I worked at BlueSkyFrog for a while and they got busted early on for distributing ringtones based on songs.
The ring tones don't use any samples from the music and the music composition is totally different, both through different timing of the notes and through playing only one (or a couple) of notes at a time. Therefore the person who makes the phone ring tone is making a completely new piece of work and shouldn't need to give any cash for the permission to distribute it.
You could say the same for a band releasing a cover version of some other artists song, couldn't you? They could use totally different instruments and arrangements but they still have to pay royalties to the artist who wrote the song.
When I first joined UC their homepage didn't work with Moz - some bolloxy DHTML menus. I complained, and I assume others did too, and they fixed it when they redesigned their site.
However they just recently redid their online banking site which used to work fine, and now it doesn't work with Moz. I think it's because their menu JS file does browser detection and refuses to work with `non-supported browsers' whatever they are.
Whoever did the new site did a horrid job - goddam DHTML popup windows everywhere, then click for a DHTML menu, and each of those menu items has a rollover DHTML popup.
And I've seen those sorts of popups before, and I really hope its not the same developer, because he used to code using variables called Fred and Barney and Pebbles.
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This is a similar theme to PKD's short story, where in the end it was the fact that John Anderton knew about the prediction that gave the final twist to the plot. Most don't know of the predictions, however Jon Anderdon does, which means he's not independent of the predictions and in fact the pre-cogs factor his foreknowledge into their predictions. In the short story, there is no minority report - all the reports are different, because of this foreknowledge.
MBOX are an Australian `Unified Messaging Provider'. For my $AU10 per month I get a webmail box, 2 numbers, and I get voicemails delivered to this mailbox as wav or mp3, and also faxes delivered as gif. Plus regular e-mail, a Windows notification client, notifications sent to an e-mail address (external ) of my choice, access to e-mail and voicemail over the phone, that's about it. So when I'm online I have my phone provider divert when busy to my mbox number and get phone messages notified by e-mail alerts. Can then download them and listen to them while still online.
Mozilla may be a memory and resource hog but it's still 6 months away from the 1.0 release. As I understood it, from now on the developers are going to be focusing on stability and performance. I can't imagine that 6 months of focus on this area won't improve things immesurably.
I've recently switched to using Moz because I had so many problems running Netscape 4.7x. It's more stable than Netscape and doesn't freeze up for no reason. I'm running Squid and pdnsd on my local box so there's no reason for Netscape to freeze up waiting for the network to respond... but it still does.
The only reason I keep Netscape is (a) Java and (b) SSL through my proxy (my download of M18 doesn't appear to know to tunnel the SSL connection through the cache).
I haven't bothered with Netscape 6 after trying PR1 - it looked like Mozilla M14 with a few GUI pretty bits which I can do without.
The other reason to use Mozilla is the splash screen... very cute.
Are there any plans to develop a native win32 port of nedit? I love this editor but unfortunately I'm not working under linux all the time. Good free code editors for windows are rare, nedit would fill that gap nicely!
I hate the disto nazis who say `Debian is good', `Redhat is the hand of the devil'. It's just a bunch of geeks who want to be geekier than thou. I use RedHat, I like it, just like I use Windows sometimes and like that too.
Wait until the GNU Hurd becomes more accepted. I bet we will get Hurd users who look down upon the Linux users.
Everything has good & bad points, it doesn't mean that one thing is better than another
try aewm - it takes up less memory than xscreensaver. I started out with GNOME, went to Enlightenment, then XFce, still too bloated, aewm is excellent. Right click on the desktop to get an xterm. Left click for a popup menu of apps that you define in a very simple config file. Personally all I want a WM for is to control those damn X windows. Anything else I don't need.
It's stabler than M14, runs ok on my PII350 win2k box at work, slow on my Celeron 300 linux box at home.
it doesn't render <img align="left"> tags in the same way as NS4 or IE whatever (same with M14). Instead of text flowing around the image it appears below.
:hover styles now work which saves the drugery of image swapping.
Shows a lot of promise I think. An earlier poster said M15 is due out in a week, it'll be interesting to see how that compares...
my first reaction was I'm glad I'm not running any version of Windows as my primary home OS. No matter what MS say, how will anyone know for sure whether what they say is true or not? The only OS you can truly trust is one that gives you its source code...
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I worked at BlueSkyFrog for a while and they got busted early on for distributing ringtones based on songs.
The ring tones don't use any samples from the music and the music composition is totally different, both through different timing of the notes and through playing only one (or a couple) of notes at a time. Therefore the person who makes the phone ring tone is making a completely new piece of work and shouldn't need to give any cash for the permission to distribute it.
You could say the same for a band releasing a cover version of some other artists song, couldn't you? They could use totally different instruments and arrangements but they still have to pay royalties to the artist who wrote the song.
One of my cow-workers had Shut Yer F*&en Face Uncle F*&er as his ringtone - always made me laugh when his phone rang at work.
When I first joined UC their homepage didn't work with Moz - some bolloxy DHTML menus. I complained, and I assume others did too, and they fixed it when they redesigned their site.
However they just recently redid their online banking site which used to work fine, and now it doesn't work with Moz. I think it's because their menu JS file does browser detection and refuses to work with `non-supported browsers' whatever they are.
Whoever did the new site did a horrid job - goddam DHTML popup windows everywhere, then click for a DHTML menu, and each of those menu items has a rollover DHTML popup.
And I've seen those sorts of popups before, and I really hope its not the same developer, because he used to code using variables called Fred and Barney and Pebbles.
This is a similar theme to PKD's short story, where in the end it was the fact that John Anderton knew about the prediction that gave the final twist to the plot. Most don't know of the predictions, however Jon Anderdon does, which means he's not independent of the predictions and in fact the pre-cogs factor his foreknowledge into their predictions. In the short story, there is no minority report - all the reports are different, because of this foreknowledge.
MBOX are an Australian `Unified Messaging Provider'. For my $AU10 per month I get a webmail box, 2 numbers, and I get voicemails delivered to this mailbox as wav or mp3, and also faxes delivered as gif. Plus regular e-mail, a Windows notification client, notifications sent to an e-mail address (external ) of my choice, access to e-mail and voicemail over the phone, that's about it. So when I'm online I have my phone provider divert when busy to my mbox number and get phone messages notified by e-mail alerts. Can then download them and listen to them while still online.
fred
First there was the ridiculously wrong Aussie accents in Point Break, now we have this headline:
Fraidja can't see that w'out p'mission, bub
I just wanted to point out that noone in Australia calls anyone `bub'.
Mozilla may be a memory and resource hog but it's still 6 months away from the 1.0 release. As I understood it, from now on the developers are going to be focusing on stability and performance. I can't imagine that 6 months of focus on this area won't improve things immesurably.
I've recently switched to using Moz because I had so many problems running Netscape 4.7x. It's more stable than Netscape and doesn't freeze up for no reason. I'm running Squid and pdnsd on my local box so there's no reason for Netscape to freeze up waiting for the network to respond... but it still does.
The only reason I keep Netscape is (a) Java and (b) SSL through my proxy (my download of M18 doesn't appear to know to tunnel the SSL connection through the cache).
I haven't bothered with Netscape 6 after trying PR1 - it looked like Mozilla M14 with a few GUI pretty bits which I can do without.
The other reason to use Mozilla is the splash screen... very cute.
Are there any plans to develop a native win32 port of nedit? I love this editor but unfortunately I'm not working under linux all the time. Good free code editors for windows are rare, nedit would fill that gap nicely!
I hate the disto nazis who say `Debian is good', `Redhat is the hand of the devil'. It's just a bunch of geeks who want to be geekier than thou. I use RedHat, I like it, just like I use Windows sometimes and like that too.
Wait until the GNU Hurd becomes more accepted. I bet we will get Hurd users who look down upon the Linux users.
Everything has good & bad points, it doesn't mean that one thing is better than another
try aewm - it takes up less memory than xscreensaver. I started out with GNOME, went to Enlightenment, then XFce, still too bloated, aewm is excellent. Right click on the desktop to get an xterm. Left click for a popup menu of apps that you define in a very simple config file. Personally all I want a WM for is to control those damn X windows. Anything else I don't need.
Did anyone notice that CNet called Transmeta "the upstart processor maker". The 'upstart' thing is getting a bit ridiculus don't you think CNet?
It's stabler than M14, runs ok on my PII350 win2k box at work, slow on my Celeron 300 linux box at home.
it doesn't render <img align="left"> tags in the same way as NS4 or IE whatever (same with M14). Instead of text flowing around the image it appears below.
:hover styles now work which saves the drugery of image swapping.
Shows a lot of promise I think. An earlier poster said M15 is due out in a week, it'll be interesting to see how that compares...
my first reaction was I'm glad I'm not running
any version of Windows as my primary home OS.
No matter what MS say, how will anyone know for sure whether what they say is true or not? The only OS you can truly trust is one that gives you its source code...