From the article: "The Jornada 928 combines a PDA based on Microsoft's PocketPC operating system with a mobile phone capable of handling e-mail and Web access using a technology called General Packet Radio Service."
What's stopping them from touring themselves, selling CDs themselves, finding an independent label to take them on and give them a decent contract? Set up a website to give away their mp3s to make them popular enough to have some push when they do sign with a big label?
They can still be a band and make money.. They sign their rights away because they want big money NOW, they don't want to wait. They see big dollar signs in their face and they sign the paper that gives away their rights to their music, and somehow, that's the record companies fault. If the bands/artists didn't become the whores of the record company and just wait or do things on their own to build their popularity, they wouldn't be getting so screwed
Most bands have already signed their rights away to the music to the record company for the record deal. So the stuff that you're download still belongs to the record company, not the band. So when you download something that the record company owns, and pay the band, the person that actually owns the rights to that music you just downloaded isn't getting anything.
Yes, it sucks for the band/artist, but they're the ones that signed the contract. Nobody is screwing the band/artist, except themselves. It may not be morally right, but it's true.
I'm talking about the meatball on the segway that's running over people causing problems. Not about product safety. Go drive a 3 wheeler, they should never have been out on the market, they're hard to ride (vs. a 4wheeler or a bike).
If their licence agreement says you have to register with them. Guess what, you have to register with them. You don't like that policy, don't buy the product!
Okay, I can kind of see their problem with the Replay 4000s, because they share data with others and automatically take out the commercials. But the others (TiVo and older ReplayTVs) should be safe.. You can't just get everything every made ever, it would have to be something that you could actually watch on your TV normally.. And in the case of TiVo, they don't get rid of commercials. And because of TiVo's data that they store TiVo can show people what commercials the viewer is actually watching. I own a TiVo, yet I still watch some commercials (those that are entertaining, or something that I find interesting). I think this data is even better.
Wrongful termination for what? If you're working for a company, and you speak out about them, they have every right to fire you. I've seen it happen before.
I remember watching on TV a court case about a guy that rented a limo to the kid. I think it was NJ. There if the kid signs it it's valid until the kid doesn't want it to be valid anymore. Basically, the party under 18 can say go screw, I'm doing what I want, but the part that wrote up the contract still has to follow it. There was also no penalty to the kid for signing the contract (the judge did give them shit for not reading it before signing it).
Here's another good question. What if you're under 18 and you buy some software and click through the EULA. Most states say you have to be over 18 to sign/agree to a contract. Wouldn't that make the EULA void? It's also not like they card people at best buy when you go and buy some virus scanning software.
Please look at my example and explain that. She was not allowed to speak out about the company she worked for while she was currently employed by it. Much like you can't write a bad review about a product that says you can't in the EULA while you are using it.
The reason she was allowed to be suspsended, then basically fired becuase she refused to take the website down was because of something called "Free Will". She had the free will to get a new job, just like you have the free will not to use a product with a crappy EULA.
Okay, so I buy my software, I say okay to the EULA, I start using the product, realize that it blows and stop using it. Now, the EULA agreement is an agreement I agree to in order to use the software. If I decided to stop using that software, is that EULA still binding? If it is still binding, for how long?
That's very interesting.. A coworker of mine had a website that was talking about how much our place of employment sucks. She was suspended and told to take the website down. Well she left and kept the website up.
This is very similar. Like the co-worker, you don't have to buy/use the software, just like she didn't have to work at our place of employment. If you don't like the terms, don't use the product or work at that place of employment.
The biggest problem with this is that except for EULAs you usually get to see the contract before you agree to it. Most EULAs are inside the box and you can't see it until you open the box, and to top it off, most places won't accept returns on software that's been opened, so if you disagree with the EULA then you're out however much you paid for the software.
And that works how? First of, they're not an End User of you, you are an End User to them. Second, how do they get to see your EULA? And Third, if you email it to them and they refuse to sell to you, do you not buy the product.
The company can change the future version to another license, but all GPL versions must remain GPL. It's happened before, I can't remember the project that it was callled.. But I belive Tux Racer also did the same thing, there is now a GPL and non-GPL version.
Just becuase the other choices suck doesn't mean that there arn't other choices..
The part that really sucks...
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Is that they're killing off Trillian, and their first fix was to force them to turn off their "SecureIM" feature. Something that uses 128bit encryption between trillian clients. I loved that feature. The other odd thing is AOL isn't stopping third party clients from attaching to ICQ, another IM network that they own.
Oh well.. I'm glad I signed up for MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger and use trillian for both of those too..
A friend of mine just recently showed me his Compaq iPaq handheld that he loaded debian on, much better. I thought it was way cool. Plus he has this wireless service from Verizon and it's only $25/month for unlimited! Of course it's pcmcia and he needed the pcmcia adapter for his iPaq, but still.. very very cool. And you can get the model he had for about what this thing costs, and it has color.
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This is great.. and the best part is, 90% of "the market" doesn't want to buy new shit, they're quite happy with the TVs they have now.
ICP.. They are very ANTI label.. Yes, they use Warner Brothers for distribution, but they are under their own label.
From the article: " The Jornada 928 combines a PDA based on Microsoft's PocketPC operating system with a mobile phone capable of handling e-mail and Web access using a technology called General Packet Radio Service."
What's not clear?
What's stopping them from touring themselves, selling CDs themselves, finding an independent label to take them on and give them a decent contract? Set up a website to give away their mp3s to make them popular enough to have some push when they do sign with a big label?
They can still be a band and make money.. They sign their rights away because they want big money NOW, they don't want to wait. They see big dollar signs in their face and they sign the paper that gives away their rights to their music, and somehow, that's the record companies fault. If the bands/artists didn't become the whores of the record company and just wait or do things on their own to build their popularity, they wouldn't be getting so screwed
Most bands have already signed their rights away to the music to the record company for the record deal. So the stuff that you're download still belongs to the record company, not the band. So when you download something that the record company owns, and pay the band, the person that actually owns the rights to that music you just downloaded isn't getting anything.
Yes, it sucks for the band/artist, but they're the ones that signed the contract. Nobody is screwing the band/artist, except themselves. It may not be morally right, but it's true.
I'm talking about the meatball on the segway that's running over people causing problems. Not about product safety. Go drive a 3 wheeler, they should never have been out on the market, they're hard to ride (vs. a 4wheeler or a bike).
When you buy a car and run over people is the company that made the car liable? And I'm sure it comes with some kind of warranty
If their licence agreement says you have to register with them. Guess what, you have to register with them. You don't like that policy, don't buy the product!
Actually, anything that is to be thrown out at a Radio Shack store MUST be smashed to bits before putting in the dumpster.. It's their lame policy.
Okay, I can kind of see their problem with the Replay 4000s, because they share data with others and automatically take out the commercials. But the others (TiVo and older ReplayTVs) should be safe.. You can't just get everything every made ever, it would have to be something that you could actually watch on your TV normally.. And in the case of TiVo, they don't get rid of commercials. And because of TiVo's data that they store TiVo can show people what commercials the viewer is actually watching. I own a TiVo, yet I still watch some commercials (those that are entertaining, or something that I find interesting). I think this data is even better.
"NetFlix took seven business days to deliver to Atlanta. (i.e. Needs an East Coast distribution center.)"
I live in Manchester, NH and usually get my movies from the email that says they shiped it to the time it gets to my door takes 3 days.
Wrongful termination for what? If you're working for a company, and you speak out about them, they have every right to fire you. I've seen it happen before.
I remember watching on TV a court case about a guy that rented a limo to the kid. I think it was NJ. There if the kid signs it it's valid until the kid doesn't want it to be valid anymore. Basically, the party under 18 can say go screw, I'm doing what I want, but the part that wrote up the contract still has to follow it. There was also no penalty to the kid for signing the contract (the judge did give them shit for not reading it before signing it).
Here's another good question. What if you're under 18 and you buy some software and click through the EULA. Most states say you have to be over 18 to sign/agree to a contract. Wouldn't that make the EULA void? It's also not like they card people at best buy when you go and buy some virus scanning software.
Please look at my example and explain that. She was not allowed to speak out about the company she worked for while she was currently employed by it. Much like you can't write a bad review about a product that says you can't in the EULA while you are using it.
The reason she was allowed to be suspsended, then basically fired becuase she refused to take the website down was because of something called "Free Will". She had the free will to get a new job, just like you have the free will not to use a product with a crappy EULA.
Okay, so I buy my software, I say okay to the EULA, I start using the product, realize that it blows and stop using it. Now, the EULA agreement is an agreement I agree to in order to use the software. If I decided to stop using that software, is that EULA still binding? If it is still binding, for how long?
That's very interesting.. A coworker of mine had a website that was talking about how much our place of employment sucks. She was suspended and told to take the website down. Well she left and kept the website up.
This is very similar. Like the co-worker, you don't have to buy/use the software, just like she didn't have to work at our place of employment. If you don't like the terms, don't use the product or work at that place of employment.
The biggest problem with this is that except for EULAs you usually get to see the contract before you agree to it. Most EULAs are inside the box and you can't see it until you open the box, and to top it off, most places won't accept returns on software that's been opened, so if you disagree with the EULA then you're out however much you paid for the software.
And that works how? First of, they're not an End User of you, you are an End User to them. Second, how do they get to see your EULA? And Third, if you email it to them and they refuse to sell to you, do you not buy the product.
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MSN Messenger
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Just becuase the other choices suck doesn't mean that there arn't other choices..
Is that they're killing off Trillian, and their first fix was to force them to turn off their "SecureIM" feature. Something that uses 128bit encryption between trillian clients. I loved that feature. The other odd thing is AOL isn't stopping third party clients from attaching to ICQ, another IM network that they own.
Oh well.. I'm glad I signed up for MSN Messenger and Yahoo Messenger and use trillian for both of those too..
To little, to late, and TO EXPENSIVE!
A friend of mine just recently showed me his Compaq iPaq handheld that he loaded debian on, much better. I thought it was way cool. Plus he has this wireless service from Verizon and it's only $25/month for unlimited! Of course it's pcmcia and he needed the pcmcia adapter for his iPaq, but still.. very very cool. And you can get the model he had for about what this thing costs, and it has color.