I went to Amazon's main page and did a search for Mark Probst, the author mentioned in TFA. "The Filly", his book also mentioned in TFA shows up on the top of the list (which is a big list with a bunch of stuff about Survivor). I went to the page and "The Filly" has a sales ranking. It listed as the number 1 selling book in the G and L literature catagory. If anyone is curious, this book has a sales ranking of #77,928.
I have two comments based on your post. The first is about the lexicon making a lot of money as long as no one has published anything similar. The thing that no one mentioned here is that JK Rowlings is planning on publishing her own version of the Lexicon. The original story I read made it sound like her complaint wasn't so much that someone else was making money off her work (go to any book store and you will find dozens of books about the Harry Potter series) it was that they were going to get their version of her next book to market first and it would affect the distribution of the official version of the Lexicon.
My other comment is that I believe much of the content on the Lexicon site is developed by readers, a wiki site if you will. How do you think all the people who have helped build the site feel now that the site owners I trying to make some serious money off their work as well as pissing off Rowlings. I'm sure that they gave up all their rights to whatever they posted so there is no legal way for them to stop the publication, but I also haven't seen anything about fan reaction.
But book eleven, especially the second half, started rolling. It was all action, he started tying up some of the extreme plot threads, it gave us hope for this last book. I agree with everyone here who's said that they hope there's enough in his notes to complete the story. Jordan's vision deserves to be seen by his fans.
By your reasoning, since everyone breaks the speed limit they should change all the speed limits. If the police were able to check our cars and see how many times we've been over the speed limit, and we're talking 1 mph over the limit, we'd all be looking at fines well over what people are paying in RIAA protection money. What about taxes. How many people don't pay sales tax on internet purchases? How much would we all owe if the government tracked all our purchases? The difference is that the RIAA has created a process to find every time you've broken their law. Everyone breaks the law. Whether it's downloading songs, going 2 mph over the limit down the street you live on, or not declaring that six pack your friend gave you for setting up his wireless network on your income taxes. It's just that the RIAA finds it profitable for you to be held accountable, the government doesn't.
Why is this news? In another 150 years the technology level will most likely be such that most deaths, back in Lincoln's time and in ours, can and will be prevented. Do you think they'll still be dealing with cancer and AIDS 150 years from now? Heart disease, clogged arteries...all these things will be cured. Wired has even run articles saying old age will be cured before too long. And as far as trauma goes, just think about Star Trek IV. Bones called modern medicine the "Dark Ages". I certainly hope that is exactly what they are saying about us 150 years from now. Shouldn't this kind of thing just be expected?
What about baseball cards? Those are only traded and collected for entertainment purposes. Granted, some people have made it into big money hobbies, card shops have risen out of buying and selling base ball cards. The shops pay taxes because real money is used. By that reasoning I don't have a problem with taxing transactions for virtual items when real cash is involved, gold farming for example. But if there is taxation of virtual transactions, should kids be required to keep a log of all their card trades so that their parents can report it to the IRS? Will Beckett magazine have to become part of the tax code?
Speaking of motivation, I believe there was a Slashdot story not too long ago about the actual cost of running machines on standby. Tell them they can save money by shutting their computer down when not in use. Your parents may not respond to a computer security threat, but saving money by not wasting electricity? If I had a dime for every time my parents told me to turn off the lights when I left the room...
I flew to Ireland and out of the ten possible security stops for the trip to Dublin and back I was pulled asside for nine. This includes having my bag searched, pulled out of the line to board the plane and being searched after getting off the plane. I'm an average caucasion male so I didn't know what type of profile I was setting off until I got my photos back from the trip and realized that the ball cap I was wearing the entire trip was from my Australien Rules Football Team...The Milwaukee Bombers.
How does this work in an apartment complex where the electricity costs are rolled into rent? My flat is an old house that's been broken up into four units. The two lowers are on the same service for steam, water, and electricity. The cost of heat, water, and electricity are part of my rent. Can the bill for service be seperated from the electric bill (which goes to my landlord)?
I have to agree. He wasn't given a hard time about his resignation, they just let him go early. Look at it this way, if any mistakes or problems occured in that two weeks, whether he caused them or not, the company is now open to a whole lot of trouble with a person who had resigned having access to the system. Imagine when shareholders find out that there was a problem on a system with an administrator who had resigned. The guy should be greatful, they can't make him the legal scapegoat for anything that happens over the next two weeks.
Why shouldn't this happen? Microsoft is never going to be on the forefront of the device market. Why not make it compatible with Apple and Sony devices? Then they can stick it to Apple and say they're open with their technologies, why is iTunes and iPod such closed devices. They are not losing market share with this ploy, but they are going to get a lot of positive PR.
Ten thousand dollars is a lot of money. Say it with me, "Ten Thousand Dollars". I don't have the means, and I'm sure that it wasn't easy for Gabe and Tycho to part with that kind of cash, but they did it. They stepped up and made good on Jack's offer. Dropping $18 on an "I hate Jack Thompson" t-shirt is the least I can do to show the guys at Penny Arcade that I think they did an incredable thing when they cut that check.
You mentioned contracts locking artists to specific record companies. Many of those contracts aren't set up to prevent music only sold over the internet. They Might Be Giants released songs only over the internet when they were upset with their record company. That way they aren't violating their contract but at the same time they were getting music that they wanted to make out to their fans. An artist could record with Apple, release a bunch of songs but never actually sell an "album". That way they never violate their contract.
These are very interesting reasons as to why the internet censoring won't work but doesn't it come down to the fact that the censorship can be circumvented by inserting underscores? Isn't that really why it's not going to work?
OK, the problem here is that P2P is being used to do something illegal, i.e. copyright infringement. There are warnings on the software that say don't, but people are ignoring them and committing the infringement anyway. So the companies that produce the software should stop producing it?
Well, the RIAA produces a product that is being used to commit copyright infringement. They place warnings on the records that say don't, but people ignore them. So, by their own argument, isn't the RIAA just as responsible?
My questions is who thinks that a message saying all your bank passwords need to be updated on one website is really from the bank. The bank won't even send your pin# and your atm cards to you in the same envelope. They send them a week apart from each other. Now they're asking you to submit everything? At once? Who does that?
You know what? If Microsoft wants to help with the spam problem why don't they work on the security features of Outlook and Windows instead of making Hotmail even more useless?
Which is the way they do things in England. I always assumed that you weren't prosecuted until their version of the DA was sure that you were guilty but it looks like their system is even more open to abuse than ours here in the States...I wonder why their system isn't abused like ours is...
No, they do keep computers in stock. I went in there and bought mine and took it home that day. They can't do any modifications there, so if you want something like internal wireless then they will have to mail it to you. Otherwise you can take it home with you.
Is it leagal to own MP3 players in New Zealand? Until iTunes came out and Napster went legal there wasn't a big digital music store. So if you couldn't transfer your CDs to MP3 players, and you couldn't buy the songs leagally, how were you supposed to get music into your player?
If you're not totally hung up on getting a Dell, you can drop by a Gateway Country store and get a Gateway right away. Otherwise there's always BestBuy.
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I went to Amazon's main page and did a search for Mark Probst, the author mentioned in TFA. "The Filly", his book also mentioned in TFA shows up on the top of the list (which is a big list with a bunch of stuff about Survivor). I went to the page and "The Filly" has a sales ranking. It listed as the number 1 selling book in the G and L literature catagory. If anyone is curious, this book has a sales ranking of #77,928.
Overlords? We're talking solar radiation and transistors here, this is Fantastic Four meets Iron Man!
I have two comments based on your post. The first is about the lexicon making a lot of money as long as no one has published anything similar. The thing that no one mentioned here is that JK Rowlings is planning on publishing her own version of the Lexicon. The original story I read made it sound like her complaint wasn't so much that someone else was making money off her work (go to any book store and you will find dozens of books about the Harry Potter series) it was that they were going to get their version of her next book to market first and it would affect the distribution of the official version of the Lexicon.
My other comment is that I believe much of the content on the Lexicon site is developed by readers, a wiki site if you will. How do you think all the people who have helped build the site feel now that the site owners I trying to make some serious money off their work as well as pissing off Rowlings. I'm sure that they gave up all their rights to whatever they posted so there is no legal way for them to stop the publication, but I also haven't seen anything about fan reaction.
But book eleven, especially the second half, started rolling. It was all action, he started tying up some of the extreme plot threads, it gave us hope for this last book. I agree with everyone here who's said that they hope there's enough in his notes to complete the story. Jordan's vision deserves to be seen by his fans.
By your reasoning, since everyone breaks the speed limit they should change all the speed limits. If the police were able to check our cars and see how many times we've been over the speed limit, and we're talking 1 mph over the limit, we'd all be looking at fines well over what people are paying in RIAA protection money. What about taxes. How many people don't pay sales tax on internet purchases? How much would we all owe if the government tracked all our purchases? The difference is that the RIAA has created a process to find every time you've broken their law. Everyone breaks the law. Whether it's downloading songs, going 2 mph over the limit down the street you live on, or not declaring that six pack your friend gave you for setting up his wireless network on your income taxes. It's just that the RIAA finds it profitable for you to be held accountable, the government doesn't.
Why is this news? In another 150 years the technology level will most likely be such that most deaths, back in Lincoln's time and in ours, can and will be prevented. Do you think they'll still be dealing with cancer and AIDS 150 years from now? Heart disease, clogged arteries...all these things will be cured. Wired has even run articles saying old age will be cured before too long. And as far as trauma goes, just think about Star Trek IV. Bones called modern medicine the "Dark Ages". I certainly hope that is exactly what they are saying about us 150 years from now. Shouldn't this kind of thing just be expected?
What about baseball cards? Those are only traded and collected for entertainment purposes. Granted, some people have made it into big money hobbies, card shops have risen out of buying and selling base ball cards. The shops pay taxes because real money is used. By that reasoning I don't have a problem with taxing transactions for virtual items when real cash is involved, gold farming for example. But if there is taxation of virtual transactions, should kids be required to keep a log of all their card trades so that their parents can report it to the IRS? Will Beckett magazine have to become part of the tax code?
Speaking of motivation, I believe there was a Slashdot story not too long ago about the actual cost of running machines on standby. Tell them they can save money by shutting their computer down when not in use. Your parents may not respond to a computer security threat, but saving money by not wasting electricity? If I had a dime for every time my parents told me to turn off the lights when I left the room...
I flew to Ireland and out of the ten possible security stops for the trip to Dublin and back I was pulled asside for nine. This includes having my bag searched, pulled out of the line to board the plane and being searched after getting off the plane. I'm an average caucasion male so I didn't know what type of profile I was setting off until I got my photos back from the trip and realized that the ball cap I was wearing the entire trip was from my Australien Rules Football Team...The Milwaukee Bombers.
How does this work in an apartment complex where the electricity costs are rolled into rent? My flat is an old house that's been broken up into four units. The two lowers are on the same service for steam, water, and electricity. The cost of heat, water, and electricity are part of my rent. Can the bill for service be seperated from the electric bill (which goes to my landlord)?
I have to agree. He wasn't given a hard time about his resignation, they just let him go early. Look at it this way, if any mistakes or problems occured in that two weeks, whether he caused them or not, the company is now open to a whole lot of trouble with a person who had resigned having access to the system. Imagine when shareholders find out that there was a problem on a system with an administrator who had resigned. The guy should be greatful, they can't make him the legal scapegoat for anything that happens over the next two weeks.
Why shouldn't this happen? Microsoft is never going to be on the forefront of the device market. Why not make it compatible with Apple and Sony devices? Then they can stick it to Apple and say they're open with their technologies, why is iTunes and iPod such closed devices. They are not losing market share with this ploy, but they are going to get a lot of positive PR.
Ten thousand dollars is a lot of money. Say it with me, "Ten Thousand Dollars". I don't have the means, and I'm sure that it wasn't easy for Gabe and Tycho to part with that kind of cash, but they did it. They stepped up and made good on Jack's offer. Dropping $18 on an "I hate Jack Thompson" t-shirt is the least I can do to show the guys at Penny Arcade that I think they did an incredable thing when they cut that check.
You mentioned contracts locking artists to specific record companies. Many of those contracts aren't set up to prevent music only sold over the internet. They Might Be Giants released songs only over the internet when they were upset with their record company. That way they aren't violating their contract but at the same time they were getting music that they wanted to make out to their fans. An artist could record with Apple, release a bunch of songs but never actually sell an "album". That way they never violate their contract.
These are very interesting reasons as to why the internet censoring won't work but doesn't it come down to the fact that the censorship can be circumvented by inserting underscores? Isn't that really why it's not going to work?
So, will google turn over access information to the RIAA when people start using the free WIFI to download music?
OK, the problem here is that P2P is being used to do something illegal, i.e. copyright infringement. There are warnings on the software that say don't, but people are ignoring them and committing the infringement anyway. So the companies that produce the software should stop producing it? Well, the RIAA produces a product that is being used to commit copyright infringement. They place warnings on the records that say don't, but people ignore them. So, by their own argument, isn't the RIAA just as responsible?
My questions is who thinks that a message saying all your bank passwords need to be updated on one website is really from the bank. The bank won't even send your pin# and your atm cards to you in the same envelope. They send them a week apart from each other. Now they're asking you to submit everything? At once? Who does that?
You know what? If Microsoft wants to help with the spam problem why don't they work on the security features of Outlook and Windows instead of making Hotmail even more useless?
Which is the way they do things in England. I always assumed that you weren't prosecuted until their version of the DA was sure that you were guilty but it looks like their system is even more open to abuse than ours here in the States...I wonder why their system isn't abused like ours is...
If any of you are missing the way google looked last week you can still use Hacker Google at: http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=xx-hacker&ie=UT F-8
No, they do keep computers in stock. I went in there and bought mine and took it home that day. They can't do any modifications there, so if you want something like internal wireless then they will have to mail it to you. Otherwise you can take it home with you.
Is it leagal to own MP3 players in New Zealand? Until iTunes came out and Napster went legal there wasn't a big digital music store. So if you couldn't transfer your CDs to MP3 players, and you couldn't buy the songs leagally, how were you supposed to get music into your player?
My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pickle Sandwiches?
If you're not totally hung up on getting a Dell, you can drop by a Gateway Country store and get a Gateway right away. Otherwise there's always BestBuy.