OK, maybe I haven't used them for a while (briefly, not real impressed), but when did they start charging $30/month? Or maybe this is some "enhanced" service level?
Any case, I though the whole flap was mostly about people getting "free" music. Doesn't sound free to me.
is a feature, not a bug. It adds value to anything to which it is attached. People find more value in something which has all the legal attributes of physical media.
This includes digital media.
So its not technically feasible? People may have said that about DRM a few years ago. If its not technically feasible at the moment get your smart guys together, get the thinking caps on, and make it so.
Heck, if you want, charge 5 or 10 cents per song for the added feature.
Apparently the news is only running the RIAA's side of the story.
Follow the money.
I wouldn't be surprised if many of the major media outlets are either RIAA and/or MPAA members, or subsidiaries of members. And even without that, whose side do you think they'd pick? The EFF?
Is that people like parents, kids who dont know better, collage students etc, are going to give out this information willingly.
It'll be like watching those horror movies, where you see some dumb guy walking into the deserted house, going "Dude? You in here?," then gets hacked to death. Or maybe like one of those poor redshirts from Star Trek, who wander off and get eaten by the Space Wedgie.
Point is, most of us know better. We shake our heads and laugh that somebody would be dumb enough to try this. But somebody will.
I'm reminded of that demotivational poster, which shows the wreckage of a ship in shallow water, and has a caption: "Mistakes: It may be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others."
Now, this assumes that I do not have a cellphone, since otherwise why pay for VoIP if your cellphone works fine?
The problem I have is that my landline telephone has been more reliable (way more) than either the electricity or the broadband. I am hesitant to tie my telephone service to the broadband, since if it goes out, I have no telephone and no way to call and say that I have no telephone.
Its like those helpful suggestions while on hold with the broadband folks to visit their website, when you're calling them because you can't visit any website.
When everybody knows somebody who's been sued or threatened, that's when you will see the backlash as never before. The DMCA will gain universal awareness with the public at large, and not just with the geek culture.
For example, if I were to post an entire album by $BAND along with a critique, everyone would agree that this was copyright infringement.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but there's a big difference between posting an illegal copy of something on your website, and linking to some illegal posting on another person's website.
Maybe you could argue that by posting a link I'm facilitating copyright violations. It would be free speech to say "You can find this album here. Its illegal, and its not mine, but there it is if you want it."
Look at it this way: its illegal to run around in public with no clothes on, but its not illegal to point at the silly naked man.
Umm, then how did I know about the lack of a cassette interface? Or the the laughable lack of a Backspace key? (Yes, I did RTFA.) And I didn't notice any mention of non-volatile RAM. ROM, yes. RAM, no.
Besides, even with non-volatile RAM, how much could that possibly be? On an authentic Apple I replica? Certainly not enough to store all your laboriously typed-in machine code, etc. And when you run out of space, delete it, only to type it in again later? About as fun as slamming your thumb in the car door...
...to match the original Apple I, then you should also add a cassette interface, since the Apple I had that too.
Part of hobbying around with stuff like this is spending hours keying in your own code, watching it do its thing. But if you can't save the product of your efforts, well, that sucks.
I have an old Sinclair ZX-81 which I found still works, mostly, but I can't get it to load a program from tape anymore, or save it. So other than being a nostalgic piece of technology, its pretty much useless.
I don't believe in the supernatural. Instead, I have decided to believe in the superdupernatural, the hypernatural, and the googlenatural.
And as for that voodoo doll, I've been looking for that thing! I mean, you draw one pentagram on the floor, then you go to look for your voodoo doll, and then you can't find it. I hate when that happens...
by the time you pile seven of these things on top of each other they are nowhere near equivalent sizes.
Okay, so a meter is about 39 inches, so 7 of these will be about 21 inches longer than 7 yards, or 23 feet versus about 21 feet. About 10% difference.
Don't mean to nitpick your nitpicking, but while this measurement is clearly not suitable for carpentry or anything else requiring tolerances of less than 1/8 inch, it'll probably do for spitting contests and making the brown note.
Memorization is one of the easiest skills that the human brain is capable of.
It's forgetting that's hard. When you want to. I still remember a 12-digit pin code which I used in connection with a job I had nearly 2 years ago.
But at least I have no trouble remembering account names and passwords which I use infrequently. And I don't remember my old phone numbers, I guess partly because I never really used them other than to give them out to other people.
there's a line between doing correct mathematics and insightful/interesting/useful mathematics
Just to tell you, I'm not a musician, but my dad (who was) had this book by Hindemuth (sp?) which was supposed to spell out some "rules" of making interesting musical compositions. Supposedly you could compose something that followed all these rules, and yet be extremely bland...
Or it could be very interesting, no guarantees. But break these rules, and most of the time you came out with something like Metallica.
So the short of it is, yes, just like in other stuff, you can be technically correct, and yet have copy suitable for lining a birdcage.
Alright? Name one new technology which somebody has not tried to apply to sex or other sex-related activities.
How long did it take somebody to first have sex in a car once it was invented? Especially once the backseat was added...
If it can reproduce an image, a sound, a moving picture, somebody was going to figure out how to put porn on it.
If the technology could help transfer this media, same thing.
(And those cellphones with cameras? Those things weren't even on the store shelves before some moist-palmed perv was thinking of an angle for it...)
For crying-out-loud, the whole Internet is swimming in porn, and many prudes have had wet dreams of clamping down on all that.
The RIAA is just engaging in a cynical attempt of saying "think-of-the-children" as they beg for their own special law to clamp down on P2P. And since they're looking to hook up with the Republicans, they want to play the porn card. If the Democrats were the golden child, they'd be playing up P2P as a medium for racists, white supremacists, and just generally politically incorrect communication.
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they didn't find a rabbit in there. Then we'd all be referring to "derabbiting" or "derabbitizing" the program.
Of course, just because you're paying for something, does not make it legit to use it.
Any case, I though the whole flap was mostly about people getting "free" music. Doesn't sound free to me.
This includes digital media.
So its not technically feasible? People may have said that about DRM a few years ago. If its not technically feasible at the moment get your smart guys together, get the thinking caps on, and make it so.
Heck, if you want, charge 5 or 10 cents per song for the added feature.
Follow the money.
I wouldn't be surprised if many of the major media outlets are either RIAA and/or MPAA members, or subsidiaries of members. And even without that, whose side do you think they'd pick? The EFF?
It'll be like watching those horror movies, where you see some dumb guy walking into the deserted house, going "Dude? You in here?," then gets hacked to death. Or maybe like one of those poor redshirts from Star Trek, who wander off and get eaten by the Space Wedgie.
Point is, most of us know better. We shake our heads and laugh that somebody would be dumb enough to try this. But somebody will.
I'm reminded of that demotivational poster, which shows the wreckage of a ship in shallow water, and has a caption: "Mistakes: It may be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others."
Crisco, too.
The problem I have is that my landline telephone has been more reliable (way more) than either the electricity or the broadband. I am hesitant to tie my telephone service to the broadband, since if it goes out, I have no telephone and no way to call and say that I have no telephone.
Its like those helpful suggestions while on hold with the broadband folks to visit their website, when you're calling them because you can't visit any website.
Catch-22. Chicken-and-the-egg.
And thwack the hell out of you with it. Don't trust them.
Things are going to get very ugly.
Yeah, about 5 seconds after lawyers become illegal.
Of course not! I was thinking of one of those gas-powered portable generators, with keyed ignition, naturally.
So how about a color LCD screen? Backlighting is good, but I hate monochrome when they can do better.
Maybe I'm missing something here, but there's a big difference between posting an illegal copy of something on your website, and linking to some illegal posting on another person's website.
Maybe you could argue that by posting a link I'm facilitating copyright violations. It would be free speech to say "You can find this album here. Its illegal, and its not mine, but there it is if you want it."
Look at it this way: its illegal to run around in public with no clothes on, but its not illegal to point at the silly naked man.
Umm, then how did I know about the lack of a cassette interface? Or the the laughable lack of a Backspace key? (Yes, I did RTFA.) And I didn't notice any mention of non-volatile RAM. ROM, yes. RAM, no.
Besides, even with non-volatile RAM, how much could that possibly be? On an authentic Apple I replica? Certainly not enough to store all your laboriously typed-in machine code, etc. And when you run out of space, delete it, only to type it in again later? About as fun as slamming your thumb in the car door...
Part of hobbying around with stuff like this is spending hours keying in your own code, watching it do its thing. But if you can't save the product of your efforts, well, that sucks.
I have an old Sinclair ZX-81 which I found still works, mostly, but I can't get it to load a program from tape anymore, or save it. So other than being a nostalgic piece of technology, its pretty much useless.
...Stafford Beer. Aaaaaaaaaggghh...
Yes, its very good to know the difference between a meter and a yard when you're, say, landing a Mars spacecraft...
I don't believe in the supernatural. Instead, I have decided to believe in the superdupernatural, the hypernatural, and the googlenatural.
And as for that voodoo doll, I've been looking for that thing! I mean, you draw one pentagram on the floor, then you go to look for your voodoo doll, and then you can't find it. I hate when that happens...
Okay, so a meter is about 39 inches, so 7 of these will be about 21 inches longer than 7 yards, or 23 feet versus about 21 feet. About 10% difference.
Don't mean to nitpick your nitpicking, but while this measurement is clearly not suitable for carpentry or anything else requiring tolerances of less than 1/8 inch, it'll probably do for spitting contests and making the brown note.
Seriously, not trying to be funny-- what is a cemmy? And from what was it detached? Do you mean cemetery? You moved into a cemetery?
Dude, did "Poltergeist" teach you nothing?
It's forgetting that's hard. When you want to. I still remember a 12-digit pin code which I used in connection with a job I had nearly 2 years ago.
But at least I have no trouble remembering account names and passwords which I use infrequently. And I don't remember my old phone numbers, I guess partly because I never really used them other than to give them out to other people.
Just to tell you, I'm not a musician, but my dad (who was) had this book by Hindemuth (sp?) which was supposed to spell out some "rules" of making interesting musical compositions. Supposedly you could compose something that followed all these rules, and yet be extremely bland...
Or it could be very interesting, no guarantees. But break these rules, and most of the time you came out with something like Metallica.
So the short of it is, yes, just like in other stuff, you can be technically correct, and yet have copy suitable for lining a birdcage.
SCO needs a new strategy. Claim that Linux contains child pornography, just like the recent tack of the RIAA WRT P2P. (Wow, sorry for the acronyms...)
They can also claim that it will curve your spine, give you hairy palms, and that its powered by the slaughter of cute puppies and/or baby harp seals.
And also mention that the GPL, played backwards, sounds a lot like Satan. (What exactly does Satan sound like?)
And of course, as always, provide absolutely no proof...
How long did it take somebody to first have sex in a car once it was invented? Especially once the backseat was added...
If it can reproduce an image, a sound, a moving picture, somebody was going to figure out how to put porn on it.
If the technology could help transfer this media, same thing.
(And those cellphones with cameras? Those things weren't even on the store shelves before some moist-palmed perv was thinking of an angle for it...)
For crying-out-loud, the whole Internet is swimming in porn, and many prudes have had wet dreams of clamping down on all that.
The RIAA is just engaging in a cynical attempt of saying "think-of-the-children" as they beg for their own special law to clamp down on P2P. And since they're looking to hook up with the Republicans, they want to play the porn card. If the Democrats were the golden child, they'd be playing up P2P as a medium for racists, white supremacists, and just generally politically incorrect communication.