My iPod shuffle has no glowing screen at all. I pretty much wear it all the time and have worn it to moves. I listen to podcasts instead of the pre-movie advertising.
So I think I might try this out. Think they'll let me stay to watch it twice on one ticket? If not then I'll just wait until it's out on disk and rent it at a RedBox for $1.20. Of course they will have stripped the bonus features, but I'll have it on my iPod.
Darren Aronofsky put a downloadable audio commentary file out on the Internet to go with "The Fountain". He said he didn't have time to get it onto the DVD so he was putting it out later.
"The Fountain" is one of about a half dozen DVDs I own and I did listen to it with his commentary track. I loved it.
Each term all the students have to download the class videos for each class. There's a minimum of four classes times ten weeks or 40 videos. Then there's often supplements and extra materials depending on the class.
By having all the students use bittorrent they can keep their bandwidth requirements reasonable and keep the class costs lower.
If you want to blame the technology for the all the ills then outlawing cars would save 15 or 20 thousand lives every year.
We had tickets to a show that is now sold out. Some friends came in from out of town that day. The choice was to not go, go without our friends or buy in front of the venue from a scalper.
We bought two tickets from a scalper in front of the venue for 15% above face value and were glad for the service they provided.
Here's a very simple test to tell if scalper are providing a service: if people buy from them then they ARE providing a service.
Same goes for any service, legal or illegal, if there's a market someone will provide it.
So the only question is, should it be legal. Think of prostitution or pay-day loans or political super PAC.
So if I show up to one of Louis CK shows with a ticket and they say I can't come in, I think that I have been harmed (is tort the right word?) and have the right to a refund plus damages.
Of course for $45 even small clams court is too expensive to make it worth the effort.
This sound a lot like Omega using copyright to stop the sale of watches in the USA that were not bought through the "official" Omega channel. I understand that in some cases people want to have total control over what they used to own.
How's this different from the original architect writing into the contract on a house he designed that he (and his estate) get's 0.1% of the sale price EVERY TIME IT SELLS?
We can wipe out scalpers any time we want ... if nobody buys from then then they will be gone. Simple as that.
Look what happened to Arthur Anderson after Enron ... nobody would use their services after it was reveled that they couldn't be trusted. (The same should have happened to Ford when it came out they made the corporate decision to pay off the families who had members die in the exploding Pintos because it was cheaper than fixing the problem.)
The same should be true for software and games and anything ... if you bought it you should be able to resell it. A willing seller and a willing buyer, right?
"That sucking sound you hear is our human/constitutional rights getting drained away by the people YOU put in office."
I don't hear much talk in these pages about the NDAA that Obama already signed which effectively repealed the Habeas Corpus Act. (Read The NDAA: a clear and present danger to American liberty in The Guardian where it says The US is sleepwalking into becoming a police state, where, like a pre-Magna Carta monarch, the president can lock up anyone)
Now CISPA is pushed through is another nail in our coffin.
Who will hold the copyright on the portrait? Portrait with one person, two people, family, baby on bearskin rug. Can dance be copyrighted? How about fashion runway walking style?
SOPA & PIPA are the symptom, not the problem. We need to get out in front of this problem and proactively get the IP laws overhauled. We at least need fair-use to be a defined right so that I, as an amateur filmmaker, can know exactly what the limits are, not wait until I'm sued.
Yes, I think IP creators should be compensated but I think we should reduce free speech and encumber innovation and creativity.
Rather that working against what we don't want, why don't we start working together for what we do want?
I'd suggest that we need a concerted effort to get real changes in the IP laws in the USA. How about making fair-use a well defined right just to start?
Something put together by people on an assembly line does not, in my book, count as hand made. The cars that rolled off of Henry Ford's assembly line were factory made ... not hand made.
Hand made is when a craftsman takes raw materials and creates a finished product. Parts are often not interchangeable and each finished product is a little different from the others.
Oh, and "Note that Google's terms of use prohibit the use of their services by any automated means or any means other than through the interface provided by Google. These restrictions would make use of GmailFS a direct violation of the Service agreement."
As we know from reading TechDirt, violating any companies terms of service is now a criminal offence ... so maybe it's good that GmailFS doesn't work any more.
"Unfortunately the GmailFS project has come to an end. libgmail has ceased being maintained by its developers, and as a result libgmail no longer works with the latest Gmail interface (and has not done so for many weeks). Without a working libgmail, GmailFS does not function, so the end of libgmail also spells the end of GmailFS."
iPod Shuffle
So I think I might try this out. Think they'll let me stay to watch it twice on one ticket? If not then I'll just wait until it's out on disk and rent it at a RedBox for $1.20. Of course they will have stripped the bonus features, but I'll have it on my iPod.
Darren Aronofsky put a downloadable audio commentary file out on the Internet to go with "The Fountain". He said he didn't have time to get it onto the DVD so he was putting it out later.
"The Fountain" is one of about a half dozen DVDs I own and I did listen to it with his commentary track. I loved it.
I use bittorrent ...
Each term all the students have to download the class videos for each class. There's a minimum of four classes times ten weeks or 40 videos. Then there's often supplements and extra materials depending on the class.
By having all the students use bittorrent they can keep their bandwidth requirements reasonable and keep the class costs lower.
If you want to blame the technology for the all the ills then outlawing cars would save 15 or 20 thousand lives every year.
Re: Re: Re: Re: Are scalpers providing a service?
Why not just limit sales to the box office an hour before the show? (Yes, I know that causes other problems too.)
Again, don't like scalpers ... don't buy from them. Don't like prostitutes, don't buy from them. Don't like pay-day loans, don't buy from them.
To me it is simple.
Re: Re: Are scalpers providing a service?
We bought two tickets from a scalper in front of the venue for 15% above face value and were glad for the service they provided.
Are scalpers providing a service?
Same goes for any service, legal or illegal, if there's a market someone will provide it.
So the only question is, should it be legal. Think of prostitution or pay-day loans or political super PAC.
So if I show up to one of Louis CK shows with a ticket and they say I can't come in, I think that I have been harmed (is tort the right word?) and have the right to a refund plus damages.
Of course for $45 even small clams court is too expensive to make it worth the effort.
Just my opinion.
Sounds similar to Omega
How's this different from the original architect writing into the contract on a house he designed that he (and his estate) get's 0.1% of the sale price EVERY TIME IT SELLS?
We can wipe out scalpers any time we want ... if nobody buys from then then they will be gone. Simple as that.
Look what happened to Arthur Anderson after Enron ... nobody would use their services after it was reveled that they couldn't be trusted. (The same should have happened to Ford when it came out they made the corporate decision to pay off the families who had members die in the exploding Pintos because it was cheaper than fixing the problem.)
The same should be true for software and games and anything ... if you bought it you should be able to resell it. A willing seller and a willing buyer, right?
Fox News Tied to Child Porn ... Both Use Video
To paraphrase Ross Perot ...
I don't hear much talk in these pages about the NDAA that Obama already signed which effectively repealed the Habeas Corpus Act. (Read The NDAA: a clear and present danger to American liberty in The Guardian where it says The US is sleepwalking into becoming a police state, where, like a pre-Magna Carta monarch, the president can lock up anyone)
Now CISPA is pushed through is another nail in our coffin.
Re: Re: Revealing secrets
Is this fair use?
"Now I just know that Zazzle sucks, and I�ll never do business with them again." - Marco Arment
Hurry and copyright the portrait
Re: The real reason SOPA & PIPA are not going away
Here's another video ... well, movie (1.5 hours so watch it in the living room using your Google TV) that talks about this and other subjects.
CULTURAL CREATIVES - THE (R)EVOLUTION
http://vimeopro.com/fogelmedia/cultural-creatives-10-the-revolution
Re: SOPA & PIPA are the symptom ...
SOPA & PIPA are the symptom ...
Yes, I think IP creators should be compensated but I think we should reduce free speech and encumber innovation and creativity.
Here's where I thing we should go from here ...
I'd suggest that we need a concerted effort to get real changes in the IP laws in the USA. How about making fair-use a well defined right just to start?
Boycott movies
Define "Hand Made"
Hand made is when a craftsman takes raw materials and creates a finished product. Parts are often not interchangeable and each finished product is a little different from the others.
What politicians say ...
Re: Unfortunately ...
As we know from reading TechDirt, violating any companies terms of service is now a criminal offence ... so maybe it's good that GmailFS doesn't work any more.
Unfortunately ...
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