Flashblock has a whitelist...at least the version I have does.
The right-click support, at least, only offers site-wide whitelisting. At least in some cases, I want to unblock a particular flash, but not a while site. How do extensions store these overrides, anyway?
The Australian system is simply a greenhouse that powers turbines, no solar cells at all.
Given low reserves of oil, relatively remote location, first world technology, and lots of sunshine, Australia seems a country with big incentives and resources to develop solar power.
Personally I don't want a TV even as large as 34". Something that big dominates your room and makes a big statement about your life.
The optimal TV size largely depends on the room size, and its purpose: if you have a specially designed movie room, a display that dominates one wall is what the room is meant for. But flat-panels dominate the room less than projection systems or CRTs, with their substantial depth and, in some cases, bases. An LCD display could be configured to slowly change between family photos when not in use as a TV, which I think would reduce its perceived domination when not in use.
As for me, I find my current 27" is too small, especially when viewing widescreen stuff. But the 20" LCD monitor right in front of me couldn't be any larger and still allow me to take it all in.
No, but few CRTs go beyond 34". If you need larger than that, with brightness sufficient for lit rooms, plasma is your main option. (There are a few flat-panel LCDs up to 45", butthey're substantially pricier.) I did see a Sharp 37" LCD next to a 42 HD Sony plasma, and I preferred the picture on the Sharp (more detail), but even at Costco it's $4K for the Sharp.
DLPs don't have as good a picture to my eyes, although I agree about the price.
I'll grant you if you don't need plasma's features, then plasma is a poor choice for you, but that's tautological, isn't it?
It seems to me the distribution/importation issue is irrelevant, all you need to talk about is 602(b) regardless of any other status.
But we haven't agreed that AllOfMp3.com is distributing copies in violation of this section, at least to people downloading in Russia. They claim to have a legal license to distribute via the internet, at least within Russia.
Now, there are those who have said it's some sort of mechanical license, and thus there is no permission from the RIAA or its members. In that case, you could argue the copies aren't being made with the copyright holder's consent, and thus the Russian license is in violation of U.S. law. But if the record company has cashed any checks sent their way under this license, that would be harder to argue, I would think.
Now, why are you going to the bother of going to Russia to begin with, but to exploit a law they have that we don't!
You think that's the only reason a person would go to Russia? You could buy a lot of CDs for the price of that plane ticket. The whole idea of personal baggage import is based on the assumption that people don't smuggle single copies.
If people could reliably go abroad to pirate, and could get away with it, copyright in the US would quickly be meaningless.
Overseas trips aren't free, you know. That seems to be an appeal to ethics, not law.
I still say "Huh?" I'm not importing multiple copies; I'm importing a single copy of a given work, and as part of my personal baggage, both of which make my importation acceptable under 602(a) 2. Remember, we were talking about (a hypothetical) me bringing my laptop back from out of the country. allofmp3.com isn't doing the importing.
My non-lawyerly reading of 602(b) is that you can't legally import copies that were illegally created in their place of origin.
Then that's an import. Imports are a form of distribution
Huh? 106(3): "(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;"
Bringing my laptop or whatever home is in no way distributing to the public, nor is there selling, rental, lease or lending involved, nor other transfer of ownership.
What if I downloaded it in Russia or Canada, and then brought my laptop home? What if I downloaded it in Russia, and then e-mailed it to myself? My having paid for it with a U.S. PayPal account doesn't make it a download in the U.S., so unless AllOfMp3 is keeping IP logs, there wouldn't be much evidence of a U.S. download.
Personally, I think that it's illegal for people in the US to download music from allofmp3. It's absolutely a prima face infringement, and I see no applicable exceptions for what people are doing.
Why would it be any more prime face illegal than going to iTunes? AllOfMp3.com claims to have distribution rights in Russia:
All the materials in the MediaServices projects are available for distribution through Internet according to license # LS-3-05-03 of the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society. Under the license terms, MediaServices pays license fees for all the materials subject to the Law of the Russian Federation "On Copyright and Related Rights". All the materials are available solely for personal use and must not be used for further distribution, resale or broadcasting.
On some level, allofmp3 thus claims they are authorized to distribute as per section 106. Now whether that authority extends to people using the service via an internet connection from another country is a tricky issue, but I can't see that it's a definitively decided one. And if the RIAA members are cashing any checks they receive from allofmp3.com, I'd say that's prime face acceptance of their distribution.
I don't think the "But I'm importing it - I could fly to Moscow but this is easier, it's the same thing" arguement holds water, just in case someone was contemplating that one.
Why, because you're a lawyer?
I'd be very surprised if there were laws on the books in the U.S. that made clear the legal status of such a download from a foreign country. Any contractual agreement regarding licensing rights are between the rights holder and the distributor, not Joe Random Downloader.
It's more likely to be something that would only be settled by case law, as in the Betamax decision.
So, it's "engineering good, sales & marketing bad?"
It's more "engineering honest, s&m dishonest."
Computers are brutally honest, so programmers have to deal in truth a lot. Granted, there's performance reviews and such, but their perspective on the product needs to be honest, including comparisons to competitors; how can you improve without knowing your weaknesses?
Sales and marketing, on the other hand, is all about appearance, style over substance. Having the truth on their side helps, but s&mers are most effective when they can spin and hype their product effectively.
Anyway I thought the conservitave party was into conservation (free choice and market forces) while the libral party was into entitlements and subsidies (legislation and micromanagement of commerce and trade).
Perhaps that misunderstanding is why you're in the 25%?
Bush's Medicare bill is the biggest entitlement program since the 60's, with the added feature of not allowing negotiation over drug pricing, aka a subsidy. He's threatened to veto any attempt to change it, even as the cost estimates spiral ever higher.
All those stop-loss orders for the military aren't exactly a free choice issue, either.
Politics really isn't so black and white. You've got pro-choice Republicans like Schwartzenegger and Guliani, along with moral authoritarians like Ashcroft and Santorum. Whereas Clinton started with an attempt at a national healthcare program, and ended up somewhere to the right of Nixon (who instituted price controls and started the EPA.) McCain probably is politically closer to Kerry than Bush, but ended up campaigning for the latter.
In fact, depending on the license published on the outside of the DVD box, the library is probably obligated to sell the DVDs to individuals (although there is probably a fair-use defense if they don't)
People who have worked in libraries have posted before that libraries buy DVDs just like individuals. My local library does book sales, but I've never seen it sell DVDs.
Everyone using cedega or wine are just giving the devs reasons NOT to make native ports of their games.
Because God knows we developers are leaping at the chance to develop for an OS with a small marketshare and may of whose users have a disdain for commercial software.
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Flashblock has a whitelist...at least the version I have does.
The right-click support, at least, only offers site-wide whitelisting. At least in some cases, I want to unblock a particular flash, but not a while site. How do extensions store these overrides, anyway?
The Australian system is simply a greenhouse that powers turbines, no solar cells at all.
Given low reserves of oil, relatively remote location, first world technology, and lots of sunshine, Australia seems a country with big incentives and resources to develop solar power.
I guess that clears up the season cliffhanger. I didn't think it was likely that they would kill off any of the major cast members.
In a Sci-Fi show, death isn't that big an obstacle to coming back. Heck, Jimmy Smits returned to NYPD Blue.
"Look, Rimmer, death isn't the handicap it used to be."
I'd do it myself but I need to grab a sandwich before my next meeting.
A turkey sandwich?
Personally I don't want a TV even as large as 34". Something that big dominates your room and makes a big statement about your life.
The optimal TV size largely depends on the room size, and its purpose: if you have a specially designed movie room, a display that dominates one wall is what the room is meant for. But flat-panels dominate the room less than projection systems or CRTs, with their substantial depth and, in some cases, bases. An LCD display could be configured to slowly change between family photos when not in use as a TV, which I think would reduce its perceived domination when not in use.
As for me, I find my current 27" is too small, especially when viewing widescreen stuff. But the 20" LCD monitor right in front of me couldn't be any larger and still allow me to take it all in.
Or did you just see his UID and get penis envy? I did.
You must think I'm hung like a horse, then...
I dont think image quality is better than a CRT
No, but few CRTs go beyond 34". If you need larger than that, with brightness sufficient for lit rooms, plasma is your main option. (There are a few flat-panel LCDs up to 45", butthey're substantially pricier.) I did see a Sharp 37" LCD next to a 42 HD Sony plasma, and I preferred the picture on the Sharp (more detail), but even at Costco it's $4K for the Sharp.
DLPs don't have as good a picture to my eyes, although I agree about the price.
I'll grant you if you don't need plasma's features, then plasma is a poor choice for you, but that's tautological, isn't it?
It seems to me the distribution/importation issue is irrelevant, all you need to talk about is 602(b) regardless of any other status.
But we haven't agreed that AllOfMp3.com is distributing copies in violation of this section, at least to people downloading in Russia. They claim to have a legal license to distribute via the internet, at least within Russia.
Now, there are those who have said it's some sort of mechanical license, and thus there is no permission from the RIAA or its members. In that case, you could argue the copies aren't being made with the copyright holder's consent, and thus the Russian license is in violation of U.S. law. But if the record company has cashed any checks sent their way under this license, that would be harder to argue, I would think.
Now, why are you going to the bother of going to Russia to begin with, but to exploit a law they have that we don't!
You think that's the only reason a person would go to Russia? You could buy a lot of CDs for the price of that plane ticket. The whole idea of personal baggage import is based on the assumption that people don't smuggle single copies.
If people could reliably go abroad to pirate, and could get away with it, copyright in the US would quickly be meaningless.
Overseas trips aren't free, you know. That seems to be an appeal to ethics, not law.
I still say "Huh?" I'm not importing multiple copies; I'm importing a single copy of a given work, and as part of my personal baggage, both of which make my importation acceptable under 602(a) 2. Remember, we were talking about (a hypothetical) me bringing my laptop back from out of the country. allofmp3.com isn't doing the importing.
My non-lawyerly reading of 602(b) is that you can't legally import copies that were illegally created in their place of origin.
Then that's an import. Imports are a form of distribution
Huh? 106(3): "(3) to distribute copies or phonorecords of the copyrighted work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership, or by rental, lease, or lending;"
Bringing my laptop or whatever home is in no way distributing to the public, nor is there selling, rental, lease or lending involved, nor other transfer of ownership.
What if I downloaded it in Russia or Canada, and then brought my laptop home? What if I downloaded it in Russia, and then e-mailed it to myself? My having paid for it with a U.S. PayPal account doesn't make it a download in the U.S., so unless AllOfMp3 is keeping IP logs, there wouldn't be much evidence of a U.S. download.
Personally, I think that it's illegal for people in the US to download music from allofmp3. It's absolutely a prima face infringement, and I see no applicable exceptions for what people are doing.
Why would it be any more prime face illegal than going to iTunes? AllOfMp3.com claims to have distribution rights in Russia:
All the materials in the MediaServices projects are available for distribution through Internet according to license # LS-3-05-03 of the Russian Multimedia and Internet Society. Under the license terms, MediaServices pays license fees for all the materials subject to the Law of the Russian Federation "On Copyright and Related Rights". All the materials are available solely for personal use and must not be used for further distribution, resale or broadcasting.
On some level, allofmp3 thus claims they are authorized to distribute as per section 106. Now whether that authority extends to people using the service via an internet connection from another country is a tricky issue, but I can't see that it's a definitively decided one. And if the RIAA members are cashing any checks they receive from allofmp3.com, I'd say that's prime face acceptance of their distribution.
I don't think the "But I'm importing it - I could fly to Moscow but this is easier, it's the same thing" arguement holds water, just in case someone was contemplating that one.
Why, because you're a lawyer?
I'd be very surprised if there were laws on the books in the U.S. that made clear the legal status of such a download from a foreign country. Any contractual agreement regarding licensing rights are between the rights holder and the distributor, not Joe Random Downloader.
It's more likely to be something that would only be settled by case law, as in the Betamax decision.
Yeah, all those dummies who don't even change the name of their hotspot. But I'm smarter than that.
Netgear is what I call mine.
* Thanks to a few mates for coming up with these truly breadful puns.
I'd add a few more, but I'd rather loaf at the moment.
As a pilot who uses GPL in both IFR and VFR flight
Man, that free software stuff is everywhere...
So, it's "engineering good, sales & marketing bad?"
It's more "engineering honest, s&m dishonest."
Computers are brutally honest, so programmers have to deal in truth a lot. Granted, there's performance reviews and such, but their perspective on the product needs to be honest, including comparisons to competitors; how can you improve without knowing your weaknesses?
Sales and marketing, on the other hand, is all about appearance, style over substance. Having the truth on their side helps, but s&mers are most effective when they can spin and hype their product effectively.
Anyway I thought the conservitave party was into conservation (free choice and market forces) while the libral party was into entitlements and subsidies (legislation and micromanagement of commerce and trade).
Perhaps that misunderstanding is why you're in the 25%?
Bush's Medicare bill is the biggest entitlement program since the 60's, with the added feature of not allowing negotiation over drug pricing, aka a subsidy. He's threatened to veto any attempt to change it, even as the cost estimates spiral ever higher.
All those stop-loss orders for the military aren't exactly a free choice issue, either.
Politics really isn't so black and white. You've got pro-choice Republicans like Schwartzenegger and Guliani, along with moral authoritarians like Ashcroft and Santorum. Whereas Clinton started with an attempt at a national healthcare program, and ended up somewhere to the right of Nixon (who instituted price controls and started the EPA.) McCain probably is politically closer to Kerry than Bush, but ended up campaigning for the latter.
In fact, depending on the license published on the outside of the DVD box, the library is probably obligated to sell the DVDs to individuals (although there is probably a fair-use defense if they don't)
People who have worked in libraries have posted before that libraries buy DVDs just like individuals. My local library does book sales, but I've never seen it sell DVDs.
Does the Reaper come in person?
YES.
Especially if you do the Rite of AshkEnte.
Mod this guy up!
(Look at the Score:0 parent of this msg if you don't get it.)
You haven't read the pop-up Kama Sutra then, have you?
You want me to surround myself with thousands of books, magazines, CDs, and movies, and not be distracted?
The mind boggles.
no, wait, I run linux.
How can Linux be any good? It doesn't have all these anti-virus programs available for it!
Everyone using cedega or wine are just giving the devs reasons NOT to make native ports of their games.
Because God knows we developers are leaping at the chance to develop for an OS with a small marketshare and may of whose users have a disdain for commercial software.