Well, judging from the mainstream music that the majority appears to buy into, there's a monopoly on poor taste, but then I'm a fledgling curmudgeon these days.
The executive from this particular music publisher is not a 'cartel' or 'monopoly.' This isn't 'the music industry' flexing it's muscle, it's an exec from one publisher.
In the current form _anybody who cares_ can view it by making an effort. There will continue to be projectors, and in fact, fifty years from now projectors will probably be more accessable and servicible than any of today's digital media. The film is an archival format. It doesn't matter that joe sixpack, right now today, can't go to WalMart and buy a machine to view the films on.
Actually, those reels of film will still be viewable 75 years from now. If you'd had them digitized, the VHS or DVD media they would have been transferred to would be long gone by then.
Besides, what is stopping you from reading that data on an ebayed machine, printing it out and OCRing it?
Besides the fact that he doesn't have the 'ebayed machine' what stops him from doing that is he isn't stoopid enough to do the second half of what you suggested.
Anything you can 'print out' by sending to a printer, you can capture digitally by intercepting the signal that would have gone to the printer. And with far greater ease than some horrible OCR kludge.
Well, depending on how and where you look, the cardboard cutout computer they have on the flakewood computer desks at the office supply store might be more likely to get you laid.
Getting laid by a mac-loving woman just seems weird, a little like some trotskyite chick who sells newspapers on the mall.
GNU Emacs Manual, Sixth Edition, Version 18, March 1987, by Richard Stallman.
Really and honestly, if you need a good book on Emacs and want the money to go to a good cause, order a printed copy of the GNU Emacs manual from the FSF. It won't be $15 like this 1986 edition, but it's actually about that same price, adjusted for inflation.
AT&T Bell Laboratories Murray Hill, New Jersey 07974
ABSTRACT
Almost all text input on the UNIX operating system is done with the text-editor ed. This memorandum is a tutorial guide to help beginners get started with text editing.
Although it does not cover everything, it does discuss enough for most users' day-to-day needs. This includes printing, appending, changing, deleting, moving and inserting entire lines of text; reading and writing files; context searching and line addressing; the substitute command; the global commands; and the use of special characters for advanced editing.
Introduction
Ed is a ``text editor'', that is, an interactive program for creating and modifying ``text'', using directions provided by a user at a terminal. The text is often a document like this one, or a program or perhaps data for a program.
This introduction is meant to simplify learning ed. The recommended way to learn ed is to read this document, simultaneously using ed to follow the examples, then to read the description in section I of the UNIX Programmer's Manual, all the while experimenting with ed. (Solicitation of advice from experienced users is also useful.)
Do the exercises! They cover material not completely discussed in the actual text. An appendix summarizes the commands.
But then we'd be hacking the book 'Learning the vi Editor' instead, from the same publisher.
At least my link leads to an all-tech online bookseller who consistenly have lower prices than the big Barney-Noble or Amazott octopusses that threaten to devour all publishing.
Why are they shucking for Barney here on slashdot?
Their company went down the tubes ever since Peter Norton quit coding their products and started getting royalties for having his photo thrown on the front of the packages.
That's why any knowing geek refers to it as 'Bitmap Antivirus' and 'Bitmap Internet Security Suite' (or whatever the heck they're shucking it as now.)
Peter Norton is as much a bitmap as Col. Sanders on the Kentucky Fried Chicken sign.
Actually, I don't think he was involved at Symantec ever, was he? Symantec used to be a good company that made a C++ compiler (still have the Symantec C++ CD here somewhere) that was somewhat cross-platform on Mac and the PC. Then some kind of garbage MBAs took over and sucked Norton's company and also Central Point Software into the void of a company it now is.
'Norton' has never meant anything but 'Bitmap' since Windows. It was always a DOS toolkit, and powerful and useful in it's time.
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Yes, but do US Based multinational corporations get their cut when a Soyuz capsule is launched? What about the US Trade Unions? The NASA bureaucrats??
I was saying that he doesn't represent a monopoly slice of the industry.
Your spinning didn't disprove me.
There's no monopoly market here.
Well, judging from the mainstream music that the majority appears to buy into, there's a monopoly on poor taste, but then I'm a fledgling curmudgeon these days.
You should be able to play those on your piano (or guitar) for free now.
Oh, you meant recordsings of somebody else playing songs??
They'll launch their own services and if their model is successful,
Except, isn't Apple at present in a 'monopoly' status due to some of the patents they hold on their iTunes/iPod technology?
The executive from this particular music publisher is not a 'cartel' or 'monopoly.' This isn't 'the music industry' flexing it's muscle, it's an exec from one publisher.
They are only wanting to charge more because they think the market pay it, judging by the apparent demand for the work.
Whoah! You mean a 'supply and demand' based marketplace?
Surely that can't be tolerated!
In the current form _anybody who cares_ can view it by making an effort. There will continue to be projectors, and in fact, fifty years from now projectors will probably be more accessable and servicible than any of today's digital media. The film is an archival format. It doesn't matter that joe sixpack, right now today, can't go to WalMart and buy a machine to view the films on.
You like Yahoo Mail? Use POP3 to download your GMail to Yahoo.
Give your account password for GMail to Yahoo??
Actually, those reels of film will still be viewable 75 years from now. If you'd had them digitized, the VHS or DVD media they would have been transferred to would be long gone by then.
Besides, what is stopping you from reading that data on an ebayed machine, printing it out and OCRing it?
Besides the fact that he doesn't have the 'ebayed machine' what stops him from doing that is he isn't stoopid enough to do the second half of what you suggested.
Anything you can 'print out' by sending to a printer, you can capture digitally by intercepting the signal that would have gone to the printer. And with far greater ease than some horrible OCR kludge.
Well, depending on how and where you look, the cardboard cutout computer they have on the flakewood computer desks at the office supply store might be more likely to get you laid.
Getting laid by a mac-loving woman just seems weird, a little like some trotskyite chick who sells newspapers on the mall.
Power brick?
Hmmm. I hadn't investigated the Mac Mini very far.
I knew you didn't get a keyboard and mouse for your $500, but I didn't know the power supply was another big external block.
Less impressive the more I learn.
Or if, say, Microsoft started releasing it's own binary-only version of Linux.
wget can be configured to ignore robots.txt
.wgetrc but not on the command line)
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Slashdot wasn't around to review:
GNU Emacs Manual, Sixth Edition, Version 18, March 1987, by Richard Stallman.
Really and honestly, if you need a good book on Emacs and want the money to go to a good cause, order a printed copy of the GNU Emacs manual from the FSF. It won't be $15 like this 1986 edition, but it's actually about that same price, adjusted for inflation.
(The FSF website says it's on sale right now!)
missing close tags suck
Sounds wonderful, if you can be certain it's installed on every environment you encounter.
It isn't.
I like vi because I haven't encountered a Unix or Unix-like environment that doesn't have it installed and ready for me to use.
But then we'd be hacking the book 'Learning the vi Editor' instead, from the same publisher.
At least my link leads to an all-tech online bookseller who consistenly have lower prices than the big Barney-Noble or Amazott octopusses that threaten to devour all publishing.
Why are they shucking for Barney here on slashdot?
Which is worse, Symantic's bullshit misinformation, or the Register's uncritical dissemination?
I vote that the regurgitation on Slashdot's home page is the worst.
Shame on all three!
Their company went down the tubes ever since Peter Norton quit coding their products and started getting royalties for having his photo thrown on the front of the packages.
That's why any knowing geek refers to it as 'Bitmap Antivirus' and 'Bitmap Internet Security Suite' (or whatever the heck they're shucking it as now.)
Peter Norton is as much a bitmap as Col. Sanders on the Kentucky Fried Chicken sign.
Actually, I don't think he was involved at Symantec ever, was he? Symantec used to be a good company that made a C++ compiler (still have the Symantec C++ CD here somewhere) that was somewhat cross-platform on Mac and the PC. Then some kind of garbage MBAs took over and sucked Norton's company and also Central Point Software into the void of a company it now is.
'Norton' has never meant anything but 'Bitmap' since Windows. It was always a DOS toolkit, and powerful and useful in it's time.
They used to make a pretty nice tool (Symantec C++) before they decided whipping up a whirlwind of hysteria was more profitable.
On my NetBSD system, the only thing I click on in the menu that prompts for the root password is the 'root console' menu item that I put in
~/.fvwm/.fvwm2rc awhile back.
And I seldom, if ever use it.
That's an interesting twist of logic.
You're saying that Google needs to keep their search technology closed source or Microsoft would get it?
I haven't heard that twisted a reason for Google to keep their code proprietary before.
Maybe it should extend to every other piece of source code too, eh?