I'm not sure if this is nitpicking or not, but Visa and Mastercard are public companies, at least in the US and their stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange.
Not that I think the companies should be forced to service certain customers, though.
This strikes me as drivel too, as others have stated.
As a [moderately prominent] Flash Platform developer, let me assure you that Silverlight is considered a viable platform for building Rich Internet Applications. Many "Flex/Flash" shops have also picked up Silverlight projects. I expect the platform will continue to become more prominent over time as penetration grows. Didn't Microsoft rush through four versions of the player very quickly?
Sometimes I become immediately suspicious when I hear things like 50% of the profits. As the record industry / movie industry have shown us; it is pretty easy to hide profits on the balance sheet.
Something to note; he did say that 50% of his income comes from sheet music. I have no idea how many of those buyers are teenagers, of course.
He also specified that "the entire record business is in free-fall" which you point out and then switch to "music business" in your response. The record business is in a free-fall; however the record business just makes up one portion of the music business.
Does Facebook contribute to open source projects? Does it have it's own open source projects?
As far as I knew, the answer was no.
They have benefited by using open source technologies, but I wouldn't say that makes then an open source company.
There are plenty of companies who use PHP on their web sites. Plenty of companies who use Flex for application development. Would you say that they are open source companies too?
Where is the line between a company that uses open source software projects and an open source software company?
The fact that there is / was no commercial release is not completely accurate. A lot of the Sierra "quest" games were released as low cost collections:
There are two aspects of copyright here. One is on the recording, and other is on the material being recorded. He should have no problem copyrighting his recording of those sounds; but should have no right to be able to copyright the sounds.
Based on the slashdot posting about this, it doesn't sound like it went completely free. You just get 2 hours free and then have to pay another charge for another 2 hours.
I'm unclear exactly what has occurred here; and RTFA didn't help.
How did they use the song? Was it played in a venue where they had some press conference or other event? Or was it used in a TV Commercial? Or some other way?
I'm unclear of UK laws; but in the US playing the song during a 'press rally' type of event is perfectly legitimate as long as the venue is properly paying performance fees to the related licensing body.
Permission to use the song cannot be denied; but I'm not sure if permission to use the original recording can be denied. I'm not sure which situation occurred here.
Is this really a situation where politicians have broken copyright law; or a position where the 'content owners' want to assert control over every aspect of the use of the content?
I guess any ten year span could be considered a decade; but...
Mathematically speaking; the next decade doesn't start until January 1st, 2011.
the Gregorian Calendar started counting at year 1; so 1-10 is a decade; and the next decade starts in year 11. 11-20 is another decade and the next decade starts in year 21. And so on..
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Visa and Mastercard are Public Companies
Not that I think the companies should be forced to service certain customers, though.
On the post: Has Microsoft Extinguished Silverlight?
As a Flash Platform Developer...
As a [moderately prominent] Flash Platform developer, let me assure you that Silverlight is considered a viable platform for building Rich Internet Applications. Many "Flex/Flash" shops have also picked up Silverlight projects. I expect the platform will continue to become more prominent over time as penetration grows. Didn't Microsoft rush through four versions of the player very quickly?
I'd hardly say Silverlight is quietly dying.
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Do Nothing?
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Thank You Pearl Jam
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I hate it when...
It seems over the past year the response of "That day/time should be fine, why don't we touch base in a few days to see what our schedules are."
After the third time; I often stop following up. As a specific example:
Wednesday: "Yeah, I should be able to get together for lunch next week. Let's touch base early next week to find out."
"Sunday: "Yeah, I should be able to get together this week, let's touch base on Tuesday to finalize plans."
"Tuesday: Yeah, I should be able to get together, let's touch base tomorrow...."
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50% of the profit?
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The "Propose" link is broken.. EOM
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Something to note; he did say that 50% of his income comes from sheet music. I have no idea how many of those buyers are teenagers, of course.
He also specified that "the entire record business is in free-fall" which you point out and then switch to "music business" in your response. The record business is in a free-fall; however the record business just makes up one portion of the music business.
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Re: Re: Facebook is an open source company?
As far as I knew, the answer was no.
They have benefited by using open source technologies, but I wouldn't say that makes then an open source company.
There are plenty of companies who use PHP on their web sites. Plenty of companies who use Flex for application development. Would you say that they are open source companies too?
Where is the line between a company that uses open source software projects and an open source software company?
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Facebook is an open source company?
On the post: Activision Comes To Its Senses; Allows King's Quest Fan Game To Live On (Again)
http://www.amazon.com/Kings-Quest-Collection-Pc/dp/B000AYFPKG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=videogame s&qid=1277814345&sr=8-1
Release Date according to the Amazon.com page is September 06. It came to Steam in 09. There haven't been any new "Quest" games in a long, though.
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What about Weird Al?
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Re: What????
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Re:
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I'm not sure of this one...
I can easily see a "moron in a hurry" thinking the two "Franchises" may be associated with each other.
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Re: Re:
On the post: Starbucks Finally Realizies That Free WiFi Is The Way To Go
http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/BJu7AQDhC9E/Starbucks-Frees-Wi-Fi
None of this was covered in the wired article, though.
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The Tiobe index is highly criticized by most programmers
SQL is not a programming language because you can't write an infinite loop in it? ColdFusion is a framework? Both ridiculous.
That said; so long as they keep their methods of calculating use consistent it might make an interesting study.
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What happened here?
How did they use the song? Was it played in a venue where they had some press conference or other event? Or was it used in a TV Commercial? Or some other way?
I'm unclear of UK laws; but in the US playing the song during a 'press rally' type of event is perfectly legitimate as long as the venue is properly paying performance fees to the related licensing body.
Permission to use the song cannot be denied; but I'm not sure if permission to use the original recording can be denied. I'm not sure which situation occurred here.
Is this really a situation where politicians have broken copyright law; or a position where the 'content owners' want to assert control over every aspect of the use of the content?
On the post: As Expected, Labels Now Want To Use Privacy-Reducing Watermarks As 'Cloud DRM'
New Decade?
Mathematically speaking; the next decade doesn't start until January 1st, 2011.
the Gregorian Calendar started counting at year 1; so 1-10 is a decade; and the next decade starts in year 11. 11-20 is another decade and the next decade starts in year 21. And so on..
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