but I think one of the reasons artists turn to the RIAA companies (in addition to promoting/distributing their stuff, ofcourse) is that the RIAA helps finance their sophisticated and expensive recording and on-stage equipment.
Eliminating the need for expensive equipment, combined with an online music distribution and micropayment model would pretty much kill the need for expensive contracts with the music industry.
I Am The Very Model of a Microsoft Executive (By Brad Rhodes, with inspiration from Lincoln Spector's "The Pirates of Pentium" and apologies to Sir William Gilbert...)
Bill Gates:
I am the very model of a Microsoft Executive
Work sixteen hours ev'ry shift on days that are consecutive
I make a line of software that is of the highest quality
But leave in bugs to fix in upgrades in perpetuality
Though some might claim that we compete in ways that are not very just
That's just vindictive rumor spun by folks who can't compete with us
Besides they cannot prove a thing, no judge will ever take their side
We'll crush them with our lawyers known for litigation far and wide.
Men's Chourus:
He'll crush them with his lawyers known for litigation far and far and wide!
Gates:
My coders work a schedule bordering on impropriety
But they'll still work for peanuts til they're vested in entirety
I'm sure that you will all agree that this is all inde-cu-tive
That I'm the very model of a Microsoft Executive!
Chorus:
I'm sure that you will all agree that this is all inde-cu-tive
He is the very model of a Microsoft Executive!
Gates:
We made our windows system one which we hold in propriety
And tweak it every now and then to screw up Lotus 1-2-3
Developing for Windows makes our competition often frown
They haven't any choice -- our system is the only game in town.
We'll use people's inventions that will make our software sell the best
Idea is the first step but the market is the real test
And though we may use other's thoughts and intellectual property
Stealing's such a nasty word, we like to call it R&D.
Chorus:
Stealing's such a nasty word, he likes to call it R&-R&D.
Gates [faster]:
My business tactics are compared with Henry Ford and Genghis Kahn
They built me up from nerdy kid to billionaire and then beyond
And while my competition spews out words full of invec-u-tive
I am the very model of a Microsoft Executive!
Chorus:
And while his competition spews out words full of invec-u-tive
He is the very model of a Microsoft Executive!
But Paul Dowling, owner of Believe Wireless, a Towson-based company that charges customers $29.95 per month for wireless Internet access in Canton, Fells Point and elsewhere in the city, said he's worried that too much free service could drive companies such as his out of business or away from the Baltimore area.
"It's hard enough to compete against other companies. If the city starts providing for free what we make people pay for, it could really hurt us," Dowling said.
This is exactly the kind of attitude that hurts technology and customers. It results in monopolistic companies trying everything possible to stick to the existing model, and try and kill of competition (albeit superior in technology and better for the customer).
Microsoft's been trying to hurt Linux as much as possible, because it's a free alternative to their OS, which could potentially kill them.And ofcourse, our beloved RIAA's been trying to kill away a newer, technologically better solution, rather than trying to innovate and provide alternatives that people would pay for.
The right attitude should be to enhance their product so that customers would be willing to pay them for it, over the other cheaper (or free) alternative. Sheesh.
to recap an an earlier story about the Indian President advocating OSS over Windows.
"I am sure this is a first. The President of India has urged Indian IT Professionals to develop and specialise in OSS rather than Windows. To be noted is that he made the speech (look for the "Think Different" section) at the famous Indian Institute of Information Technology (India's foremost academic institution equivalent to MIT). Also he reminisces that his meeting with Mr.Gates were difficult due to differing views concerning OSS and Security. What should be noted about him is that he is not a politician, but a scientist and an independent thinker foremost."
A lot of courses are only able to provide videos to students because allowing public access would be a violation of copyright laws for materials they use during the lectures.
What materials are you referring to exactly? If you're referring to books, then ofcourse, professors do not display books in class. If you are referring to lecture slides, etc...I don't think they're copyrighted by the professor, and if they are, since they are putting them up on the web in the first place, they don't care if anybody views them.
The class videos here referred to the fact that lectures/classes are routinely recorded/taped, and put up online for students to view. It doesn't refer to any videos that were shown in class, and which may rightly be copyrighted by someone.
Most schools have their class pages online. For example, take a look at the College of Computing, Georgia Tech's classes page here.
Most of them carry assignments, solutions, sample exams, and readings similar to the MIT Open Courseware site....and they're publicly available too.
What was lacking was a common index to campus-wide pages, and a standard format for all of them.
When individual professors/TA's put up their class pages, their formats are not standardized, nor are they always upto date (for example, if an assignment was a handout).
From a superficious look at some Electrical Engg and Computer Science classes, I think the MIT folks have basically indexed all the pages, standardized the format, and made sure they are all uptodate.
It's not My fault you can't perform a simple search in the archive. Just to help you out, it's message #354. Enter the keyword "sources" in the blank textbox and click on the rectangular "Search Archive" button. It's the 4th message in the list.
Everybody bickering about Yahoo trying to kill of "competing" clients, RTFA, and take note of this:
Yahoo has been trying to help the other Y! messenger clients update their code to work with the new protocol....they're NOT trying to kill them off.
I'm particularly happy to see this move, because Yahoo is about the only big corporation which is working on Unix versions of their client. Yahoo has Solaris, BSD, and Linux versions of the messenger. Moreover, from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ymessenger/ mailing list they're ACTUALLY speculating on releasing their source code for their UNIX clients:
Subject: New poll for ymessenger
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the ymessenger group:
Would you like to have access to Yahoo Messenger Sources?
According to the memo, which was obtained by The Wall Street Journal, the new counterclaim charges that SCO infringed IBM's copyrights by distributing IBM's contributions to Linux after SCO had violated its Linux license by claiming a copyright on parts of Linux.
The memo failed to state however, that the counterclaim was the latest strike in what IBM calls "it's long term plan to kick SCO's big'n'salty donkey balls".
Somewhere should make clear to the undiscerning reader that we can't have gosh-wow 1990 LAN stuff on the Known Net because of bandwidth and transmission delay problems...
not to mention the flurry of lawsuits brought upon the Straumuli by the RIAA.
These missions will all be identified by the title SMART, meaning Small Mission for Advanced Research in Technology.
They should've called it SMART ASS instead....more more fun:
SMART ASS will be launched from the European spaceport between 2302 and 2321 GMT...It will take 15 months for SMART ASS to reach the Moon....On the way, SMARTASS's X-ray spectrometer will be pointed towards bright comets.On its long trek through space the cube-shaped probe will test a revolutionary solar electric propulsion system.
"Despite decades of research, we have never fully discovered what the Moon is made of," says Manuel Grande.
To which, SMART ASS, as tongue in cheek as ever, replied: It's made of cheese dammit! Even a kid knows that.
Their original strategy was based on the fantasy that the world was clamoring for the ability to stay with UNIX and yet run GNU/Linux applications, and there they'd be, like a troll hiding under the bridge, ready to exact a toll on all those wanting to cross.
But then suddenly, the sky became overcast. Out of the distance came a growing sound of thundering hooves and blowing trumpets. Vast clouds of dust rose on the horizon and then they saw. Like ants they came, hundreds of thousands of them, with deadly weapons, keyboards and mice, united as one, proclaiming their love for their motherland. Big and small, shaven, unshaven, fat, thin, charging ahead with a fury that was unimaginable. Closer and closer...faster and faster...and then...
A moment or two's reflection, and it's obvious that people act to further their own interests.
So, like, let's say I'm performing the action of posting this comment to further my own interests. So, if I know this comment will get modded up, when I am in the action of posting it, you could, arguably, say that I acted in order to further my own interests, which is, in this cases, a higher karma. Take the second case. What if I knew this comment would not be modded up, but I posted it anyway. That would not be acting in order to further my own interests, unless, ofcourse, my interest was to reduce my own karma.
But, since I don't know why I'm posting this comment in the first place, I'm a jackass.
And that is the Science of Social Prediction explained in 2 paragraphs.
What with the uncurbed/unchallenged RIAA highhandedness, multimillion dollar government-M$ deals, and now this, I'm more than convinced that it's the big corporations that run the government.
Public welfare is, if at all, last on their to-do list.
MSBlast many worms, which travel round the net by themselves, were happy simply to swamp net connections with traffic as they searched for new servers and computers to infect.
Tra la la...we're goin' 'round the good ole 'net.
hey guys looky there, a new network let's swamp it, I say
*swamp swamp swamp*
ha ha ha ha ha ho ho ho ho ho hee he he he what fun!
*happy singing* here we go around the good ole net
good ole net
good old net
hi fellas, guess what I found! A nice clean M$ server
Yaaaay!!!
Here we go
*infect infect infect*
Haa ha ha ha ho ho ho ho hee hee hee hee What fun!
There was no way to click on the sites or try any of the software without heading for a computer, but that didn't seem to matter.
I sold off my computer last year because I couldn't keep up with all the clicking and damned hyperlinks all over the web. Annoying things they are. Baah.
Instead, I've taken to calling people I know, when I need anything off the interweb. The printouts usually arrive in the mail in a day or two. True, the timelag is high, but my friends're getting better at it everyday.
For a beer or two, these guys usually refresh/. for me 10-15 times a day and post comments for me when I feel like it. Okay gotto go, I think I'm getting another call
If I listen to a CD in a kiosk at a music store to sample a CD in making a purchase decision, am I not guilty of infringment at that point? I'm listening to music I don't own.
If your argument holds, then why just the kiosk at a music store? If that's infringement, then so is listening to musing anywhere, at a friends house, at a party, anywhere. You would be guilty, if you didn't block your ears when driving past your neighbor's house when their music was playing too loud.
Slashdot Mirror
Eliminating the need for expensive equipment, combined with an online music distribution and micropayment model would pretty much kill the need for expensive contracts with the music industry.
Stolen from:t .html
http://www.hamline.edu/~wnk/humor/microsof
I Am The Very Model of a Microsoft Executive
(By Brad Rhodes, with inspiration from Lincoln Spector's "The Pirates of
Pentium" and apologies to Sir William Gilbert...)
Bill Gates:
I am the very model of a Microsoft Executive
Work sixteen hours ev'ry shift on days that are consecutive
I make a line of software that is of the highest quality
But leave in bugs to fix in upgrades in perpetuality
Though some might claim that we compete in ways that are not very just
That's just vindictive rumor spun by folks who can't compete with us
Besides they cannot prove a thing, no judge will ever take their side
We'll crush them with our lawyers known for litigation far and wide.
Men's Chourus:
He'll crush them with his lawyers known for litigation far and far and wide!
Gates:
My coders work a schedule bordering on impropriety
But they'll still work for peanuts til they're vested in entirety
I'm sure that you will all agree that this is all inde-cu-tive
That I'm the very model of a Microsoft Executive!
Chorus:
I'm sure that you will all agree that this is all inde-cu-tive
He is the very model of a Microsoft Executive!
Gates:
We made our windows system one which we hold in propriety
And tweak it every now and then to screw up Lotus 1-2-3
Developing for Windows makes our competition often frown
They haven't any choice -- our system is the only game in town.
We'll use people's inventions that will make our software sell the best
Idea is the first step but the market is the real test
And though we may use other's thoughts and intellectual property
Stealing's such a nasty word, we like to call it R&D.
Chorus:
Stealing's such a nasty word, he likes to call it R&-R&D.
Gates [faster]:
My business tactics are compared with Henry Ford and Genghis Kahn
They built me up from nerdy kid to billionaire and then beyond
And while my competition spews out words full of invec-u-tive
I am the very model of a Microsoft Executive!
Chorus:
And while his competition spews out words full of invec-u-tive
He is the very model of a Microsoft Executive!
"It's hard enough to compete against other companies. If the city starts providing for free what we make people pay for, it could really hurt us," Dowling said.
This is exactly the kind of attitude that hurts technology and customers. It results in monopolistic companies trying everything possible to stick to the existing model, and try and kill of competition (albeit superior in technology and better for the customer).
Microsoft's been trying to hurt Linux as much as possible, because it's a free alternative to their OS, which could potentially kill them.And ofcourse, our beloved RIAA's been trying to kill away a newer, technologically better solution, rather than trying to innovate and provide alternatives that people would pay for.
The right attitude should be to enhance their product so that customers would be willing to pay them for it, over the other cheaper (or free) alternative. Sheesh.
"I am sure this is a first. The President of India has urged Indian IT Professionals to develop and specialise in OSS rather than Windows. To be noted is that he made the speech (look for the "Think Different" section) at the famous Indian Institute of Information Technology (India's foremost academic institution equivalent to MIT). Also he reminisces that his meeting with Mr.Gates were difficult due to differing views concerning OSS and Security. What should be noted about him is that he is not a politician, but a scientist and an independent thinker foremost."
What materials are you referring to exactly? If you're referring to books, then ofcourse, professors do not display books in class. If you are referring to lecture slides, etc...I don't think they're copyrighted by the professor, and if they are, since they are putting them up on the web in the first place, they don't care if anybody views them.
The class videos here referred to the fact that lectures/classes are routinely recorded/taped, and put up online for students to view. It doesn't refer to any videos that were shown in class, and which may rightly be copyrighted by someone.
yeah, that'll certainly grab a lot of attention.
Most of them carry assignments, solutions, sample exams, and readings similar to the MIT Open Courseware site....and they're publicly available too.
What was lacking was a common index to campus-wide pages, and a standard format for all of them. When individual professors/TA's put up their class pages, their formats are not standardized, nor are they always upto date (for example, if an assignment was a handout).
From a superficious look at some Electrical Engg and Computer Science classes, I think the MIT folks have basically indexed all the pages, standardized the format, and made sure they are all uptodate.
Here's the Freshmeat page for the project.
Look before you yell Troll.
YES!!!
Do you want to make sure your Web site is future-proof?
ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!
If so, you need this book.
oh
Yahoo has been trying to help the other Y! messenger clients update their code to work with the new protocol....they're NOT trying to kill them off.
I'm particularly happy to see this move, because Yahoo is about the only big corporation which is working on Unix versions of their client. Yahoo has Solaris, BSD, and Linux versions of the messenger. Moreover, from http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ymessenger/ mailing list they're ACTUALLY speculating on releasing their source code for their UNIX clients:
Subject: New poll for ymessenger
Enter your vote today! A new poll has been created for the ymessenger group:
Would you like to have access to Yahoo Messenger Sources?
o Yes
o No
o Why should I?
To vote, please visit the following web page:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ymessenger/survey
Note: Please do not reply to this message. Poll votes are not collected via email. To vote, you must go to the Yahoo! Groups web site listed above.
Thanks!
The memo failed to state however, that the counterclaim was the latest strike in what IBM calls "it's long term plan to kick SCO's big'n'salty donkey balls".
It wasn't my fault honey come backkk :'(
not to mention the flurry of lawsuits brought upon the Straumuli by the RIAA.
They should've called it SMART ASS instead....more more fun:
SMART ASS will be launched from the European spaceport between 2302 and 2321 GMT...It will take 15 months for SMART ASS to reach the Moon....On the way, SMARTASS's X-ray spectrometer will be pointed towards bright comets.On its long trek through space the cube-shaped probe will test a revolutionary solar electric propulsion system.
"Despite decades of research, we have never fully discovered what the Moon is made of," says Manuel Grande.
To which, SMART ASS, as tongue in cheek as ever, replied: It's made of cheese dammit! Even a kid knows that.
But then suddenly, the sky became overcast. Out of the distance came a growing sound of thundering hooves and blowing trumpets. Vast clouds of dust rose on the horizon and then they saw. Like ants they came, hundreds of thousands of them, with deadly weapons, keyboards and mice, united as one, proclaiming their love for their motherland. Big and small, shaven, unshaven, fat, thin, charging ahead with a fury that was unimaginable. Closer and closer...faster and faster...and then...
So, like, let's say I'm performing the action of posting this comment to further my own interests. So, if I know this comment will get modded up, when I am in the action of posting it, you could, arguably, say that I acted in order to further my own interests, which is, in this cases, a higher karma. Take the second case. What if I knew this comment would not be modded up, but I posted it anyway. That would not be acting in order to further my own interests, unless, ofcourse, my interest was to reduce my own karma.
But, since I don't know why I'm posting this comment in the first place, I'm a jackass.
And that is the Science of Social Prediction explained in 2 paragraphs.
Public welfare is, if at all, last on their to-do list.
Oh happy days are here again!!
*hop* *hop* *hoppity* *hop*
*hugs* *kisses* all around
*happy happy dance*
And people around here are wondering why I'm beaming all over my pimply face.
Press any key to continue or any other key to quit.
h tml
Press any key... no, no, no, NOT THAT ONE!
The information went data way -------->
BREAKFAST.COM Halted...Cereal Port Not Responding
The name is Baud......, James Baud.
BUFFERS=20 FILES=15 2nd down, 4th quarter, 5 yards to go!
C:\> Bad command or file name! Go stand in the corner.
Bad command. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaay..
Southern DOS: Y'all reckon? (Yep/Nope)
Disinformation is not as good as datinformation.
Who's General Failure & why's he reading my disk?
RAM disk is *not* an installation procedure.
Shell to DOS...Come in DOS, do you copy? Shell to DOS...
Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue...
ASCII stupid question, get a stupid ANSI!
All wiyht. Rho sritched mg kegtops awound?
DOS Tip #17: Add DEVICE=FNGRCROS.SYS to CONFIG.SYS
If your mouse is missing, try the foot pedal.
Shamelessly ripped from : http://paul.merton.ox.ac.uk/computing/one-liners.
Tra la la ...we're goin' 'round the good ole 'net.
hey guys looky there, a new network let's swamp it, I say
*swamp swamp swamp*
ha ha ha ha ha ho ho ho ho ho hee he he he what fun!
*happy singing*
here we go around the good ole net
good ole net
good old net
hi fellas, guess what I found! A nice clean M$ server
Yaaaay!!!
Here we go *infect infect infect*
Haa ha ha ha ho ho ho ho hee hee hee hee What fun!
I sold off my computer last year because I couldn't keep up with all the clicking and damned hyperlinks all over the web. Annoying things they are. Baah.
Instead, I've taken to calling people I know, when I need anything off the interweb. The printouts usually arrive in the mail in a day or two. True, the timelag is high, but my friends're getting better at it everyday.
For a beer or two, these guys usually refresh
If your argument holds, then why just the kiosk at a music store? If that's infringement, then so is listening to musing anywhere, at a friends house, at a party, anywhere. You would be guilty, if you didn't block your ears when driving past your neighbor's house when their music was playing too loud.