What we have now are markets where large amounts of stolen goods being acquired, no questions asked.
Actually, while I don't doubt there are a lot of people still selling 'pirated' content out of trenchcoats out on the street in NYC, the phenomenon being discussed here is essentially people giving content away freely to other people. It's not a 'market' in the sense you imply. Nobody is making big bucks through the 'piracy' distribution channels.
Afterall, if money is drained out of the music industry, the industry is going cut everyone except the big-earning, sure-bets.
Actually, the 'music industry' per se, DIES. Yes, it ceases to exist. Because for the most part all it's in the business of doing is trapping music into packaging that they control, so that people who want said music can't get it without paying them. Why do we need all the wrapping and layers of nonsense?
Yes, yes. We've heard the explanations before of what a 'value add' the music industry provides. Please don't regurgitate it here.
and instruments and (nowadays) computer equipment that is not free.
I DEFINITELY call Bull on this assertion.
The equipment to make music, esp. electronic music, has gotten astronomically less expensive over the last several decades. A PC with the multimedia muscle to produce high quality music, comparable in power to the most expensive studio electronic instruments of two decades ago, is the kind of gear you can get by dumpster diving or going to school-auctions. I went to a University Auction a few months ago and got a Roland U-200 synthethiser ("Sound Module" for $15. An ESI 32-voice digital sampler for another $20. That was quite expensive rack-mount MIDI gear not very long ago.
Multi-track recording equipment amounts to a high-end sound card for a few hundred dollars.
It's all gotten cheaper, to the point where The Big Studios really can't justify themselves as anything more than big powerhouses of Hype whose only real function is promotion of a product that regular people can easily make for themselves now. All they 'own' is the channels, and there's no reason for us to respect that any longer. Sorry. Game over.
Tossing in another even more abstracted stereotype after someone's response denouncing stereotyping hardly counts as a positive contribution to the discussion.
I first installed NetBSD on a very similar vintage laptop (it was a 486DX-2 50 laptop with 28M of ram and a 2G hard drive) back in about 1998. That was about the time I quit using Linux entirely and went to NetBSD. The machine didn't have a CD drive. I plugged in a PCMCIA NIC and installed with a single boot floppy from an NFS share.
At the time, PC Card support on Linux was still an ugly kludge involving a second floppy diskette and lots of fumbling around. NetBSD had PC Card support of common NICs built right in the kernel on the NFS Install boot diskette.
A base NetBSD install is still only several hundred megabytes, and you get X with the Tab Window Manager by default. Add on the FVWM2 package if you want to get fancy and you're in business. I installed it on several G3 iMacs last week. SeaMonkey rocks on a 300Mhz G3.
I'd stay away from Linux. The Linux distros lost their interest in anything but chasing Microsoft Exhaust fumes (competing on 'the desktop platform' to be as big a mess as Microsoft) ages ago.
FreeBSD and OpenBSD are also an option, but not as good a choice- once you know how to install and configure NetBSD on one platform you know almost everything you need for every other platform. (get it up and the base installed, edit rc.conf, add your ifconfig.xxx file, your host file and your resolv.conf file)
I wonder how long it would take on the 1Mhz Z-80 processor (running some sort of 386 emulator) that my first computer had. The swapping of virtual memory to cassette alone makes me nervous to think about.
It was such a relief when broadcast Television went digital. (Wireless! We can get modern digital television programming over Wireless now for free!) Because I was able at that time to convince my wife that we should disconnect the Dish and not get all that made-to-fill-channels crap streaming in our house anymore.
Broadcast video is splintered and all the flim-flam cameramen have taken over. Not that the 'golden age' was much better, just different.
Godwin's law pertains to USENET, where threads can and do go on and on for weeks and months.
Here on Slashdot, every thread dies in a few hours. Or a few days at most, after everybody gets tired of fighting back and forth on the branches at the edge of a topic.
Godwin's law is totally irrelevant and doesn't apply to anything at all here.
Don't you go trying to play the geek card. Unless you can identify the TTL chips soldered onto it, and make a reasonable guess at what the card originally did, plugged into a minicomputer or mainframe.
Nobody actually worships, or even much believes in ethanol. There's just a big Democractic constituency in the corn farmers, who are being paid off by the Ethanol programs.
If we were serious about ethanol, it would be made from cane sugar. Unfortunately, voting American Farmers don't grow much cane sugar.
I clicked your youtube link, thinking it would be a video of something bad actually happening regarding a soccer mom. I didn't realize it was just going to be a gunrights trolling video.
Back in the day, I could run NetBSD on a Powerbook 165 if I wanted. The only issues would be that there wasn't keyboard or display support for the laptop. It was reported to work okay over a serial console.
Using an Xbox 360 for Linux seems like just an updated version of the same thing.
If there's a roadblock, which constitutes a trip interruption, presumably it's time to stop by the side of the road for a bit to renegotiate your trip.
So basically, the USB 3.0 flash drive gets plugged into your USB 2.0 (or 1.1) connector. Since it's just to download a driver (and it's not an 86MB HP Printer Driver) it quickly installs. The only uncertainty is whether you need to then unplug the drive and plug it back in again for it to switch to 3.0 speeds...
The Firewire on a toaster, though, can't be UL Listed. Last time a vendor tried to get certified, they burned out a whole lab at Northbrook. They're still kinda huffy about it at UL so nobody else has tried.
You're confusing the 'host' side for the 'peripheral' side connector. The point is, you only need one cable that matches your device that you're moving around. It plugs into any of the host-side connectors.
With 1394 you need to carry along extra cables, or dongle-end bits to be assured you can plug your peripheral into any host.
But in the historical context, the moneytary unit 'krona' is closely associated with the crown; it's not a homonym. The historical coin in question sometimes depicts a crown, and is always issued by the monarchy or their agents.
My father collects larger silver coins (I am a history enthusiast but not well-to-do, so I collect old copper and bronze coins mostly) and the coins from all around the world (mostly European countries) are called 'kronen' or 'crown' or whatever the local language dictates. Here is a numismatic web site selling British Crowns. I have some half crowns in my collection. (I prefer to collect shillings or less, my preference is for the sixpence)
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What we have now are markets where large amounts of stolen goods being acquired, no questions asked.
Actually, while I don't doubt there are a lot of people still selling 'pirated' content out of trenchcoats out on the street in NYC, the phenomenon being discussed here is essentially people giving content away freely to other people. It's not a 'market' in the sense you imply. Nobody is making big bucks through the 'piracy' distribution channels.
Nice links into the fever swamp there.
It's a day after Halloween, though, so the freak show is a bit late.
Afterall, if money is drained out of the music industry, the industry is going cut everyone except the big-earning, sure-bets.
Actually, the 'music industry' per se, DIES. Yes, it ceases to exist. Because for the most part all it's in the business of doing is trapping music into packaging that they control, so that people who want said music can't get it without paying them. Why do we need all the wrapping and layers of nonsense?
Yes, yes. We've heard the explanations before of what a 'value add' the music industry provides. Please don't regurgitate it here.
Should that job be treated as "part-time"? Ready to take a huge pay cut?
Sounds good to me. Everything becomes cheaper, we need less money to get by, we work part time and have more time for leisure.
You must be a boss. That would explain your worldview.
and instruments and (nowadays) computer equipment that is not free.
I DEFINITELY call Bull on this assertion.
The equipment to make music, esp. electronic music, has gotten astronomically less expensive over the last several decades. A PC with the multimedia muscle to produce high quality music, comparable in power to the most expensive studio electronic instruments of two decades ago, is the kind of gear you can get by dumpster diving or going to school-auctions. I went to a University Auction a few months ago and got a Roland U-200 synthethiser ("Sound Module" for $15. An ESI 32-voice digital sampler for another $20. That was quite expensive rack-mount MIDI gear not very long ago.
Multi-track recording equipment amounts to a high-end sound card for a few hundred dollars.
It's all gotten cheaper, to the point where The Big Studios really can't justify themselves as anything more than big powerhouses of Hype whose only real function is promotion of a product that regular people can easily make for themselves now. All they 'own' is the channels, and there's no reason for us to respect that any longer. Sorry. Game over.
Tossing in another even more abstracted stereotype after someone's response denouncing stereotyping hardly counts as a positive contribution to the discussion.
I first installed NetBSD on a very similar vintage laptop (it was a 486DX-2 50 laptop with 28M of ram and a 2G hard drive) back in about 1998. That was about the time I quit using Linux entirely and went to NetBSD. The machine didn't have a CD drive. I plugged in a PCMCIA NIC and installed with a single boot floppy from an NFS share.
At the time, PC Card support on Linux was still an ugly kludge involving a second floppy diskette and lots of fumbling around. NetBSD had PC Card support of common NICs built right in the kernel on the NFS Install boot diskette.
A base NetBSD install is still only several hundred megabytes, and you get X with the Tab Window Manager by default. Add on the FVWM2 package if you want to get fancy and you're in business. I installed it on several G3 iMacs last week. SeaMonkey rocks on a 300Mhz G3.
I'd stay away from Linux. The Linux distros lost their interest in anything but chasing Microsoft Exhaust fumes (competing on 'the desktop platform' to be as big a mess as Microsoft) ages ago.
FreeBSD and OpenBSD are also an option, but not as good a choice- once you know how to install and configure NetBSD on one platform you know almost everything you need for every other platform. (get it up and the base installed, edit rc.conf, add your ifconfig.xxx file, your host file and your resolv.conf file)
I wonder how long it would take on the 1Mhz Z-80 processor (running some sort of 386 emulator) that my first computer had. The swapping of virtual memory to cassette alone makes me nervous to think about.
It was such a relief when broadcast Television went digital. (Wireless! We can get modern digital television programming over Wireless now for free!) Because I was able at that time to convince my wife that we should disconnect the Dish and not get all that made-to-fill-channels crap streaming in our house anymore.
Broadcast video is splintered and all the flim-flam cameramen have taken over. Not that the 'golden age' was much better, just different.
Godwin's law pertains to USENET, where threads can and do go on and on for weeks and months.
Here on Slashdot, every thread dies in a few hours. Or a few days at most, after everybody gets tired of fighting back and forth on the branches at the edge of a topic.
Godwin's law is totally irrelevant and doesn't apply to anything at all here.
Don't you go trying to play the geek card. Unless you can identify the TTL chips soldered onto it, and make a reasonable guess at what the card originally did, plugged into a minicomputer or mainframe.
Nobody actually worships, or even much believes in ethanol. There's just a big Democractic constituency in the corn farmers, who are being paid off by the Ethanol programs.
If we were serious about ethanol, it would be made from cane sugar. Unfortunately, voting American Farmers don't grow much cane sugar.
Modern cars, sadly, have little of the feedback of old.
You haven't ridden in my Ford Ranger, then.
Stock, black, short cab, with no options except the cd player and the bumpy ride.
I clicked your youtube link, thinking it would be a video of something bad actually happening regarding a soccer mom. I didn't realize it was just going to be a gunrights trolling video.
Back in the day, I could run NetBSD on a Powerbook 165 if I wanted. The only issues would be that there wasn't keyboard or display support for the laptop. It was reported to work okay over a serial console.
Using an Xbox 360 for Linux seems like just an updated version of the same thing.
A common roadside defense is 'I am not one of those shit drivers. I am truly skilled.'
The cop still writes the ticket, and in fact is less likely to let the driver off with a warning.
As it should be.
If there's a roadblock, which constitutes a trip interruption, presumably it's time to stop by the side of the road for a bit to renegotiate your trip.
It's fairly likely that the Malibu will be as rare in 2059 as the Bel Air is now.
So basically, the USB 3.0 flash drive gets plugged into your USB 2.0 (or 1.1) connector. Since it's just to download a driver (and it's not an 86MB HP Printer Driver) it quickly installs. The only uncertainty is whether you need to then unplug the drive and plug it back in again for it to switch to 3.0 speeds...
The Firewire on a toaster, though, can't be UL Listed. Last time a vendor tried to get certified, they burned out a whole lab at Northbrook. They're still kinda huffy about it at UL so nobody else has tried.
You're confusing the 'host' side for the 'peripheral' side connector. The point is, you only need one cable that matches your device that you're moving around. It plugs into any of the host-side connectors.
With 1394 you need to carry along extra cables, or dongle-end bits to be assured you can plug your peripheral into any host.
that's all.
But in the historical context, the moneytary unit 'krona' is closely associated with the crown; it's not a homonym. The historical coin in question sometimes depicts a crown, and is always issued by the monarchy or their agents.
My father collects larger silver coins (I am a history enthusiast but not well-to-do, so I collect old copper and bronze coins mostly) and the coins from all around the world (mostly European countries) are called 'kronen' or 'crown' or whatever the local language dictates. Here is a numismatic web site selling British Crowns. I have some half crowns in my collection. (I prefer to collect shillings or less, my preference is for the sixpence)
Probably the best solution would be to change the law so that only eunichs can be police officers.
They can set up a little room at the Police Academy.... Have a special graduation ceremony....
The Police Union (a Syndicate all unto themselves) would prevent any such action from happening.