Actually, all of them are legal. It's Sony v. Betamax time. These are all examples of fair use.
What has the RIAA hacked off is making your digital copies available to anyone who wanders by your P2P connection.
It's use, but they don't (reasonably so) think it's fair. The fact that they are greedy weasels doesn't actually change that.
If you ask Microsoft, you can't change anything without checking with them first.
It's acually pretty routine to get that reauthorization from them, but I despise having to OK it with them.
1/3 is practically unrepresentable as a decimal in base 10. Therefore we've all agreed to the illusion that.33333... is the same thing as 1/3. We stop calculating because we all have much better things to do.
Otherwise actually slcing a pizza would take forever, which it demonstrably does not.
Unlike this discussion...
What the preliminary findings point to is the RCC (reinforced carbon carbon)degrading and deteriorating beneath the tiny pinholes visible on the surface. (From the L.A. Times April 18: The panel, headed by retired Navy Adm. Harold W. Gehman Jr., is investigating whether pinholes and hidden breaches in Columbia's left wing allowed superheated gas to penetrate the orbiter and cause it to blow apart. Investigators are also seeking to determine whether such possible defects were worsened during Columbia's Jan. 16 liftoff, when chunks of foam insulation fell from an external fuel tank and struck the wing.
To help prevent disasters, the board said Thursday that NASA should intensify its inspections of a "reinforced carbon-carbon" thermal protection system. That composite material protects the critical leading edge of the shuttles' wings.
Under current procedures, shuttle technicians typically inspect the carbon-carbon lining by eye and hand, said Michael A. Greenfield, NASA's associate deputy administrator for technical programs. They also take a closer look when the shuttles are overhauled every few years.
The accident board said "current inspection techniques are not adequate to assess structural integrity of [the reinforced carbon-carbon], supporting structure and attaching hardware."
Greenfield said NASA and its contractors are considering new X-ray, ultrasonic or thermographic tests that could yield more information about the heat-shielding system. He added: "This is very difficult material to inspect.")
In addition, NASA is not even sure that the foam insulation struck far enough inboard to cause the catastophic failure near the wing root.
The problem, it seems, is not with shreddy foam, but with shreddy high-strength carbon carbon which the shuttle depends on to protect the aluminum airframe.
The standards for digital cinema are still being worked out. The major studios have a consortium named Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) which is developing standards, and recently announced a minimum of 2k lines of resolution as their goal. http://www.infocusmag.com/03April/digital.htm
The National Association of Theatre Owners has a general list of User Requirements for digital cinema here: http://www.natoonline.org/digitalcinemauserreq.htm
Windows Media 9 tops out at 720k currently.
In what way does sharing copyrighted material differ from going to a swapmeet and picking up a used couch?
How is it different from bartering goods and services?
Is it different, fundamentally, from trading used CDs with your friends? Swapping baseball cards? Does digitized reproducibility fundamentally change the nature of what it is you think you are buying?
In other words, are people not able to get their heads around the idea of buying a license and not the physical thing which is theirs to play with as they choose?
Software providers and now music and film companies (software providers by another name) think of your purchases as a licensed service. Of course, restaurants also try to charge you for sharing your meal with your dinner partner.
Can, or should these companies prevail in their attempts to control a product they no longer physically possess by erecting a thicket of laws and electronic countermeasures?
Is treating your customers like crooks a viable business model?
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Actually, all of them are legal. It's Sony v. Betamax time. These are all examples of fair use. What has the RIAA hacked off is making your digital copies available to anyone who wanders by your P2P connection. It's use, but they don't (reasonably so) think it's fair. The fact that they are greedy weasels doesn't actually change that.
If you ask Microsoft, you can't change anything without checking with them first. It's acually pretty routine to get that reauthorization from them, but I despise having to OK it with them.
And the nuber of the Beast was 01010101
And you can pay for it with real blood plasma.
Keeps the cool side cool and the hot side hot. Tasty!
Murder is in the public domain and bombs are open source.
1/3 is practically unrepresentable as a decimal in base 10. Therefore we've all agreed to the illusion that .33333... is the same thing as 1/3. We stop calculating because we all have much better things to do.
Otherwise actually slcing a pizza would take forever, which it demonstrably does not.
Unlike this discussion...
What the preliminary findings point to is the RCC (reinforced carbon carbon)degrading and deteriorating beneath the tiny pinholes visible on the surface. (From the L.A. Times April 18: The panel, headed by retired Navy Adm. Harold W. Gehman Jr., is investigating whether pinholes and hidden breaches in Columbia's left wing allowed superheated gas to penetrate the orbiter and cause it to blow apart. Investigators are also seeking to determine whether such possible defects were worsened during Columbia's Jan. 16 liftoff, when chunks of foam insulation fell from an external fuel tank and struck the wing. To help prevent disasters, the board said Thursday that NASA should intensify its inspections of a "reinforced carbon-carbon" thermal protection system. That composite material protects the critical leading edge of the shuttles' wings. Under current procedures, shuttle technicians typically inspect the carbon-carbon lining by eye and hand, said Michael A. Greenfield, NASA's associate deputy administrator for technical programs. They also take a closer look when the shuttles are overhauled every few years. The accident board said "current inspection techniques are not adequate to assess structural integrity of [the reinforced carbon-carbon], supporting structure and attaching hardware." Greenfield said NASA and its contractors are considering new X-ray, ultrasonic or thermographic tests that could yield more information about the heat-shielding system. He added: "This is very difficult material to inspect.") In addition, NASA is not even sure that the foam insulation struck far enough inboard to cause the catastophic failure near the wing root. The problem, it seems, is not with shreddy foam, but with shreddy high-strength carbon carbon which the shuttle depends on to protect the aluminum airframe.
The standards for digital cinema are still being worked out. The major studios have a consortium named Digital Cinema Initiatives (DCI) which is developing standards, and recently announced a minimum of 2k lines of resolution as their goal. http://www.infocusmag.com/03April/digital.htm The National Association of Theatre Owners has a general list of User Requirements for digital cinema here: http://www.natoonline.org/digitalcinemauserreq.htm
Windows Media 9 tops out at 720k currently.
If Gore is an "avid Mac User," what the hell is he doing using Final Cut Pro?
Microsoft has 47.9%. Linux has the remainder, which cost Apple the election in key markets.
In what way does sharing copyrighted material differ from going to a swapmeet and picking up a used couch?
How is it different from bartering goods and services?
Is it different, fundamentally, from trading used CDs with your friends? Swapping baseball cards? Does digitized reproducibility fundamentally change the nature of what it is you think you are buying?
In other words, are people not able to get their heads around the idea of buying a license and not the physical thing which is theirs to play with as they choose?
Software providers and now music and film companies (software providers by another name) think of your purchases as a licensed service. Of course, restaurants also try to charge you for sharing your meal with your dinner partner.
Can, or should these companies prevail in their attempts to control a product they no longer physically possess by erecting a thicket of laws and electronic countermeasures?
Is treating your customers like crooks a viable business model?
Discuss.