in which case the copyright is owned by whomever created the record.
Small clarification: the copyright is owned by whoever paid for the recording. That's why Radiohead's "Creep" is (c) 1993 EMI. And that's why their In Rainbows album is (c) 2007 Radiohead.
As far as a performance of a song, one owes royalties to the publishing company (usually either ASCAP or BMI) that published the song.
This case is interesting because it shows the tangled web of copyrights that we have to deal with on a daily basis.
I guess the attention span of many people today is greatly diminished, but this book is not overly long for its type. I have a large collection of books on movies, music, technology, and several biographies. Many of them are 500-600 pages in length, but in almost all cases, the length is justified. To really get an exhaustive view of a subject, sometimes it just takes a lot of pages.
In the Wikipedia era, we may like to just get the facts and a little bit of context, but I really enjoy a thorough dissertation on a topic I'm interested in. I downloaded this PDF this morning and I've already devoured 300 pages of it. There's no fluff, and no flowery writing. It is actually very concise and to the point; this is just a subject with 30-plus years worth of history.
The author should be commended for giving away this book for free. The quality of the writing, research and insight is as good as any $30 hardback out there. Sure, there are a ton of books out there on Star Wars, but I hadn't yet found one quite like this. It tells it how it all really went down, giving excellent context to each time period throughout, He is not afraid to call Lucas out on his lies and revisionist history, compiling all of the know historical sources into a very thorough, clear picture of how Star Wars evolved from Lucas' early love of comics and Flash Gordon all the way up to Revenge of the Sith.
Don't be afraid of the length. This book is great for any fan of Star Wars, or someone who's just generally interested in the movie business.
The fact that largely the same people are involved makes this a pretty reasonable assumption, no? George Lucas was also involved in the original Star Wars trilogy, but you saw what happened with the second one.
You've got a point. A point that Microsoft should really be considering. If you can't get past Alpha quality in six years (people like to talk about Visata's five-year cycle, but six years later, we're at SP1 and it's still not ready), then you need to consider some options:
1. The project you are working on (Vista, in this case) is hopeless and should be abandoned
2. You should seriously revamp your software development team and associated processes
3. Maybe you should get out of software development altogether
Like a lot of us here, I'm the "techie guy" who helps everyone with their computer problems. Most of these people are clueless and just nod their heads with blank stares when I try and explain what the problem was and how I fixed it. But now, even these Average Folks are talking about how bad Vista sucks, how they feel burned by buying a PC with it pre-installed, and wanting to know how can they get "real Windows" back.
Fortunately, I've made more Linux converts over the past year than I had in the previous five combined.
...but the Windows version is just coming out first. It's not like Adobe is totally abandoning 64 bit apps on the Mac. It's just that re-writing millions of lines of Carbon code is going to take a bit longer.
If you read the Ars article, and John Nack's blog at Adobe, you get a sense of the history involved here. Back when Apple's next-gen OS was going to be Rhapsody, Apple developers were looking at re-writing all their apps in what came to be known as Cocoa. Many of the big developers, Adobe among them, said "No way, Steve," leading to the birth of Carbon, to allow an easy transition from OS 9 to OS X.
It's been known for a while that Carbon would eventually be deprecated, but that still doesn't change the fact that it's going to be a huge job for Adobe. Adobe shouldn't be chastised for this move. They should be lauded for developing the an x86_64 version for Mac at all, even if its release will lag behind the Windows version.
I don't like the new discussion system at all. At least I can use the old one for the time being. The new "Reply"/"Parent" buttons are awful. Just give me my standard form buttons back! And what the heck is the deal with the comment score log? Slashdot calls it a "Moderation Comment Log." Shouldn't that be a "Comment Moderation Log"?
As a long-time KDE fan, I have been waiting for what seems like forever for KDE 4. I've been using 3.5 every day, along with OS X Tiger/Leopard, for the last couple of years. I love the apps, I love the environment and, in general, KDE's sense of style. The beauty that is Oxygen has had me stoked since the first screenshots came out.
I've been trying to use it as my regular window manager since a repo became available to Kubuntu users. I have been fully prepared to sacrifice some functionality and applications to use the latest and greatest, but yet still can't use it on an everyday basis, by a long shot.
Besides just general bugginess, there are some issues with the user interface that need fixing ASAP. First and foremost is speed. KDE has always been snappy for me, even on PowerPC G3/G4 hardware. On my Dell Inspiron with a 1.83 GHz Core Duo, things take forever to launch. It feels like OS X Public Beta all over again to me, in terms of application launch speed. (KDE 3.5 is super snappy on this same box.)
Next on my hit list are the widgets. We need to be able to hide the widget launcher in the right hand corner of the desktop. I've always been able to keep a super-minimalist desktop with KDE, and this menu is nothing short of distracting. And why is the panel now a widget that can only accept other widgets (of which there are a very small amount)? Where are the great little applets and buttons from KDEs past? Why can't I add an application launcher icon to the panel, like in any other desktop environment out there? For that matter, can I even create a custom application launcher anywhere? Why can't the panel be made to be a custom size?
KDE 4 has the potential to be truly revolutionary, but at this point, it's all good looks and severely lacking in functionality. Here's hoping 4.1 will actually be where 4.0 should have been.
Back in 1968, Modern Mechanix mused what life would be like in 40 years. The name of the magazine was Mechanix Illustrated. Modern Mechanix is the site hosting the scan of the article.
Indeed, it's been a complaint for a long time, even though Malda and his gang don't claim to publish the latest news in the fastest time possible. In fact, they would rather sit on a story and see how it unfolds so that the discussion can have some perspective.
In fact, there's even a FAQ entry addressing this topic. If you want the latest news as soon as it happens, there's other sites to visit. Like others have said, go to Digg for the links, and come to Slashdot for the discussion.
Yes, "In Soviet Russia, frist psot runs Natalie Portman's Linux" is more insightful than what you read on Digg.
The history lesson continues. 1995 was hardly the New Kids era. Their era ended in '90 or '91. The New Kids put out a ridiculous pseudo-gangsta album in 1994 as NKOTB and broke up shortly thereafter.
If anything, 1995 was the post-grunge hangover era. Bands like Bush, Seven Mary Three and POTUSA ruled the airwaves. And Alanis. Unfortunately, I associate 1995 with hearing "You Oughta Know" 18 times a day on the radio.
...the MPMan F10, manufactured by Korea's Saehan Information Systems with 32MB of Flash storage...
My first MP3 player wasn't the F10, but rather a Diamond Rio. It too only had a 32 MB card. I remember encoding albums in 96kbps so that I could fit a 45-minute CD on my card.
I'm feeling a little spoiled with my iPods and the fancy 320kbps rips on them now.
An important thing to remember is that the Beatles catalog is owned by EMI, so it will almost assuredly be available in iTunes Plus.
The bit rate (256kbits) is good enough for pseudo-stereo recordings (singing in one channel, music in the other) that are 40+ years old. And the only bit of DRM on them is metadata with your ID; they will play on any player or software that supports MPEG4. Or, like any iTunes purchase, just burn to CD, re-rip and enjoy in the format of your choice. (Yes, I know, lossy formats, blah, blah, but for most people, it's fine.)
I'm generally not a big iTMS fan (I've bought 1 album per year on average since '03). But if the albums are reasonably priced, and if they manage to produce a decent-sounding remaster, I may just re-buy the Beatles' catalog for the first time in 20 years.
Well, Lou has certainly listened to MMM all the way through, since he staged an orchestral version of it a few years back.
My favorite quote from Lou about MMM was "Nobody is supposed to be able to do a thing like that and survive."
Interestingly, if you read the Velvet Underground biography "Uptight" and the collection of contemporary Velvets reviews, "All Yesterday's Parties," you can see that Lou had the idea for MMM--a double album of nothing but grinding noise--years before he actually did it.
Do you understand that your first post made it seem like you thought using a CLI browser like lynx could somehow magically get past your ISP's redirection?
For me, Netscape died four or five years ago when they tried to sell dial-up service with the Netscape name. "Introducing Netscape!" the commercials proclaimed. How freaking sad...the former champ of the web browsing world, its brand no longer recognizable, selling dial-up in the broadband era.
Was some guy supposed to say, 'Hey, I remember Netscape from back in my days in the college computer lab, searching for Jenny McCarthy scans! I think I'm going to bypass cable or DSL and get this Netscape Internet service!"
But now I see that he, too, is a copyright monger, he just wants the copyrights for himself rather than for the label. Or maybe he just wants to be paid for his work. I'm no fan of the RIAA, and have downloaded my fair share of torrents, but I wouldn't hold it against someone for wanting to stop the theft of their product. If they get all ignorant-Metallicaish about it, that's another thing, but do we really chastise people for wanting to stop the theft of their work?
While I find this story, and the facts therein, amusing, the same could be said of Leopard and its lack of a Mac OS Classic Environment: Linux with SheepShaver has better Classic Mac OS compatibility than Leopard does out of the box.
But I guess this is not a perfect analogy because SheepShaver can be run on Leopard. Maybe someone will port WINE over to Vista.:-)
As others have noted, if you have to restart after an iTunes update, that means there was an associated QuickTime update to go along with it. And, yes, QuickTime, is a very low-level system component on Mac OS.
Apple has addressed the issue somewhat with Leopard. For system updates that require a reboot, you can choose to reboot later. Although *nix fans everywhere know that there's not much need to reboot unless you're doing a kernel upgrade. Restarting the updated processes is good enough.
KTorrent sounds promising. Will have to check it out. You really should. I spend half my computing day in OS X and the other half in Kubuntu (KDE 3.4.x), and really, really wish there was a BT client for the Mac as sweet as KTorrent. Try it, you'll like it.
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Small clarification: the copyright is owned by whoever paid for the recording. That's why Radiohead's "Creep" is (c) 1993 EMI. And that's why their In Rainbows album is (c) 2007 Radiohead.
As far as a performance of a song, one owes royalties to the publishing company (usually either ASCAP or BMI) that published the song.
This case is interesting because it shows the tangled web of copyrights that we have to deal with on a daily basis.
How did you post here then? Running a local cached copy of idle.slashdot.org? :-)
I guess the attention span of many people today is greatly diminished, but this book is not overly long for its type. I have a large collection of books on movies, music, technology, and several biographies. Many of them are 500-600 pages in length, but in almost all cases, the length is justified. To really get an exhaustive view of a subject, sometimes it just takes a lot of pages.
In the Wikipedia era, we may like to just get the facts and a little bit of context, but I really enjoy a thorough dissertation on a topic I'm interested in. I downloaded this PDF this morning and I've already devoured 300 pages of it. There's no fluff, and no flowery writing. It is actually very concise and to the point; this is just a subject with 30-plus years worth of history.
The author should be commended for giving away this book for free. The quality of the writing, research and insight is as good as any $30 hardback out there. Sure, there are a ton of books out there on Star Wars, but I hadn't yet found one quite like this. It tells it how it all really went down, giving excellent context to each time period throughout, He is not afraid to call Lucas out on his lies and revisionist history, compiling all of the know historical sources into a very thorough, clear picture of how Star Wars evolved from Lucas' early love of comics and Flash Gordon all the way up to Revenge of the Sith.
Don't be afraid of the length. This book is great for any fan of Star Wars, or someone who's just generally interested in the movie business.
Rumor was that he asked Kershner to come back for the prequels, but Kersh declined due to age and being in semi-retirement.
You've got a point. A point that Microsoft should really be considering. If you can't get past Alpha quality in six years (people like to talk about Visata's five-year cycle, but six years later, we're at SP1 and it's still not ready), then you need to consider some options:
Like a lot of us here, I'm the "techie guy" who helps everyone with their computer problems. Most of these people are clueless and just nod their heads with blank stares when I try and explain what the problem was and how I fixed it. But now, even these Average Folks are talking about how bad Vista sucks, how they feel burned by buying a PC with it pre-installed, and wanting to know how can they get "real Windows" back.
Fortunately, I've made more Linux converts over the past year than I had in the previous five combined.
...but the Windows version is just coming out first. It's not like Adobe is totally abandoning 64 bit apps on the Mac. It's just that re-writing millions of lines of Carbon code is going to take a bit longer.
If you read the Ars article, and John Nack's blog at Adobe, you get a sense of the history involved here. Back when Apple's next-gen OS was going to be Rhapsody, Apple developers were looking at re-writing all their apps in what came to be known as Cocoa. Many of the big developers, Adobe among them, said "No way, Steve," leading to the birth of Carbon, to allow an easy transition from OS 9 to OS X.
It's been known for a while that Carbon would eventually be deprecated, but that still doesn't change the fact that it's going to be a huge job for Adobe. Adobe shouldn't be chastised for this move. They should be lauded for developing the an x86_64 version for Mac at all, even if its release will lag behind the Windows version.
I don't like the new discussion system at all. At least I can use the old one for the time being. The new "Reply"/"Parent" buttons are awful. Just give me my standard form buttons back! And what the heck is the deal with the comment score log? Slashdot calls it a "Moderation Comment Log." Shouldn't that be a "Comment Moderation Log"?
As a long-time KDE fan, I have been waiting for what seems like forever for KDE 4. I've been using 3.5 every day, along with OS X Tiger/Leopard, for the last couple of years. I love the apps, I love the environment and, in general, KDE's sense of style. The beauty that is Oxygen has had me stoked since the first screenshots came out.
I've been trying to use it as my regular window manager since a repo became available to Kubuntu users. I have been fully prepared to sacrifice some functionality and applications to use the latest and greatest, but yet still can't use it on an everyday basis, by a long shot.
Besides just general bugginess, there are some issues with the user interface that need fixing ASAP. First and foremost is speed. KDE has always been snappy for me, even on PowerPC G3/G4 hardware. On my Dell Inspiron with a 1.83 GHz Core Duo, things take forever to launch. It feels like OS X Public Beta all over again to me, in terms of application launch speed. (KDE 3.5 is super snappy on this same box.)
Next on my hit list are the widgets. We need to be able to hide the widget launcher in the right hand corner of the desktop. I've always been able to keep a super-minimalist desktop with KDE, and this menu is nothing short of distracting. And why is the panel now a widget that can only accept other widgets (of which there are a very small amount)? Where are the great little applets and buttons from KDEs past? Why can't I add an application launcher icon to the panel, like in any other desktop environment out there? For that matter, can I even create a custom application launcher anywhere? Why can't the panel be made to be a custom size?
KDE 4 has the potential to be truly revolutionary, but at this point, it's all good looks and severely lacking in functionality. Here's hoping 4.1 will actually be where 4.0 should have been.
Come on guys, this was a bad cut-n-paste job when drafting the EULA for the Windows version of Safari, and you know it.
It has already been fixed.
Indeed, it's been a complaint for a long time, even though Malda and his gang don't claim to publish the latest news in the fastest time possible. In fact, they would rather sit on a story and see how it unfolds so that the discussion can have some perspective.
In fact, there's even a FAQ entry addressing this topic. If you want the latest news as soon as it happens, there's other sites to visit. Like others have said, go to Digg for the links, and come to Slashdot for the discussion.
Yes, "In Soviet Russia, frist psot runs Natalie Portman's Linux" is more insightful than what you read on Digg.
The history lesson continues. 1995 was hardly the New Kids era. Their era ended in '90 or '91. The New Kids put out a ridiculous pseudo-gangsta album in 1994 as NKOTB and broke up shortly thereafter.
If anything, 1995 was the post-grunge hangover era. Bands like Bush, Seven Mary Three and POTUSA ruled the airwaves. And Alanis. Unfortunately, I associate 1995 with hearing "You Oughta Know" 18 times a day on the radio.
...the MPMan F10, manufactured by Korea's Saehan Information Systems with 32MB of Flash storage...My first MP3 player wasn't the F10, but rather a Diamond Rio. It too only had a 32 MB card. I remember encoding albums in 96kbps so that I could fit a 45-minute CD on my card.
I'm feeling a little spoiled with my iPods and the fancy 320kbps rips on them now.
An important thing to remember is that the Beatles catalog is owned by EMI, so it will almost assuredly be available in iTunes Plus.
The bit rate (256kbits) is good enough for pseudo-stereo recordings (singing in one channel, music in the other) that are 40+ years old. And the only bit of DRM on them is metadata with your ID; they will play on any player or software that supports MPEG4. Or, like any iTunes purchase, just burn to CD, re-rip and enjoy in the format of your choice. (Yes, I know, lossy formats, blah, blah, but for most people, it's fine.)
I'm generally not a big iTMS fan (I've bought 1 album per year on average since '03). But if the albums are reasonably priced, and if they manage to produce a decent-sounding remaster, I may just re-buy the Beatles' catalog for the first time in 20 years.
Well, Lou has certainly listened to MMM all the way through, since he staged an orchestral version of it a few years back.
My favorite quote from Lou about MMM was "Nobody is supposed to be able to do a thing like that and survive."
Interestingly, if you read the Velvet Underground biography "Uptight" and the collection of contemporary Velvets reviews, "All Yesterday's Parties," you can see that Lou had the idea for MMM--a double album of nothing but grinding noise--years before he actually did it.
Do you understand that your first post made it seem like you thought using a CLI browser like lynx could somehow magically get past your ISP's redirection?
For me, Netscape died four or five years ago when they tried to sell dial-up service with the Netscape name. "Introducing Netscape!" the commercials proclaimed. How freaking sad...the former champ of the web browsing world, its brand no longer recognizable, selling dial-up in the broadband era.
Was some guy supposed to say, 'Hey, I remember Netscape from back in my days in the college computer lab, searching for Jenny McCarthy scans! I think I'm going to bypass cable or DSL and get this Netscape Internet service!"
Because, for whatever reason, an inordinately high percentage of the people who actually care read Slashdot.
While I find this story, and the facts therein, amusing, the same could be said of Leopard and its lack of a Mac OS Classic Environment: Linux with SheepShaver has better Classic Mac OS compatibility than Leopard does out of the box.
But I guess this is not a perfect analogy because SheepShaver can be run on Leopard. Maybe someone will port WINE over to Vista. :-)
As others have noted, if you have to restart after an iTunes update, that means there was an associated QuickTime update to go along with it. And, yes, QuickTime, is a very low-level system component on Mac OS.
Apple has addressed the issue somewhat with Leopard. For system updates that require a reboot, you can choose to reboot later. Although *nix fans everywhere know that there's not much need to reboot unless you're doing a kernel upgrade. Restarting the updated processes is good enough.
Thanks; Transmission looks good. Does it have the ability to delete certain trackers from a torrent?