You are exactly right! When an author submits a work for publication, there's no real way for the publisher to determine that the work is entirely the author's or that it isn't bound by some other publisher's contracts. That's why part of the publication contract states that the author guarantees that the work is his own and that he has the right to grant the publisher use of it.
It really should be that simple but I guess that then photo labs would have to store information on and maintain contracts with everyone who prints pictures, which would create another point of friction.
It does make sense. You have explicit knowledge of your creation because you participated in its specification, design, testing, field trials, etc. You are bound to the process used to create it so you're likely to overlook omissions or critical flaws in it. Would you do your own code review? Have you ever written an essay or something and discovered word omissions or sentences that appear to be disjoint in some fashion? For each problem that you find, how many do you end up missing? You see what you intended when you concieved the project and not necessarily what is there because you know what's supposed to be there.
That's why it's so useful to get people who are totally detached from the project to have a stab at finding problems. That's also why, when you write a novel or story, you have a friend edit it and likewise why your publisher employs copy editors instead of just taking your word for it.
Is that so entirely unusual? Would you trust yourself to edit a manuscript that you wrote? When you review your own work, you naturally see your intentions instead of your results. That can be true at a personal, team or corporate level so it's not necessarily just a matter of easier.
You're probably thinking of FSF (Fantasy and Science Fiction). I may be confused, but I seem to recall another similarly titled publication. It may have gone out of business.
A lot of these, including the venerable and ancient Analog, are published by Dell Magazines. You may be able to find a root listing of sorts if you go though Dell. I subscribe to Analog and I consistently see ads within the magazine for Ellery Queen, Asimov's, etc.
Even better than the content in Analog and magazines like it is the advertising to content ratio. Whereas in big, glossy mags you have to search to find content, with these fiction magazines you have to seek out ads!
You come up with them in the same way that you come up with a technical analysis of a stock's charts: historical performance. Unfortunately, the results only serve to predict history.
They have no reservations about coming out and saying that it's money that attracts women to geeks and nerds. Thanks for that tidbit of several thousand year old news.
One potential issue with the download-it-as-proof scheme is how you might go about proving that any single user uploaded the entire song/movie to you, assuming that this actually even makes a difference in the eyes of the law. When you're downloading from multiple sources, as most modern file sharing systems do, each user is generally only responsible for uploading small parts of the complete whole.
David Brin had a story not entirely unlike this one in a farily recent edition of Analog. Might have been the 75th anniversary one. Basically, the Martians used their advanced technology to kill off Earthlings named in a list of Planetary Society supporters sent to Mars along with a rover.
You misunderstand. In order to drive a higher impedance set of headphones (say a 64 Ohm set of Sennheisers vs. the stock buds that are likely 16 Ohm), you'd have to have the volume turned higher to get the same audible sound level. Thus, more power is consumed.
You'd additionally want to consider the type of head phone and the environment you use it in. For example, an open set of supra-aural headphones would likely have to be turned up louder than a set of in-ear buds in a noisy, public environment.
The CRTC has not approved services like Sirius and XM in Canada yet, but expect to have either or both here soon. It's basically high quality digital, (largely) commercial-free, subscription-based radio programming.
I don't know that there's any technical reason why you couldn't receive satellite radio in Canada, but neither company will sell it to you. Likewise, if you're an American passing through Canada there's no reason why your satellite radio wouldn't work. I guess that reception in Europe and elsewhere would depend on how they have their satellites positioned and what kind of orbits they are in.
Perhaps pressure from mobile phone manufacturers prompted Jobs to take Sirius a little more siriusly. iPod's cool but let's face it, it's main selling point is cachet. Apple needs to look into expanding iPod's repertoire now that serious competition is just around the corner in an integrated device like the Nokia N91, which offers multiformat music playback with on the fly purchasing and download, web browsing, telephony, messaging, PDA functionality, gaming, etc.
Iomega replaced my 1.5 years out-of-warranty ZIP drive and gave me 2 free ZIP disks for the click of death. No questions asked. Fact is that not every problem can be forseen. Modern hardware and software systems are far too complex for every single possible contingency to be accounted for, tested and designed out. Product quality is important, but so is warranty quality because the worst of problems can happen to the best of companies.
True enough, but they were very good about replacing the affected drives regardless of whether they were still under warranty or not. I think the quality of a company's warranty says a lot about the people running it and their intentions. Commitment to customer satisfaction is quite rare and I can only hope that Iomega still maintains that same commitment.
One might additionally be concerned about long term data durability. Granted, most people are unlikely to have data that is untouched for the ten-odd years that current flash technology can maintain it, but it's still something to think about.
There is also the matter of medium damage and data recovery. HDDs may not be as mechanically reliable but if there's something on stored on an HDD that you really need then it can be recovered by a recovery service. What happens to your data if your rig gets zapped in some kind of freak accident and the flash memory is affected? It is, after all, an EEPROM. Everything on it would be erased. Great for spies, but not so great for everyone else!
The twenty million's not to see the black of space but to actually go there, or close enough to it anyway. I can see space from my back yard without a weather balloon. For free.
And if the heat from your laptop isn't already doing enough to harm your sperm count, now you can irradiate your groin to kill off whatever remains!:-)
Nokia's not short of cash either, mind you. They did indeed parner. Nokia phones will play Windows media formats and Microsoft will implement open DRM standards in Windows Media Player. A win for consumers, I believe, but I doubt you'll ever see any Microsoft software on a Nokia product.:-)
Only that this phone is a Symbian phone, not a Windows Mobile 5.0 rig. Bill's right about convergence and you're right to point the N91 out as a specific and highly appealing example of this, but I think Bill's wrong about who's going to be powering such mobile devices.
Let me remind you all that one of the central characters is a high-class whore! She travels the known universe to pleasure men and women! In a space vessel! Perhaps the problem is that/. isn't much of a teenage crowd.
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You are exactly right! When an author submits a work for publication, there's no real way for the publisher to determine that the work is entirely the author's or that it isn't bound by some other publisher's contracts. That's why part of the publication contract states that the author guarantees that the work is his own and that he has the right to grant the publisher use of it.
It really should be that simple but I guess that then photo labs would have to store information on and maintain contracts with everyone who prints pictures, which would create another point of friction.
It does make sense. You have explicit knowledge of your creation because you participated in its specification, design, testing, field trials, etc. You are bound to the process used to create it so you're likely to overlook omissions or critical flaws in it. Would you do your own code review? Have you ever written an essay or something and discovered word omissions or sentences that appear to be disjoint in some fashion? For each problem that you find, how many do you end up missing? You see what you intended when you concieved the project and not necessarily what is there because you know what's supposed to be there.
That's why it's so useful to get people who are totally detached from the project to have a stab at finding problems. That's also why, when you write a novel or story, you have a friend edit it and likewise why your publisher employs copy editors instead of just taking your word for it.
Is that so entirely unusual? Would you trust yourself to edit a manuscript that you wrote? When you review your own work, you naturally see your intentions instead of your results. That can be true at a personal, team or corporate level so it's not necessarily just a matter of easier.
You're probably thinking of FSF (Fantasy and Science Fiction). I may be confused, but I seem to recall another similarly titled publication. It may have gone out of business.
A lot of these, including the venerable and ancient Analog, are published by Dell Magazines. You may be able to find a root listing of sorts if you go though Dell. I subscribe to Analog and I consistently see ads within the magazine for Ellery Queen, Asimov's, etc.
Even better than the content in Analog and magazines like it is the advertising to content ratio. Whereas in big, glossy mags you have to search to find content, with these fiction magazines you have to seek out ads!
You come up with them in the same way that you come up with a technical analysis of a stock's charts: historical performance. Unfortunately, the results only serve to predict history.
Surely this formula is a joke.
They have no reservations about coming out and saying that it's money that attracts women to geeks and nerds. Thanks for that tidbit of several thousand year old news.
Hey, thanks! Now I don't need to go to any meetings for the next month!
China's stork population is almost as astonishing as its human population!
Your comments imply that these ancient cave bears would be Smarter than the average bear?
One potential issue with the download-it-as-proof scheme is how you might go about proving that any single user uploaded the entire song/movie to you, assuming that this actually even makes a difference in the eyes of the law. When you're downloading from multiple sources, as most modern file sharing systems do, each user is generally only responsible for uploading small parts of the complete whole.
David Brin had a story not entirely unlike this one in a farily recent edition of Analog. Might have been the 75th anniversary one. Basically, the Martians used their advanced technology to kill off Earthlings named in a list of Planetary Society supporters sent to Mars along with a rover.
You misunderstand. In order to drive a higher impedance set of headphones (say a 64 Ohm set of Sennheisers vs. the stock buds that are likely 16 Ohm), you'd have to have the volume turned higher to get the same audible sound level. Thus, more power is consumed.
You'd additionally want to consider the type of head phone and the environment you use it in. For example, an open set of supra-aural headphones would likely have to be turned up louder than a set of in-ear buds in a noisy, public environment.
I'm a firebreather. I was just doing a show...
Oh. Hands? I used them in my show!
Wait a minute. It isn't 1999! Wasn't PeoplePC or some other discount dialup ISP offering a service like this one back in the hey days?
The CRTC has not approved services like Sirius and XM in Canada yet, but expect to have either or both here soon. It's basically high quality digital, (largely) commercial-free, subscription-based radio programming.
I don't know that there's any technical reason why you couldn't receive satellite radio in Canada, but neither company will sell it to you. Likewise, if you're an American passing through Canada there's no reason why your satellite radio wouldn't work. I guess that reception in Europe and elsewhere would depend on how they have their satellites positioned and what kind of orbits they are in.
Perhaps pressure from mobile phone manufacturers prompted Jobs to take Sirius a little more siriusly. iPod's cool but let's face it, it's main selling point is cachet. Apple needs to look into expanding iPod's repertoire now that serious competition is just around the corner in an integrated device like the Nokia N91, which offers multiformat music playback with on the fly purchasing and download, web browsing, telephony, messaging, PDA functionality, gaming, etc.
Orgazmus speaks the truth without exaggerating. Have your copy of HijackThis in hand and prepare for an ordeal.
Iomega replaced my 1.5 years out-of-warranty ZIP drive and gave me 2 free ZIP disks for the click of death. No questions asked. Fact is that not every problem can be forseen. Modern hardware and software systems are far too complex for every single possible contingency to be accounted for, tested and designed out. Product quality is important, but so is warranty quality because the worst of problems can happen to the best of companies.
True enough, but they were very good about replacing the affected drives regardless of whether they were still under warranty or not. I think the quality of a company's warranty says a lot about the people running it and their intentions. Commitment to customer satisfaction is quite rare and I can only hope that Iomega still maintains that same commitment.
One might additionally be concerned about long term data durability. Granted, most people are unlikely to have data that is untouched for the ten-odd years that current flash technology can maintain it, but it's still something to think about.
There is also the matter of medium damage and data recovery. HDDs may not be as mechanically reliable but if there's something on stored on an HDD that you really need then it can be recovered by a recovery service. What happens to your data if your rig gets zapped in some kind of freak accident and the flash memory is affected? It is, after all, an EEPROM. Everything on it would be erased. Great for spies, but not so great for everyone else!
The twenty million's not to see the black of space but to actually go there, or close enough to it anyway. I can see space from my back yard without a weather balloon. For free.
And if the heat from your laptop isn't already doing enough to harm your sperm count, now you can irradiate your groin to kill off whatever remains! :-)
Nokia's not short of cash either, mind you. They did indeed parner. Nokia phones will play Windows media formats and Microsoft will implement open DRM standards in Windows Media Player. A win for consumers, I believe, but I doubt you'll ever see any Microsoft software on a Nokia product. :-)
Am I missing something?
Only that this phone is a Symbian phone, not a Windows Mobile 5.0 rig. Bill's right about convergence and you're right to point the N91 out as a specific and highly appealing example of this, but I think Bill's wrong about who's going to be powering such mobile devices.
Let me remind you all that one of the central characters is a high-class whore! She travels the known universe to pleasure men and women! In a space vessel! Perhaps the problem is that /. isn't much of a teenage crowd.