UK Judge Rules That Selling Consumers Cheaper CDs Is Illegal
the BPI got upset and forced the company to stop selling the discs without its consent, resulting in a 2-pound price increase. The BPI then got even more upset when CD-Wow went around explaining how the BPI’s actions forced them to increase prices. Now, CD-Wow has been hit by a judge with fines as high as 4 pounds per CD for selling the imports, after legal action from the BPI and several labels. Just to be clear: CD-Wow was selling legitimate discs, not pirated copies. They’d simply found a cheaper supplier in another part of the world, and passed the lower costs onto consumers. The labels argue this is somehow a violation of their copyright
Techdirt — Copyright, eh?
YouTube Decides That Cancer Examination Videos Are Too Explicit
During the court debates over mandatory internet filters, one example often brought up was that many filters block sites dedicated to educational information about breast cancer – which can hardly be considered porn. Yet, a more recent example shows that this issue clearly has not been worked out yet. YouTube is facing some criticism after pulling down some videos by a famous doctor that showed people how to examine their bodies for early signs of cancer. It’s great that these videos are up there, as they provide a tremendous public service … It’s no surprise that YouTube would act that way
Techdirt — But they still shouldn’t have pulled them.
Ten Questions with Joe Armstrong about Parallel Programming and Erlang
This is the first post in my Interviewing the Parallel Programming Idols-Series. My interview partner today is Joe Armstrong, one of the founding fathers of the Erlang programming language. He presently works for Ericsson, where he designed the very first version of Erlang (that was a long time ago in 1986).
Thinking Parallel
CIOs Spurn Web 2.0 Startups - Enterprises Want Suites and Large, Incumbent Software Vendors
According to the [Forrester Research] report entitled ‘CIOs Want Suites For Web 2.0’, the enterprise Web 2.0 market “is beginning to consolidate”. Apparently CIOs have a strong desire to purchase web 2.0 products “as a suite, as well as an equally strong desire to purchase these technologies from large, incumbent software vendors.” 61% of respondents indicated that they would prefer both a suite solution and a large, incumbent vendor. According to the report, “integration issues, longevity concerns, and the occasional lack of polish” are counting against small vendors.
by Richard MacManus at Read/Write Web — Speaking as a former ‘honcho’ and now a small ISV: You get these things by someone else taking a risk and buying and using the small company’s products – why not contribute something yourself?
Parallax Background with Javascript and CSS
Note how the text scrolls normally, but the green background scrolls slowly, and how the clouds scroll faster than normal. That’s the parallax effect.
via Ajaxian — What a hoot!
OpenLaszlo 4.0 Released | OpenLaszlo
OpenLaszlo 4.0 is the industry’s first and only RIA platform to support the development and delivery of applications in both Ajax and Flash, all from a single code base.
This is good news. My company, Recursive has done some significant UI work using Laszlo, starting with Laszlo – release 1, then 2, then 3 – and I still have hopes/expectations that Laszlo’s potential will be realised. There are some great ideas in this software.
This is an ancient tip, but a good-y. Jeffrey Larson put together a little hack to do auto copy to clipboard in a cross browser way (i.e. failing back to Flash).
Ajaxian — This could be really handy.
