but many authors would allow their book to be distributed freely.
Authors who want their books to be distributed freely are quite able to do so in any one of a number of ways. E-books don't change this at all. It's just a different way of distribution.
but with electronic books there's nothing preventing everybody in the world from endlessly copying the data of a single book
There's nothing inherent in e-books or e-book readers that would stop a publisher from using rights management to restrict copying. The Kindle is a good example of this. Books purchased for the Kindle are DRM'd.
And if you don't do anything, you have no right to complain about the choices either. If the people who don't like the options remain silent, there's no possibility of change and the people in power will stay in power.
I prefer not to silence myself. I may not like the choices, but short of revolution, that's the only way that we have a chance to come up with better ones.
If the govenrment came in a said, "OK, you can own the lines but you can't sell internet service" and then forced the telcoms to lease their lines to a slew of competitors we would see a compitition.
And then Comcast, Verizon and AT&T would just split off their ISP business to create separate companies and the situation would be the same. Without a tariff change from the FCC to create a pricing structure favoring no one, the big ISPs will always get better pricing from the telcos - which they would pass on (partially) to their customers.
A report commissioned the National Governor's Association, the National Conference of State Legislatures and the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators puts the cost to the states at around $11 billion. The DHS puts the total cost at $23 billion over the next 10 years, of which $14 billion will be picked up by the states.
I absolutely agree with you. Unfortunately it appears that enough people want the bowdlerized version that there is a large market for it.
I seem to remember that the folks that bring you the expurgated versions say that they aren't modifying the original in any way, which is why they don't get hammered with the DMCA or any of the other copyright acts, but it seems a minor difference to me...
ClearPlay sells players that filters out violence/sex/whatever parents don't want their kids to see and GoodMoviesOnline (and others) take copies of movies and returns back a copy that's PG.
This is exactly the same thing as telcos that sell shared services like Frame Relay have been doing for years.
1. Oversubscribe your lines to 200% capacity
2. Profit
3. Hope that nobody will go to CIR (and they probably won't, because they've been supplied with bad traffic figures)
4. Profit
5. When slowdowns happen, mark half the packets discard-eligible and let the routers take care of things
6. Profit
7. When customers complain, add some additional capacity - but only in the next quarter
8. Less profit (but only slightly)
I know that a CAL gives you a license to create an individual mailbox, but it was my understanding that the mail client that you actually use to get to it wasn't covered. I have the one of the Exchange disks that we used to install our servers in a drive and I don't see Outlook on it.
I guess we should talk to our Microsoft rep - not everybody needs Office and maybe we can save a couple of bucks...
Outlook licenses are part of Office, not Exchange, which includes a couple of licenses for administration. Exchange Server Client Access Licenses (CALs) and Outlook licenses have to be purchased for each and every user.
You can buy Outlook licenses separately from Office, but Microsoft has set the pricing structure so there's no real advantage to it.
I think, but am not completely certain, that Starcraft was DOS-based. The old DOS games had their own display drivers and handled the screen resolution themselves because the OS didn't do it for them.
They could have tried, but what would have been the cost?
A year-long sideshow that would have had about as much effect it did for Oliver North?
If successful, guaranteed unreversible vetoes (from President Cheney) for any bill that had a Democratic sponsor? A guarantee that Democratic candidates will have virtually no possibility getting any crossover Republican votes?
Guaranteed impeachment proceedings for the next generations of Presidents who make the egregious error of making an unpopular decision?
Don't get me wrong - the Bush administration has made plenty of mistakes - but you can't remedy them by tearing the country apart. The Bush term is about over. If the Democrats are going to focus on anything, they should be where we should be going, not where we should have been.
They already have - Alameda County stopped using Diebold electronic systems two elections ago.
Last election they used the Sequoia Optec voting system - which uses a mark-sense ballot - for most voters and AVC Edge with VeriVote Printer for vision-impaired voters. Prior to that, they used the old-fashioned mark-sense forms that they use for absentee voters for everybody. Vision-impaired voters could have their ballots read to them or use one of the few remaining Diebold systems in local city halls.
I haven't heard yet what system we're going to be using for the Primaries in February, 2008.
How is Apple any better? If they turn belly up you're not going to be able to reauthorize your tunes either.
You only need to authorize your iTunes purchases if you reinstall them or try to use them on a different machine.
If Apple crashed and burned, I'd just export the music I bought from iTunes to MP3 and then reimport it. Yes, it'd suck 'cause I have a couple of hundred of 'em and I'd lose some fidelity that I may or may not be able to hear, but it's by no means the end of the world.
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Authors who want their books to be distributed freely are quite able to do so in any one of a number of ways. E-books don't change this at all. It's just a different way of distribution.
but with electronic books there's nothing preventing everybody in the world from endlessly copying the data of a single book
There's nothing inherent in e-books or e-book readers that would stop a publisher from using rights management to restrict copying. The Kindle is a good example of this. Books purchased for the Kindle are DRM'd.
I prefer not to silence myself. I may not like the choices, but short of revolution, that's the only way that we have a chance to come up with better ones.
And then Comcast, Verizon and AT&T would just split off their ISP business to create separate companies and the situation would be the same. Without a tariff change from the FCC to create a pricing structure favoring no one, the big ISPs will always get better pricing from the telcos - which they would pass on (partially) to their customers.
A report commissioned the National Governor's Association, the National Conference of State Legislatures and the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators puts the cost to the states at around $11 billion. The DHS puts the total cost at $23 billion over the next 10 years, of which $14 billion will be picked up by the states.
I seem to remember that the folks that bring you the expurgated versions say that they aren't modifying the original in any way, which is why they don't get hammered with the DMCA or any of the other copyright acts, but it seems a minor difference to me...
ClearPlay sells players that filters out violence/sex/whatever parents don't want their kids to see and GoodMoviesOnline (and others) take copies of movies and returns back a copy that's PG.
It does seem like they're filming a lot of his stuff. I'd love to see someone take on Ubik.
Isn't the world's largest aircraft still the Antonov AN-225?
Your UID's still pronic, tho...
1. Oversubscribe your lines to 200% capacity
2. Profit
3. Hope that nobody will go to CIR (and they probably won't, because they've been supplied with bad traffic figures)
4. Profit
5. When slowdowns happen, mark half the packets discard-eligible and let the routers take care of things
6. Profit
7. When customers complain, add some additional capacity - but only in the next quarter
8. Less profit (but only slightly)
I guess we should talk to our Microsoft rep - not everybody needs Office and maybe we can save a couple of bucks...
You can buy Outlook licenses separately from Office, but Microsoft has set the pricing structure so there's no real advantage to it.
And this is why we should put Civics class back into schools... He didn't kill a law because it wasn't a law yet - it was just a bill.
Tunes Plus and normal iTunes files are AAC encoded.
I think, but am not completely certain, that Starcraft was DOS-based. The old DOS games had their own display drivers and handled the screen resolution themselves because the OS didn't do it for them.
A year-long sideshow that would have had about as much effect it did for Oliver North?
If successful, guaranteed unreversible vetoes (from President Cheney) for any bill that had a Democratic sponsor?
A guarantee that Democratic candidates will have virtually no possibility getting any crossover Republican votes?
Guaranteed impeachment proceedings for the next generations of Presidents who make the egregious error of making an unpopular decision?
Don't get me wrong - the Bush administration has made plenty of mistakes - but you can't remedy them by tearing the country apart. The Bush term is about over. If the Democrats are going to focus on anything, they should be where we should be going, not where we should have been.
Thanks!
about just using Windows if you want a POS, it means Point of Sale.
whoosh!
As opposed to having robotic devices flying around the solar system that were made by those same semi-evolved monkeys?
Last election they used the Sequoia Optec voting system - which uses a mark-sense ballot - for most voters and AVC Edge with VeriVote Printer for vision-impaired voters. Prior to that, they used the old-fashioned mark-sense forms that they use for absentee voters for everybody. Vision-impaired voters could have their ballots read to them or use one of the few remaining Diebold systems in local city halls.
I haven't heard yet what system we're going to be using for the Primaries in February, 2008.
You only need to authorize your iTunes purchases if you reinstall them or try to use them on a different machine.
If Apple crashed and burned, I'd just export the music I bought from iTunes to MP3 and then reimport it. Yes, it'd suck 'cause I have a couple of hundred of 'em and I'd lose some fidelity that I may or may not be able to hear, but it's by no means the end of the world.
Does the "left" in "Copyleft" have any meaning other than anti-copyright?
So "bobba" means shine?
iTunes just places them that way for the library (which is configurable). Playlists let you organize your music any way you want.
But you were going for "Funny", weren't you?