Playing a music CD as a paid DJ is not personal use. It is professional use. You are making money using the product you bought. Now, if it was the brides cousin sticking a CD in and playing it for the reception, I would agree with you, that's "personal". But playing a CD as a paid DJ at an event is definitely NOT personal use.
I would imagine they should make DJ's pay more for songs that come with a license to play in venues for the paying customers. (They may do this, I don't know).
They not only have to pay for bandwidth... they also have to pay for towers, transceivers, the real estate the towers sit on, the installers and technicians who maintain them, the lawyers who fight the locals who protest the towers, not to mention all the other corporate expenses to provide the service. Do I agree the price is too high? Yes. But just arguing that they markup bandwidth charges is ignorant.
Seriously, eating a Big Mac from the drive thru takes more concentration from the road than talking on the cell phone. This is just ignorance by the NTSB. I don't see them trying to ban drive thrus!
The alert came across the local access cable station we were tuned to. The video was successful, but the audio was horrible. You could tell he was talking, but the audio was garbled, almost like other stations audio was breaking into it.
So you build a hotel. You rent out it's rooms to patrons. You get income from your creation, which you own.
Now your hotel passes it's 50th birthday. Should your rooms still cost money?
By your argument, after the hotel is of a certain age, it should become public, and anyone should be able to use it, for free. What is that, you say? Build another hotel if I want to continue to earn income?
A performance or artwork has as much potential value as any tangible object. To those who say otherwise and call artists slackers, I call you freeloaders.
So let me get this straight... instead of taxing by the gallon used, which rewards drivers of economical vehicles who use less fuel and therefore pay less tax, they propose to tax by the mile, so a gas guzzler driving 50 miles a day is taxed the same as a Prius driving the same amount? Yes, this makes a TON of sense!
-Signed, a 17.5 mpg 1999 Ford Explorer V8 driver who drives 50 miles round trip for work every day.
You're supposed to shoot the server, THEN grab 2 beers and leave. This guy will fail at becoming the folk hero Steven Slater became.
Now his post-mortgage plans of reality TV, book series, and magazine interviews are no more...
If so, this is wrong... If I was an astronaut who hadn't been able to go up yet, I would much rather give the opportunity to someone like me rather than to a Robot publicity stunt. Or give it to a teacher, or a scientist, or SOMEONE. Someone who is deserving of the opportunity to go to space in the shuttle, instead of a robot. Send the robot on a cargo run, not the final shuttle mission...
[Insert "But the robot has feelings too, you insensitive clod" reply here]
WAVY had it on the news, the emphasis was also clearly on "No personal data was stolen". It wasn't a particularly in depth report, however, would you expect normal local network news to give anything other than an "It Happened" glazeover?
I work in local government IT - our standard right now is IE7 - we won't push IE8 because several of our vendor web apps have issues with it. I know, not good, but it's what we've got and it won't change anytime soon. I can't imagine it's anything but the same in countless other localities and businesses. Thus, it'd be irresponsible as a web developer, if you value a broad audience, to disregard the older incarnations of IE. Go ahead and flame away with your "it's irresponsible to use IE 6/7 in your organization" - you gotta get over it and realize that's just the way it is, and decide whether you want to be inclusive of all audiences or want to tell potential viewers "my way or the highway".
There's funny, and then there's irresponsible. Having "Chuck Norris" as a master password that grants access to any account is most definitely the latter. I would expect that from a couple of teenagers running their first web server, not one of the most popular websites on the Internet.
But Facebook WAS a couple of teenagers running a web server (He was 19 when FB launched)... and it grew.
Not that I don't disagree with it being irresponsible, I'm just saying...
Great idea. Sent my message. Reminded them that if they are a Technology Magnet School, they should be encouraging this student and others like him, not counseling him!
Because obviously they'd like to get some filming done before May Sweeps... this is show business, you know. Can't be waiting for you to croak 20 or 30 years down the line...
Here's what I think their reasoning is behind preinstalled crap - yes, its confusing. And they know that. They WANT it to be confusing so that when Soccer Mom Jane goes online to buy Little Johnny the gaming computer he asked for from Santa, she doesn't know that it's all worthless and assumes Dell is really giving her all this GREAT software for free!!! The same goes with all their other systems - all the crap is meant to make you think it comes with all this great stuff.
Then theres also the fact that so much of the crap is "trial" and they probably get commisions from the purchase of full licenses... Think: Saving money off the cost of the box in exchange for preinstalled ads.... God I love corporate America...
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I would imagine they should make DJ's pay more for songs that come with a license to play in venues for the paying customers. (They may do this, I don't know).
The quality of Ask /. has hit a new low...
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...but they really suck at playing Tetris.
They not only have to pay for bandwidth... they also have to pay for towers, transceivers, the real estate the towers sit on, the installers and technicians who maintain them, the lawyers who fight the locals who protest the towers, not to mention all the other corporate expenses to provide the service. Do I agree the price is too high? Yes. But just arguing that they markup bandwidth charges is ignorant.
Seriously, eating a Big Mac from the drive thru takes more concentration from the road than talking on the cell phone. This is just ignorance by the NTSB. I don't see them trying to ban drive thrus!
The alert came across the local access cable station we were tuned to. The video was successful, but the audio was horrible. You could tell he was talking, but the audio was garbled, almost like other stations audio was breaking into it.
So you build a hotel. You rent out it's rooms to patrons. You get income from your creation, which you own.
Now your hotel passes it's 50th birthday. Should your rooms still cost money?
By your argument, after the hotel is of a certain age, it should become public, and anyone should be able to use it, for free. What is that, you say? Build another hotel if I want to continue to earn income?
A performance or artwork has as much potential value as any tangible object. To those who say otherwise and call artists slackers, I call you freeloaders.
Flame away, but I'm just speaking MHO.
It would have taken the Army 8 years and $100's of millions of dollars for the US to do this. *Sigh* We really should take a lesson in innovation.
-Signed, a 17.5 mpg 1999 Ford Explorer V8 driver who drives 50 miles round trip for work every day.
We in southeastern Virginia are normally offended when coupled with Northern Virginia :)
...That was on Saturday.
You're supposed to shoot the server, THEN grab 2 beers and leave. This guy will fail at becoming the folk hero Steven Slater became. Now his post-mortgage plans of reality TV, book series, and magazine interviews are no more...
....with the line "She hacked into my heart and crashed me."
Nasty Patent Troll?
That would be better if the acronym actually lined up with your suggestion.
If so, this is wrong... If I was an astronaut who hadn't been able to go up yet, I would much rather give the opportunity to someone like me rather than to a Robot publicity stunt. Or give it to a teacher, or a scientist, or SOMEONE. Someone who is deserving of the opportunity to go to space in the shuttle, instead of a robot. Send the robot on a cargo run, not the final shuttle mission... [Insert "But the robot has feelings too, you insensitive clod" reply here]
WAVY had it on the news, the emphasis was also clearly on "No personal data was stolen". It wasn't a particularly in depth report, however, would you expect normal local network news to give anything other than an "It Happened" glazeover?
I work in local government IT - our standard right now is IE7 - we won't push IE8 because several of our vendor web apps have issues with it. I know, not good, but it's what we've got and it won't change anytime soon. I can't imagine it's anything but the same in countless other localities and businesses. Thus, it'd be irresponsible as a web developer, if you value a broad audience, to disregard the older incarnations of IE. Go ahead and flame away with your "it's irresponsible to use IE 6/7 in your organization" - you gotta get over it and realize that's just the way it is, and decide whether you want to be inclusive of all audiences or want to tell potential viewers "my way or the highway".
There's funny, and then there's irresponsible. Having "Chuck Norris" as a master password that grants access to any account is most definitely the latter. I would expect that from a couple of teenagers running their first web server, not one of the most popular websites on the Internet. But Facebook WAS a couple of teenagers running a web server (He was 19 when FB launched)... and it grew. Not that I don't disagree with it being irresponsible, I'm just saying...
Great idea. Sent my message. Reminded them that if they are a Technology Magnet School, they should be encouraging this student and others like him, not counseling him!
Because obviously they'd like to get some filming done before May Sweeps... this is show business, you know. Can't be waiting for you to croak 20 or 30 years down the line...
USS Nautilus in Groton, Connecticut. http://www.ussnautilus.org/
The referenced 10,000 member group now numbers over 47,000 (if you have a facebook login, you can view it at http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2208288769). There is also an online petition now, with more than 3,700 signatures located at http://www.petitiononline.com/faceb00k/petition.ht ml
Yes, it is. Power & Motoryacht Magazine does an annual list of the largest private yachts - Larry's tops the list: Link
Then theres also the fact that so much of the crap is "trial" and they probably get commisions from the purchase of full licenses... Think: Saving money off the cost of the box in exchange for preinstalled ads.... God I love corporate America...