't worry, I've got WINE!"
I think it's very likely that he meant Betacam, not Betamax. There is no way the difference between Betamax and VHS would should up on camera.
Actually, as others have posted, this turns out not to be the case.
Betacam is a broadcast format. Betamax (AKA "Beta") is a home format. They have little in common other than both being made by Sony.
From an email exchange I had with some friends on this topic:
"Alien abductions of rednecks are extraordinarily common, and if you have any doubt of that, watch Fire in the Sky!
Scottish warriors nearly overthrowing the British were extraordinarily common centuries ago, and if you have any doubt of that, watch Braveheart!
Roman generals being cast down in shame, then working their way up through the ranks of the gladiators and ultimately engaging the emperor in single-handed combat and winning at the cost of their own life were extraordinarily common in ancient Rome, and if you have any doubt of that watch Gladiator!"