Radio is radio. The idea that they should be taxed differently is absurd. Even more absurd is the idea that IP radio be taxed more than normal radio because normal radio can be freely recorded and digitized by anyone within the broadcast radius, whereas to get IP radio you have to be paying for internet access (most of the time).
I agree that the medium shouldn't matter at all for the cost of distribution rights. However, the fact that people pay for net access has as little to do with anything as the fact that you pay for electricity.
What matters, in the end, is how much money and control the copyright holders get out of the deal. I have no doubt that they would rather raise royalties high enough to kill off Internet radio than keep them at the point where their revenue from it is maximized.
At one job, I had on paper that huge payments were made in a retirement fund. After nine months, I figured out this wasn't the case at all. When I confronted management about this, they just said "it was a mistake, it was the old retirement plan. And we will generously offer our apologies"
This is fraud. Did anything actually happen beyond "correcting" your contract?
Heh. I think most of us here on Slashdot would want this anomaly to be due to new and k3wl physics rather than some mundane error. The Pioneer anomaly is one of, if not the most interesting unexplained observation I know of.
For those who didn't RTFA, the homework is actually addressed to the parents, setting out rules for how much the parents should help. For example,
"1. Reading Log - children should be reading a minimum of 15 every night. At the beginning of the year, this can include time that you are reading to them."
The claims of outsourcing actually aren't that far fetched.
It's no wonder why there's almost no fiber optics rolled out in the EU, because nobody is willing to pay for infrastructure that must be opened to the competition...
Of course, argument presupposes something that is not true. Companies do pay for the infrastructure and it leads to more bandwidth for less money for the consumers than in countries that don't require telecom infrastructure to be open.
I believe all the validation errors on the Google front page are there on purpose. It lacks some elements that are required by the spec but aren't necessary in practice. It uses unencoded ampersands to save a few bytes.
It seems to me like the front page is the minimal amount of bytes that will make the page render correctly in all major browsers, without any regard for standards compliance.
Privacy laws override that privacy policy completely. That policy is just restating the way the law works in most countries. Blizzard policy on the matter is irrelevant; it's just a bit of reassurance.
That said, it's unlikely any interpretation of privacy laws would cover game statistics.
That clause is probably invalid in most of the world. Making software or hardware compatible with something else is perfectly legal unless the idea is covered by a patent. You can't demand that someone pay for a license to implement a standard, regardless of whether it's openly documented or you have to reverse engineer it. Compare, for example, to OpenOffice's support for Word docs.
I couldn't tell if you were joking at the author's lack of technical understanding about audio formats or if you were serious. He was referring to AIFF
Thanks. I don't know about the GP, but I actually searched Wikipedia for AAIF.
Apple didn't screw / lie to / cheat you - you were caught out by your own assumptions. Sucks, yes, but it's nobody's fault but your own.
Not necessarily. Usually you can return a product if you can't use for the purpose you bought it for. Obviously what's legally required varies around the world but I believe the most common rule is that what the average customer would reasonably expect given how the product was advertised / sold is what the product should offer. Any artificial restrictions on the use of a product would be outside what the average customer expects unless the product is cleary labeled as limited in use. Incorrect good faith assumptions may well be the fault of misleading marketing.
Makes me wonder where do the mature bits go when you have a tail, as there can be only one object attached to every point, but that's not something I intend to figure out.
My first thought was that you could make tails and penises joined as single objects. My second that you could make pluggable objects with an open API to make it possible to switch tails and penises independently. My third thought - "Hey, this could be a business idea!"
I've been on the Internet too long. The most frightening thought is that the second step corresponds to the "Step 2: ???" meme. Was that the answer all along?
I don't even know how far behind the shows I watch are in Finland anymore. There simply is no legal way to get them within a reasonable time. I've quit watching TV almost completely - all I watch nowadays is BBC News or found on the net.
I follow several "currently airing" series. Battlestar Galactica, Stargate, SG Atlantis, Rome, The Simpsons, South Park to name a few. I'd be happy to pay, for example, $2/episode for subscriptions for these if I could get them to start downloading from a trusted source as soon as they're available. Heck, I'd be willing to develop the service for a pittance. Still, the content providers are more concerned with preventing the audience from viewing their product than making it possible for the audience to view said product.
The current state of copyright no longer serves the purpose of making as much art as possible available to as many as possible. It needs an overhaul. Badly.
I think it's almost mandatory to have grammar or spelling errors in any grammar nazi post. I noticed the "pleas post" right after posting. As a newly found subset of Murphy's Law, someone should name it and become famous.
To elaborate, piracy is robbery, not theft, committed at sea. Stealing something from a ship without getting noticed in the act would not be piracy. Threatening the crew of a ship with a cutlass while helping yourself to their booty is piracy. Possibly rape, depending on your definition of "booty".
- Message : "Don't ever let school, stop you from learning!"
School could, learn you some grammar.
The algorithm is being released under the GPL ( General Public License ). The algorithm belongs to PhoenixBit and VirusFree
but you may use/modify it freely.
*** DO NOT COPY ANYTHING FROM THIS PAGE TO ANY OTHER PAGE. IF YOU
WANT SOMEONE TO READ THIS THEN LINK TO THIS PAGE ***
In addition to trying to apply copyright to an algorithm, doesn't a restriction on copying defeat the purpose of releasing something under the GPL? Or does text in all caps trum previous text not in all caps?
Feel free to add to this. If there are some clips of this guy with lightsabers, pleas post them.
It may disappoint you, but you lost to a post titled "Frothy piss". If getting a "first post" is really that important to you, I suggest you take this as a lesson and re-evaluate your priorities in life. Being nearly as good as "Frothy piss" is a sad, sad life achievement.
Re:If only the UK goverment realised this.
on
DRM Causes Piracy
·
· Score: 1
However, DRM does not only act as a policeman through technical protection measures, it also enables content companies to offer the consumer unprecedented choice in terms of how they consume content, and the corresponding price they wish to pay.
This is advertising. An encrypted mp3 simply does not give consumers more choice in how to use it than a plain standards-compliant mp3. Assuming the response was written by people who actally considered the issues and decided rentable content was important enough to override the concerns of vendor lock-in, incompatibility with existing hardware etcetc, it would not have been worded this way.
"unprecedented consumer choice"?? It's like they use MPAA/RIAA/Sony/whatever marketing lingo just to rub their corruption in our faces! "Yeah, I got paid to say this. What can you do about it, punk? *giggle*"
Prices in Finland. I have an unlimited-use 128 kbit/s connection for 10 euro/month. The US prices are due to either a cartel or local monopolies. If the market had working competition, why is the US more expensive than the rest of the world?
The percentage of chips able to run at a given frequency rises as they tweak the process to make manufacturing more efficient. This is not a new factory, process or design. They make them already. Why not sell them?
Slashdot Mirror
Radio is radio. The idea that they should be taxed differently is absurd. Even more absurd is the idea that IP radio be taxed more than normal radio because normal radio can be freely recorded and digitized by anyone within the broadcast radius, whereas to get IP radio you have to be paying for internet access (most of the time).
I agree that the medium shouldn't matter at all for the cost of distribution rights. However, the fact that people pay for net access has as little to do with anything as the fact that you pay for electricity.
What matters, in the end, is how much money and control the copyright holders get out of the deal. I have no doubt that they would rather raise royalties high enough to kill off Internet radio than keep them at the point where their revenue from it is maximized.
At one job, I had on paper that huge payments were made in a retirement fund. After nine months, I figured out this wasn't the case at all. When I confronted management about this, they just said "it was a mistake, it was the old retirement plan. And we will generously offer our apologies"
This is fraud. Did anything actually happen beyond "correcting" your contract?
Heh. I think most of us here on Slashdot would want this anomaly to be due to new and k3wl physics rather than some mundane error. The Pioneer anomaly is one of, if not the most interesting unexplained observation I know of.
For those who didn't RTFA, the homework is actually addressed to the parents, setting out rules for how much the parents should help. For example,
"1. Reading Log - children should be reading a minimum of 15 every night. At the beginning of the year, this can include time that you are reading to them."
The claims of outsourcing actually aren't that far fetched.
It's no wonder why there's almost no fiber optics rolled out in the EU, because nobody is willing to pay for infrastructure that must be opened to the competition...
Of course, argument presupposes something that is not true. Companies do pay for the infrastructure and it leads to more bandwidth for less money for the consumers than in countries that don't require telecom infrastructure to be open.
I believe all the validation errors on the Google front page are there on purpose. It lacks some elements that are required by the spec but aren't necessary in practice. It uses unencoded ampersands to save a few bytes.
It seems to me like the front page is the minimal amount of bytes that will make the page render correctly in all major browsers, without any regard for standards compliance.
Privacy laws override that privacy policy completely. That policy is just restating the way the law works in most countries. Blizzard policy on the matter is irrelevant; it's just a bit of reassurance.
That said, it's unlikely any interpretation of privacy laws would cover game statistics.
Unless I completely misunderstood, the correct figures are:
$100,000 at 41% = 141,000 (year1) 141,000 at 41% = 199,000 (year 2) 280,000 by year 3.
That clause is probably invalid in most of the world. Making software or hardware compatible with something else is perfectly legal unless the idea is covered by a patent. You can't demand that someone pay for a license to implement a standard, regardless of whether it's openly documented or you have to reverse engineer it. Compare, for example, to OpenOffice's support for Word docs.
I couldn't tell if you were joking at the author's lack of technical understanding about audio formats or if you were serious. He was referring to AIFF
Thanks. I don't know about the GP, but I actually searched Wikipedia for AAIF.
Apple didn't screw / lie to / cheat you - you were caught out by your own assumptions. Sucks, yes, but it's nobody's fault but your own.
Not necessarily. Usually you can return a product if you can't use for the purpose you bought it for. Obviously what's legally required varies around the world but I believe the most common rule is that what the average customer would reasonably expect given how the product was advertised / sold is what the product should offer. Any artificial restrictions on the use of a product would be outside what the average customer expects unless the product is cleary labeled as limited in use. Incorrect good faith assumptions may well be the fault of misleading marketing.
The difference between 'Digital' and 'DIGITAL'? Half the bitrate.
Makes me wonder where do the mature bits go when you have a tail, as there can be only one object attached to every point, but that's not something I intend to figure out.
My first thought was that you could make tails and penises joined as single objects.
My second that you could make pluggable objects with an open API to make it possible to switch tails and penises independently.
My third thought - "Hey, this could be a business idea!"
I've been on the Internet too long. The most frightening thought is that the second step corresponds to the "Step 2: ???" meme. Was that the answer all along?
I don't even know how far behind the shows I watch are in Finland anymore. There simply is no legal way to get them within a reasonable time. I've quit watching TV almost completely - all I watch nowadays is BBC News or found on the net.
I follow several "currently airing" series. Battlestar Galactica, Stargate, SG Atlantis, Rome, The Simpsons, South Park to name a few. I'd be happy to pay, for example, $2/episode for subscriptions for these if I could get them to start downloading from a trusted source as soon as they're available. Heck, I'd be willing to develop the service for a pittance. Still, the content providers are more concerned with preventing the audience from viewing their product than making it possible for the audience to view said product.
The current state of copyright no longer serves the purpose of making as much art as possible available to as many as possible. It needs an overhaul. Badly.
I think it's almost mandatory to have grammar or spelling errors in any grammar nazi post. I noticed the "pleas post" right after posting. As a newly found subset of Murphy's Law, someone should name it and become famous.
Piracy IS theft.
Copyright violations ARE NOT theft.
a) wrong.
b) correct.
To elaborate, piracy is robbery, not theft, committed at sea. Stealing something from a ship without getting noticed in the act would not be piracy. Threatening the crew of a ship with a cutlass while helping yourself to their booty is piracy. Possibly rape, depending on your definition of "booty".
Ok, I'll start from his site:
- Programming Skills : Visual Basic ***Excellent***
Yes, that certainly is... excellent.
- Message : "Don't ever let school, stop you from learning!"
School could, learn you some grammar.
The algorithm is being released under the GPL ( General Public License ). The algorithm belongs to PhoenixBit and VirusFree but you may use/modify it freely.
*** DO NOT COPY ANYTHING FROM THIS PAGE TO ANY OTHER PAGE. IF YOU WANT SOMEONE TO READ THIS THEN LINK TO THIS PAGE ***
In addition to trying to apply copyright to an algorithm, doesn't a restriction on copying defeat the purpose of releasing something under the GPL? Or does text in all caps trum previous text not in all caps?
Feel free to add to this. If there are some clips of this guy with lightsabers, pleas post them.
:-)
hello world
It may disappoint you, but you lost to a post titled "Frothy piss". If getting a "first post" is really that important to you, I suggest you take this as a lesson and re-evaluate your priorities in life. Being nearly as good as "Frothy piss" is a sad, sad life achievement.
However, DRM does not only act as a policeman through technical protection measures, it also enables content companies to offer the consumer unprecedented choice in terms of how they consume content, and the corresponding price they wish to pay.
This is advertising. An encrypted mp3 simply does not give consumers more choice in how to use it than a plain standards-compliant mp3. Assuming the response was written by people who actally considered the issues and decided rentable content was important enough to override the concerns of vendor lock-in, incompatibility with existing hardware etcetc, it would not have been worded this way.
"unprecedented consumer choice"?? It's like they use MPAA/RIAA/Sony/whatever marketing lingo just to rub their corruption in our faces! "Yeah, I got paid to say this. What can you do about it, punk? *giggle*"
Don't mention your UID as a basis for any statement on /. unless it's lower than 100000. Ever.
You must be new here.
Prices in Finland. I have an unlimited-use 128 kbit/s connection for 10 euro/month. The US prices are due to either a cartel or local monopolies. If the market had working competition, why is the US more expensive than the rest of the world?
this is probably the wrong demographic for timberlake quotes
Oh the irony... It was Timbaland, not Timberlake.
For those who haven't heard the story, here's a YouTube clip showing the "similarities".
Pic
Since the bandwith costs for the uploader don't scale with number of users, you can easily stream video with the same quality as the average DVD rip.
Heck, this thread is so good it even deserves a working link!
The percentage of chips able to run at a given frequency rises as they tweak the process to make manufacturing more efficient. This is not a new factory, process or design. They make them already. Why not sell them?