Copyright laws were made at first because publishers made copies of authors' works without their consent or giving them compensation. The idea was to give authors control for a time to allow them to profit from it and thereby encourage more creative works. That's been twisted now of course but that was the idea at the time.
Same here, 15kg in the last 6 months. All from going out for a quick powerwalk 6 days a week and gradually cutting down on the worst of the food/drink I used to do a lot of. I weigh myself once a week and seeing that 0.5kg loss most weeks is a great motivation for me. Noticing that pants I used to wear 6 months ago are now too big for me is a great motivator too. 0.5kg a week might not seem that much but it adds up and slow, steady and (importantly) sustainable weight loss is better than crash course diets, at least for me. I don't even see the walking as a chore anymore either, it feels good to get out and do it now.
And I still wonder if any of that money is actually going to the artists. Because I think they don't see a cent and that that is the main point over actually selling stuff.
There was an article a few weeks ago about swedish artist Magnus Uggla, who apparently is mad as hell about Spotify and isn't going to take it any longer. The article is here (in Swedish). A summary in english is here.
Some basics things: Uggla, who's a reasonably big artist in Sweden, made as much from Spotify as he claims an average busker in the street makes in a day. Sony has bought 6% of Spotify, valued at 2 billion SEK for 30,000 SEK. His conclusion for why Spotify would agree to that deal is that Sony in return lets Spotify get their artists on the cheap. In other words, Sony makes money, the artists do not.
In the swedish article Hasse Breiholtz of Sony Sweden defends the arrangement by saying that Spotify wouldn't exist if the artists would get paid better for now. He says you have to give the legal services a chance to establish themselves first, and later raise the fees to a level where the artists get fairly compensated.
Extending it to iPods only makes sense if it makes sense to pay them for blank media in exchange for the right to copy music for personal use in the first place. If it doesn't, and many would argue it doesn't, it would make more sense to get rid of the blank media levy instead.
"Blizzard Entertainment was unavailable for comment at the time of publication."
I'd guess they might not be thrilled with an organized effort directed at making people stop giving them money, taking place on their own servers no less. I wonder how they'll be making contact with these players. The kind of players they want to talk to is hardly the kind that will seek out counceling on their own. How will they know who to contact, will they count on friends to connect them? How will they get past the (probably) inevitable/ignore that will result from an unsolicited therapy session attempt?
If you'd RTFA you'd known he's pumping warm water down, not cold water up. Not sure what that difference means to the chances of this thing working but hey.
It won't teach 'all' negligent users anything. At most the ones that will get their drives wiped and plenty of those will just buy a new computer since the old one's 'broken' and continue the same way as before. There were still negligent users left after CiH and there'll still be loads left after this.
"Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code."
Funny what you can learn from TFA.
If your looking to make porn and want to avoid being targeted: dont do anything that pushes the limits, especially (or perhaps, specifically) in areas that could be regarded as degration/humiliation by whoever happens to be in power.
And once people start doing that you have a nice chilling effect in.. err.. effect.
For me, giving myself any deadlines whatsoever when I'm already unmotivated has the exact opposite effect. It just stresses me out more and makes any block even harder. Breaking things up in smaller pieces is very good, though. I just won't pressure myself to get them done. If/when I notice that 13 out of 19 tasks are done I usually start to feel better about it but I have to get to 13 in my own time or I probably won't get there at all.
This is for my own stuff obviously, for work stuff I just have to suck it up and work with the deadlines.
One week later there was an update that stated his problems were more complex than originally thought. It was in this second message that the medical leave of absence was announced. http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/14advisory.html
Did Apple, the company, state he took a medical leave because he 'only' had a hormonal imbalance? Steve Jobs posted that, at first, and then one week or so later he sent an update to the staff which the company released to the public stating his problems were more complex than originally thought. The medical leave was announced in that second message.
"Since its rotational axis is not toward the Earth, Betelgeuse's supernova would not cause a gamma ray burst in the direction of Earth large enough to damage its ecosystem even from a relatively close proximity of 520 light years."
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Copyright laws were made at first because publishers made copies of authors' works without their consent or giving them compensation. The idea was to give authors control for a time to allow them to profit from it and thereby encourage more creative works. That's been twisted now of course but that was the idea at the time.
This is the kind of feedback all open source developers love.
Indeed, the Lockerbie bombing for example. Apparently a bomb that fit in a tape recorder was enough to blow a hole in the fuselage and that was that.
Or maybe they could just turn their boat and go around it.
Same here, 15kg in the last 6 months. All from going out for a quick powerwalk 6 days a week and gradually cutting down on the worst of the food/drink I used to do a lot of. I weigh myself once a week and seeing that 0.5kg loss most weeks is a great motivation for me. Noticing that pants I used to wear 6 months ago are now too big for me is a great motivator too. 0.5kg a week might not seem that much but it adds up and slow, steady and (importantly) sustainable weight loss is better than crash course diets, at least for me. I don't even see the walking as a chore anymore either, it feels good to get out and do it now.
There was an article a few weeks ago about swedish artist Magnus Uggla, who apparently is mad as hell about Spotify and isn't going to take it any longer. The article is here (in Swedish). A summary in english is here.
Some basics things: Uggla, who's a reasonably big artist in Sweden, made as much from Spotify as he claims an average busker in the street makes in a day. Sony has bought 6% of Spotify, valued at 2 billion SEK for 30,000 SEK. His conclusion for why Spotify would agree to that deal is that Sony in return lets Spotify get their artists on the cheap. In other words, Sony makes money, the artists do not.
In the swedish article Hasse Breiholtz of Sony Sweden defends the arrangement by saying that Spotify wouldn't exist if the artists would get paid better for now. He says you have to give the legal services a chance to establish themselves first, and later raise the fees to a level where the artists get fairly compensated.
Extending it to iPods only makes sense if it makes sense to pay them for blank media in exchange for the right to copy music for personal use in the first place. If it doesn't, and many would argue it doesn't, it would make more sense to get rid of the blank media levy instead.
Did you never hear Everquest being referred to as 'Evercrack'?
Well I guess not if you never heard about mmo addiction before WoW. It certainly happened though.
"Blizzard Entertainment was unavailable for comment at the time of publication."
/ignore that will result from an unsolicited therapy session attempt?
I'd guess they might not be thrilled with an organized effort directed at making people stop giving them money, taking place on their own servers no less. I wonder how they'll be making contact with these players. The kind of players they want to talk to is hardly the kind that will seek out counceling on their own. How will they know who to contact, will they count on friends to connect them? How will they get past the (probably) inevitable
World of Warcraft has been pretty succesful for a game with graphics that are more cartoony than realistic as well.
If you'd RTFA you'd known he's pumping warm water down, not cold water up. Not sure what that difference means to the chances of this thing working but hey.
Reading the article makes it seem like a fitness boot camp. They're not giving their kids to the military.
It won't teach 'all' negligent users anything. At most the ones that will get their drives wiped and plenty of those will just buy a new computer since the old one's 'broken' and continue the same way as before. There were still negligent users left after CiH and there'll still be loads left after this.
"Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code." Funny what you can learn from TFA.
And once people start doing that you have a nice chilling effect in .. err.. effect.
Can't the public protect themselves by not ordering it? Why does it need help from the government to do that?
For me, giving myself any deadlines whatsoever when I'm already unmotivated has the exact opposite effect. It just stresses me out more and makes any block even harder. Breaking things up in smaller pieces is very good, though. I just won't pressure myself to get them done. If/when I notice that 13 out of 19 tasks are done I usually start to feel better about it but I have to get to 13 in my own time or I probably won't get there at all.
This is for my own stuff obviously, for work stuff I just have to suck it up and work with the deadlines.
Simple hormonal balance what was released at first:
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/05sjletter.html
One week later there was an update that stated his problems were more complex than originally thought. It was in this second message that the medical leave of absence was announced.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/14advisory.html
Did Apple, the company, state he took a medical leave because he 'only' had a hormonal imbalance? Steve Jobs posted that, at first, and then one week or so later he sent an update to the staff which the company released to the public stating his problems were more complex than originally thought. The medical leave was announced in that second message.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/05sjletter.html
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/14advisory.html
Does it have to be more complicated than online/offline?
Because there's nothing sysadmins love more than training helpdesk people (or any people) to do sysadmin stuff.
I think the usual thing is that publishers send them footage of the 'worst' stuff in their game and the base the rating on that.
These people have no idea what creepy means. Imagine how creepy life must be for the goatse man.
Fingerprints would probably evolve away within a few generations if people didn't need the increased friction on the iPod click wheel.
"Since its rotational axis is not toward the Earth, Betelgeuse's supernova would not cause a gamma ray burst in the direction of Earth large enough to damage its ecosystem even from a relatively close proximity of 520 light years."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betelgeuse