Stop purchasing RIAA member-produced products. They'll publicly blame piracy but will admit internally to their organization that their attempt to brainwash the public into believing Fair Use does not exist is resulting in their slow but sure demise unless they adjust to the market forces.
At any rate, in Massachusetts, the people have voted and there is little you can do, bitter though you may be. I suggest you make as good case as you can if you really care, and get involved politically if you really believe this is wrong. Otherwise, you can live with it, or move out. These are pretty much your options right now.
Working on it actually. I hope to move to the midwest where land is three orders of magnitude cheaper. Literally.:)
As the son of a musician, a musician myself, and in a word yes. Many artists live the 'starving artist' lifestyle because it is generally not a line of work with which you can make any money at all. The popular musicians we hear about are 1 in 5,000,000 that get very lucky with a record contract, or in attracting enough interested people to buy a record (painting, or other artwork), or in some other way 'get lucky' enough to support themselves.
In which case those "artists" could use their art as a hobby/pastime activity, and seek out paying work like the rest of us.
Why? The $66 version comes with extra features, such as regularly phoning home to Microsoft to send information about usage patterns and installed software, while presumably the pirated/hacked version will not. How's that for the value of being a paying customer?
Okay, I admit I set up a straw man there, but I couldn't resist. I'm not making a serious point here, just a cynical comment.
Here in MA we had a referendum to abolish the state income tax, which would have prompted massive spending cuts (waste of citizens' hard-earned money) immediately. People responded by voting to keep the income tax to keep the nanny state going. Do you really think the majority of Massachusetts citizens really cares in the slightest about money wasted on needless software upgrades?
I was going to see The Simpsons movie at the Regal Cinema in Independence Mall, but now I will go to the Showcase in Randolph instead. That's going to be at least three or possibly four ticket sales lost from just one person reading this thread, because I'm going to insist on avoiding Regal when I and some friends go see the movie.
Is it worth it to press charges for what is obviously within the scope of fair use? The police may not have discretion but Regal certainly has the opportunity to use common sense, drop the charges, and to have the decency to apologise as publicly as they have persecuted that girl.
The issue is the step between LEGAL limitations and PRIVATE limitations. LEGALLY, what the girl did was clearly and obviously within the scope of fair use, it was legal. However, the private entity doing the screening has the right to say what you can and can not do (to some extent at least) on their private property. They can say 'No recording devices aloud' and 'Absolutely no reproductions', and they can boot you out of their property for violating those rules. But they can not take legal actions against you (unless you signed a contract, in which case it would be contract law in a civil case).
The worst they can do is punt her and issue a refund, and on top of that maybe press charges for tresspassing. Oh, they could sue for breach of contract (do you ever read the back of the ticket AFTER having purchased it?) but that would be thrown out.
A 20-second clip obviously falls within fair use, even if the user were to throw it up on an annoying myspace page.
I like Li'l Bush, and think it's pretty funny, However there is only so much you can do with the "Duhbya is an idiot" concept. It'll be overplayed by the time George's term is up.
Also, I'm ashamed to admit I voted for Bush, because I can't stand Kerry and his crappy record in the Senate.
Matt & David & Co.: if any of you are reading this I want to say THANK YOU for hanging in there and making these DVDs happen. Here's to hoping to the return of Futurama to full production!:) I will be buying at least five or six copies of this to be handing out as gifts to try to help increase popularity of (and thusly demand for) the series.
The SLR McLaren is listed as a front mid-engine layout, just in case you want to see a(n almost) current car besides the 'Vette which is correctly listed as a mid-engine car.
That is not what mid-engine means. Corvettes are mid-engined cars and have been for decades. Mid-engine to an engineer means the center of gravity is between the front and rear axles. Many shade-tree mechanics who want to build performance trucks build custom crossmembers and engine mounts to move the powertrain's center of gravity back to improve handling and acceleration characteristics. In marketing terms, "mid-engine" has become a colloquialism for rear-mounted engines, but cars such as the Porsche 911 are not mid-engine - the engine's center of gravity is behind the rear axle. The Porsche 928 and 968 were mid-engine despite the engine's being in front of the cabin.
Didn't early airplanes use either paper or silk for the skin, rather than metal? All they had to do to make characteristics of the medium more desirable (weatherproof, taught) was to "dope" the medium, which involved painting on a coating. Many model RC aircraft still use that technology today.
It's no different than any other composite. Silk is still an extremely attractive (oops, no pun intended) medium for composites, but very expensive compared to carbon fiber, kevlar, and fiberglass cloths. But, with any of those modern materials used in composites, the tensile strength is one thing, but torsional stiffness is nonexistent, and the materials are not waterproof. Resin by itself has extremely good torsional strength, but very little tensile strength and is very brittle. So, the solution is to make a sandwich of materials with each desirable characteristic, resulting in a composite material which will have the most desirable characteristics of each composite component, but without the undesirable characteristics. Carbon fibre is protected from UV, water, and abrasion by the epoxy (and usually a additional layer of protection using acrylic, lacquer, or other coating - in other words paint), and the resin provides torsional stiffnes by itself AND by bonding several layers of the cloth together, which utilizes the tensile strength of each composite to further increase torsional strength without becoming brittle.
Why should paper be any different? The bonding techniques will be different, sure, but this discovery is the first step. The next step is to either devise a new bonding process which is as reliable as "conventional" composites, or to find a way to use this process to develop new fibers which can be used in conventional composite construction techniques.
It would be interesting to see how this development affects experimental aircraft. Can a Long-EZ or Cozy MkIV be made lighter with this new material, without sacrificing airframe strength and without lengthening build time?
How do you feel about subsidizing Microsoft's bandwidth costs?
Uh, let me see:
Microsoft treats paying customers like criminals with their recent (last five years or so) policies but it does nothing to curb professional pirates
Microsoft is one of the wealthiest companies in the world.
Microsoft can easily afford the bandwidth for hosting their product downloads.
How do I feel about it? Sorry, I won't be participating. If they make their policies more customer-friendly and open up the source for Windows, or at least become more friendly to open source, sure, I'd use it to download and I'd let it seed for a bit.
When I download SuSE or Kubuntu or CentOS I let the torrent seed for at least a few days.
This makes me want to download Microsoft patches several times when I need them just so I eat up more of their bandwidth.
If someone willingly chooses a risky career, what business is it of yours to say it's not worth it? By that logic, we should all be living by the Amish, because driving to work, particpating in practically any sport, and even crossing the street all entail risk. If your logic is implemented I hope that football is banned because it is a high-risk sport, and the people who participate in football should have that choice eliminated.
If people who worked in aerospace were forced to choose that profession I might agree with you, but they didn't; they chose to work there and knew the risks. Besides, this incident was likely a freak accident that could more easily happen at any hardware store where some under-trained careless employee is refilling a LPG or LNG tank.
Aerospace designer Burt Rutan, who heads Scaled, was away at the time. He sounded distraught in a phone call with The Associated Press as he was en route to the scene.
"We've lost a couple of our employees. It's a very big deal," Rutan said.
I think the Crackberry is what can be credited with merging PDA and phones, not that they were the first, but they were the first to gain an appreciable market share.
For someone to have a wreck because they were paying attention to hitting the right "buttons" on the iPhone rather than the road. Normally I would not approve of such suits, but when with every other phone on the market one can dial by feel (because, you know, there are actual BUTTONS) and the iPhone can't, and buttons truly are a logical and intuitive solution for the UI for a telephone, I would welcome a suit against Apple citing a defective design.
Yes, yes, I am all for personal responsibility, but I am also for sound design in products. Asthetics should take a back seat to functionality when it comes to appliances and gadgets. If he thinks buttons cannot be made attractive, may I point Jobs at practically every new(ish) phone on the market, particularly the Motorola Razr and the Samsung Sync.
In addition, to please business customers and other people concerned with backwards compatibility, Microsoft should create 'Windows Legacy', basically the current Windows, which will receive only security and bug fixes.
Doesn't that describe a "service pack for Windows?"
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Solution?
Stop purchasing RIAA member-produced products. They'll publicly blame piracy but will admit internally to their organization that their attempt to brainwash the public into believing Fair Use does not exist is resulting in their slow but sure demise unless they adjust to the market forces.
Working on it actually. I hope to move to the midwest where land is three orders of magnitude cheaper. Literally.
In which case those "artists" could use their art as a hobby/pastime activity, and seek out paying work like the rest of us.
Oh they didn't forget about it, they are trying to brainwash people into believing Fair Use means not owning what you paid for.
Why? The $66 version comes with extra features, such as regularly phoning home to Microsoft to send information about usage patterns and installed software, while presumably the pirated/hacked version will not. How's that for the value of being a paying customer?
Okay, I admit I set up a straw man there, but I couldn't resist. I'm not making a serious point here, just a cynical comment.
Here in MA we had a referendum to abolish the state income tax, which would have prompted massive spending cuts (waste of citizens' hard-earned money) immediately. People responded by voting to keep the income tax to keep the nanny state going. Do you really think the majority of Massachusetts citizens really cares in the slightest about money wasted on needless software upgrades?
It is unlikely that the folks who cannot figure out NAT now (it's a simple RTFM issue) will EVER figure out ipv6 routing.
http://www.google.com/search?q=office+for+free&ie= utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official &client=firefox-a
:)
The OpenOffice.org suite, first hit
Any Regal Cinema execs here?
I was going to see The Simpsons movie at the Regal Cinema in Independence Mall, but now I will go to the Showcase in Randolph instead. That's going to be at least three or possibly four ticket sales lost from just one person reading this thread, because I'm going to insist on avoiding Regal when I and some friends go see the movie.
Is it worth it to press charges for what is obviously within the scope of fair use? The police may not have discretion but Regal certainly has the opportunity to use common sense, drop the charges, and to have the decency to apologise as publicly as they have persecuted that girl.
F*** you, Regal.
The worst they can do is punt her and issue a refund, and on top of that maybe press charges for tresspassing. Oh, they could sue for breach of contract (do you ever read the back of the ticket AFTER having purchased it?) but that would be thrown out.
A 20-second clip obviously falls within fair use, even if the user were to throw it up on an annoying myspace page.
I like Li'l Bush, and think it's pretty funny, However there is only so much you can do with the "Duhbya is an idiot" concept. It'll be overplayed by the time George's term is up.
Also, I'm ashamed to admit I voted for Bush, because I can't stand Kerry and his crappy record in the Senate.
Between now and then it is on Adult Swim five nights a week. Catch it there, or buy it on DVD. :)
I, for one, welcome Groening as our overlord!
:) I will be buying at least five or six copies of this to be handing out as gifts to try to help increase popularity of (and thusly demand for) the series.
Matt & David & Co.: if any of you are reading this I want to say THANK YOU for hanging in there and making these DVDs happen. Here's to hoping to the return of Futurama to full production!
http://www.thecarconnection.com/pf/Vehicle_Reviews /Sports_Convertibles/2005_Mercedes-Benz_SLR_McLare n.S184.A6630.html
The SLR McLaren is listed as a front mid-engine layout, just in case you want to see a(n almost) current car besides the 'Vette which is correctly listed as a mid-engine car.
*picks nit*
h p/t-14363.html (scroll down to More&Faster's post at 08-24-02, 10:37 PM)
That is not what mid-engine means. Corvettes are mid-engined cars and have been for decades. Mid-engine to an engineer means the center of gravity is between the front and rear axles. Many shade-tree mechanics who want to build performance trucks build custom crossmembers and engine mounts to move the powertrain's center of gravity back to improve handling and acceleration characteristics. In marketing terms, "mid-engine" has become a colloquialism for rear-mounted engines, but cars such as the Porsche 911 are not mid-engine - the engine's center of gravity is behind the rear axle. The Porsche 928 and 968 were mid-engine despite the engine's being in front of the cabin.
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/22317
http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/18872
http://www.honda-acura.net/forums/archive/index.p
You are presuming that town selectmen and appointed officials are not swayed all by kickbacks and swag.
Didn't early airplanes use either paper or silk for the skin, rather than metal? All they had to do to make characteristics of the medium more desirable (weatherproof, taught) was to "dope" the medium, which involved painting on a coating. Many model RC aircraft still use that technology today.
It's no different than any other composite. Silk is still an extremely attractive (oops, no pun intended) medium for composites, but very expensive compared to carbon fiber, kevlar, and fiberglass cloths. But, with any of those modern materials used in composites, the tensile strength is one thing, but torsional stiffness is nonexistent, and the materials are not waterproof. Resin by itself has extremely good torsional strength, but very little tensile strength and is very brittle. So, the solution is to make a sandwich of materials with each desirable characteristic, resulting in a composite material which will have the most desirable characteristics of each composite component, but without the undesirable characteristics. Carbon fibre is protected from UV, water, and abrasion by the epoxy (and usually a additional layer of protection using acrylic, lacquer, or other coating - in other words paint), and the resin provides torsional stiffnes by itself AND by bonding several layers of the cloth together, which utilizes the tensile strength of each composite to further increase torsional strength without becoming brittle.
Why should paper be any different? The bonding techniques will be different, sure, but this discovery is the first step. The next step is to either devise a new bonding process which is as reliable as "conventional" composites, or to find a way to use this process to develop new fibers which can be used in conventional composite construction techniques.
It would be interesting to see how this development affects experimental aircraft. Can a Long-EZ or Cozy MkIV be made lighter with this new material, without sacrificing airframe strength and without lengthening build time?
It's a moot question since now it's obvious only terrorists would own scissors.
Uh, let me see:
Microsoft treats paying customers like criminals with their recent (last five years or so) policies but it does nothing to curb professional pirates
Microsoft is one of the wealthiest companies in the world.
Microsoft can easily afford the bandwidth for hosting their product downloads.
How do I feel about it? Sorry, I won't be participating. If they make their policies more customer-friendly and open up the source for Windows, or at least become more friendly to open source, sure, I'd use it to download and I'd let it seed for a bit.
When I download SuSE or Kubuntu or CentOS I let the torrent seed for at least a few days.
This makes me want to download Microsoft patches several times when I need them just so I eat up more of their bandwidth.
If someone willingly chooses a risky career, what business is it of yours to say it's not worth it? By that logic, we should all be living by the Amish, because driving to work, particpating in practically any sport, and even crossing the street all entail risk. If your logic is implemented I hope that football is banned because it is a high-risk sport, and the people who participate in football should have that choice eliminated.
If people who worked in aerospace were forced to choose that profession I might agree with you, but they didn't; they chose to work there and knew the risks. Besides, this incident was likely a freak accident that could more easily happen at any hardware store where some under-trained careless employee is refilling a LPG or LNG tank.
Rutan is fine.
I think the Crackberry is what can be credited with merging PDA and phones, not that they were the first, but they were the first to gain an appreciable market share.
For someone to have a wreck because they were paying attention to hitting the right "buttons" on the iPhone rather than the road. Normally I would not approve of such suits, but when with every other phone on the market one can dial by feel (because, you know, there are actual BUTTONS) and the iPhone can't, and buttons truly are a logical and intuitive solution for the UI for a telephone, I would welcome a suit against Apple citing a defective design.
Yes, yes, I am all for personal responsibility, but I am also for sound design in products. Asthetics should take a back seat to functionality when it comes to appliances and gadgets. If he thinks buttons cannot be made attractive, may I point Jobs at practically every new(ish) phone on the market, particularly the Motorola Razr and the Samsung Sync.
I have a better solution: cut spending.
Doesn't that describe a "service pack for Windows?"