My job won't keep paying me after I die, in fact it pays alot less than while I'm alive now than he made while alive, yet that's all I get to leavemy heirs.
Your life. Your choices. No investments, no savings, no trust fund, no insurance?
Lenon chanced a career in music over the life of a respectable middle class Brit. It brought him to a life and a death (at age forty) that none of us will ever know.
You completely forgot about the most important Vista video-related feature--its baked-in support for Digital Restrictions Management.
DRN is in Vista for two reasons:
1 Business wants it for documents. Internal controls, legal requirements, whattever.
2 The major content providers demand it for media. Books, music and video. Your neighbors aren't ahelling out the big bucks for home theater gear to feed the P2P nets. They are buying it to watch the movies.
No one will be jumping through hoops to get what Dell and Apple can delicer out of the box.
Given that copyright was intended to give artists incentive to continue creating music (which is the grandparent's point, and also happens to be true), how does the Lennon estate justify its privilege to hold the rights to John's work? How are they furthering the cause of encouraging new music creation?
John's work is his estate.
What drives our most creative and ambitious talents we may ever fully understand but building an estate for one's family is often very much a part of it.
In any event. the distribution of his estate was his decision alone. Would you chose to have your own estate extinguished to serve some nebulous public purpose? I didn't think so.
For thousands of years, we had no IP laws. Minstrels, musicians, writers and poets copied from one another and competed for the resulting ubiquity of their works. Hundreds of thousands of books were thus preserved, until they were intentionally destroyed at Alexandria.
From the classical to the modern era almost the whole of western art and literature can be traced to the independently wealthy or those working under aristocratic or clerical patronage. The lower class has no voice. The middle class has no voice. Women have no voice.
You don't need to go to law when you have a divine-right King or a Pope at your back. But neither do you have the freedom to say anything against their interest. Unless, of course, you are prepared to burn at the stake like Tyndale.
Considering the Beatles haven't been heavily advertised since Anthology, which was almost 10 years ago, I'd say that was pretty damn good. Estates and commercialism aside, the Beatles wrote and performed some amazing music. If all the IP laws in the world disappeared tomorrow, their music would not be forgotten. So what is the function of the Lennon estate again?
All art goes in and out of style. It will happen in time, even to the Beatles.
We have the whole of Disney and only fragments from other studios. I'll take the odds on family pride and self-interest when it comes to long-term survival.
Can you point me to the transcript of the trial which took place proving beyond all reasonable doubt that the OLGA website infringed on any copyright at any time?
"Proof beyond a reasonable doubt" is the standard for a verdict of guilt or innocence in an American criminal trial.
In civil litigation there is simply a finding for the plaintiff or the defendent based on the weight of the evidence, It is enough that the scales tilt in your favor.
It is not easy for a publisher to win an action for defamation in American law. That is the opposite side of the coin of his freedom to publish without priore restraint. It would be enough for the defendant in this case to to say that he was expressing a layman's opinion in a matter of public concern.
I just realized I infringed an author's copyright the other day. I was reading a book, thus copying its content from the paper it was printed on through my eyes into my brain. I just hope he doesn't find out, or he'll sue the hell out of me.
"You come in here with a skull full of mush..." Copyright protects the right of distribution and the publication of unlicensed derivative works.
A huge percentage of tabs available is useless, because they are plain wrong or cannot be used to "reproduce" a certain song without knowing the original work quite well
Congratulations. You have just made the case for the copyright holder intent on protecting the integrity of his work.
Isn't it awful? If people keep infringing his copyrights, John Lennon might have to quit music and get a day job!
It is called estate planning, asset management. Something the grown-ups here will understand.
Then where will all the Beatles fans be? They'll be moaning about how they aren't getting any new Beatles music, I'm sure.
NASA loses the moon-walk tapes. The master recordings of The Beatles are preserved and protected because they have commercial value. There are 170 Beatles titles in print. The alblums. Live performances, BBC transcriptions.
Interpretations of The Beatles by other significant talents must number in the thosands. The Cirque du Soleil's "Love" sella out at $150 a seat in Las Vegas.
but does a out-of-the-box PC have the same quality of applications (iLife, iTunes, iCal, Mail.app, etc) with the same level of seamless integration?
If Vista ships with a full iLife suite the posters here will be crying foul. Wah! It has an integrated browser! Wah! It has a media playe!
But you don't buy the Vista PC because it ships with a calendar app, you buy it because MSDOS and Windows have been in your home and office for as long as twenty-five years.
The availability of hardware, software and peripherals is unmatched. You can buy or build a Windows PC in any configuration imaginable and at any price point and customize it to your heart's content.
You can pay full retail list for the latest and greatest FPS, or bag Fallout and System Shock at a garage sale for 50 cents.
The whole idea that Apple could 'kill' Microsoft or Dell is too far-fetched to even consider
Dual-booting or virtualization can make sense in some environments. But, for most of us, learning and maintaining one OS and one set of applications (which more or less work in the same way) is altogether quite enough.
BetaMax was far better quality then VHS, but look which survived. The original Mac beat Windows 3.1 hands down, but again look who has 95% of the desktop market?
Betamax had better video, but who had a TV set that could display it? I have a brand-name color TV from as late as 1990 that doesn't have an S-Video input. Betamax entered the market when the RF output for video games and home PCs was still the norm.
Windows 3.1 was released in 1992 and was backwards compatible with twelve years of MSDOS software. The MSDOS and Windows PC could be had in any configuration and price point the market would support: rack mounted for industrial use, stripped to the bare bones for routine office work, or maxed-out for gaming. It is and remains an incredibly adaptable platform.
Generic names like "Internet Explorer" actually tend to cause more confusion in the end - they start associating the blue "E" with the entire Internet, which can get annoying after a while if you know the difference.
I remember Delrina's CommSuite from 1995.
There is little in 2006 that you can't be done more simply from within the browser or through a browser extension.
I see this as becoming a spectacular alternative to Windows for any Windows user. Why? Because the software management is so familiar for any semi-experienced Windows user.
You forgot to include his disclaimer: IF PC-BSD came pre-installed...THEN it becomes an alternative to Windows.
That's a mighty big IF right there. But there is little evidence that the semi-experienced Windows user has any interest in migration whatever.
Here, Grandma... this program here will do everything that your Windows box will do. It's got a program that does everything that your Word does, and your e-mail, and your browsing. And it looks like the Windows that you're used to. Why am I showing this to you? Well, Grandma, Windows XP Home and Microsoft Office will cost you about $400.
Dear old Granny never pays retail list. Dear old Granny has ten years or more invested in Windows. Dear old Granny is going to tell you to buzz off.
The apps you mention are, of course, all available for Windows.
On a fresh Gentoo install:
emerge mplayer kmplayer firefox kde netscape-flash blackdown-jre blackdown-jdk xine-ui vlc
That should give you everything, free as in beer. It'll boot fast, too, if you tweak a couple of settings -- I know it supports running init scripts in parallel, a nice little feature of having init scripts state their dependencies, instead of a strict order.
You could post this in Sumerian and find more readers than in Freespire's core market. This much at least would be an eye-opener:
you have to wait probably at least one full day for all of this stuff to compile from scratch
Now back to reality:
The OEM system install, the PC as a plug and play appliance, has been the gold standard in the home and soho market for over twenty-five years.
You will not find an OEM or a big box retailer who will touch a distro that relies on gray market codecs for anything.
(2) they probably (sadly, realistically) calculate the risk of Linspire stealing serious market share from Windows at about 0.1% or less
You may remember Walmart.com's dizzying flirtation with OEM Linux: a merry-go-round of distros and systems that changed from week-to week.
Linux no longer rates its own page, so what remains can be mighty hard to find: perhaps two or three generic Microtel boxes running Linspire or Xandros.
You can forget the matching system bundles, extended warranties, and free home delievery, which customers have come to expect from Dell.
"could this climb to the top of the desktop distro ladder?"
Not without geek support, too.
The desktop distro that reaches the top will be the one that doesn't want and doesn't need the Geek to take it there.
It will be designed from the ground up for non technical end users who expect the same functionality out of the box that they can get from the lowliest entry level Dell or the Mac Mini.
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Your life. Your choices. No investments, no savings, no trust fund, no insurance?
Lenon chanced a career in music over the life of a respectable middle class Brit. It brought him to a life and a death (at age forty) that none of us will ever know.
DRN is in Vista for two reasons:
1 Business wants it for documents. Internal controls, legal requirements, whattever.
2 The major content providers demand it for media. Books, music and video. Your neighbors aren't ahelling out the big bucks for home theater gear to feed the P2P nets. They are buying it to watch the movies.
No one will be jumping through hoops to get what Dell and Apple can delicer out of the box.
John's work is his estate.
What drives our most creative and ambitious talents we may ever fully understand but building an estate for one's family is often very much a part of it.
In any event. the distribution of his estate was his decision alone.
Would you chose to have your own estate extinguished to serve some nebulous public purpose? I didn't think so.
For thousands of years, we had no IP laws. Minstrels, musicians, writers and poets copied from one another and competed for the resulting ubiquity of their works. Hundreds of thousands of books were thus preserved, until they were intentionally destroyed at Alexandria.
From the classical to the modern era almost the whole of western art and literature can be traced to the independently wealthy or those working under aristocratic or clerical patronage. The lower class has no voice. The middle class has no voice. Women have no voice.
You don't need to go to law when you have a divine-right King or a Pope at your back. But neither do you have the freedom to say anything against their interest. Unless, of course, you are prepared to burn at the stake like Tyndale.
Considering the Beatles haven't been heavily advertised since Anthology, which was almost 10 years ago, I'd say that was pretty damn good. Estates and commercialism aside, the Beatles wrote and performed some amazing music. If all the IP laws in the world disappeared tomorrow, their music would not be forgotten. So what is the function of the Lennon estate again?
All art goes in and out of style. It will happen in time, even to the Beatles.
We have the whole of Disney and only fragments from other studios.
I'll take the odds on family pride and self-interest when it comes to long-term survival.
"Proof beyond a reasonable doubt" is the standard for a verdict of guilt or innocence in an American criminal trial.
In civil litigation there is simply a finding for the plaintiff or the defendent based on the weight of the evidence, It is enough that the scales tilt in your favor.
It is not easy for a publisher to win an action for defamation in American law. That is the opposite side of the coin of his freedom to publish without priore restraint. It would be enough for the defendant in this case to to say that he was expressing a layman's opinion in a matter of public concern.
"You come in here with a skull full of mush..."
Copyright protects the right of distribution and the publication of unlicensed derivative works.
Congratulations. You have just made the case for the copyright holder intent on protecting the integrity of his work.
It is called estate planning, asset management. Something the grown-ups here will understand.
Then where will all the Beatles fans be? They'll be moaning about how they aren't getting any new Beatles music, I'm sure.
NASA loses the moon-walk tapes. The master recordings of The Beatles are preserved and protected because they have commercial value. There are 170 Beatles titles in print. The alblums. Live performances, BBC transcriptions.
Interpretations of The Beatles by other significant talents must number in the thosands. The Cirque du Soleil's "Love" sella out at $150 a seat in Las Vegas.
If Vista ships with a full iLife suite the posters here will be crying foul. Wah! It has an integrated browser! Wah! It has a media playe!
But you don't buy the Vista PC because it ships with a calendar app, you buy it because MSDOS and Windows have been in your home and office for as long as twenty-five years.
The availability of hardware, software and peripherals is unmatched. You can buy or build a Windows PC in any configuration imaginable and at any price point and customize it to your heart's content.
You can pay full retail list for the latest and greatest FPS, or bag Fallout and System Shock at a garage sale for 50 cents.
Dual-booting or virtualization can make sense in some environments. But, for most of us, learning and maintaining one OS and one set of applications (which more or less work in the same way) is altogether quite enough.
So your hand-picked stats show a 1% greater share of the U.S. market than mine. Big whoop.
Betamax had better video, but who had a TV set that could display it?
I have a brand-name color TV from as late as 1990 that doesn't have an S-Video input. Betamax entered the market when the RF output for video games and home PCs was still the norm.
Windows 3.1 was released in 1992 and was backwards compatible with twelve years of MSDOS software.
The MSDOS and Windows PC could be had in any configuration and price point the market would support: rack mounted for industrial use, stripped to the bare bones for routine office work, or maxed-out for gaming. It is and remains an incredibly adaptable platform.
"Twice nothing is still nothing." Apple's share of the world market is 2%, of the U.S. market, 3.6%. Apple's struggles to gain PC market share continue June 1, 2006.
The proof-of-concept design is not the same thing as a marketable consumer product.
The network appliance tanks whenever it is tested in the marketplace. Dell at entry level is under $400.
I remember Delrina's CommSuite from 1995.
There is little in 2006 that you can't be done more simply from within the browser or through a browser extension.
You forgot to include his disclaimer: IF PC-BSD came pre-installed...THEN it becomes an alternative to Windows.
That's a mighty big IF right there. But there is little evidence that the semi-experienced Windows user has any interest in migration whatever.
Dear old Granny never pays retail list.
Dear old Granny has ten years or more invested in Windows. Dear old Granny is going to tell you to buzz off.
The apps you mention are, of course, all available for Windows.
emerge mplayer kmplayer firefox kde netscape-flash blackdown-jre blackdown-jdk xine-ui vlc That should give you everything, free as in beer. It'll boot fast, too, if you tweak a couple of settings -- I know it supports running init scripts in parallel, a nice little feature of having init scripts state their dependencies, instead of a strict order.
You could post this in Sumerian and find more readers than in Freespire's core market.
This much at least would be an eye-opener:
you have to wait probably at least one full day for all of this stuff to compile from scratch
Now back to reality:
The OEM system install, the PC as a plug and play appliance, has been the gold standard in the home and soho market for over twenty-five years.
You will not find an OEM or a big box retailer who will touch a distro that relies on gray market codecs for anything.
Oregon family learns high cost of free songs, Homeland Security: Fix your Windows Users are warned again and again that it is safer and cheaper to stay legit. Don't click on that file.
If, for once, they are listening, the Geek has no cause for complaint.
You may remember Walmart.com's dizzying flirtation with OEM Linux: a merry-go-round of distros and systems that changed from week-to week.
Linux no longer rates its own page, so what remains can be mighty hard to find: perhaps two or three generic Microtel boxes running Linspire or Xandros.
You can forget the matching system bundles, extended warranties, and free home delievery, which customers have come to expect from Dell.
Not to spoil your joke, but it's been a long since anyone has had to buy "internet aecutity" software for personal use.
Is that the best you've got? Clippy jokes are so twentienth-century.
The same number that use audio and video in training, marketing and corporate communications.
Power management that works would be something to brag about. The best of both worlds.
The desktop distro that reaches the top will be the one that doesn't want and doesn't need the Geek to take it there.
It will be designed from the ground up for non technical end users who expect the same functionality out of the box that they can get from the lowliest entry level Dell or the Mac Mini.
The rules change when your name is Ferrari, your company builds the Ferrari, and you sponsor the Ferrari racing team.