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I'm around $10/month but I've yet to build anything that anyone has taken a shine to (besides myself of course).

This is especially troublesome to me with regards to posts that quickly drop off the first page. Will there be enough page views by users with karma > 1000 on posts like that to get any comments approved?

At least here in Columbus, Yellow Cab does have an app for that: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id628065359?mt=8 or https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apcurium.M...

With all the crazy laws surrounding taxis and liveries, I wouldn't be surprised if an app like that is illegal in some municipalities.

Interesting project but I'm a bit turned off by how this is all framed.

"We're building a new blogging platform that can use Ghost themes, check it out" comes across a lot more positive than "We're porting Ghost to PHP, please give us money to do this."

Unfortunately the Wii doesn't do 1080/720p stuff either though :/. The increase in quality is well worth spending $100 on some other type of streamer.

Took them long enough!

Yes, that would be a nice feature for sure.

Maybe I'm just being silly but I really hope not. AppleTV is the only Netflix device I know of that won't automatically keep playing TV episodes (with no way to turn this "feature" off).

I'm not sure if it's the same for lawyers, but with a lot of doctors, they have to buy out the guy that's retiring/buy in to become a partner at a practice.

A little late to the convo, but guessing he meant Southpointe and the rest of the suburban buildup at Fayetteville Rd./I-40, which is definitely a different feel than downtown.

> As the engineer, it is your right to quit if you don't want to play by the rules.

I think you mean that it is okay to quit if the rules change by someone else's accord...

And if you paid the extra $20 a month, you would have the Unlimited LTE plan instead of the Unlimited 2G plan with 500mB of LTE. $70 is still reasonable in my eyes.

>>Accenture, which is one of the world’s largest consulting firms, has extensive experience with computer systems on the state level, and it built California’s new health insurance exchange.

Hasn't California's exchange had big problems too?

Beware, awful overlay asking you to subscribe to their emails (which probably are more of this crap)

Point releases updates on real hardware is so easy. My Hackintosh scares me to even update Safari and the self-updater has managed to brick the computer with just security updates (really stable when not updating tho :)

> If you want virtual Macs within the EULA

EULA definitely doesn't allow Hackintoshes. Some workplaces are ok with this, some definitely are not.

There's not just lots of universities upstate, but some really good universities (Cornell, Syracuse, RIT, Rochester, UB, Albany, RPI off the top of my head)

You mean the same 2Pac who was sent to jail for sexual abuse?

Don't get me wrong because I love 2Pac, but 2Pac's lyrics and his actions didn't always match up.

It's been almost 10 years since I've used a new version of Winamp, but I really have to disagree with you about performance. When they started adding features it immediately started to suck performance wise. Had to go back to v2.whatever because of it. At the time I was on a top of the line or near top of the line Northwood system. v5 was a little better than v3, but it was full of ads at every corner if I remember correctly.

The primary markets can get it OTA, but the secondary markets are out of luck, which makes zero sense since the games can be blacked out in secondary markets. Eg. Rochester and Syracuse are secondary markets of the Bills. If the Ralph doesn't sell out, Rochester and Syracuse get blacked out along with Buffalo, but only Buffalo can get NFLN/ESPN games OTA. Rochester and Syracuse fans without cable cannot see the game.

In the parent's case, if they lived in Providence or Worcester or Portland, which are definitely Patriots markets, it wouldn't be on OTA :s

It was annoying on OS X too.

Thank goodness. That autoplay an episode after the last one ends that is on the web client and 360 client is truly awful. The lack of that "feature" is part of why I bought a second AppleTV.

I think you might be right about that. I vaguely remember that weird difference being part of the way Hallmark has managed to hold the copyright to Happy Birthday. If I remember correctly, the lyrics were way out of copyright, but the piano arrangement that was written in the 30s or 40s and is now in common use now was copyrightable. Bleh.

I know a lot of the songs up there don't have much in the way of annotations, but wouldn't an album review heavy with lyrical analysis be more appropriate in this case?

Most of the fair use case law I have seen doesn't try to differentiate between good and bad commentary about the work they are building upon because it's really tricky and subjective.

Also, with "at best half of the work being used" I was referring to the fact that it is just lyrics and doesn't include the other elements of the song.

It may be all the words, but it is not the entire lyrical work. Intonation and cadence are incredibly important for the genre. Songs like Freeway, Kanye and Mos Def's "2 Words" do not have even close to the same impact without being heard.

Also, the entire work includes the beat. I'm guessing Kanye would argue the beat to "2 Words" was pretty important too.

I'm hoping that Rap Genius will fight this as I'm pretty sure Hofheinz v A&E Television Networks sets the precedent for them. The ruling there was that a documentary on Peter Graves was okay because clips from the actor's works were used "for the transformative purpose of enabling the viewer to understand the actor's modest beginnings in the film business," and that "A&E's biography of Peter Graves does not merely purport to supersede the original movie at issue, but to create a new copyrightable film biography."

Each of the annotated Rap Genius lyrics are used to explain and understand where the original artist is coming from and the point of the site isn't just to let people know the lyrics (which is at best half of the work being used, if you were concerned with the 3rd of the criteria on fair use) but to provide original content that explains everything. I don't think they would have a problem winning, but the will and money to win might be a problem :s

I'm not aware of any more recent case law that might supersede this as it has been a few years since I've been in an IP Law class. Anyone know more?

That's a pretty good idea. Kind of forgot to put one up.

Why would you want to sign up for the "Catastrophic Plan"? From my calculations here in Ohio, you could have actual coverage for not much more?

This really goes for “The research says…” as well. There is definitely good, peer-reviewed UX research out there, but if someone was well versed in it, they would say the conclusion of that research as fact instead of "The research says this is good".