That's getting OT, I'm not threatening to take anything away. I was being facetious about the danger of having one company producing so much popular entertainment (from wikipedia):
Film Production and Distribution: Viacom International, Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks, Republic Pictures, MTV Films, Nickelodeon Movies, Go Fish Pictures Television Networks: Entertainment: Comedy Central, Logo, BET, Spike TV, The N, TV Land, Nick at Nite Children's Entertainment: Nickelodeon, Noggin Music: MTV, VH1, MTV2, CMT, MHD Television Production and Television Distribution: DreamWorks Television Video Gaming: Xfire, Harmonix, GameTrailers, Neopets That's a lot of power controlling what kids in preschool up to 20somethings see. I think I have a right to not like it, and maybe to go so far as to complain, on Slashdot even!
Viacom shouldn't be destroyed. They do Discovery Channel stuff too - mythbusters is too fun to lose. But should they control every popular tv channel? Probably not. They certainly put WonderShowzen off the air, and the creators suggested it was more to do with them criticizing Viacom than with bad ratings (which means both reasons, if I had to guess).
Naturally, but this might also point to cable companies' desire to stop pushing everything over coaxial at once and move towards a TV over IP system. It's probably cheaper to gain bandwidth by pushing out new cable boxes to everyone than digging and laying new lines. For my parents, who only want one or two international channels, this would probably be a good move.
I hope that it cuts down on the number of folks around the country watching crappy tv once they have to shell out cash for it specifically. If moms and dads aren't willing to pay for MTV anymore, we might actually see the Viacom monopoly start to crumble, fingers crossed. Maybe folks will even start tuning into PBS more often! Yay! Quality entertainment, despite the terrible telethons.
Penalization is in many ways a removal of freedom and choice. He has lost the freedom to use an operating system of his preference on the net. IANAL, but I assume since he's required to only get on the net with the tracking software in place, requiring windows is just like requiring that he doesn't block the software's calling home base with a firewall.
As a side note, as others have mentioned yes this sort of restriction is probably easy to bypass in a whole slew of ways. I'm sure he knows/suspects that, but for this kid getting caught doing so is probably not worth the risk, however minimal.
I never really understood what the phrase "Wall of Sound" meant Spector set microphones up to broadcast all of the instruments and voices into a small room elsewhere that consisted of a rack of speakers (a wall of sound). He would record the rack of speakers' output using another microphone. This technique produced a beautiful, spatial sound (due to the reverberation) despite being a monaural process.
Presumably you aren't required to participate, either, and you can pay your own bill. Myself facing ~$43k per year, and considering that I would like to spend some time in TFA or just volunteering, this is just having my cake and eating it too. I know a looooot of students who love science for science's sake, and grew up reading folks like Sagan and watching Bill Nye, so teaching looks fun to a lot of them (even knowing it's one of the toughest jobs out there).
I'm not convinced that there are that many jobs available in science Advances in science and engineering both create jobs. A couple of coots putting together a transistor in Bell Labs apparently spawned off the international industry that pays CmdrTaco's salary.
EULAs can definitely have ridiculous stipulations. That's why this is a bit OT i suppose. The DMCA however, as you perfectly put it, needs to be fair and consistent.
I suppose once I write a really killer app, I'll have the nether regions of my EULA require consentees to accept that, should the user leave the computer on overnight, they will accept the fact that when they sit down, they will be facing a fresh copy of ubuntu performed over a network install, bandwidth permitting. Naturally, I'd have an opt-out clause, which would only require users to endure a goatse splash screen.
I know those facts about the XP and Vista licenses, thanks, my point is that they seem illogical. If someone can explain the logistics behind it, I'd be happy. (I know it's obviously just to sell more copies, but just in case there's something I haven't thought of, I figure I'd pose the item for thought)
I was being sarcastic; my point, at the risk of being tangential to the topic, is that having copies of an mp3 or whatever on multiple devices could legitimately be explained away as a backup; memory is memory. Another issue I'm bothered about; if I have two windows machines running in parallel, with all my files unrelated to windows mirrored between the two, am I suddenly in some big violation? Blame it on the fact that I mainly use *nix, but in the few moments I've thought about it there just seems to be too many logical loopholes in the idea of multiple copies of media and software being somehow against the law.
First off, if this isn't against the EULA (love those things, don't we?) of coupons.com, then they're idiots. The issue of not being allowed to copy items on your hard drive is hillarious though, what if you have a redundant RAID array or use ZFS/Leopard's spaces/etc? Come to think of it, isn't that technically running multiple copies of an OS? hmm, some companies probably frown upon that too, from what I hear...
This only shows that the legal system takes notice when a Big Bad Association acts extra evil. Reporting on little wins here and there is fun, but what's needed is more serious legal action against the RIAA for extortionist practices in the first place. Sadly there doesn't seem to be enough of a reward to motivate anyone to do so yet.
The challenges poised to frog levitation is now classified as a defect caused by gravity? I thought it was usually the bugs that were misreported as features...
Looking weak and submissive in the face of evil, dirty pirates isn't in the interests of these folks. Their extreme litigiousness is not (only) a misguided attempt at recouping monetary losses from copyright infringement, but an effort to slow the creation of distribution networks that leave them in the dust. They can't move quickly in this sector, so they need to buy time to create or feed money into services that give them a bigger piece of the pie.
He ran a turbulent business with quite the iron fist, but of course he was out to make a profit. Bill Gates the man is extremely generous (as is Buffett). I see plenty of reason to be frustrated and angered at his many choices regarding microsoft, but NO reason to hate him. Why so vitriolic? Nobody's stopping you from installing Compiz Fusion and gloating about your flashy Ubuntu desktop:)
I would hope that, if she were successful, the best effect of the precedent is that it might encourage others to resist such unfair and extortionist litigation, without the fear of being unable to pay the resulting legal fees.
Naturally you stop if the rights and safety of others are *actually* infringed. There are also obscenity laws to consider, from what I understand (IANAL). In America, no amount of moral hooplah can stop Manhunt 2 from being legal to sell or purchase if it doesn't conflict with the above. Your horrible examples may or may not be demonstrated to do so in court, I don't know. But as much as you or I would like, our morality should not go into decisions on what form of entertainment is legal.
This to me is equivalent to book-banning. All mediums have the possibility to influence action on irrational folks (the crusades were based on some holy book i hear?). It's not like the wii is going to remain the forefront of simulation. Technology will go further and further into simulating real-world experiences. Will the limits of what those creators are allowed to do be set by legislation? Tsk tsk.
Hope all you want, but you'll probably be let down. The two human actors seem like they're going to be the ones that really drag the movie into the dirt. Awkward lines, awkward romance, annoying quips...all in just a few seconds of the trailer. I haven't watched much of the transformers series (before my time) but the original movie was interesting...I think Welles really captured the insensitivity, the lack of compassion, that really makes a robot a robot. And yet there's so much humanity in the autobots. I don't mean to get all deep, I'm just saying these are some of the themes that would undoubtedly make the movie GOOD, not just actiony, the latter of which seems to be all Michael Bay is concerned with.
I've always found the 'easiest' stereotypes to be the farthest off-base (your sentence structure is just ambiguous enough that I'm not sure if you agree with the stereotype or not). French political sentiments are as diverse as their political system is, I really doubt it's mood swinging as much as it is just a shift in who has say at what time (and who's listening). And I'd argue it's better than Dubya's "stay the course, ignore everything else" mentality.
Disappointed with the garageband vocal separation on 'capital g'....seems like everything but the interesting part is separated out -- the background vocals at the end are lumped together on just two tracks. Would have been interesting to check out how he's doing his harmonies, sounds like a combo of pitch alteration and weird effects hiding in there.
hmm...might have to do some inversing in audacity....
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Television Networks: Entertainment: Comedy Central, Logo, BET, Spike TV, The N, TV Land, Nick at Nite Children's Entertainment: Nickelodeon, Noggin Music: MTV, VH1, MTV2, CMT, MHD
Television Production and Television Distribution: DreamWorks Television
Video Gaming: Xfire, Harmonix, GameTrailers, Neopets That's a lot of power controlling what kids in preschool up to 20somethings see. I think I have a right to not like it, and maybe to go so far as to complain, on Slashdot even!
Me specifically? I probably would make do, considering I don't own a TV...
Viacom shouldn't be destroyed. They do Discovery Channel stuff too - mythbusters is too fun to lose. But should they control every popular tv channel? Probably not. They certainly put WonderShowzen off the air, and the creators suggested it was more to do with them criticizing Viacom than with bad ratings (which means both reasons, if I had to guess).
Naturally, but this might also point to cable companies' desire to stop pushing everything over coaxial at once and move towards a TV over IP system. It's probably cheaper to gain bandwidth by pushing out new cable boxes to everyone than digging and laying new lines. For my parents, who only want one or two international channels, this would probably be a good move.
I hope that it cuts down on the number of folks around the country watching crappy tv once they have to shell out cash for it specifically. If moms and dads aren't willing to pay for MTV anymore, we might actually see the Viacom monopoly start to crumble, fingers crossed. Maybe folks will even start tuning into PBS more often! Yay! Quality entertainment, despite the terrible telethons.
Penalization is in many ways a removal of freedom and choice. He has lost the freedom to use an operating system of his preference on the net. IANAL, but I assume since he's required to only get on the net with the tracking software in place, requiring windows is just like requiring that he doesn't block the software's calling home base with a firewall.
As a side note, as others have mentioned yes this sort of restriction is probably easy to bypass in a whole slew of ways. I'm sure he knows/suspects that, but for this kid getting caught doing so is probably not worth the risk, however minimal.
He said or, not xor, and this is slashdot...
Presumably you aren't required to participate, either, and you can pay your own bill. Myself facing ~$43k per year, and considering that I would like to spend some time in TFA or just volunteering, this is just having my cake and eating it too. I know a looooot of students who love science for science's sake, and grew up reading folks like Sagan and watching Bill Nye, so teaching looks fun to a lot of them (even knowing it's one of the toughest jobs out there).
EULAs can definitely have ridiculous stipulations. That's why this is a bit OT i suppose. The DMCA however, as you perfectly put it, needs to be fair and consistent. I suppose once I write a really killer app, I'll have the nether regions of my EULA require consentees to accept that, should the user leave the computer on overnight, they will accept the fact that when they sit down, they will be facing a fresh copy of ubuntu performed over a network install, bandwidth permitting. Naturally, I'd have an opt-out clause, which would only require users to endure a goatse splash screen.
I know those facts about the XP and Vista licenses, thanks, my point is that they seem illogical. If someone can explain the logistics behind it, I'd be happy. (I know it's obviously just to sell more copies, but just in case there's something I haven't thought of, I figure I'd pose the item for thought)
I was being sarcastic; my point, at the risk of being tangential to the topic, is that having copies of an mp3 or whatever on multiple devices could legitimately be explained away as a backup; memory is memory. Another issue I'm bothered about; if I have two windows machines running in parallel, with all my files unrelated to windows mirrored between the two, am I suddenly in some big violation? Blame it on the fact that I mainly use *nix, but in the few moments I've thought about it there just seems to be too many logical loopholes in the idea of multiple copies of media and software being somehow against the law.
First off, if this isn't against the EULA (love those things, don't we?) of coupons.com, then they're idiots. The issue of not being allowed to copy items on your hard drive is hillarious though, what if you have a redundant RAID array or use ZFS/Leopard's spaces/etc? Come to think of it, isn't that technically running multiple copies of an OS? hmm, some companies probably frown upon that too, from what I hear...
This only shows that the legal system takes notice when a Big Bad Association acts extra evil. Reporting on little wins here and there is fun, but what's needed is more serious legal action against the RIAA for extortionist practices in the first place. Sadly there doesn't seem to be enough of a reward to motivate anyone to do so yet.
The challenges poised to frog levitation is now classified as a defect caused by gravity? I thought it was usually the bugs that were misreported as features...
Hence, "misguided?" Could've been phrased better on my part, but what, do you know? Anyways.
Looking weak and submissive in the face of evil, dirty pirates isn't in the interests of these folks. Their extreme litigiousness is not (only) a misguided attempt at recouping monetary losses from copyright infringement, but an effort to slow the creation of distribution networks that leave them in the dust. They can't move quickly in this sector, so they need to buy time to create or feed money into services that give them a bigger piece of the pie.
He ran a turbulent business with quite the iron fist, but of course he was out to make a profit. Bill Gates the man is extremely generous (as is Buffett). I see plenty of reason to be frustrated and angered at his many choices regarding microsoft, but NO reason to hate him. Why so vitriolic? Nobody's stopping you from installing Compiz Fusion and gloating about your flashy Ubuntu desktop :)
I would hope that, if she were successful, the best effect of the precedent is that it might encourage others to resist such unfair and extortionist litigation, without the fear of being unable to pay the resulting legal fees.
Naturally you stop if the rights and safety of others are *actually* infringed. There are also obscenity laws to consider, from what I understand (IANAL). In America, no amount of moral hooplah can stop Manhunt 2 from being legal to sell or purchase if it doesn't conflict with the above. Your horrible examples may or may not be demonstrated to do so in court, I don't know. But as much as you or I would like, our morality should not go into decisions on what form of entertainment is legal.
This to me is equivalent to book-banning. All mediums have the possibility to influence action on irrational folks (the crusades were based on some holy book i hear?). It's not like the wii is going to remain the forefront of simulation. Technology will go further and further into simulating real-world experiences. Will the limits of what those creators are allowed to do be set by legislation? Tsk tsk.
Hope all you want, but you'll probably be let down. The two human actors seem like they're going to be the ones that really drag the movie into the dirt. Awkward lines, awkward romance, annoying quips...all in just a few seconds of the trailer. I haven't watched much of the transformers series (before my time) but the original movie was interesting...I think Welles really captured the insensitivity, the lack of compassion, that really makes a robot a robot. And yet there's so much humanity in the autobots. I don't mean to get all deep, I'm just saying these are some of the themes that would undoubtedly make the movie GOOD, not just actiony, the latter of which seems to be all Michael Bay is concerned with.
I've always found the 'easiest' stereotypes to be the farthest off-base (your sentence structure is just ambiguous enough that I'm not sure if you agree with the stereotype or not). French political sentiments are as diverse as their political system is, I really doubt it's mood swinging as much as it is just a shift in who has say at what time (and who's listening). And I'd argue it's better than Dubya's "stay the course, ignore everything else" mentality.
Actually, if you read the FAQ, being moderated Funny doesn't get you karma on Slashdot (or girls for that matter).
Disappointed with the garageband vocal separation on 'capital g'....seems like everything but the interesting part is separated out -- the background vocals at the end are lumped together on just two tracks. Would have been interesting to check out how he's doing his harmonies, sounds like a combo of pitch alteration and weird effects hiding in there. hmm...might have to do some inversing in audacity....