Intent also enters into sampleing under fair use. If I write a review of the new Harry Potter book that quotes from the scene when a certain character dies, and uses a quote to reveal the ending of a book, I could be sued if it seemed my intent was to get people not to buy the book. Extracting material from a work for the expressed purpose of damaging the commercial viability of the work is not allowed.
I'm not sure this is true, you seem to be saying it's OK to quote copyrighted works if your intention is to praise them but not OK if your intention is to critise them which I am sure is not the case at all.
I would say you have every right to try and talk people out of buying a particular book,film or song and provided you are only quoting sections of the work the question there is nothing the copyright could ( or should ) be able to do about it.
Linux is lightyears ahead of Windows in the install the OS department. I will admit though, installing programs in Windows is easy, so easy that they install all by themselves at times! (heh). Installing software in Linux is tedious and confusing at times
I've recently upgraded to Mandrake 9.1 and installing any of the ( hundreds ) of applications on the DVD is a piece of cake using the Mandrake URPMI system. Most of the applications any average user could possibly want are on the DVD so it generaly Linux installation hassles shouldn't effect most basic users.
I do think Linux needs more support from major applications, the likes of Autoroute and other stuff your Mum and Dad use the PC for but this is a gradual thing and HP selling Linux PC's is a definate step toward major vendors considering Linux support.
Yes, the BBC have a clear bias against parroting the "message of the day" Mr Blair and his cohorts are always trying to push.
I think they also show a definate bias towards serious reporting and providing intelligent, independant comment on the facts and opionions they gather during the course of their reports.
The BBC clearly does not have an anti semite ( not sure what a simitie is, some kind of monkey ? ) agenda.
As someone who often watches the BBC news I have not noticed any particular bias towards Palestinians or Israelies. Palestinian suicide attacks are shown and condemmed and also Israel gunship attacks, Israels efforts to build a giant wall in Palestinian territory are reported as is footage of their politicians and civic leaders explaining they are in this for the long haul and only "defending" themselves.
What I am saying is that is very easy to gain a negative impression of Israel from looking at the facts. If anything Channel 4 news goes into even more depth and would no doubt be considered to be even more biased.
Yeah but by the sound of it that is your job ( unless you enjoy fixing exchange and do it for fun ) so it's not surprising that you come across a lot of broken Exchange installations if it's your job to go and fix them.
Your experience is probably not representative of all exchange installation in the country.
The comment earlier about the MS FUD is bang on, if we are going to moan about their FUD we should at least make sure we don't indulge in the same tactics.
The search engine has to be on his Campus LAN but what would the situation be if the front end of the website was hosted somewhere else and just mirrored the results got from the LAN ?
I agree with you that good albums by bands who do make cohesive and coherent choices about the songs and styling in an album are best listened to as a whole.
However I don't think a lot of the artists mentioned in this protest fall into the category of people who attempt to do this with albums - Will Smith ??
I don't think the ability to buy $0.99 singles will stop people buying the whole album, if the album is a work of art they feel they would get some value or satisfaction from owning.
Being as no-one is going to come to that conclusion when considering Will Smiths or Madonnas albums then they will lose money. But bands like Radiohead who obviously do care about the music will not lose money because people will still buy the album.
"...work of art they put together, the album, will become a thing of the past," says attorney Fred Goldring, whose firm represents Will Smith and Alanis Morissette"
I really would not consider Will Smiths or Alanis Morrisettes albums to be works of art, they are just a collection of songs flung together to fill out the CD. I think they are really worried that people won't bother to buy the albumn because people aren't stupid and wont pay for songs they don't like.
Radiohead on the other hand are a band who may actually employ some kind of quality control and make a proper albumn. In this case they have nothing to worry about because people who appreciate that will still buy their albumn.
In a nutshell it seems to me that 'artists' who sell albumns with 1 hit and 11 filler songs are worried the public won't be forced to buy the 11 crap songs. This seems to me like a good deal for the public.
"The software resulting from government contracts might include only basic features, since developers would be reluctant to allow their cutting-edge technology to be exposed to the public via an open-source licence, Intellect argued."
If you were to ask me I would say that if software companies did concentrate on the basic features rather than the "cutting-edge" stuff we might actually get a lot more IT projects finished in time, on budget and working properly. Which considering the history of all (UK) Government IT projects could only be an improvement.
Now that Mr Mc Bride appears to be claiming the right to extort licencing fees from anything stemming from System V I think he is doing a very good job of illustrating the daftness of the system which gives this claim any ( remote ) credibility at all.
How can a company who have themselves had comparitavley no input whatsoever into the development of System V and anything which has come from that claim rights from the millions of people worldwide who have actually created the programs and applications in question ?
I don't think for a second SCO will get anywhere with these aims either in the US or Worldwide but the fact they even consider they are in with a shot points to the fact that somewhere down the line all common sense has been lost. If one good thing can come from this it's finding out where the current laws diverge from common sense and taking some steps to ensure the work of millions of people and hundreds of corporations can't be held to ransom over similar issues in the future.
"So what? most people don't have brand new stuff and get their jobs done just fine.
In business 99% of the computers are idle, waiting for the user to do something. Even in home life ( games aside ), the computer is NOT being taxed.. its mostly just a expensive heat generating device"
I couldn't agree more. I, like my colleagues and 2 service centres of over 200 staff are currently using Windows 95 on Pentium 166Mhz machines. I have 64Mb memory and a 4gig hard drive. OK these machines are a horror to use on a day to day basis - at least 2 crashes a day, but they do run everything I need to be productive and they do allow me to get my work done, eventually.
If my company had been concerned about always getting the latest and greatest and toeing the upgrade line we would no doubt have wasted an awful lot of money on new hardware & software.
It's also interesting to note we are a large global consultancy who always recommed that our clients absoloutley need the latest flat screen monitors and 2Ghz processors to make their powerpoint presentations on;-)
We could all just shout our messages, everyone within hearing would shout any messages they heard. If there was no-one within hearing range - i.e. you couldn't hear your message being shouted back at you you would simply continue shouting all your messages until such a time as you did get a response. Also you wouldn't reply to any messages you had shouted so this would result in a situation on plane journeys etc where a few people would spend the entire flight shouting messages.
Of course for digital messages you'd need to shout out a string of 0's and 1's and develop some kind of voice to digital convertor ( and vice a versa ) to get them back into the computer
Can anyone see any reasons why this wouldn't be brilliant and work brilliantly?
What you're suggesting might work OK for e-mail or text messaging but it seems to me that most of the information people would want to access using this network would not be distributed.
Currently I think that most of the data most people want to access is held in large datacenters with very big connections to the world at large. I don't see how companies, individuals would be able to distribute this data evenly throughout the network which would either require a far greater number of wireless equipped 'nodes' to be camped on their doorstep to handle the large volume of traffic to the site or some kind of dedicated ( costing the company money ) route to get their data out to the world. If the company has to pay to for this it will be the users who end up picking up the cost and things will not be free for very long.
I am applying for a Patent on the process of applying for a temporary monopoly on a particular design, idea or business process. I am thinking of calling this a 'patent'. I am going to make my 'patents' capable of being hopelessy vague and inclusive and so I can enforce my 'patent' on a very similar process I have noticed going on around the world ( co-incidentally this is also called patenting ) and make a huge amount of money for very litte actual work.
I'm not sure if this will catch on very well though so I will set up my first 'patent office' with just a couple of temps, I only anticipate maybe half a dozen 'patents' being applied for a year so they should have plenty of time to research them all thouroghly even given the fact they can't hope to have any real knowledge of many of the areas my customers may wish to buy their patents in.
It will be great. I will be rich.
I am not surprised by this figure, I was discussing filesharing in the pub on the weekend with some of my friends who are not at all geeky and have never heard of/.
The five of them have widley varying careers and none of them would consider themselves criminals. 2 of them were annoyed about the DeCss saga, 1 was buying a CD Burner to download stuff and burn CD's, another was getting Broadband to download stuff faster and another was already downloading stuff. The other 2 don't have computers.
All these people and most other people I have spoken to do realise that they are probably committing a crime but quite frankly they don't care because (a) they are getting music for free and (b) who cares if the record companies are losing money over it.
Some justifications for those reasons:
People have been getting music for free off their friends for years, there are some favourite albums which have at various times been passed around 10+ people in our extended group over 10 or more years.
In the UK the record companies seem only interested in setting up the next Pop Stars / Pop Idol / Shit manufactured act they can squeeze money from. Very rarely are they promoting any band which people like me are actually interested in - last night I saw on TV that Morrisey is unable to get a new record contract when bozo bands like One True Voice just have to turn up at an audition looking nice and sign away any artistic control over their 'career' from that point on.
The record companies really are bringing this on themselves and no amount of whining and threats from them are going to stop this kind of behaviour.
I have been using Mandrake since version 7 and every single release I have installed has exactly the same problem with Supermount - it has never worked for me and I always end up having to re-write fstab after installation.
That is the only problem I have ever had with Mandrake though.
Fair enough if they don't know the infringing code is in their release but now that they are saying that Linux does contain their Code you have to assume to know it's there and where it is.
If they continue distributing their Linux knowing all of the above then that surely has to undermine any claims they may have.
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I'm not sure this is true, you seem to be saying it's OK to quote copyrighted works if your intention is to praise them but not OK if your intention is to critise them which I am sure is not the case at all.
I would say you have every right to try and talk people out of buying a particular book,film or song and provided you are only quoting sections of the work the question there is nothing the copyright could ( or should ) be able to do about it.
Linux is lightyears ahead of Windows in the install the OS department. I will admit though, installing programs in Windows is easy, so easy that they install all by themselves at times! (heh). Installing software in Linux is tedious and confusing at times
I've recently upgraded to Mandrake 9.1 and installing any of the ( hundreds ) of applications on the DVD is a piece of cake using the Mandrake URPMI system. Most of the applications any average user could possibly want are on the DVD so it generaly Linux installation hassles shouldn't effect most basic users.
I do think Linux needs more support from major applications, the likes of Autoroute and other stuff your Mum and Dad use the PC for but this is a gradual thing and HP selling Linux PC's is a definate step toward major vendors considering Linux support.
The only factor currently working in Frances favour is that at least it is not populated by Americans !
Yes, the BBC have a clear bias against parroting the "message of the day" Mr Blair and his cohorts are always trying to push.
I think they also show a definate bias towards serious reporting and providing intelligent, independant comment on the facts and opionions they gather during the course of their reports.
The BBC clearly does not have an anti semite ( not sure what a simitie is, some kind of monkey ? ) agenda.
As someone who often watches the BBC news I have not noticed any particular bias towards Palestinians or Israelies. Palestinian suicide attacks are shown and condemmed and also Israel gunship attacks, Israels efforts to build a giant wall in Palestinian territory are reported as is footage of their politicians and civic leaders explaining they are in this for the long haul and only "defending" themselves.
What I am saying is that is very easy to gain a negative impression of Israel from looking at the facts. If anything Channel 4 news goes into even more depth and would no doubt be considered to be even more biased.
Yeah but by the sound of it that is your job ( unless you enjoy fixing exchange and do it for fun ) so it's not surprising that you come across a lot of broken Exchange installations if it's your job to go and fix them.
Your experience is probably not representative of all exchange installation in the country.
The comment earlier about the MS FUD is bang on, if we are going to moan about their FUD we should at least make sure we don't indulge in the same tactics.
Having read the article I bet myself that someone would query that almost immediatley. Quite a safe bet really.
The search engine has to be on his Campus LAN but what would the situation be if the front end of the website was hosted somewhere else and just mirrored the results got from the LAN ?
I agree with you that good albums by bands who do make cohesive and coherent choices about the songs and styling in an album are best listened to as a whole.
However I don't think a lot of the artists mentioned in this protest fall into the category of people who attempt to do this with albums - Will Smith ??
I don't think the ability to buy $0.99 singles will stop people buying the whole album, if the album is a work of art they feel they would get some value or satisfaction from owning.
Being as no-one is going to come to that conclusion when considering Will Smiths or Madonnas albums then they will lose money. But bands like Radiohead who obviously do care about the music will not lose money because people will still buy the album.
"...work of art they put together, the album, will become a thing of the past," says attorney Fred Goldring, whose firm represents Will Smith and Alanis Morissette"
I really would not consider Will Smiths or Alanis Morrisettes albums to be works of art, they are just a collection of songs flung together to fill out the CD. I think they are really worried that people won't bother to buy the albumn because people aren't stupid and wont pay for songs they don't like.
Radiohead on the other hand are a band who may actually employ some kind of quality control and make a proper albumn. In this case they have nothing to worry about because people who appreciate that will still buy their albumn.
In a nutshell it seems to me that 'artists' who sell albumns with 1 hit and 11 filler songs are worried the public won't be forced to buy the 11 crap songs. This seems to me like a good deal for the public.
"The software resulting from government contracts might include only basic features, since developers would be reluctant to allow their cutting-edge technology to be exposed to the public via an open-source licence, Intellect argued."
If you were to ask me I would say that if software companies did concentrate on the basic features rather than the "cutting-edge" stuff we might actually get a lot more IT projects finished in time, on budget and working properly. Which considering the history of all (UK) Government IT projects could only be an improvement.
"Dr. McBride(evil): "
Not sure that needed any clarification ;-)
Now that Mr Mc Bride appears to be claiming the right to extort licencing fees from anything stemming from System V I think he is doing a very good job of illustrating the daftness of the system which gives this claim any ( remote ) credibility at all.
How can a company who have themselves had comparitavley no input whatsoever into the development of System V and anything which has come from that claim rights from the millions of people worldwide who have actually created the programs and applications in question ?
I don't think for a second SCO will get anywhere with these aims either in the US or Worldwide but the fact they even consider they are in with a shot points to the fact that somewhere down the line all common sense has been lost. If one good thing can come from this it's finding out where the current laws diverge from common sense and taking some steps to ensure the work of millions of people and hundreds of corporations can't be held to ransom over similar issues in the future.
"So what? most people don't have brand new stuff and get their jobs done just fine.
In business 99% of the computers are idle, waiting for the user to do something. Even in home life ( games aside ), the computer is NOT being taxed.. its mostly just a expensive heat generating device"
I couldn't agree more. I, like my colleagues and 2 service centres of over 200 staff are currently using Windows 95 on Pentium 166Mhz machines. I have 64Mb memory and a 4gig hard drive. OK these machines are a horror to use on a day to day basis - at least 2 crashes a day, but they do run everything I need to be productive and they do allow me to get my work done, eventually.
If my company had been concerned about always getting the latest and greatest and toeing the upgrade line we would no doubt have wasted an awful lot of money on new hardware & software. It's also interesting to note we are a large global consultancy who always recommed that our clients absoloutley need the latest flat screen monitors and 2Ghz processors to make their powerpoint presentations onWe could all just shout our messages, everyone within hearing would shout any messages they heard. If there was no-one within hearing range - i.e. you couldn't hear your message being shouted back at you you would simply continue shouting all your messages until such a time as you did get a response. Also you wouldn't reply to any messages you had shouted so this would result in a situation on plane journeys etc where a few people would spend the entire flight shouting messages. Of course for digital messages you'd need to shout out a string of 0's and 1's and develop some kind of voice to digital convertor ( and vice a versa ) to get them back into the computer Can anyone see any reasons why this wouldn't be brilliant and work brilliantly?
What you're suggesting might work OK for e-mail or text messaging but it seems to me that most of the information people would want to access using this network would not be distributed.
Currently I think that most of the data most people want to access is held in large datacenters with very big connections to the world at large. I don't see how companies, individuals would be able to distribute this data evenly throughout the network which would either require a far greater number of wireless equipped 'nodes' to be camped on their doorstep to handle the large volume of traffic to the site or some kind of dedicated ( costing the company money ) route to get their data out to the world. If the company has to pay to for this it will be the users who end up picking up the cost and things will not be free for very long.
I am applying for a Patent on the process of applying for a temporary monopoly on a particular design, idea or business process. I am thinking of calling this a 'patent'. I am going to make my 'patents' capable of being hopelessy vague and inclusive and so I can enforce my 'patent' on a very similar process I have noticed going on around the world ( co-incidentally this is also called patenting ) and make a huge amount of money for very litte actual work. I'm not sure if this will catch on very well though so I will set up my first 'patent office' with just a couple of temps, I only anticipate maybe half a dozen 'patents' being applied for a year so they should have plenty of time to research them all thouroghly even given the fact they can't hope to have any real knowledge of many of the areas my customers may wish to buy their patents in. It will be great. I will be rich.
I wonder if the RIAA will be suing this MP3 search engine any time soon ? http://uk.altavista.com/audio/default
I am not surprised by this figure, I was discussing filesharing in the pub on the weekend with some of my friends who are not at all geeky and have never heard of /.
The five of them have widley varying careers and none of them would consider themselves criminals. 2 of them were annoyed about the DeCss saga, 1 was buying a CD Burner to download stuff and burn CD's, another was getting Broadband to download stuff faster and another was already downloading stuff. The other 2 don't have computers.
All these people and most other people I have spoken to do realise that they are probably committing a crime but quite frankly they don't care because (a) they are getting music for free and (b) who cares if the record companies are losing money over it.
Some justifications for those reasons:
People have been getting music for free off their friends for years, there are some favourite albums which have at various times been passed around 10+ people in our extended group over 10 or more years.
In the UK the record companies seem only interested in setting up the next Pop Stars / Pop Idol / Shit manufactured act they can squeeze money from. Very rarely are they promoting any band which people like me are actually interested in - last night I saw on TV that Morrisey is unable to get a new record contract when bozo bands like One True Voice just have to turn up at an audition looking nice and sign away any artistic control over their 'career' from that point on.
The record companies really are bringing this on themselves and no amount of whining and threats from them are going to stop this kind of behaviour.
summed this us very well in a Halloween episode with the two aliens running for President:
"Vote for Me, I will kill your menfolk and enslave the women"
"No, vote for Me, I will enslave your women and kill your menfolk"
or something like that.
The woman has obviously spent quite a lot of her time trying to communicate some very important messages:
"Think of a disaster as an incentive,
to get real clever and inventive.
Flowers are a great cover up,
for goof ups."
I don't believe it necessary to make any further comment this.
Tucker Max is clearly a twat.
Amazing this just confirms what we all knew !
I have been using Mandrake since version 7 and every single release I have installed has exactly the same problem with Supermount - it has never worked for me and I always end up having to re-write fstab after installation.
That is the only problem I have ever had with Mandrake though.
Fair enough if they don't know the infringing code is in their release but now that they are saying that Linux does contain their Code you have to assume to know it's there and where it is. If they continue distributing their Linux knowing all of the above then that surely has to undermine any claims they may have.