The UK is still the only country that doesn't print the country's name on their postage stamps, simply by virtue of the fact that they "invented" the postage stamp.
You can set up your mydomain.com email address to forward everything to your gmail account, and then go and change the 'from' address in gmail to your mydomain.com too. As far as the outside world is concerned, you're not on gmail. Especially since gmail doesn't insert a tag-line at the end like Hotmail or Yahoo.
You can do this for all your personal/ISP accounts; gmail lets you select what the outgoing address should read.
Haha. That's a clever idea, except to win a copyright case, you have to prove *copying*. If someone else independently came up with the same tune as you, you'd be unlikely to win unless you could prove they had access to your musical work, and then specifically copied a substantial amount of it. It's likely that the only people who would make any money from your litigation would be the lawyers..!
Sure, fair use does allow journalists to quote other sources -- otherwise they wouldn't be able to write book reviews, for example -- but from what I understand, Roland doesn't really add much to the article that's original. He's simply selectively copy-pasting parts of the article with a few setences thrown in to keep the flow. Fair use allows copying of this sort only if something new and original is being provided; it's usually a matter of discerning whether the quotations are being used to further the debate (as in, provide new insights, not merely restating it/bringing it more eyeballs) or whether they're simply being copied. With Roland (especially given his previous disinclination to credit or even acknowledge the original authors) it seems highly unlikely to me that copyright law is not being violated. It would take either a brilliantly clever argument or else a politically stumbling judge for Roland to win the case.
Why all the fuss? Are there no other hardware products that do the same thing? Have linksys or d-link seriously not caught on? They don't need a proprietary player like iTunes, they simply need a tray icon that you can right click and select application -- something similar to the airfoil interface..
>>I think a media player / camera / phone isn't a bad idea... if it were done properly. And no one has really done it properly... yet.
About five years ago, when Samsung released the first mp3 player phone here in the US (I believe the carrier was Sprint), it was done properly. The phone was very well thought out and actually made sense (for its time). It had a 64mb flash memory, which was quite a lot at the time (remember the first Rio mp3 player? it was 32mb. it was barely a few months before this was released).
the reason it worked so well was because like Apple, Samsung generally seems to pay a lot of attention to ergonomics and functional form. The headset functioned as both earbud headphones and a handsfree set, and there was a little remote on the headphones that let you answer/hang up the phone as well as adjust the volume and skip songs etc.
i think the real difference between that and current multifunction phones is that this phone claimed to have two purposes, and it did both of them well. it combined them in a way that made sense, but also made sure that each feature functioned great independently. my problem with most of the phones today is not the convergence, but the fact that it's shoddily done convergence. cameras are added just so verizon can advertize a cheap camera phone. you get lots of little features, but the package does equal the sum of its parts.
there's no safeways up here in MA, but at the other chains (stop&shop, CVS, big Y, etc.) you're given one big card (credit card size) and two or three key-chain size cards. what this means is that there's multiple copies of each cards. so what i've done with friends in the past is swapped my extra stop&shop card for his extra cvs card. it's not too far-fetched to imagine someone else using an actual scanned card. since they all have exactly the same barcode (by definition - same account), it would be hard to keep track of which one of those cards was used.
>> sure as hell am going to see it in the movie theater on a huge screen instead of paying the same amount and watching it on a 17inch CRT
Right -- but what if it was much cheaper to see it on the CRT? I imagine if the divx releases are priced correctly -- ie. extremely low, this technique might just work. People who prefer to watch low-resolution movies (with stereo audio) on their laptops will now be obtaining divx files through legal means, paying the movie makers their $2 rather than buying a pirated v-cd for $2 (which tends to be the medium for the majority of pirated Bollywood flims). Meanwhile, people who prefer the movie theatre experience, huge screen and surround sound will continue to pay the same amount for it. So, if priced cleverly, these divx releases could capture the target market for pirated copies without sacrificing the movie-going segment of the population.
depends whether you measure in terms of population or surface area. that's the problem with statistics -- you can pick and choose what you want to use, to support your own point.
We can't "leave everyone else the fuck alone". We're not in that kinda position; we don't have that kinda choice. America is the world's largest democracy, the world's largest economy, the world's largest power. I hate using the word, because it's so fucking pretentious, but we truly are a hegemon. No matter what we do, it affects the outside world. For example: Alan Greenspan decides to change interest rates to promote domestic growth, and millions of dollars of global investment funds start flowing in new directions, affecting financial markets world over. McDonalds decides to discontinue the happy meal, and millions of factory workers in china lose their job. America sneezes, and the world is shaken. The world today is too intricately interdependent for us to step out and live an isolated, blinkered existence.
That's why we actually need a government that approaches foreign policy in a proactive way. We need a government that believes in 'soft power' -- that is, winning the hearts and minds of the world around us by doing something that merits it -- not a government that believes we should intervene with hard military power whenever the hell we decide to, fuck things up, and leave without a permanent solution. That kind of thing only creates more antagonism against us. Working through institutions such as the UN and NATO -- even if you don't believe things end up working any differently -- is important because that's the only way we'll change sentiments towards our country. We need to be respectful, we need to be a team player -- not someone who ignores the rest of the world, the real problem, until our backyard gets bombed.
And you have to worry about the social cost of junk mail as well. How many of you recycle your junk mail? More importantly though -- since the postal service is a reciprocal service, you're paying indirectly to recieve mail too. The 3 cent price hike to send your utility bill payment goes towards making sure the entire mail system remains cost-effective.
Easy: those who can afford it are allowed to use it. If news crews care enough about a story to shell out for it, they've got it. If your local council cares enough about saving your life your local fire truck gets one.
I think you've got the chicken and the egg confused here. Newer versions of Windows (especially XP) are extremely legacy-based. They're designed to allow people like me who don't like change to upgrade and still have a familiar setting. Switch everything to classic mode in WinXP (such as the theme, the start menu and even the control panel) and it's almost essentially the same interface as Win2K and even Win98. There's minor improvements -- for example the bottom left pixel of the screen is now part of the start menu, so you can just slide your mouse all the way to that corner and open the start menu. But other things are there for us old-timers, such as the command line emulator; something pretty much useless for the new user.
The only reason they make the new appearance the default is to compete with Mac OS and because they know people won't upgrade unless they're getting an entirely new system anyway.
I'd take that link with a grain of salt. Microwaves were not "invented by the nazis". Health risks or not, microwaves are not inherently evil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven
i'm not sure i buy your analogy. offering files for download is more like joining a local organisation that exists for the sole purpose of maintaining and distributing lists of what stuff each person has in their house, what times the door will be unlocked and how fast you'll be able to grab copies of said stuff.
of course, this assumes that you've only got legal copies of copyrighted material for share, and that you're not downloading anything yourself. not very realistic assumptions, either.
It never really went away, that's the thing. There's still plenty of websites that pay members per click or signup or search, etc. Except these days, it's not so much points as straight up cash, which gets paypal'd directly to you. Sites like Quicker Clickers have massive followings amongst high school and college students around the world, and with a little bit of dedication, people still manage to make a good deal of money.
Meanwhile, FreeRide re-launched almost a year ago, but just hasn't been able to amass a userbase because of competition from sites like QuickerClickers. People prefer money to points, and long-drawn process to recieve gift certificates.
There are still plenty of sites out there that pay members per click (regardless ofwhere they're located). But you're right- the payout isn't nearly as high. The standard these days is closer to a fraction of a cent or so, see Quicker Clickers for example.
Off-topic, but was wondering what the distinction between disk and disc was these days. I thought disk was short for diskette -- like floppy disks. Meanwhile, CD-ROM stands for Compact Disc - Read Only Memory, right?
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Well, there is precedent:
The UK is still the only country that doesn't print the country's name on their postage stamps, simply by virtue of the fact that they "invented" the postage stamp.
You can set up your mydomain.com email address to forward everything to your gmail account, and then go and change the 'from' address in gmail to your mydomain.com too. As far as the outside world is concerned, you're not on gmail. Especially since gmail doesn't insert a tag-line at the end like Hotmail or Yahoo.
g mail&hl=en&answer=20616
You can do this for all your personal/ISP accounts; gmail lets you select what the outgoing address should read.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=
Haha. That's a clever idea, except to win a copyright case, you have to prove *copying*. If someone else independently came up with the same tune as you, you'd be unlikely to win unless you could prove they had access to your musical work, and then specifically copied a substantial amount of it. It's likely that the only people who would make any money from your litigation would be the lawyers..!
Sure, fair use does allow journalists to quote other sources -- otherwise they wouldn't be able to write book reviews, for example -- but from what I understand, Roland doesn't really add much to the article that's original. He's simply selectively copy-pasting parts of the article with a few setences thrown in to keep the flow. Fair use allows copying of this sort only if something new and original is being provided; it's usually a matter of discerning whether the quotations are being used to further the debate (as in, provide new insights, not merely restating it/bringing it more eyeballs) or whether they're simply being copied. With Roland (especially given his previous disinclination to credit or even acknowledge the original authors) it seems highly unlikely to me that copyright law is not being violated. It would take either a brilliantly clever argument or else a politically stumbling judge for Roland to win the case.
I think it's time someone went RIAA on his ass.
Why all the fuss? Are there no other hardware products that do the same thing? Have linksys or d-link seriously not caught on? They don't need a proprietary player like iTunes, they simply need a tray icon that you can right click and select application -- something similar to the airfoil interface..
>>I think a media player / camera / phone isn't a bad idea... if it were done properly. And no one has really done it properly... yet.
About five years ago, when Samsung released the first mp3 player phone here in the US (I believe the carrier was Sprint), it was done properly. The phone was very well thought out and actually made sense (for its time). It had a 64mb flash memory, which was quite a lot at the time (remember the first Rio mp3 player? it was 32mb. it was barely a few months before this was released).
the reason it worked so well was because like Apple, Samsung generally seems to pay a lot of attention to ergonomics and functional form. The headset functioned as both earbud headphones and a handsfree set, and there was a little remote on the headphones that let you answer/hang up the phone as well as adjust the volume and skip songs etc.
i think the real difference between that and current multifunction phones is that this phone claimed to have two purposes, and it did both of them well. it combined them in a way that made sense, but also made sure that each feature functioned great independently. my problem with most of the phones today is not the convergence, but the fact that it's shoddily done convergence. cameras are added just so verizon can advertize a cheap camera phone. you get lots of little features, but the package does equal the sum of its parts.
Brian: "Are you sure it was a book, Peter? Are you sure it wasn't... nothing?"
there's no safeways up here in MA, but at the other chains (stop&shop, CVS, big Y, etc.) you're given one big card (credit card size) and two or three key-chain size cards. what this means is that there's multiple copies of each cards. so what i've done with friends in the past is swapped my extra stop&shop card for his extra cvs card. it's not too far-fetched to imagine someone else using an actual scanned card. since they all have exactly the same barcode (by definition - same account), it would be hard to keep track of which one of those cards was used.
>>seems that people who like Bollywood films tend to do so just to be prentiously trendy gits
Like 70ish% of India's population, you mean? Perhaps you should go visit..
>> sure as hell am going to see it in the movie theater on a huge screen instead of paying the same amount and watching it on a 17inch CRT
Right -- but what if it was much cheaper to see it on the CRT? I imagine if the divx releases are priced correctly -- ie. extremely low, this technique might just work. People who prefer to watch low-resolution movies (with stereo audio) on their laptops will now be obtaining divx files through legal means, paying the movie makers their $2 rather than buying a pirated v-cd for $2 (which tends to be the medium for the majority of pirated Bollywood flims). Meanwhile, people who prefer the movie theatre experience, huge screen and surround sound will continue to pay the same amount for it. So, if priced cleverly, these divx releases could capture the target market for pirated copies without sacrificing the movie-going segment of the population.
no more phone-sex in the back yard.
>>Why are these companies always portrayed in a negative light with the assumption that they are bad?
because it's a little hard to portray them in a negative light if you assume that they are good.
depends whether you measure in terms of population or surface area. that's the problem with statistics -- you can pick and choose what you want to use, to support your own point.
We can't "leave everyone else the fuck alone". We're not in that kinda position; we don't have that kinda choice. America is the world's largest democracy, the world's largest economy, the world's largest power. I hate using the word, because it's so fucking pretentious, but we truly are a hegemon. No matter what we do, it affects the outside world. For example: Alan Greenspan decides to change interest rates to promote domestic growth, and millions of dollars of global investment funds start flowing in new directions, affecting financial markets world over. McDonalds decides to discontinue the happy meal, and millions of factory workers in china lose their job. America sneezes, and the world is shaken. The world today is too intricately interdependent for us to step out and live an isolated, blinkered existence.
That's why we actually need a government that approaches foreign policy in a proactive way. We need a government that believes in 'soft power' -- that is, winning the hearts and minds of the world around us by doing something that merits it -- not a government that believes we should intervene with hard military power whenever the hell we decide to, fuck things up, and leave without a permanent solution. That kind of thing only creates more antagonism against us. Working through institutions such as the UN and NATO -- even if you don't believe things end up working any differently -- is important because that's the only way we'll change sentiments towards our country. We need to be respectful, we need to be a team player -- not someone who ignores the rest of the world, the real problem, until our backyard gets bombed.
And you have to worry about the social cost of junk mail as well. How many of you recycle your junk mail? More importantly though -- since the postal service is a reciprocal service, you're paying indirectly to recieve mail too. The 3 cent price hike to send your utility bill payment goes towards making sure the entire mail system remains cost-effective.
Easy: those who can afford it are allowed to use it. If news crews care enough about a story to shell out for it, they've got it. If your local council cares enough about saving your life your local fire truck gets one.
I think you've got the chicken and the egg confused here. Newer versions of Windows (especially XP) are extremely legacy-based. They're designed to allow people like me who don't like change to upgrade and still have a familiar setting. Switch everything to classic mode in WinXP (such as the theme, the start menu and even the control panel) and it's almost essentially the same interface as Win2K and even Win98. There's minor improvements -- for example the bottom left pixel of the screen is now part of the start menu, so you can just slide your mouse all the way to that corner and open the start menu. But other things are there for us old-timers, such as the command line emulator; something pretty much useless for the new user.
The only reason they make the new appearance the default is to compete with Mac OS and because they know people won't upgrade unless they're getting an entirely new system anyway.
I'd take that link with a grain of salt. Microwaves were not "invented by the nazis". Health risks or not, microwaves are not inherently evil:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microwave_oven
i'm not sure i buy your analogy. offering files for download is more like joining a local organisation that exists for the sole purpose of maintaining and distributing lists of what stuff each person has in their house, what times the door will be unlocked and how fast you'll be able to grab copies of said stuff.
of course, this assumes that you've only got legal copies of copyrighted material for share, and that you're not downloading anything yourself. not very realistic assumptions, either.
Do you have any of their local contact information? Phone numbers or fax numbers or such? I'd be happy to join the battle, in that case.
that's a trailer!?
that was pathetic.
"By Toutatis! May the sky never fall on your heads..."
It never really went away, that's the thing. There's still plenty of websites that pay members per click or signup or search, etc. Except these days, it's not so much points as straight up cash, which gets paypal'd directly to you. Sites like Quicker Clickers have massive followings amongst high school and college students around the world, and with a little bit of dedication, people still manage to make a good deal of money.
Meanwhile, FreeRide re-launched almost a year ago, but just hasn't been able to amass a userbase because of competition from sites like QuickerClickers. People prefer money to points, and long-drawn process to recieve gift certificates.
There are still plenty of sites out there that pay members per click (regardless ofwhere they're located). But you're right- the payout isn't nearly as high. The standard these days is closer to a fraction of a cent or so, see Quicker Clickers for example.
Off-topic, but was wondering what the distinction between disk and disc was these days. I thought disk was short for diskette -- like floppy disks. Meanwhile, CD-ROM stands for Compact Disc - Read Only Memory, right?
Anyone care to clarify?