I guess certain schools haven't changed much. That sounds a whole lot like my experience in school, except the staying up until 5am a lot. I did do quite a few all nighters, but there were a lot of nights of sleeping as well. (at least as an undergrad).
Now grad school... try sleeping less than an average of 4 hours a night with at least 2 all nighters, sometimes in a row, for 4 months straight. Rinse and repeat after semester breaks. That will seriously kill your health.
Oh yes you did get rights. You got private property and use rights to the physical property which also include fair use or portions of fair use.
What rights did I get? Hint: The answer is none. Now, I can pay to play what I bought in a public place (the $100/annum fee to ASCAP or whatever group that was). That would be a copyright infringement without the license. If the copyright holder granted me the right to sell copies in some or all venues, or on various media, those would be rights. Otherwise, there are NO rights. You seriously sound like a shill here, or spell out the existing rights, along with links to the code that grants those rights. I'm sure I'm not the only one that would be interested in them. Fair Use is in spite of the copyright holder's interests, and are not granted by them in any way, form, or fashion.
The whole point of the discussion was that you might not have received the disc unsolicited which means it might not be yours free and clear like the law would suggest. Unless they can show via a signed contract that you agreed, there is no agreement.
Think about those checks you get in the mail that say not for deposit...Now think about that, how does your logic break down there. A CD that say not for resale, and a check that say don't cash. Because the "check" is not a legitimate check, so of course I cannot cash it. They made it look like a legitimate check, but you'll note that the routing and account/check numbers will be missing from the bottom.
I can still sell the "check" though, so my logic is just fine thank you.
You might not even remember agreeing to evaluate the music but you have to consider this, the record labels aren't going to randomly mail CDs out I get mine straight from a Universal rep. There was no contract.
Your failure to consider or understand different aspects of an unknown situation... Your position is that someone signed an agreement. If so, then none of the above applies, and the entire conversation on that note is merely hot air. There are people that receive things they didn't ask for. That subset is all I'm interested in discussing, and I think we've finished it.
I didn't say that you didn't goto the store to purchase the disk. I said that you got rights to it also. And I said that when you get the disc by other means, those right change and dwindle according to what and how you obtained it. Some of the situation won't allow you to resell the plastic CD without a penalty for violating a law. 1) I didn't get any rights. I bought a disk. At least, that's how it plays out today. Anything else are the mere wet dreams of the RIAA and their compatriots. If I got some rights, I'd have, for instance, the right to copy and distribute, which is the only copyright that really exists.
2) The whole point of the previous discussion was that I received a disk unsolicited via the postal service. There is a very specific piece of legislation regarding this. Ignoring it will definitely leave you on the losing end of any lawsuits you wish to file.
So, since I received something unsolicited via the mail, which is covered very specifically in written law, exactly what law, pray tell, will I be violating should I sell said received item?
Note that there are several laws out and about regarding one-sided "contracts", ie, those agreements that only one side, usually the writer, actually agrees to. You are aware that most EULAs aren't worth the plastic they're written on, right? Or are you just a shill punditing for the RIAA and company?
... with the right perks, like no travel. I fail to see how "no travel" is a perk. Who in their right minds would turn down an opportunity to see new places, especially when your employer will foot the bill?
What are you, some sort of a small fish in a small pond? You're funny. I've done 100% travel for 2 years straight. Leave on Sunday, return on Saturday. It makes it real difficult to maintain a relationship with your wife, much less your friends.
Finding the perfect job may be difficult. But finding an acceptable job isn't that hard.
I personally desired a pay rate coupled with no travel and a group of colleagues that took me about 4-5 months to locate. I could do the same again, but it's still far below the 10K/month salary rule the recruiter wonks spout.
well, you know - being an open water lifeguard in South Dakota is difficult, as is being a snow board instructor in Mississippi.
Sometimes you have to relocate, otherwise, stop bitching (hard facts of life).
What's not acceptable is having to hop on a plane once or twice a week and fly on Sundays/Saturdays to maximize your billing time M-F at customer sites. (At least, to me, some apparently seem to like that lifestyle, probably because they haven't lived it long enough or have families that they actually care about.)
I'd have to agree. Finding another job isn't really that hard, the hardest part about it is finding the pay to coincide with the right people and boss, right type of work, with the right perks, like no travel.
Adding all that in makes for a pretty restrictive job search, but even then it's not so hard.
When I go to the store, I purchase a disk. I do not purchase any rights of distribution (in general). Those (rights of creating copies for distribution) are the copyrights, and the only copyrights.
For the rest, you're drawing up a convoluted strawman that in the best case is merely stretching the law, and in the worst case is an outright falsehood.
To sum it up, the record labels have no right to limit your actions with a CD, unless you signed an explicit contract limiting what you'd do with the CDs they're sending you, in which case - voila - you've requested them. Otherwise you're only granting them new rights. I choose not to.
Well, you see, the assumption that there's a cost to the CD is a valid one, as I can pretty much go to any store and buy the same CD (in the general case within a month or two) for roughly MSRP $16.99.
Now, you can argue that that purchase is for the "rights" to play the music (something the music industry is all about when it suits them regarding right of first sale) or the actual physical media (something the music industry is all about when said CD gets scratched or otherwise destroyed).
I don't believe there was anything in that postal law about business relationships of some sort or whatnot. It was very explicit. If you send something unrequested, you have lost all rights to the physical item.
First, you can already buy your own T1 or better. In my area, it's about 2-3K to install and another 300-400/month, last time I looked. I've considered it, and I'm still thinking about it. If I had 3 or 4 neighbors that wanted to join in long term, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
There's also this huge lie being propagated that the internet wasn't designed for streaming content. It was. Check the multicasting protocol out. The fact that the ISPs chose equipment and OSes that do not fully support it is a different issue. What multi-casting does do, however, is make billing based on packet throughput problematic, and all ISPs I'm aware of initially went with the bandwidth payment model, or wanted to have that option. So ISPs are to blame all around for their own problems.
Your anecdotal evidence aside, the core remains: the US government essentially designed, built, maintained, and essentially still controls the internet.
All ISPs participate on government provided specs and connect to government owned and operated connection points (or used to, the POP maps were interesting, but the last one I had was circa 2001 or so)
The proper behavior would be for the mail servers to reject email traffic to non-existent users during the initial SMTP transaction.
Ummm, how about the only behavior. OK, so how about the case where the internet connected SMTP server is a gateway that is not necessarily continuously connected to a whole other network of SMTP servers? The gateway server certainly doesn't have a list of everyone. More sites than you know are setup this way.
The real issue here is that clients, yes, clients, don't automatically junk backscattered email that doesn't have a corresponding sent email. This does assume that the backscatter email contains enough information to be identifiable. Then again, that would assume that read-receipts and receive-receipts are honored.
So: switch on your office lights, play around with the positioning of screen and lights until you don't see specularities, and then switch to dark on light background. Your eyes will thank you for it! Still not true. High color contrast without large shifts in luminosity won't cause eye strain. Thus a dark background is still preferable over a light one, especially for those of us that can see 60Hz flicker (something a lot of cheaper LCDs have, even in their flourescent backlights). A darker screen still helps in that scenario.
I've noticed significantly less eye strain since I switched back to my prefered old Borland color scheme in my IDE of choice even as my coding hours have gone up recently.
You're sadly mistaken, or just haven't done enough long-term monitor staring. I have done more hours at a stretch than I'll freely admit to here, but for the purpose of comparisons:
* white on black: about 2-3 hours before eyestrain set in
* green on black: about 4-6 hours before eyestrain set in
* amber on black: about 24 hours before eyestrain set in
* LCD black on white: about 5-6 hours before eyestrain set in
* LCD grey/color on black (coding IDE): at least 20 hours before eyestrain set in (fortunately I've not had the code death march marathons since the advent of LCDs:)
I should also mention that any CRT with a refresh below 72 Hz gives me eyestrain within minutes, provided I can avoid watching the beam scan the screen (especially noticeable at 60Hz on any CRT).
I'll do gray or amber on black for all my shells, and my IDE/Editors as well. I used to do it to Word/Wordperfect also, but I don't work with any document processor enough these days to bother with it.
It depends upon which set of genes you got. There's 2-3 shades of red, and 2 shades of green available - there was some interesting articles posted about color receptors here just within the past few months.
The point of the topic was while some men get 2 copies of red or green, and thus are red/green colorblind, some women get 4 different variations, and can see 100s of millions of colors.
...I was amazed how many people made uninformed decisions when buying processors (they still do, it so happens that Core 2 Duo is actually awesome:)). I'm not sure if I'd call Core 2 Duo awesome. It performs better than AMD's 3+ year old tech, that's true, but not so much that I'd be crowing about it.
The real issue is that AMD didn't deliver the next generation everyone was expecting, and instead wound up in the same playpen as their Athlon 64 series.
Now that there is a clear winner--Blu-Ray--everyone is swarming to use/produce/sell/buy Blu-Ray stuff... bulk production increases by orders of magnitude, competition increases, and prices drop That would be why standard prices are now $399 on sale for the cheapest of BD players? Woo hoo, let's hear it for the winner, they sure are sweeping the cash up.
As for CPUs--a much smaller portion of the market is waiting for a winner between AMD and Intel quad-core processors. I'm not sure anyone's waiting in the CPU market. You either need a quad and go buy one, or you don't and you don't.
I think the Q6600 is the clear winner against the current Phenoms, as far as price/performance goes. The prices for the Q6600 are dropping officially on April 20, and some places are already selling it for way below during special sales. Dang, did I buy mine too early? $180 was a pretty good price in my book, but maybe I was 2 weeks too early. Oh well.
Let me guess: you also think the beer is way better in Germany Better than the US? Sure. Better than Belgium? No way.
freeways should have no speed limits like the autobahn Absolutely, and trucks should be limited to 80 kph and the right lane or two along with slower traffic.... (that'd be 50 mph)
the coffee in America sucks goes without saying
and we'll never understand real Gummi Bears over here, right? I don't know about Gummi Bears, but there's a host of other candies, chocolates, and sweets...
Oh, and you've never been wrong about anything. You're sure setting up a series of precedents....;)
Now as to your sentiments about grammar, I agree. Incorrect usage should be discouraged as much as possible where it has impact. Ranting at the unschooled is not going to help much.
However, once you have a BD player, are you going to buy a DVD or a BD of the latest movie. I'd hazard a guess that most folk would opt for the new technology.
You're assuming I'll buy a BD player. Once they're under $200, I might think about it, but it won't be a Sony model. Pioneer, Panasonic, or Philips would be fine. (even though you're still paying a Sony tariff) Hopefully by the time the players and disks hit the acceptable cost range, something new will have arrived. It cost Sony buckets of cash to buy the format war, so I don't see prices dropping anytime soon.
Assuming they make a decent royalty off each disc, it may even be in their interest to subsidise the player cost to boost uptake. The royalties are why prices will have to remain high for the foreseeable future. Sony mortgaged the farm to buy the win, so they have by some calculations more than $1B to recover before they will actually start making a profit. That's hard to do with $250+ hardware selling below cost.
BTW, there is a difference between virtual and physical/active RAM used. Virtual costs virtually nothing... (I couldn't resist the bad pun, sorry)
Firefox 2.x chews up RAM like there's no tomorrow, but even it on a 3GB OSX system doesn't have a serious negative impact until you're in the 1GB+ range (yes, I've been there... never rebooting and 50+ tabs will get you there eventually)
I wouldn't know about Safari - never was a fan of it. I like Firefox for a number of reasons, not the least being noscript. The FF 3 betas have been a pretty major improvement.
I don't like several things about Opera, but I'll bet that's just because I have not worked with it enough to get it to play well with multiple tabs. (The most annoying thing is that it caches data forever by default and the commonly used keystrokes don't seem to cause a forced refresh - annoying as hell.)
2) not given yourself time to unlearn all those "bad" windows habits
3) or are in that miniscule minority for whom OS X really doesn't work (generally because they own 'X' piece of hardware that only has windows drivers) which really means for the zealots that you're so stuck in the past that you'll never migrate to a modern system
My most pleasant and productive time with a computer?
Well, the first time was running OS/2. It just worked... and worked... and worked... 6-9 months uptime between reboots was unremarkable, except that all the other OSes for PCs at the time had uptime in days or, optimistically, weeks.
Fast forward almost a decade, and we have another incarnation of computer pleasantness: OS X. Another system that pretty much just works and works and works.
Of course, both of those are "common" user OSes. If you went with the more esoteric things, Solaris, Irix, Dynix, VMS, OS/400, and whatever that was running on an IBM 360 (WILBUR?), they just kept on running and running and running.
Now, this is not to say that the initial setup and configuration wasn't a pain in the ass, but once you were done, you were done. Unlike a certain Redmond OS that self-destructs anywhere from 3s to about 2 years max. (yep - that 3s is how long it took SmartDrive to clear the CMOS on an EISA motherboard during the reboot on installation - that was fun and the reason OS/2 entered the picture in the first place.)
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I guess certain schools haven't changed much. That sounds a whole lot like my experience in school, except the staying up until 5am a lot. I did do quite a few all nighters, but there were a lot of nights of sleeping as well. (at least as an undergrad).
Now grad school... try sleeping less than an average of 4 hours a night with at least 2 all nighters, sometimes in a row, for 4 months straight. Rinse and repeat after semester breaks. That will seriously kill your health.
Oh yes you did get rights. You got private property and use rights to the physical property which also include fair use or portions of fair use.
What rights did I get? Hint: The answer is none. Now, I can pay to play what I bought in a public place (the $100/annum fee to ASCAP or whatever group that was). That would be a copyright infringement without the license. If the copyright holder granted me the right to sell copies in some or all venues, or on various media, those would be rights. Otherwise, there are NO rights. You seriously sound like a shill here, or spell out the existing rights, along with links to the code that grants those rights. I'm sure I'm not the only one that would be interested in them. Fair Use is in spite of the copyright holder's interests, and are not granted by them in any way, form, or fashion. The whole point of the discussion was that you might not have received the disc unsolicited which means it might not be yours free and clear like the law would suggest. Unless they can show via a signed contract that you agreed, there is no agreement. Think about those checks you get in the mail that say not for depositI can still sell the "check" though, so my logic is just fine thank you. You might not even remember agreeing to evaluate the music but you have to consider this, the record labels aren't going to randomly mail CDs out I get mine straight from a Universal rep. There was no contract. Your failure to consider or understand different aspects of an unknown situation
2) The whole point of the previous discussion was that I received a disk unsolicited via the postal service. There is a very specific piece of legislation regarding this. Ignoring it will definitely leave you on the losing end of any lawsuits you wish to file.
So, since I received something unsolicited via the mail, which is covered very specifically in written law, exactly what law, pray tell, will I be violating should I sell said received item?
Note that there are several laws out and about regarding one-sided "contracts", ie, those agreements that only one side, usually the writer, actually agrees to. You are aware that most EULAs aren't worth the plastic they're written on, right? Or are you just a shill punditing for the RIAA and company?
... with the right perks, like no travel. I fail to see how "no travel" is a perk. Who in their right minds would turn down an opportunity to see new places, especially when your employer will foot the bill?What are you, some sort of a small fish in a small pond? You're funny. I've done 100% travel for 2 years straight. Leave on Sunday, return on Saturday. It makes it real difficult to maintain a relationship with your wife, much less your friends.
Finding the perfect job may be difficult. But finding an acceptable job isn't that hard.
I personally desired a pay rate coupled with no travel and a group of colleagues that took me about 4-5 months to locate. I could do the same again, but it's still far below the 10K/month salary rule the recruiter wonks spout.
well, you know - being an open water lifeguard in South Dakota is difficult, as is being a snow board instructor in Mississippi.
Sometimes you have to relocate, otherwise, stop bitching (hard facts of life).
What's not acceptable is having to hop on a plane once or twice a week and fly on Sundays/Saturdays to maximize your billing time M-F at customer sites. (At least, to me, some apparently seem to like that lifestyle, probably because they haven't lived it long enough or have families that they actually care about.)
I'd have to agree. Finding another job isn't really that hard, the hardest part about it is finding the pay to coincide with the right people and boss, right type of work, with the right perks, like no travel.
Adding all that in makes for a pretty restrictive job search, but even then it's not so hard.
When I go to the store, I purchase a disk. I do not purchase any rights of distribution (in general). Those (rights of creating copies for distribution) are the copyrights, and the only copyrights.
For the rest, you're drawing up a convoluted strawman that in the best case is merely stretching the law, and in the worst case is an outright falsehood.
To sum it up, the record labels have no right to limit your actions with a CD, unless you signed an explicit contract limiting what you'd do with the CDs they're sending you, in which case - voila - you've requested them. Otherwise you're only granting them new rights. I choose not to.
Well, you see, the assumption that there's a cost to the CD is a valid one, as I can pretty much go to any store and buy the same CD (in the general case within a month or two) for roughly MSRP $16.99.
Now, you can argue that that purchase is for the "rights" to play the music (something the music industry is all about when it suits them regarding right of first sale) or the actual physical media (something the music industry is all about when said CD gets scratched or otherwise destroyed).
I don't believe there was anything in that postal law about business relationships of some sort or whatnot. It was very explicit. If you send something unrequested, you have lost all rights to the physical item.
I'm not sure that makes a difference. It's a gift, because they're not a charitable organization looking for donations. :)
The postal law makes it very clear that whatever arrives unsolicited in the mail is owned by the recipient.
Therefore, if it's a gift, I can do what I want with said gift, including sell it on ebay. UMG's copyright privileges continue to be unmolested.
First, you can already buy your own T1 or better. In my area, it's about 2-3K to install and another 300-400/month, last time I looked. I've considered it, and I'm still thinking about it. If I had 3 or 4 neighbors that wanted to join in long term, I'd do it in a heartbeat.
There's also this huge lie being propagated that the internet wasn't designed for streaming content. It was. Check the multicasting protocol out. The fact that the ISPs chose equipment and OSes that do not fully support it is a different issue. What multi-casting does do, however, is make billing based on packet throughput problematic, and all ISPs I'm aware of initially went with the bandwidth payment model, or wanted to have that option. So ISPs are to blame all around for their own problems.
Your anecdotal evidence aside, the core remains: the US government essentially designed, built, maintained, and essentially still controls the internet.
All ISPs participate on government provided specs and connect to government owned and operated connection points (or used to, the POP maps were interesting, but the last one I had was circa 2001 or so)
Ummm, how about the only behavior
The real issue here is that clients, yes, clients, don't automatically junk backscattered email that doesn't have a corresponding sent email. This does assume that the backscatter email contains enough information to be identifiable. Then again, that would assume that read-receipts and receive-receipts are honored.
I've noticed significantly less eye strain since I switched back to my prefered old Borland color scheme in my IDE of choice even as my coding hours have gone up recently.
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I should also mention that any CRT with a refresh below 72 Hz gives me eyestrain within minutes, provided I can avoid watching the beam scan the screen (especially noticeable at 60Hz on any CRT).
I'll do gray or amber on black for all my shells, and my IDE/Editors as well. I used to do it to Word/Wordperfect also, but I don't work with any document processor enough these days to bother with it.
It depends upon which set of genes you got. There's 2-3 shades of red, and 2 shades of green available - there was some interesting articles posted about color receptors here just within the past few months.
The point of the topic was while some men get 2 copies of red or green, and thus are red/green colorblind, some women get 4 different variations, and can see 100s of millions of colors.
...I was amazed how many people made uninformed decisions when buying processors (they still do, it so happens that Core 2 Duo is actually awesomeThe real issue is that AMD didn't deliver the next generation everyone was expecting, and instead wound up in the same playpen as their Athlon 64 series.
Now as to your sentiments about grammar, I agree. Incorrect usage should be discouraged as much as possible where it has impact. Ranting at the unschooled is not going to help much.
However, once you have a BD player, are you going to buy a DVD or a BD of the latest movie. I'd hazard a guess that most folk would opt for the new technology.
You're assuming I'll buy a BD player. Once they're under $200, I might think about it, but it won't be a Sony model. Pioneer, Panasonic, or Philips would be fine. (even though you're still paying a Sony tariff) Hopefully by the time the players and disks hit the acceptable cost range, something new will have arrived. It cost Sony buckets of cash to buy the format war, so I don't see prices dropping anytime soon. Assuming they make a decent royalty off each disc, it may even be in their interest to subsidise the player cost to boost uptake. The royalties are why prices will have to remain high for the foreseeable future. Sony mortgaged the farm to buy the win, so they have by some calculations more than $1B to recover before they will actually start making a profit. That's hard to do with $250+ hardware selling below cost.BTW, there is a difference between virtual and physical/active RAM used. Virtual costs virtually nothing... (I couldn't resist the bad pun, sorry)
Firefox 2.x chews up RAM like there's no tomorrow, but even it on a 3GB OSX system doesn't have a serious negative impact until you're in the 1GB+ range (yes, I've been there... never rebooting and 50+ tabs will get you there eventually)
I wouldn't know about Safari - never was a fan of it. I like Firefox for a number of reasons, not the least being noscript. The FF 3 betas have been a pretty major improvement.
I don't like several things about Opera, but I'll bet that's just because I have not worked with it enough to get it to play well with multiple tabs. (The most annoying thing is that it caches data forever by default and the commonly used keystrokes don't seem to cause a forced refresh - annoying as hell.)
You've obviously either:
1) not run OS X
2) not given yourself time to unlearn all those "bad" windows habits
3) or are in that miniscule minority for whom OS X really doesn't work (generally because they own 'X' piece of hardware that only has windows drivers) which really means for the zealots that you're so stuck in the past that you'll never migrate to a modern system
My most pleasant and productive time with a computer?
Well, the first time was running OS/2. It just worked... and worked... and worked... 6-9 months uptime between reboots was unremarkable, except that all the other OSes for PCs at the time had uptime in days or, optimistically, weeks.
Fast forward almost a decade, and we have another incarnation of computer pleasantness: OS X. Another system that pretty much just works and works and works.
Of course, both of those are "common" user OSes. If you went with the more esoteric things, Solaris, Irix, Dynix, VMS, OS/400, and whatever that was running on an IBM 360 (WILBUR?), they just kept on running and running and running.
Now, this is not to say that the initial setup and configuration wasn't a pain in the ass, but once you were done, you were done. Unlike a certain Redmond OS that self-destructs anywhere from 3s to about 2 years max. (yep - that 3s is how long it took SmartDrive to clear the CMOS on an EISA motherboard during the reboot on installation - that was fun and the reason OS/2 entered the picture in the first place.)
The telecoms should be allowed to keep what they paid for, the rest should go back to the public.
So all that last mile cabling? Welcome to our own network.