Again though, a talented musician shouldn't magically make 300x what a talented carpenter makes simply because the carpenter has to deal with the unchangable laws of nature while the musician gets carefully crafted laws to make sure he (and only he) can keep copying his now infinite resource.
Actually, the artist doesn't make much unless they tour. For recorded works, the publishing companies and the record companies are the ones making the big bucks. ASCAP and BMI collect royalties for the publishing companies not the artists.
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Funny you should mention that.
My roomies have a 2 year old digital camera that Vista refuses to see no matter what they do. I said, "Lemme take a look at it for a second", hooked it up to my Kubuntu system, and 5 mins later handed them a cd with all the pics on.
Adobe can do it. Sun Java can do it. Microsoft can not [yet] do it.
It's not that Microsoft can't do it, it's that they won't do it. Allowing Silverlight/Moonlight to work flawlessly on Firefox or Linux means there's one less reason to install Windows of some sort. There's a technical term for this, it's called 'vendor lockin'.
Funny, I was under the impression that Microsoft's legal staff wrote the EULA the way they did to prevent people from reading it, and left enough loopholes in it for Microsoft to drive a fleet of semis through just in case...
So what's so bad about a 600 mb iso download? Big deal. Vista ships on a 4.something GIG dvd, with all available flavors on it. I can dl a 600 mb iso in about an hour. it's soooooooooooooo not an issue to me.
I can only remember printing one file in recent history (couple of months.) And that was to stick it into the fax machine.
Don't work in an office much, do you? I've been hearing the hype of the 'paperless office' for a couple decades now, but don't kid yourself, the bosses still have a religious belief in dead tree copies. Last place I had a 'real job' at, they went through at least 3 reams of paper a day, with mailouts over 500 pieces. The rest were file copies.
Not that I know of. 'The Underpeople' is part of 'Norstrilia', so if you have that, you're golden. I found a copy of 'Quest of the Three Worlds' in a used book store cheap. It's not in Rediscovery. Some of the short stories are missing from Rediscovery as well: 'No, No, Not Rogov', 'War 81-Q', (my personal fave alongside 'Ballad') 'Queen of the Afternoon', and a couple others. Get a copy of 'The Instrumentality of Mankind' and you should be covered.
I just mention that not to tell you anything you don't know (I really doubt I'm doing that) or to antagonize you, but that I think "not gonna tell ya how" creates a mystique that could be replaced with an understanding of both how to do these things and when not to do these things.
Point I was making is, those of us who already know how, know enough to not shoot ourselves in the foot. The info is out there, and in the course of finding it, the newbie's gonna learn why doing it is a Bad Idea until they learn enough to not screw it up totally.
I remember hearing something once, that once you have somebody by the balls, their hearts and minds are sure to follow. I'm thinking an economic death grip on some foreign country's balls would count as an unofficial conquest, in that they tend to do what we say.
The US has 186 military bases in 150 countries. This for a country that had no army before WWII.
no Army before WWII?? That's a bit of a stretch, the US Continental Army has been around since 1700s.
No standing army, just a Federally legislated cadre of professionals to handle training of the next cadre, and a couple regiments to provide the backbone of a professional army.
Makes me wish modern cereal boxes had good toys like back then!!!
Naw, don't want the little brats choking on a piece of plastic and their parents suing everybody in sight. Though one could make an argument that it's merely Darwinian selection at work...
Agreed. People have been building radios at home for over 100 years now. It's not that big of a deal. Even frequency hopping radios have been built by ham operators in the last 20 years. I haven't read any QST in over a decade, but the last time I glanced through one, they still had plans and schematics for some homebrew gear.
Last time I looked, Redhat (Fedora, actually) wants you to make a root account at install. That was with FC7, the last time I ran Fedora on one of my machines. Ubuntu adds the first user account created in a fresh install to the sudo list.
There is a way to get a shell with root access so you can do a bunch of things without bothering with sudo, but I'm not gonna tell ya how.
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Actually, the artist doesn't make much unless they tour. For recorded works, the publishing companies and the record companies are the ones making the big bucks. ASCAP and BMI collect royalties for the publishing companies not the artists.
Well, all they have to do is find oil under Stockholm and manufacture a few links to Al Qeda, then that problem would be solved...
The news crew went on location to Utah, eh?
Think we'll see it before Duke Nukem Forever?
My roomies have a 2 year old digital camera that Vista refuses to see no matter what they do. I said, "Lemme take a look at it for a second", hooked it up to my Kubuntu system, and 5 mins later handed them a cd with all the pics on.
It's not that Microsoft can't do it, it's that they won't do it. Allowing Silverlight/Moonlight to work flawlessly on Firefox or Linux means there's one less reason to install Windows of some sort. There's a technical term for this, it's called 'vendor lockin'.
Funny, I was under the impression that Microsoft's legal staff wrote the EULA the way they did to prevent people from reading it, and left enough loopholes in it for Microsoft to drive a fleet of semis through just in case...
So what's so bad about a 600 mb iso download? Big deal. Vista ships on a 4.something GIG dvd, with all available flavors on it. I can dl a 600 mb iso in about an hour. it's soooooooooooooo not an issue to me.
It also ships with the server pack. It's a full LAMP stack, the Linux server default.
Don't work in an office much, do you? I've been hearing the hype of the 'paperless office' for a couple decades now, but don't kid yourself, the bosses still have a religious belief in dead tree copies. Last place I had a 'real job' at, they went through at least 3 reams of paper a day, with mailouts over 500 pieces. The rest were file copies.
I'm wondering how long it'll be before those biotech companies start charging me to use my own born-with DNA...
You are aware that NTSC video requires 3.5 MHz bandwith?
Not that I know of. 'The Underpeople' is part of 'Norstrilia', so if you have that, you're golden. I found a copy of 'Quest of the Three Worlds' in a used book store cheap. It's not in Rediscovery. Some of the short stories are missing from Rediscovery as well: 'No, No, Not Rogov', 'War 81-Q', (my personal fave alongside 'Ballad') 'Queen of the Afternoon', and a couple others. Get a copy of 'The Instrumentality of Mankind' and you should be covered.
Point I was making is, those of us who already know how, know enough to not shoot ourselves in the foot. The info is out there, and in the course of finding it, the newbie's gonna learn why doing it is a Bad Idea until they learn enough to not screw it up totally.
One of my favorite authors. They rereleased his stuff lately.
and your other weird relatives...
I remember hearing something once, that once you have somebody by the balls, their hearts and minds are sure to follow. I'm thinking an economic death grip on some foreign country's balls would count as an unofficial conquest, in that they tend to do what we say.
No standing army, just a Federally legislated cadre of professionals to handle training of the next cadre, and a couple regiments to provide the backbone of a professional army.
Right, that's the classified new menace, the one they're not allowed to talk about but need a few trillion bucks to combat.
Dude, you can major in Gameboy if you know how to bullshit.
Naw, don't want the little brats choking on a piece of plastic and their parents suing everybody in sight. Though one could make an argument that it's merely Darwinian selection at work...
Sounds like they're getting press for being able to turn it on. And this takes an art degree how?
Agreed. People have been building radios at home for over 100 years now. It's not that big of a deal. Even frequency hopping radios have been built by ham operators in the last 20 years. I haven't read any QST in over a decade, but the last time I glanced through one, they still had plans and schematics for some homebrew gear.
There is a way to get a shell with root access so you can do a bunch of things without bothering with sudo, but I'm not gonna tell ya how.
Personally, I wanna know how they're going to handle the bandwidth needed for video conferencing on a cell fone.