I think this is just short-sightedness on the part of the department of homeland security. They weren't thinking "let's have secret laws so we can begin to undermine democracy! Muahaha!" They were probably thinking "We need to make these laws secret so the terrorists can't plan ahead." They failed to realize (or care) that this kind of thing goes against the principals of a country governed by the people. They didn't realize that it causes more problems in the long and short term than it fixes. They didn't think about the possible long term consequences of accepting the "sacrifice freedom for protection" train of thought.
Regardless of intention, trying to trademark something you have no right to so you can "only sue the bad guys" is still illegal. You're taking the rights to something you don't own. It looks like your approach to dealing with the "unfair competition" is to sue them for trademark infringement. That has nothing to do with the legality of distrubuting arcade machines, the bulk of your arguement for your actions.
If the MAME licence indicates that it is indeed illegal to profit from selling arcade machines with MAME installed, then shouldn't you be collaborating with the authors of MAME on this? Yes, it would take more effort, but you wouldn't be stealing someone's trademark.
Assuming it the MAME licence allows selling of machines with MAME preinstalled, then these "illegal arcade machines" are infact perfectly legal. The fact that they have free software installed allows them to beat your price just for the machine. This is how free software works in the commercial market. The return is the exposure MAME gets, which results in more people contributing to it. Since you can't do anything about that, you abuse the legal system to get your way. That's bad for America in general, and won't do much to earn you a good reputation. The only thing illegal going on in this case is the distribution of arcade ROMs. If that's interfering with your market, then you have a case right? Yes, it's more difficult to deal with than simply sueing the makers of MAME arcade machines with a stolen trademark, but it's the legal way to do it, and won't have the possibility of resulting in anymore damage to America's already damaged legal system.
This kind of makes me wonder if the emotional connection people have with music (or the aural sense basically, only we're dealing with organized sound specifically) could be explained in a similar way. Yes, it also has a lot to do with mental conditioning from what we've listened to and what we associate with it, but such an explanation as initially stated could possibly indicate that our tendancy to associate tonal structures with feelings like love, hate, and excitement, as opposed to say, hunger, might not simply be arbitrary.
Also, personally, I tend to associate certain chordal structures played on specific instruments with colors. For instance, a minor on an Electric Piano is Green, a minor 7th is bluish green, a major 9th is a dull light blue.
I don't object to people using stream capturing to put their itunes on an mp3 player.
"But really people, just buy the music" and on is in response to the "potentially letting them make CDs with hundreds of thousands of songs for free" part of the original article.
Many sound card drives (Echo Mia, Egosys Waveterminal, Emu series, to name a few) allow internal rerouting of a digital signal to and from various virtual ins and outs. Simply playback anything through the mme driver, route that to an asio or WDM input, record, and voila.
But really people, just buy the music. I know I'm going out on a limb here, but look at a service like Rhapsody. $10 a month for as much 44.1/16 music on your computer as you want. Albeit the bitrate isn't that great (im guessing 128), if you're really using kazaa for virtuous reasons such as "discovering music that you can't find in the record store because the RIAA shoves pop down your throat," then you'll buy a cd when you find something you really like. Rhapsody has a huge library of songs, stuff you would never see on mtv. It has a 30 day free trial, see for yourself.
No I'm not a Rhapsody employee =), I just honestly enjoy the service.
In other news, the Chinese goverment are a bunch of commie bastards, SCO are liars, and Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop market.
Seriously though, this kind of reporting is good. People tend to forget about this kind of stuff unless they're frequently reminded.
What I was looking to find in this report was an example of something like "a special pattern happened on this day, but absolutely nothing globally significant occurred."
There were no examples of this.
There was the question of the eggs acting strangely about a day before the events, but this would be explained by their time shift/precognition theory. Wouldn't this be an important, if not the most important question to be asking regarding the legitimacy of the eggs' results? What if "special patterns" happened 3 times a week? Was the question left out of the article if it was asked?
Does anyone have any information on whether or not complete anomalies ever occured?
Let's assume everything here is true and morally righteous. The fact that scientists were told to change their findings still stands. If the Union of Concerned Scientists were a group of Satan worshiping nazis it would be equally as Orwellian and generally scary that they were told by the government to suppress their findings.
Another use for faster p4s: Digital audio workstations. More processing power means more plugins and audio files, or lower latency, so every little bit counts.
Intel has always been the leader in this arena. P4s run cooler, requiring less noisy cooling solutions, and providing greater stability in a fluctuating climate.
All Cakewalk products are optimized for pentiums as well, which makes them ideal for running programs like SONAR.
Clockspeed and cache matter more for rendering audio and video than they do for playing games.
There are loads of (mostly free) VSTs for windows not available on the mac (most smartelectronix stuff, synthedit, and synth1 come to mind). These are usually the kinds of plugins that do "non traditional" stuff for people looking to do more cutting-edge, experimental stuff with their music, which makes windows ideal for this. I'm assuming Wired will run windows VSTs, which is really exciting as it could allow for a more stable, secure and efficient DAW that will run all these great plugins.
One main advantage to Linux is that that it can fit all or fit well. It depends on how it's configured and what's running on it (i.e. which ditro you're using).
February 2, 2004
This security update for Microsoft(R) Windows(R) addresses newly discovered issues in Microsoft Internet Explorer, a component of Windows. If you have any of the listed software installed on your computer, you should visit the Windows Update Web site to install related updates. [emphasis mine]
...except the courts declared the RIAA's DMCA subpoena tactics illegal. They've improved their tactics because they were forced to, not out of the goodness of thier hearts.
I think you misunderstand what BT is referring to as vocal "edits." His editing techniques aren't intended to make it seem as if the vocalist is a better singer than he actually is. They're intended to create completely original sounds from the vocal and to incorporate them into the track in some way that sounds interesting. If you listen to "Pop," you'll hear stutters, vocoding, grain synthesis, and other multiprocessed sounds that are too complex to indentify just by listening to them. These create really unique effects that are part of BT's musical idiom. They don't make Justin Timberlake seem anymore talented than he actually is.
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I think this is just short-sightedness on the part of the department of homeland security. They weren't thinking "let's have secret laws so we can begin to undermine democracy! Muahaha!" They were probably thinking "We need to make these laws secret so the terrorists can't plan ahead." They failed to realize (or care) that this kind of thing goes against the principals of a country governed by the people. They didn't realize that it causes more problems in the long and short term than it fixes. They didn't think about the possible long term consequences of accepting the "sacrifice freedom for protection" train of thought.
The warmth of Vinyl in software!
Regardless of intention, trying to trademark something you have no right to so you can "only sue the bad guys" is still illegal. You're taking the rights to something you don't own. It looks like your approach to dealing with the "unfair competition" is to sue them for trademark infringement. That has nothing to do with the legality of distrubuting arcade machines, the bulk of your arguement for your actions.
If the MAME licence indicates that it is indeed illegal to profit from selling arcade machines with MAME installed, then shouldn't you be collaborating with the authors of MAME on this? Yes, it would take more effort, but you wouldn't be stealing someone's trademark.
Assuming it the MAME licence allows selling of machines with MAME preinstalled, then these "illegal arcade machines" are infact perfectly legal. The fact that they have free software installed allows them to beat your price just for the machine. This is how free software works in the commercial market. The return is the exposure MAME gets, which results in more people contributing to it. Since you can't do anything about that, you abuse the legal system to get your way. That's bad for America in general, and won't do much to earn you a good reputation. The only thing illegal going on in this case is the distribution of arcade ROMs. If that's interfering with your market, then you have a case right? Yes, it's more difficult to deal with than simply sueing the makers of MAME arcade machines with a stolen trademark, but it's the legal way to do it, and won't have the possibility of resulting in anymore damage to America's already damaged legal system.
When the SCO fiasco first started, that there couldn't possibly be a slimier litigation tactic?
This kind of makes me wonder if the emotional connection people have with music (or the aural sense basically, only we're dealing with organized sound specifically) could be explained in a similar way. Yes, it also has a lot to do with mental conditioning from what we've listened to and what we associate with it, but such an explanation as initially stated could possibly indicate that our tendancy to associate tonal structures with feelings like love, hate, and excitement, as opposed to say, hunger, might not simply be arbitrary.
Also, personally, I tend to associate certain chordal structures played on specific instruments with colors. For instance, a minor on an Electric Piano is Green, a minor 7th is bluish green, a major 9th is a dull light blue.
I don't object to people using stream capturing to put their itunes on an mp3 player.
"But really people, just buy the music" and on is in response to the
"potentially letting them make CDs with hundreds of thousands of songs for free" part of the original article.
Many sound card drives (Echo Mia, Egosys Waveterminal, Emu series, to name a few) allow internal rerouting of a digital signal to and from various virtual ins and outs. Simply playback anything through the mme driver, route that to an asio or WDM input, record, and voila. But really people, just buy the music. I know I'm going out on a limb here, but look at a service like Rhapsody. $10 a month for as much 44.1/16 music on your computer as you want. Albeit the bitrate isn't that great (im guessing 128), if you're really using kazaa for virtuous reasons such as "discovering music that you can't find in the record store because the RIAA shoves pop down your throat," then you'll buy a cd when you find something you really like. Rhapsody has a huge library of songs, stuff you would never see on mtv. It has a 30 day free trial, see for yourself. No I'm not a Rhapsody employee =), I just honestly enjoy the service.
In other news, the Chinese goverment are a bunch of commie bastards, SCO are liars, and Microsoft has a monopoly on the desktop market. Seriously though, this kind of reporting is good. People tend to forget about this kind of stuff unless they're frequently reminded.
What I was looking to find in this report was an example of something like "a special pattern happened on this day, but absolutely nothing globally significant occurred."
There were no examples of this.
There was the question of the eggs acting strangely about a day before the events, but this would be explained by their time shift/precognition theory. Wouldn't this be an important, if not the most important question to be asking regarding the legitimacy of the eggs' results? What if "special patterns" happened 3 times a week? Was the question left out of the article if it was asked?
Does anyone have any information on whether or not complete anomalies ever occured?
If this is a troll, it might just be the most successful in slashdot history.
Let's assume everything here is true and morally righteous. The fact that scientists were told to change their findings still stands. If the Union of Concerned Scientists were a group of Satan worshiping nazis it would be equally as Orwellian and generally scary that they were told by the government to suppress their findings.
YAFMF
Another use for faster p4s: Digital audio workstations. More processing power means more plugins and audio files, or lower latency, so every little bit counts.
Intel has always been the leader in this arena. P4s run cooler, requiring less noisy cooling solutions, and providing greater stability in a fluctuating climate.
All Cakewalk products are optimized for pentiums as well, which makes them ideal for running programs like SONAR.
Clockspeed and cache matter more for rendering audio and video than they do for playing games.
There are loads of (mostly free) VSTs for windows not available on the mac (most smartelectronix stuff, synthedit, and synth1 come to mind). These are usually the kinds of plugins that do "non traditional" stuff for people looking to do more cutting-edge, experimental stuff with their music, which makes windows ideal for this. I'm assuming Wired will run windows VSTs, which is really exciting as it could allow for a more stable, secure and efficient DAW that will run all these great plugins.
Yes. That's one of the main reasons I visit this site.
One main advantage to Linux is that that it can fit all or fit well. It depends on how it's configured and what's running on it (i.e. which ditro you're using).
I've never seen so many Score: 5 Funnys.
...except the courts declared the RIAA's DMCA subpoena tactics illegal. They've improved their tactics because they were forced to, not out of the goodness of thier hearts.
I think what he meant was to "CAN" (as in get rid of) spammers.
I think you misunderstand what BT is referring to as vocal "edits." His editing techniques aren't intended to make it seem as if the vocalist is a better singer than he actually is. They're intended to create completely original sounds from the vocal and to incorporate them into the track in some way that sounds interesting. If you listen to "Pop," you'll hear stutters, vocoding, grain synthesis, and other multiprocessed sounds that are too complex to indentify just by listening to them. These create really unique effects that are part of BT's musical idiom. They don't make Justin Timberlake seem anymore talented than he actually is.