The struggling musician is, in general, a better spokesperson for increasing music royalties
Hmmmm...
but it's kind of ridiculous to think this sort of fee structure will really trickle that far down the food chain. The starving musician starves because his music isn't getting to a wide audience, so until he's already hit it big under the current fee structure, he's not going to see a dime of these radio royalties.
Agreed, but you do realize that you just tore down your own argument, right?:)
Sue us! C'mon, Brad. That's right. Put it all out there! You tried and failed with your feeble little pawn, SCO. Then the big bad judge ordered them to show the code! Oh my, got called on your bluff, eh?
Now you're too afraid to sue because you think the same thing will happen to you. C'mon, Brad, go ahead? What are you -- chicken?
Because then you'll have to show us the code, and your bluff will called and it will be all over. That's why you're not going to sue, you spineless twit.
The implication is that people aren't writing music because they're not getting enough money and no-one will ever want to be in a band because of it. I'll take that with a large pinch of salt. However, the next line really clarifies his position:
Really? Wow. That's strange. I personally know at least 10 people who are all either part of various bands, work solo, or collaborate with several different bands and artists who write, perform and record music and, for the most part, don't make enough money from this work to even cover the costs of doing said work. While all of these people hope one day to get a recording deal, none of them do it for the money. They do it because it's what they do and they love to do it. Most figure if they pursue it long enough that eventually they make some money. But if they don't, oh well, at least they had fun doing it.
My guess is that these people are hardly unique or rare in those aspects.
Pfff, it won't fly. The radio industry is too strong collectively for this to work
Strange. Someone who worked in radio once told me that radio stations kept records of what songs they played in order to pay royalties to ASCAP and BMI (a penny or two a song, I think). So I believe this is still the case. I always wondered if the RIAA would try to get a share, too.
Anyway, if radio stations can't avoid paying ASCAP and BMI then how successful would they be in fighting off the RIAA?
Good point. Now where's those mod points when I need 'em?
You get power, but not public support. It's the cold, uneasy kind of power that lets the government enact things like the Patriot Act, but doesn't provide much public support for the War itself.
Outline view in Word is just different. There are some people who think that Navigator isn't good enough. The only way I can really see from a functionality standpoint is that Word's outline view will show you complete body text, while Writer's won't because there is no support for word wrap in Navigator. That's an easy fix and I suspect that eventually someone will get around to making it. (It won't be me, though, because I can't seem to make head nor tail of OOo's cryptic source code)
If someone comes up with a way to fill the role of the word processor or spreadsheet in a way stunningly better than Microsoft has, then substantial numbers of people will start chafing at vendor lock-in. As long as most competitors are just making "me too, and you can run me on more OS's" products, they'll have a niche, but not a big push for change.
But OpenOffice.org Writer is stunningly better than Microsoft Word, in many, many ways, unless you're one of those people that simply must have Word's outline view. Better bullets and numbering, better support for templates, support for conditional formatting, and better support for master documents are just a few of reasons why I use OpenOffice.org Writer instead of Word for my writing projects, despite having access to both at home.
You know, there are probably a lot of frustrated Washington bureaucrats and military types that would love to see a re-emergence of a Soviet Russian state--we'd be fighting real commies again, and not elusive and often invisible terrorists.
That's what Iraq was at least partially about. Saddam Hussein was a very visible public figure -- it gave the folks back at home something to 'rally around.' With the War on Terror we're now back to shadow fighting enemies that we know very little about who sneak around blowing up stuff and killing troops. Does this last description sound familiar? It should if you know anything about the Vietnam War.
If there's a big boogieman out there, we need to build weapons and tanks and planes and spend big bucks doing it. But the public rarely rallies behind a cause that looks confusing and hopeless... the American public likes the classic "the good guys (U.S.)" vs "the bad guys (Russia, Saddam, Ax1s of da 3v1l, etc.)", not us vs. some tactics.
Better yet: What if your industry isn't computer-related.
And best of all, I'd bet that most open source developers are in one of these two categories, plus one additional: either they work in the open source business they code in (Alan Cox, Linus Torvalds), or they work for themselves (Eric Allman, Hans Reiser), or they work for an unrelated industry (Donald Becker, myself).
Windows is sorta the next generation of OS/2 anyway. OS/2 was a joint development between IBM and Microsoft; when IBM and Microsoft parted ways, IBM got the old code and Microsoft got the new code. Windows NT started out with the name 'OS/2-NT' internally at Microsoft, despite the fact that many, many revisionist historians love to leave this point out.
By 'serious hackers' I mean the ones who are truly dangerous because they know what they're doing, unlike 31337 skR1p7 k1dd13z and your run-of-the-mill botnet creator looking for nothing more than a big spam relay. Those who actually know what they're doing won't use publicly-announced holes because that would allow them to be caught more easily.
Put the fanboi attitude away and think about logically and you'll know what I'm talking about. This applies to all applications and operating systems, not just IIS or Microsoft's products.
BTW -- TFA says that IIS 6 hasn't had a single public remotely-exploitable hole. That means essentially nothing to me, because most serious 'hackers' aren't using public exploits.
Maybe I'm not paying enough attention, but I'm not sure why the musings about why attacks stopped in Al-Anbar in early 2004 are so particularly embarrassing. It seems to me that they were just trying to figure out what happened; I guess it might show some degree of cluelessness on the part of Intelligence, but, uh, they gotta figure stuff out at some point, right?
After reading the HAL spec, I'm not certain if power_management.is_powersave_set will correctly determine if powersave (laptop mode) is really on or not. If laptop mode wasn't set by HAL, this will be correct... but if it was set by something else (say the system BIOS), then it seems like HAL has no way of reading whether laptop mode is on or not.
When you get to the end, the implication is that two spaces after a full stop began to become less common about a hundred years ago, with the invention of the Linotype machine!
It's not just an implication, it is fact. As a beginning typist years ago, I learned to type with two spaces. But as a beginning professional graphic designer a relatively fewer years ago, I learned that two spaces is inappropriate typographically when using proportional fonts. I don't do graphic design for a living anymore, but I do know why two-spaces is 'wrong.'
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Hmmmm...
Agreed, but you do realize that you just tore down your own argument, right?
Dear Brad Smith,
Sue us! C'mon, Brad. That's right. Put it all out there! You tried and failed with your feeble little pawn, SCO. Then the big bad judge ordered them to show the code! Oh my, got called on your bluff, eh?
Now you're too afraid to sue because you think the same thing will happen to you. C'mon, Brad, go ahead? What are you -- chicken?
Because then you'll have to show us the code, and your bluff will called and it will be all over. That's why you're not going to sue, you spineless twit.
Thanks,
Rob Shinn
An Open Source developer.
Really? Wow. That's strange. I personally know at least 10 people who are all either part of various bands, work solo, or collaborate with several different bands and artists who write, perform and record music and, for the most part, don't make enough money from this work to even cover the costs of doing said work. While all of these people hope one day to get a recording deal, none of them do it for the money. They do it because it's what they do and they love to do it. Most figure if they pursue it long enough that eventually they make some money. But if they don't, oh well, at least they had fun doing it.
My guess is that these people are hardly unique or rare in those aspects.
Strange. Someone who worked in radio once told me that radio stations kept records of what songs they played in order to pay royalties to ASCAP and BMI (a penny or two a song, I think). So I believe this is still the case. I always wondered if the RIAA would try to get a share, too.
Anyway, if radio stations can't avoid paying ASCAP and BMI then how successful would they be in fighting off the RIAA?
Good point. Now where's those mod points when I need 'em?
You get power, but not public support. It's the cold, uneasy kind of power that lets the government enact things like the Patriot Act, but doesn't provide much public support for the War itself.
Outline view in Word is just different. There are some people who think that Navigator isn't good enough. The only way I can really see from a functionality standpoint is that Word's outline view will show you complete body text, while Writer's won't because there is no support for word wrap in Navigator. That's an easy fix and I suspect that eventually someone will get around to making it. (It won't be me, though, because I can't seem to make head nor tail of OOo's cryptic source code)
But OpenOffice.org Writer is stunningly better than Microsoft Word, in many, many ways, unless you're one of those people that simply must have Word's outline view. Better bullets and numbering, better support for templates, support for conditional formatting, and better support for master documents are just a few of reasons why I use OpenOffice.org Writer instead of Word for my writing projects, despite having access to both at home.
That's what Iraq was at least partially about. Saddam Hussein was a very visible public figure -- it gave the folks back at home something to 'rally around.' With the War on Terror we're now back to shadow fighting enemies that we know very little about who sneak around blowing up stuff and killing troops. Does this last description sound familiar? It should if you know anything about the Vietnam War.
If there's a big boogieman out there, we need to build weapons and tanks and planes and spend big bucks doing it. But the public rarely rallies behind a cause that looks confusing and hopeless... the American public likes the classic "the good guys (U.S.)" vs "the bad guys (Russia, Saddam, Ax1s of da 3v1l, etc.)", not us vs. some tactics.
Well, for one, Intel's biggest instruction set change in 5 years: SSE4 extensions, an updated to Intel's SIMD instruction set.
:)
I know. I'm not all the excited, either.
And best of all, I'd bet that most open source developers are in one of these two categories, plus one additional: either they work in the open source business they code in (Alan Cox, Linus Torvalds), or they work for themselves (Eric Allman, Hans Reiser), or they work for an unrelated industry (Donald Becker, myself).
I never said anything about Windows.
And no, I'm not a 'young-un'.
I'd highly suggest reading Gates: How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in America by Stephen Manes and Paul Andrews. Excellent book-- and it's the source of my comment.
When you find out, let me know, k? Thanks!
Windows is sorta the next generation of OS/2 anyway. OS/2 was a joint development between IBM and Microsoft; when IBM and Microsoft parted ways, IBM got the old code and Microsoft got the new code. Windows NT started out with the name 'OS/2-NT' internally at Microsoft, despite the fact that many, many revisionist historians love to leave this point out.
People? Who people? Speak for yourself!
No, it's "[a] PC on every desktop and in every home running Microsoft software." Get your facts straight and stop posting revisionist history.
By 'serious hackers' I mean the ones who are truly dangerous because they know what they're doing, unlike 31337 skR1p7 k1dd13z and your run-of-the-mill botnet creator looking for nothing more than a big spam relay. Those who actually know what they're doing won't use publicly-announced holes because that would allow them to be caught more easily.
Put the fanboi attitude away and think about logically and you'll know what I'm talking about. This applies to all applications and operating systems, not just IIS or Microsoft's products.
Ummmm, try BIND.
BTW -- TFA says that IIS 6 hasn't had a single public remotely-exploitable hole. That means essentially nothing to me, because most serious 'hackers' aren't using public exploits.
George W. Bush? Is that you?
Maybe I'm not paying enough attention, but I'm not sure why the musings about why attacks stopped in Al-Anbar in early 2004 are so particularly embarrassing. It seems to me that they were just trying to figure out what happened; I guess it might show some degree of cluelessness on the part of Intelligence, but, uh, they gotta figure stuff out at some point, right?
First off, CD-Rs are WORMs -- Write-Once, Read Many.
Secondly, if you read what I just posted, CD-Rs, the write-once tech, came out before CD-RWs. It's exactly the same case here.
So unless your point was to agree with poster you were replying to, which to me it didn't seem that way, then no, your point does not still stand.
Considering that e-paper is a 'roll-up' computer display, I would imagine things like animated GIFs would be possible and even likely.
s/wasn't/was
After reading the HAL spec, I'm not certain if power_management.is_powersave_set will correctly determine if powersave (laptop mode) is really on or not. If laptop mode wasn't set by HAL, this will be correct ... but if it was set by something else (say the system BIOS), then it seems like HAL has no way of reading whether laptop mode is on or not.
It's not just an implication, it is fact. As a beginning typist years ago, I learned to type with two spaces. But as a beginning professional graphic designer a relatively fewer years ago, I learned that two spaces is inappropriate typographically when using proportional fonts. I don't do graphic design for a living anymore, but I do know why two-spaces is 'wrong.'