Well the TiVo has a modem link back to TiVo's server for downloading television listings, I don't see why the Tivo can't just store one's credit card/shipping info and generate a shopping menu that the user can navigate the store with the remote.
Here's a thought: why doesn't TiVo offer a shopping service? For example, a point-and-click amazon-esque online store. TiVo takes a lucrative cut of the take and we can consume without having to leave the couch.
Well, no, the artists are not given 100 years of copyright. The rightsholders- the copyright owners- are given that protection. If you were a musician signed to a record label, your contract would specify that when you record a track, the copyright on it becomes the property of your publisher. This is why the RIAA and MPAA are so adamant about the copyright issue.
It has absolutely nothing to do with protecting the artist, it has everything to do with protecting the profits. If it were about the art, they'd rather people be listening to their artists than nothing at all.
If it's going to be a tool for exposure, don't call it infringement. There are lots of indie artists out there who would love to just be *heard*- making a dime and even breaking even on the large initial investment in recording, producing, printing, and distributing a CD. I run a little tiny indie label that records and organizes local artists in my area. It's not big and it doesn't make money but it helps out some cool people making some cool music that probably couldn't score a record deal otherwise. I've spent a large amount of money on equipment and invested a large amount of my time in creating and producing music and, without the Internet serving as my primary distribution network (other than selling the occasional CD at a release party or a show) has gotten myself and some of my friends much more attention than we would have gotten otherwise.
Bottom line is, it's only infringement on copyright if the owner of the copyrighted work says it is. If you want to download/take/burn/distribute my music worldwide, then awesome. That's exposure for me. The RIAA doesn't want people listening to their music because they have a pure profit motive? Sucks to be them. The RIAA is irrelevant to say the least. That doesn't give us the right to trade their music if they don't want us to, and it is (as other posters have noticed) well within their rights as rightsholders to do so. The cool part of it is that their attitude towards music fans might turn off so many people that they start going underground to listen to acts who don't treat their fans like shit.
Democracy in action. It's a beautiful thing, ain't it?
Actually, back when that ill-fated contraption came to market, all Wired subscribers got one, so it's really very close to the GP's idea. Of course, nobody remembers cuecat now, so...
Yes, GM has complained about the unions (they blame healthcare costs to a large degree as well), but it WAS their job to negotiate contracts with the unions in the first place. Frankly, it's looking more and more like GM is on a proverbial Death Spiral- they can't make the numbers work anymore.
If you want to help, call your local blood center and make an appointment/get the location of a blood drive and donate some blood. It's a hell of a lot more helpful and productive than sitting around and spouting quasi-Libertarian bull on Slashdot all night.
Sorry, just venting. All the speculation and self-righteous indignation in the comments on this article give me the impression that humanity really is as inherently cruel and self-centered as the violence on the streets of New Orleans.
Actually, you might want to only boycott RIAA music. There are lots of great independent labels out there that would love for you to ditch the RIAA and start looking for Free-as-in-speech music. Dischord Records come to mind.
I happen to run an independent label and I can tell you that file-sharing and digital distribution has been the best thing to happen to indie music possibly in forever. I used to be able to point to MP3.com as an example of a really progressive distribution channel but, well, we all know that story.
The other side of the coin is that in addition to not buying that new Nickelback CD is that you can't download their stuff either. Remember, if you're boycotting them and downloading their stuff, you really might be infringing copyright. That's not cool, AND the RIAA can sue you if they want. My personal opinion is that an artist can do whatever they damn well please, but they ought to do right by their fans. I don't have many fans but I certainly don't think that harrassing them for listening to my music is a very nice way to treat people.
As an indie artist/label I pretty much don't matter in the grand scheme of things, but I know that my job is simply to please two groups of people: artists and fans (not consumers; I learned in elementary school that 'consumers' were vultures and rodents that fed off the dead bodies of more productive life forms; I don't like that comparison). In short, I know that nobody gives two shits about the label; they listen to the music, not it's distributor.
GM and Ford are falling flat on their asses because they make cars that no one wants. The fact that Toyota and Honda make hybrids is secondary to the fact that they make well-made, long-lasting, fuel-efficient, attractive, and affordable cars.
Chrysler is making a comeback because they make cars people want to drive and want to buy.
This is way off-topic, I know, but the car market right now deserves some study because- although it isn't analogous to the OS market now- it could foreshadow the OS market in the future: fierce competition between some very innovative companies, with competitors that can't keep up (the old American boys) getting very obviously shut out. The car market is a good example of what proper competition can do for a marketplace, and comparing it with the computing market shows the kind of damage that a monolithic, abusive monopolist can do to competition.
-cooter
My first exposure to a Windows computer was very disorienting. I'm 18 now, but I got my first computer (a Mac IIVX with an 80 megabyte hard drive!) when I was six. My mother is a graphic designer and my father is a writer so they were always around the house. I've played with Linux on my Macs and came away with good impressions, but using Windows is sort of an exotic feeling for me. It's what everybody uses and knows by heart but I've really only had to use it in the last few years and I'm still learning.
What makes this all the more bizarre is that people seem to be migrating to the Mac these days while I'm still trying to understand Windows.
Actually, look at it the other way. My family has been involved with the Christian Science religion for years, and I've seen many many people suffer from deliberately avoiding 'modern medicine' far more than if they'd have sought out appropriate treatment.
My stance is to do your homework before subscribing to any particular beliefs about anything. I'm a pre-med student, and I'll come and tell you when I see the first hints of a massive conspiracy in the hands of the medical profession.
I CAN see how you'd find more harm than good in some treatments in the modern medical field (chemotherapy can be truly barbaric) but the truth is that doctors don't know everything- but they are trying. The whole field is concerned (from what I know thus far) with the pursuit of knowledge with the common goal of trying to make people's lives better. Any unethical conduct in the hands of a few cannot be held against the whole of the field.
If you should have any evidence to the contrary, don't hesitate to show me. My mind is completely open- but paranoia and conspiracy theory don't make a very convincing argument that the entire medical field is out to rape and kill.
The 68ks were supported (by Apple, at least) through Mac OS 8.1 in '97. That's a good three years from the first PPC Mac to the lask 68k-compatible OS. Assuming something similar to that, expect our PPC Macs to be up to date until at least 2008.
However, don't get too shaken up about your investment being obselete. My guess is that the very healthy Mac aftermarket parts world is looking forward to keeping the millions upon millions of Power Macs out there on top of the latest Freescales. You have a G5, which means you probably have a modular processor card. The aftermarket companies are very good at what they do- there were some ingenious processor upgrade solutions back in the mid-90s and considering that it's been shown that the Mac's market share and profits have been rising the past few quarters, I'm sure at least a few companies will be offering some interesting products for Mac owners.
Of course, the really interesting thing will be to see if somebody won't figure out how to shoehorn an Intel into a G5 tower and make it run OS X Intel. Who knows?
What the hell are you talking about?
I'd actually like to know. The irrational popularity of that fraud Kevin Trudeau's "Natural Cures 'They' Don't Want You To Know About" has gotten me interested in this paranoid stuff.
If only the human body didn't reach reproductive age until our twenties, sex wouldn't be a problem. Teenagers are interested in sex because we are *supposed to be* in order to propogate the species. Remember, it wasn't so long ago that the average human lifespan wasn't much above thirty- about long enough to get to reproductive age and start reproducing and raising children.
Teen pregnancy is not at all a new phenomenon- it's the most natural thing in the world.
Do not base your experience of digital from a computer's soundcard or a $19.00 Pioneer Cd player. Call me when you listen to a gold master d CD on a $4500.00 DENON refrence CD player through a decent amp with a good studio quality A to D converter.
Sounds like an audiophile sort of thing to say to me.
The distortion produced by record players (and tube amplification) is what "audiophiles" seek. Accuracy in sound reproduction is *much* cheaper than color.
That's a simplified argument.
When you look at the issue of buffer overruns, eight to 10 years ago in software development, you did not know how much space you might need for something so you just create a big buffer zone to allow things to happen. Who knew that people could go exploit that and use that buffer sp
I think that's very revealing. The sheer number of buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Microsoft software seems to indicate that MIcrosoft has always programmed this way. Looks like this is just official confirmation that only recently has Microsoft even tried to care about security.
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Well the TiVo has a modem link back to TiVo's server for downloading television listings, I don't see why the Tivo can't just store one's credit card/shipping info and generate a shopping menu that the user can navigate the store with the remote.
Here's a thought: why doesn't TiVo offer a shopping service? For example, a point-and-click amazon-esque online store. TiVo takes a lucrative cut of the take and we can consume without having to leave the couch.
Here here! I'm a smoker and I think people live waay too long. I've found a very enjoyable euthanasia in tobacco.
Seems like 2001 really was the good old days with news like this.
It has absolutely nothing to do with protecting the artist, it has everything to do with protecting the profits. If it were about the art, they'd rather people be listening to their artists than nothing at all.
Bottom line is, it's only infringement on copyright if the owner of the copyrighted work says it is. If you want to download/take/burn/distribute my music worldwide, then awesome. That's exposure for me. The RIAA doesn't want people listening to their music because they have a pure profit motive? Sucks to be them. The RIAA is irrelevant to say the least. That doesn't give us the right to trade their music if they don't want us to, and it is (as other posters have noticed) well within their rights as rightsholders to do so. The cool part of it is that their attitude towards music fans might turn off so many people that they start going underground to listen to acts who don't treat their fans like shit.
Democracy in action. It's a beautiful thing, ain't it?
Actually, back when that ill-fated contraption came to market, all Wired subscribers got one, so it's really very close to the GP's idea. Of course, nobody remembers cuecat now, so...
It's a shame, really.
Sorry, just venting. All the speculation and self-righteous indignation in the comments on this article give me the impression that humanity really is as inherently cruel and self-centered as the violence on the streets of New Orleans.
Sorry again. Ignore all that. Just give blood. :^D
I wish I had mod points because that is the most insightful thing to be said on this thread so far.
I happen to run an independent label and I can tell you that file-sharing and digital distribution has been the best thing to happen to indie music possibly in forever. I used to be able to point to MP3.com as an example of a really progressive distribution channel but, well, we all know that story.
The other side of the coin is that in addition to not buying that new Nickelback CD is that you can't download their stuff either. Remember, if you're boycotting them and downloading their stuff, you really might be infringing copyright. That's not cool, AND the RIAA can sue you if they want. My personal opinion is that an artist can do whatever they damn well please, but they ought to do right by their fans. I don't have many fans but I certainly don't think that harrassing them for listening to my music is a very nice way to treat people.
As an indie artist/label I pretty much don't matter in the grand scheme of things, but I know that my job is simply to please two groups of people: artists and fans (not consumers; I learned in elementary school that 'consumers' were vultures and rodents that fed off the dead bodies of more productive life forms; I don't like that comparison). In short, I know that nobody gives two shits about the label; they listen to the music, not it's distributor.
Have some humility, RIAA. It'll do you good.
Chrysler is making a comeback because they make cars people want to drive and want to buy.
This is way off-topic, I know, but the car market right now deserves some study because- although it isn't analogous to the OS market now- it could foreshadow the OS market in the future: fierce competition between some very innovative companies, with competitors that can't keep up (the old American boys) getting very obviously shut out. The car market is a good example of what proper competition can do for a marketplace, and comparing it with the computing market shows the kind of damage that a monolithic, abusive monopolist can do to competition. -cooter
I actually grew up on Macs.
My first exposure to a Windows computer was very disorienting. I'm 18 now, but I got my first computer (a Mac IIVX with an 80 megabyte hard drive!) when I was six. My mother is a graphic designer and my father is a writer so they were always around the house. I've played with Linux on my Macs and came away with good impressions, but using Windows is sort of an exotic feeling for me. It's what everybody uses and knows by heart but I've really only had to use it in the last few years and I'm still learning.
What makes this all the more bizarre is that people seem to be migrating to the Mac these days while I'm still trying to understand Windows.
Actually, look at it the other way. My family has been involved with the Christian Science religion for years, and I've seen many many people suffer from deliberately avoiding 'modern medicine' far more than if they'd have sought out appropriate treatment.
My stance is to do your homework before subscribing to any particular beliefs about anything. I'm a pre-med student, and I'll come and tell you when I see the first hints of a massive conspiracy in the hands of the medical profession.
I CAN see how you'd find more harm than good in some treatments in the modern medical field (chemotherapy can be truly barbaric) but the truth is that doctors don't know everything- but they are trying. The whole field is concerned (from what I know thus far) with the pursuit of knowledge with the common goal of trying to make people's lives better. Any unethical conduct in the hands of a few cannot be held against the whole of the field.
If you should have any evidence to the contrary, don't hesitate to show me. My mind is completely open- but paranoia and conspiracy theory don't make a very convincing argument that the entire medical field is out to rape and kill.
The 68ks were supported (by Apple, at least) through Mac OS 8.1 in '97. That's a good three years from the first PPC Mac to the lask 68k-compatible OS. Assuming something similar to that, expect our PPC Macs to be up to date until at least 2008.
However, don't get too shaken up about your investment being obselete. My guess is that the very healthy Mac aftermarket parts world is looking forward to keeping the millions upon millions of Power Macs out there on top of the latest Freescales. You have a G5, which means you probably have a modular processor card. The aftermarket companies are very good at what they do- there were some ingenious processor upgrade solutions back in the mid-90s and considering that it's been shown that the Mac's market share and profits have been rising the past few quarters, I'm sure at least a few companies will be offering some interesting products for Mac owners.
Of course, the really interesting thing will be to see if somebody won't figure out how to shoehorn an Intel into a G5 tower and make it run OS X Intel. Who knows?
What the hell are you talking about?
I'd actually like to know. The irrational popularity of that fraud Kevin Trudeau's "Natural Cures 'They' Don't Want You To Know About" has gotten me interested in this paranoid stuff.
Anhydrous ammonia is also a highly sought-after reagent in the synthesis of illicit methamphetamine in much of the rural USA.
Whoa whoa whoa. Calm down, buster. There aren't any dogs in Grand Theft Auto.
Teen pregnancy is not at all a new phenomenon- it's the most natural thing in the world.
The distortion produced by record players (and tube amplification) is what "audiophiles" seek. Accuracy in sound reproduction is *much* cheaper than color. That's a simplified argument.
Holy crap! The Palestineans blew up a Sbarros!? I support Israel now that I know ALL the facts.
Resource forks? Come now! Have you not used a Mac since OS 9? Man, your complaints are *so* 1999. Give it another try.
I think that's very revealing. The sheer number of buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Microsoft software seems to indicate that MIcrosoft has always programmed this way. Looks like this is just official confirmation that only recently has Microsoft even tried to care about security.
Go figure.
Well, Tom Cruise doesn't think anything. He's spouting cult propaganda. Blame Scientology.