Care to offer any evidence whatsoever of that claim? Was there a marked decline in such activities during the period when file sharing started to get popular and when RIAA/MPAA started suing people, which has since reversed?
Yeah, you had me until you claimed that someone's forcing you to buy copyrighted content or they'll send you to jail.
You do not need to have a copy of a song or movie that you like. No one is forcing you to obtain a copy. You can choose to either legally purchase a copy from the copyright holder or to legally not have a copy. No one has a business model based on hoping you infringe their copyright and then having you imprisoned (or, for that matter, suing you; anyone who thinks RIAA sees lawsuits as a legitimate source or significant amounts of income instead of a deterrant is probably deluded. Any money they get from suing people is a tiny fraction of what they make in sales.)
Thanks for the insightful comment, Anonymous Coward. Please re-read my comment and tell me which of the presidents after FDR "he" refers to.
God, people these days are so sensitive. My comment wasn't addressed at the Bush administration. The problem goes back much further than that. Korea and Vietnam were much larger undeclared wars, both initially joined by Democratic administrations.
As for Bush, yes, he did ask Congress for permission to use military force, mostly because the President still can't actually fund wars without Congressional budgeting. But, like 60 years of Presidents before him, he did not ask for a declaration of war and made it clear, like all those other presidents, that he doesn't believe a President actually needs Congress to declare war to fight a war, regardless of what the Constitution might say.
This isn't a partisan issue, it's an issue of the executive branch having a power that was never legally delegated to it. I'd have no problem with a Constitutional amendment stripping Congress of the responsibility for declarations of war, but I do have a problem with a government that just ignores what's supposed to be the highest law of the land.
The fact that the executive branch has been grabbing more and more power for years and doesn't want to even consider asking Congress to declare war doesn't mean that any undeclared wars we've fought in the past 60 years aren't "wars".
I typed "sudo rm -rf/" on my Mac. All of my data was gone. If only my Mac had a floppy drive, I could have backed it all up. Since it didn't, I was screwed!
It's hard to be profitable when you pre-empt most of a season to show a bunch of old retired football players sitting around talking about the games that just ended.
Oddly enough, every TV network except Fox has managed to figure out how to push back their regular programming to accomodate sports running long instead of just pre-empting the shows or "joining in progress" like the show was being broadcast live or something. 60 Minutes has been broadcasting its entire show after late-running football games for years.
Insightful? Why would the RIAA/MPAA care if someone's installing spyware on your computer?
This act makes it clear that the Federal Trade Commission is to see spyware as a clear violation on the prohibition against deceptive trade practices. Does just mentioning the DMCA and **AA get you an Insightful mod these days, no matter how far off-topic you are?
The switch from 680x0 processors to the first PowerPC processors only worked because of 68K emulation.
I don't dispute that applications could be recompiled or that fat binaries would be a part of the solution. But to argue (as grandparent poster did) that such a transition would work through fat binaries and no emulation at all is ridiculous. If Apple does start making machines with Intel processors, you can bet the new machines will be able to run PowerPC binaries through emulation. I don't think they're dumb enough to make all existing Mac software stop working on new machines and think people would be willing to "upgrade" their Apple hardware.
Nice theory, but if that's true, why does the iPod support MP3 and non-DRMed AAC? Neither one generates revenue for Apple's store, and adding another format that no one uses is hardly going to hurt them more than making it easy for people to use music from other sources.
Supporting DRM'ed WMA files would hurt their store. Supporting Ogg Vorbis would do nothing of the sort.
How many times in the last two decades has Apple had a hit computer that had huge demand, but couldn't meet the demand because Motorola or IBM couldn't produce enough chips?
The city of Boston existed before the United States was founded, and if you read the Constitution you'll see that the states, in founding the United States, did not in fact repeal all of their existing laws and those of their municipalities.
Or do you think that the day after the Constitution was ratified it was suddenly legal for everyone to kill each other because the state legislatures were too busy celebrating to pass new sets of statutes?
Yes, currently libraries only track what you currently have checked out. However, the "historical exceptions" include most American libraries. Many of them used to (and some probably still do) use Date Due cards that stay with the book while it's in the library and list everyone who's checked it out.
I work in a library storage facility, and many of our materials have cards not only listing the names of the people who checked out books 30 years ago, but their social security numbers, too.
For the record, this facility was never located in any part of the Soviet Union.
Ok. You can be in charge of funding this orginization that keeps track of every single thing that anyone's ever done. Let us know when you get the first trillion dollars so we can begin.
The "invent your own moderation" idea sounds good in theory, but it has one major flaw.
Right now if I like flamebait messages, I can give them a +2 modifier and read all of them. Your idea doesn't address the needs of readers who enjoy foaming at the mouth gibberish (at least, not without a hierarchy of moderation types and really making the preferences page unusable).
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Care to offer any evidence whatsoever of that claim? Was there a marked decline in such activities during the period when file sharing started to get popular and when RIAA/MPAA started suing people, which has since reversed?
You do not need to have a copy of a song or movie that you like. No one is forcing you to obtain a copy. You can choose to either legally purchase a copy from the copyright holder or to legally not have a copy. No one has a business model based on hoping you infringe their copyright and then having you imprisoned (or, for that matter, suing you; anyone who thinks RIAA sees lawsuits as a legitimate source or significant amounts of income instead of a deterrant is probably deluded. Any money they get from suing people is a tiny fraction of what they make in sales.)
God, people these days are so sensitive. My comment wasn't addressed at the Bush administration. The problem goes back much further than that. Korea and Vietnam were much larger undeclared wars, both initially joined by Democratic administrations.
As for Bush, yes, he did ask Congress for permission to use military force, mostly because the President still can't actually fund wars without Congressional budgeting. But, like 60 years of Presidents before him, he did not ask for a declaration of war and made it clear, like all those other presidents, that he doesn't believe a President actually needs Congress to declare war to fight a war, regardless of what the Constitution might say.
This isn't a partisan issue, it's an issue of the executive branch having a power that was never legally delegated to it. I'd have no problem with a Constitutional amendment stripping Congress of the responsibility for declarations of war, but I do have a problem with a government that just ignores what's supposed to be the highest law of the land.
Having cron insert your station ID into your playlist after the song that's currently playing would work just fine, though.
The fact that the executive branch has been grabbing more and more power for years and doesn't want to even consider asking Congress to declare war doesn't mean that any undeclared wars we've fought in the past 60 years aren't "wars".
umm, that should probably have been "stty erase ^H".
XML is last year's Really Cool Buzzword. 2005 is the Year of RSS.
I typed "sudo rm -rf /" on my Mac. All of my data was gone. If only my Mac had a floppy drive, I could have backed it all up. Since it didn't, I was screwed!
The tunes are already on your computer. Why would you need to back them up from your iPod?
Oddly enough, every TV network except Fox has managed to figure out how to push back their regular programming to accomodate sports running long instead of just pre-empting the shows or "joining in progress" like the show was being broadcast live or something. 60 Minutes has been broadcasting its entire show after late-running football games for years.
This act makes it clear that the Federal Trade Commission is to see spyware as a clear violation on the prohibition against deceptive trade practices. Does just mentioning the DMCA and **AA get you an Insightful mod these days, no matter how far off-topic you are?
And your comment is evidence that all sci.math readers are racist morons. Not to stereotype or anything.
I don't dispute that applications could be recompiled or that fat binaries would be a part of the solution. But to argue (as grandparent poster did) that such a transition would work through fat binaries and no emulation at all is ridiculous. If Apple does start making machines with Intel processors, you can bet the new machines will be able to run PowerPC binaries through emulation. I don't think they're dumb enough to make all existing Mac software stop working on new machines and think people would be willing to "upgrade" their Apple hardware.
or the best places to get arrested trying to pick up a hooker.
Supporting DRM'ed WMA files would hurt their store. Supporting Ogg Vorbis would do nothing of the sort.
1? maybe 2?
Dear Mr. Grammar Policeman:
Please write yourself a grammar ticket for beginning a sentence with "but."
Have a nice day.
Please explain the process whereby Apple will convert everyone's old applications into fat binaries. Without access to the source.
Or do you think that the day after the Constitution was ratified it was suddenly legal for everyone to kill each other because the state legislatures were too busy celebrating to pass new sets of statutes?
I work in a library storage facility, and many of our materials have cards not only listing the names of the people who checked out books 30 years ago, but their social security numbers, too.
For the record, this facility was never located in any part of the Soviet Union.
And apparently they were smart enough to realize that a DVD-by-mail service for US customers just can't be run out of China for cheaper.
No, that's not what they're designed for. That's what idiots use them for. There's a difference.
Ok. You can be in charge of funding this orginization that keeps track of every single thing that anyone's ever done. Let us know when you get the first trillion dollars so we can begin.
You must never use Classic applications.
Right now if I like flamebait messages, I can give them a +2 modifier and read all of them. Your idea doesn't address the needs of readers who enjoy foaming at the mouth gibberish (at least, not without a hierarchy of moderation types and really making the preferences page unusable).