Makes me think about the concept of free lunches, in the hopes that the patron would buy expensive drinks while eating. A nearby pizza place operates something similar, where one can pay a fixed sum and eat as much pizza from specified selection as one like. This in the likely hope that one will buy soda or beer rather then drink water.
Indeed, comparing this to RIAA is missing the mark. This would be ASCAP in USA, iirc. Basically, the argument is that if a radio is being played in a bar then the bar benefits from said music (it replaced live entertainment after all). And so should share the profits with the artist(s) involved in making the music being played.
The basic mixup right now is that we have the actual creators (authors, artists) and the middle men distributors (publishers, record studios). Likely what your seeing is that the latter pushes for more stringent copyright in the same of the former, while shafting the former 6 ways to sunday.
Modern day copyright got its start for two reasons.
1. to maintain a lucrative monopoly that printers (the stationers guild) held in London thanks to a censure law passed under a previous monarch.
2. to provide authors a share in the profits from the sale of printed copies of their works.
the issue in Belgium is about point 2, largely thanks to the in-material form of creative works. If it had been a bar stool or glass, it would have been a one time sale and that would be it. But as recorded works can be "reproduced" a infinite number of times, the thinking soon becomes very complicated indeed. We are reaching the point where the thinking is the equivalent of a carpenter insisting on a share of the rent for life + 70 years because he was there to set up a dry wall one day.
Not only the record industry is hunting for the short term "big thing", every industry is. Nobody is looking beyond the quarter, much less the year, 5 year or decade.
and the price difference seems to be largely down to two tings.
1. the cost of the touch screen.
2. a premium markup on anything with a mobile radio inside it. This because the hardware companies are not selling direct to customers, but to telcos that can then sell the products at a contract related subsidy.
honestly, going for 13 on up is not not exactly the same as 12 on down. This as one is moving into the age range where biology have seen it fitting to make people fertile. Hell, it may even be that the social drive towards looking young for longer in life has a basis in said biology.
Not sure why it worked in grub, but i suspect the reason why it did not work on login (if it was graphical) is the age old problem of X going its own ways when it comes to hardware.
I got that same sensation, tho it could be because of the same source material. The brief mention of a conversation with two "members" i do not recall showing up in any of the Arstechnica stuff.
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If only so much of game theory was not based on a paranoid schizophrenic world view...
Well sailors use(d) song as a means of timing, so it is not impossible.
Indeed. Just like a music or sports prodigy, he has found something he loves doing and have done it every chance he has gotten.
theoretical physics have already reached the point of being untestable unless one can launch a spacecraft into close proximity to a black hole...
Enthusiasts of any stripe will never grasp the concept of "good enough".
Makes me think about the concept of free lunches, in the hopes that the patron would buy expensive drinks while eating. A nearby pizza place operates something similar, where one can pay a fixed sum and eat as much pizza from specified selection as one like. This in the likely hope that one will buy soda or beer rather then drink water.
Indeed, comparing this to RIAA is missing the mark. This would be ASCAP in USA, iirc. Basically, the argument is that if a radio is being played in a bar then the bar benefits from said music (it replaced live entertainment after all). And so should share the profits with the artist(s) involved in making the music being played.
The basic mixup right now is that we have the actual creators (authors, artists) and the middle men distributors (publishers, record studios). Likely what your seeing is that the latter pushes for more stringent copyright in the same of the former, while shafting the former 6 ways to sunday.
Modern day copyright got its start for two reasons.
1. to maintain a lucrative monopoly that printers (the stationers guild) held in London thanks to a censure law passed under a previous monarch.
2. to provide authors a share in the profits from the sale of printed copies of their works.
the issue in Belgium is about point 2, largely thanks to the in-material form of creative works. If it had been a bar stool or glass, it would have been a one time sale and that would be it. But as recorded works can be "reproduced" a infinite number of times, the thinking soon becomes very complicated indeed. We are reaching the point where the thinking is the equivalent of a carpenter insisting on a share of the rent for life + 70 years because he was there to set up a dry wall one day.
Not only the record industry is hunting for the short term "big thing", every industry is. Nobody is looking beyond the quarter, much less the year, 5 year or decade.
must be a recent setup, as it seems that there have been no "temporary" quick-fixes applied.
And would allow for printing of replacement chips for various products rather then order from some central supplier.
In the end it yet again comes down to public education, or lack of such, related to the subject.
And then comes the next trick, being able to feed data back...
that corporate world is a fucked up world.
Ipad2 have been promoed with imovie lately, iirc.
and the price difference seems to be largely down to two tings.
1. the cost of the touch screen.
2. a premium markup on anything with a mobile radio inside it. This because the hardware companies are not selling direct to customers, but to telcos that can then sell the products at a contract related subsidy.
Sounds a bit like how Woz built the first Apple computers, finding ways to do more with less.
Well RISC is still around in the form of ARM cpus...
honestly, going for 13 on up is not not exactly the same as 12 on down. This as one is moving into the age range where biology have seen it fitting to make people fertile. Hell, it may even be that the social drive towards looking young for longer in life has a basis in said biology.
morality vs biological instincts, 50/50 odds on what wins.
if the work on implementing a GSM base station using free software will result in this being proven right or wrong once and for all.
no moving parts?
Efficiency is of a lesser concern when the source is hanging there in the sky for hours each day.
Hackers may have had some crazy graphics, but the references where much more on the nail then anything Independence Day produced.
Not sure why it worked in grub, but i suspect the reason why it did not work on login (if it was graphical) is the age old problem of X going its own ways when it comes to hardware.
When it comes to Marx, i would say his predictions about capitalism seems to have played out with startling accuracy.
I got that same sensation, tho it could be because of the same source material. The brief mention of a conversation with two "members" i do not recall showing up in any of the Arstechnica stuff.