You know, your right. I now see the err of my ways. Musicians should do something legitimate with their lives like teaching kids how Columbus discovered America.
2 things. the first being: i never post AC, and that wasn't me. the second: i never said signing was going to make you a millionaire, i said the prospect of getting the biggest paycheck of your life is hard to turn down. If you made $15k a year and someone told you that they would give you a $15k check that you could cash the very next day, you'd be a fool not to consider it. Making money doing what you love is not selling out. I'm not really sure how you can make that connection.. Think about it this way: "You live in the U.S. The president of the U.S. is an evil fucking bastard, therefore you are a sellout for living in the U.S. under his reign." See how absurd that sounds? That's not far off from "The RIAA is evil, so musicians are sellouts for getting paid."
Yes, the RIAA are evil, and deal with despicable business practices. No, musicians are not sellouts for getting payed to do what they love.
You don't have to be so harsh on the bands.. I have an MCSE cert, that doesn't mean I get together with steve balmer on the weekends and shoot penguins. There are many musicians that are truly brilliant that do studio work for major labels. If i were a good enough musician, i would love to have the opportunity to work with a lot of other musicians without committing to a band. When it comes to the groups that sign, I doubt many of them have the slightest clue about the politics. Those that do are most likely "coached" into the mindset of "downloading is stealing." A producer can have a hell of an impact on a young musician. It's like a father figure. I've been in a band that was approached by a major label, and I have to say, if the front man didn't end up getting too strung out on coke, there's a good chance I would have ended up playing in one of those bands that "chose to sign on to labels that sue fans." When you drive a beat-to-shit Chevy van that you bought with money from working in a butchers shop, the prospect of getting the largest paycheck of your life looks pretty damn good, no matter what your ideology.
It used to be that when shipping a daughter off to college, one had to warn her of things like date rape and underage drinking. Now it seems like son and daughter alike are getting fucked and all the pepper spray in the world won't going to fend off the rapist known as the RIAA.
There is. There are a few problems though. The biggest of which is that files created in the full version can't be opened by the student version, and vice versa. This does me no good, seeing as i don't have a plotter at home, and all of our work is turned in on usb drives at the end of the semester. If the prof. can't open any of the files, I would assume there would be no credit given.
Not just 'someone' will come to your company, an engineer will. It should be noted that Pro/E tech support also phones an engineer, rather than a tech, a representative, or a guy in a call center in India. That alone, IMO, is worth the cost of licensing. As for AutoCad, I attend a small state school, and my program shares a lab with Architectural Design, so the freshman courses are a mix of CAD/CAM and Architect students. Fine by me, since I pay tuition out of pocket and would never be able to afford to go to university.
If the emerging markets aren't buying the software in the first place, how are they paying for the security? Also, what are the legal implications of doing business with a shop that isn't regulated? As I see it, allowing your data to pass through pirated/cracked software is like posting it to a blog.. It's a gaping security hole. AFAIK, most shops in the northeast U.S. go to great lengths to keep things like client lists confidential, let alone the data that is the cumulative sum of highly-paid engineers. Admittedly, i only know a handful of people who work in the field, but those few have signed NDAs and take it very seriously. If your senior engineer is not allowed to even mention what part he's working on to his wife, it certainly does not make sense to use pirated software that could very well hand the entire schematic over to a Russian wares group.
Well, if a small home-based business is running pirated copies of office, what's the worst case scenario? I could see maybe some unpredictable results when it comes to formatting, etc, but i don't think it's really much of a liability. You can probably run a successful graphics design shop on pirated software, but in the case of a fab shop, if they are using a pirated copy of software to control a CNC machine, there could be major ramifications if it produces unexpected results. If something goes wonky with that, you're looking at possible damage to an $80k machine with a $1000 billet of aluminum in it. These numbers are obviously open to debate, since there are different types of computer controlled machines, and different grades of material, etc. The bottom line is that mistakes cost far more than preventative maintenance in this instance. It would cost less to have the appropriate licensing for the software than it would to screw up a set of 4 wheels for a client. Think of it like this: if you print a 10 page report, and notice something needs changed, you can throw out 10 pages of 8-1/2" x 11" paper without thinking twice. But what about a 1:1 schematic of a unibody car chassis? There is also the factor of industrial espionage. If you have to make your employees sign an NDA (necessary for any govt contract) you would be a fool to use pirated software that would, in all likelihood, allow a Russian warez group full access to the data your chief engineer is not allowed to mention to his wife.
The he-people are the most prolific of the indigenous species on planet Manonlyia, somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse. Planet Manonlyia is a binary planet, sharing an orbit with it's counterpart Amazonia. According to ancient Manonlyian texts, the planet has always been ruled by a gaint man-puter that is really a man-bot in disguise. The he-people have lived for many thousands of years without being able to traverse the distance between their home world and Amazonia. Manonlyia is home to the universe's largest dance-music-only torrent tracker, and have been in constant fear of RIAA litigation. As for the reason behind the he-people always being wet.. it's a life choice.
I'm currently a student of mechanical engineering with a heavy emphasis on CAD. You'd think the big companies like AutoDesk would prefer to make it easy for students to learn the software's ins and outs by offering a nice student discount, or maybe some sort of "student edition" of the program. Have you priced a Pro E solution? it's ridiculous! The thing i find insane about the whole deal is that the heavy anti-piracy measures taken are extremely frustrating to get past--however not impossible, but there is no real logical need for them in the first place. I mean, sure the per-license cost is extremely high, but the price of the software is a drop in the bucket for most shops when compared to the price of just a single machine. My school just purchased a rapid prototype machine (which is really freaking cool, btw) that cost $30k, not including the ABS material needed to use the damn thing. Basically, my point is this: no one is pirating AutoDesk software to use in a production environment. A quick torrent search shows that there are, in fact, many people pirating the software. So the question now is whom? The short answer is: students. When i graduate i plan on working as a draftsman for a while before opening up my own shop, at which point i will purchase a fully-licensed Pro E solution. How many hundreds of dollars more will i be paying for this software to offset the cost of AutoDesk paying software engineers to keep students from using it for doing homework? I'll end this little tirade with a question: if the main purpose of a software suite is to engineer and manufacture parts in a professional environment, is there any real value taken away from the makers of the software if said software is pirated and used for anything other than a production environment? Are teenagers without access to a plotter, let alone a CNC machine really eating away at profits?
as long as they take these nasty, degrading, and utterly un-christian trailers off-line, i'll be happy. i can't count the number of times my search for interspecies erotica was interrupted by some obnoxious, violent popup displaying a trailer for some degenerate videogame. the intarwebs are safe at last!
whatever the reasons, i hope she wins. if she wins the case, the riaa is done for. if she settles out of court, they will be bled dry by similar cases. either way, wethepeople win, and the evil empire begins to crumble. yes, i called the riaa an evil empire. and here comes the corporo-fascist trolls to flame me to death... (see below)
I know a lot of people that have been real into Pandora lately. I really hope none of the big names back out, because this could really be the push this issue needs to sway public opinion. There has to be a huge number of people who regularly use sites like Pandora and Rhapsody. Think about how pissed you are when the cable TV goes out when you are watching something.
interestingly enough, in that screenie the description says Feisty ships with Ubuntu Studio, but Studio wasn't finished until months after Feisty's release, and afaik is not affiliated with the official release in any way.
you mean he was right that flying apple PCs would be unleashed from the gates of hell to swarm the redmond campus and shower the earth with hard-to-use keyboards? or was he right about one of the other 99999 ridiculous predictions?
we can calculate the exact telemetry of an object moving through space 365 million miles from earth, traveling at a velocity around 38,000mph. we can send that object a signal thats 20 billion times less powerful than a digital watch and tell it to turn around and take a picture of Jupiter. Why, oh why, can't we determine who's playing the insurance company for a chump?
The same thing happened to me just the other day.. i had some dental surgery so i took a little time off of work. My wife and I went to Blockbuster to get some flicks, and I ended up just renting "Shawshank Redemption" because I knew it was good, as opposed to the 3 walls of "new releases," all of which looked horrible. Keep in mind we went to the video store on the way home from the pharmacy and i had a pocket full of Vicodin. I guess the moral of the story is that even with a ready source of opiates, CGI is no substitute for actual story telling.
you joke, but i seriously doubt they care about/. for another very simple reason. many of the user base is smart enough to fight back, because we know our tech and we know our rights. imagine the look of terror on some riaa stooge's face when he requests info on a poster and cmdrtaco sends him a piece of paper with 1 simple username on it: NewYorkCountyLawyer. "OH SHIT, THE JIG IS UP! RUN RUN!!!" The RIAA doesn't mess with people who know the ins and outs of pesky little details like "law" and "how a computer works." basically they will never sue/. or it's users, because they know very well they would lose, and it would certainly be the straw that broke the camel's back. no, they will avoid that like the plague.
the ps2s are selling like hotcakes because of the price. people realize that "good enough" is, in fact good enough. look at the wii. the graphics are "good enough", the price is right, and there is an interesting and fun-looking way to interact with it. the 360 has been out for what seems like forever now, have sold tons of units, and is established in homes all over america. enter sony, talking some jive about price cuts. it's too little, too late. the next-gen war is over, and microsoft won. the wii isnt really even in the same category as microsoft and sony's offerings, yet it's managed to secure 2nd place in front of the ps3. microsoft aggressively sought market dominance with it's price point, features, and it's wildly popular live service. sony sat on the arrogant notion that the pigs will buy whatever they tell them to at whatever price. you'd think with a huge pre-existing market base and the looming release of halo 3, sony would see that its going to take a lot, lot more than that to steal sales away from microsoft.
you could simply explain to the judge that the wizards who live in the magic machine box have cast a very powerful spell that makes it extremely difficult to get the RAM out. i mean, it's pretty apparent that this judge would take that as a reasonable explanation.
i agree that uploading torrents of dvd rips, etc. is beyond fair use. these mega-conglomerate companies feel that we should give up fair use entirely. i think that's the "middle ground" stated in the summary. i'm not advocating piracy, but the consumers have shown time and time again with itunes, allofmp3, etc. that they are perfectly willing to spend their hard earned cash on media in a format they prefer without restrictions like DRM or other nonsense. that being said, those mega-conglomerate corporations would rather sue the whole world into oblivion than adapt their business model to accommodate the consumer. this is why there is a high level of resentment among consumers towards these companies. on a side note, i think its only common sense that that the large-scale pirates selling bootleg dvds in bazaars the world over will not be affected in the least by any legislation or DRM. and those large-scale pirates are the ones actually hurting the industry. if you want to put out a fire, you extinguish the base. the media companies are blasting water directly into flames high above the base. their house continues to burn.
i'm pretty sure you can't patent an alloy. case-in-point is Ferarri. they use an alloy to craft engines that is uber-secret. if you could patent it, they would have. but since they cant, they keep it top-secret.
i sold almost 60 t-shirts at my last gig. given that i printed them myself using a home-made 2 color screen press and bought the t-shirts in bulk, i consider it 100% profit. i would have made the damn things for fun anyway. so thats 60 shirts at $20 a pop, so i made $1200 from that alone. if you wanna get nit-picky, lets say $1000 to count the price of ink and shirts. i've produced 3 albums for my band, and i've personally paid to have 1000 copies pressed each time. (4th and 5th are on the way for late summer) having such a low pressing costs a good bit more, but i usually only sell a few hundred copies of each. i save money by not having a jacket printed, but i still end up giving away literally hundreds of copies to friends, casual acquaintances, drunk chicks at random bars, etc. the reason i take the hit on the cds is because since i started giving away the cds, we went from playing for 15 people to playing for 150 people at every gig. needless to say, printing our own t-shirts has really payed off.. we managed to get some new top-shelf gear and we even have a fund aside for buying a brand new van. the point of my story is this: if you adapt your business model to your environment, you will do just fine.
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You know, your right. I now see the err of my ways. Musicians should do something legitimate with their lives like teaching kids how Columbus discovered America.
May we strive to be worthy of your sense of grandeur.
2 things. the first being: i never post AC, and that wasn't me. the second: i never said signing was going to make you a millionaire, i said the prospect of getting the biggest paycheck of your life is hard to turn down. If you made $15k a year and someone told you that they would give you a $15k check that you could cash the very next day, you'd be a fool not to consider it. Making money doing what you love is not selling out. I'm not really sure how you can make that connection.. Think about it this way: "You live in the U.S. The president of the U.S. is an evil fucking bastard, therefore you are a sellout for living in the U.S. under his reign." See how absurd that sounds? That's not far off from "The RIAA is evil, so musicians are sellouts for getting paid." Yes, the RIAA are evil, and deal with despicable business practices. No, musicians are not sellouts for getting payed to do what they love.
You don't have to be so harsh on the bands.. I have an MCSE cert, that doesn't mean I get together with steve balmer on the weekends and shoot penguins. There are many musicians that are truly brilliant that do studio work for major labels. If i were a good enough musician, i would love to have the opportunity to work with a lot of other musicians without committing to a band. When it comes to the groups that sign, I doubt many of them have the slightest clue about the politics. Those that do are most likely "coached" into the mindset of "downloading is stealing." A producer can have a hell of an impact on a young musician. It's like a father figure. I've been in a band that was approached by a major label, and I have to say, if the front man didn't end up getting too strung out on coke, there's a good chance I would have ended up playing in one of those bands that "chose to sign on to labels that sue fans." When you drive a beat-to-shit Chevy van that you bought with money from working in a butchers shop, the prospect of getting the largest paycheck of your life looks pretty damn good, no matter what your ideology.
It used to be that when shipping a daughter off to college, one had to warn her of things like date rape and underage drinking. Now it seems like son and daughter alike are getting fucked and all the pepper spray in the world won't going to fend off the rapist known as the RIAA.
There is. There are a few problems though. The biggest of which is that files created in the full version can't be opened by the student version, and vice versa. This does me no good, seeing as i don't have a plotter at home, and all of our work is turned in on usb drives at the end of the semester. If the prof. can't open any of the files, I would assume there would be no credit given.
Not just 'someone' will come to your company, an engineer will. It should be noted that Pro/E tech support also phones an engineer, rather than a tech, a representative, or a guy in a call center in India. That alone, IMO, is worth the cost of licensing. As for AutoCad, I attend a small state school, and my program shares a lab with Architectural Design, so the freshman courses are a mix of CAD/CAM and Architect students. Fine by me, since I pay tuition out of pocket and would never be able to afford to go to university.
If the emerging markets aren't buying the software in the first place, how are they paying for the security? Also, what are the legal implications of doing business with a shop that isn't regulated? As I see it, allowing your data to pass through pirated/cracked software is like posting it to a blog.. It's a gaping security hole. AFAIK, most shops in the northeast U.S. go to great lengths to keep things like client lists confidential, let alone the data that is the cumulative sum of highly-paid engineers. Admittedly, i only know a handful of people who work in the field, but those few have signed NDAs and take it very seriously. If your senior engineer is not allowed to even mention what part he's working on to his wife, it certainly does not make sense to use pirated software that could very well hand the entire schematic over to a Russian wares group.
Well, if a small home-based business is running pirated copies of office, what's the worst case scenario? I could see maybe some unpredictable results when it comes to formatting, etc, but i don't think it's really much of a liability. You can probably run a successful graphics design shop on pirated software, but in the case of a fab shop, if they are using a pirated copy of software to control a CNC machine, there could be major ramifications if it produces unexpected results. If something goes wonky with that, you're looking at possible damage to an $80k machine with a $1000 billet of aluminum in it. These numbers are obviously open to debate, since there are different types of computer controlled machines, and different grades of material, etc. The bottom line is that mistakes cost far more than preventative maintenance in this instance. It would cost less to have the appropriate licensing for the software than it would to screw up a set of 4 wheels for a client. Think of it like this: if you print a 10 page report, and notice something needs changed, you can throw out 10 pages of 8-1/2" x 11" paper without thinking twice. But what about a 1:1 schematic of a unibody car chassis? There is also the factor of industrial espionage. If you have to make your employees sign an NDA (necessary for any govt contract) you would be a fool to use pirated software that would, in all likelihood, allow a Russian warez group full access to the data your chief engineer is not allowed to mention to his wife.
The he-people are the most prolific of the indigenous species on planet Manonlyia, somewhere in the vicinity of Betelgeuse. Planet Manonlyia is a binary planet, sharing an orbit with it's counterpart Amazonia. According to ancient Manonlyian texts, the planet has always been ruled by a gaint man-puter that is really a man-bot in disguise. The he-people have lived for many thousands of years without being able to traverse the distance between their home world and Amazonia. Manonlyia is home to the universe's largest dance-music-only torrent tracker, and have been in constant fear of RIAA litigation. As for the reason behind the he-people always being wet.. it's a life choice.
I'm currently a student of mechanical engineering with a heavy emphasis on CAD. You'd think the big companies like AutoDesk would prefer to make it easy for students to learn the software's ins and outs by offering a nice student discount, or maybe some sort of "student edition" of the program. Have you priced a Pro E solution? it's ridiculous! The thing i find insane about the whole deal is that the heavy anti-piracy measures taken are extremely frustrating to get past--however not impossible, but there is no real logical need for them in the first place. I mean, sure the per-license cost is extremely high, but the price of the software is a drop in the bucket for most shops when compared to the price of just a single machine. My school just purchased a rapid prototype machine (which is really freaking cool, btw) that cost $30k, not including the ABS material needed to use the damn thing. Basically, my point is this: no one is pirating AutoDesk software to use in a production environment. A quick torrent search shows that there are, in fact, many people pirating the software. So the question now is whom? The short answer is: students. When i graduate i plan on working as a draftsman for a while before opening up my own shop, at which point i will purchase a fully-licensed Pro E solution. How many hundreds of dollars more will i be paying for this software to offset the cost of AutoDesk paying software engineers to keep students from using it for doing homework? I'll end this little tirade with a question: if the main purpose of a software suite is to engineer and manufacture parts in a professional environment, is there any real value taken away from the makers of the software if said software is pirated and used for anything other than a production environment? Are teenagers without access to a plotter, let alone a CNC machine really eating away at profits?
as long as they take these nasty, degrading, and utterly un-christian trailers off-line, i'll be happy. i can't count the number of times my search for interspecies erotica was interrupted by some obnoxious, violent popup displaying a trailer for some degenerate videogame. the intarwebs are safe at last!
whatever the reasons, i hope she wins. if she wins the case, the riaa is done for. if she settles out of court, they will be bled dry by similar cases. either way, wethepeople win, and the evil empire begins to crumble. yes, i called the riaa an evil empire. and here comes the corporo-fascist trolls to flame me to death... (see below)
I know a lot of people that have been real into Pandora lately. I really hope none of the big names back out, because this could really be the push this issue needs to sway public opinion. There has to be a huge number of people who regularly use sites like Pandora and Rhapsody. Think about how pissed you are when the cable TV goes out when you are watching something.
interestingly enough, in that screenie the description says Feisty ships with Ubuntu Studio, but Studio wasn't finished until months after Feisty's release, and afaik is not affiliated with the official release in any way.
you mean he was right that flying apple PCs would be unleashed from the gates of hell to swarm the redmond campus and shower the earth with hard-to-use keyboards? or was he right about one of the other 99999 ridiculous predictions?
we can calculate the exact telemetry of an object moving through space 365 million miles from earth, traveling at a velocity around 38,000mph. we can send that object a signal thats 20 billion times less powerful than a digital watch and tell it to turn around and take a picture of Jupiter. Why, oh why, can't we determine who's playing the insurance company for a chump?
The same thing happened to me just the other day.. i had some dental surgery so i took a little time off of work. My wife and I went to Blockbuster to get some flicks, and I ended up just renting "Shawshank Redemption" because I knew it was good, as opposed to the 3 walls of "new releases," all of which looked horrible. Keep in mind we went to the video store on the way home from the pharmacy and i had a pocket full of Vicodin. I guess the moral of the story is that even with a ready source of opiates, CGI is no substitute for actual story telling.
you joke, but i seriously doubt they care about /. for another very simple reason. many of the user base is smart enough to fight back, because we know our tech and we know our rights. imagine the look of terror on some riaa stooge's face when he requests info on a poster and cmdrtaco sends him a piece of paper with 1 simple username on it: NewYorkCountyLawyer. "OH SHIT, THE JIG IS UP! RUN RUN!!!" The RIAA doesn't mess with people who know the ins and outs of pesky little details like "law" and "how a computer works." basically they will never sue /. or it's users, because they know very well they would lose, and it would certainly be the straw that broke the camel's back. no, they will avoid that like the plague.
the ps2s are selling like hotcakes because of the price. people realize that "good enough" is, in fact good enough. look at the wii. the graphics are "good enough", the price is right, and there is an interesting and fun-looking way to interact with it. the 360 has been out for what seems like forever now, have sold tons of units, and is established in homes all over america. enter sony, talking some jive about price cuts. it's too little, too late. the next-gen war is over, and microsoft won. the wii isnt really even in the same category as microsoft and sony's offerings, yet it's managed to secure 2nd place in front of the ps3. microsoft aggressively sought market dominance with it's price point, features, and it's wildly popular live service. sony sat on the arrogant notion that the pigs will buy whatever they tell them to at whatever price. you'd think with a huge pre-existing market base and the looming release of halo 3, sony would see that its going to take a lot, lot more than that to steal sales away from microsoft.
you could simply explain to the judge that the wizards who live in the magic machine box have cast a very powerful spell that makes it extremely difficult to get the RAM out. i mean, it's pretty apparent that this judge would take that as a reasonable explanation.
to quote Richard M Nixon's head in a jar: "the average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever!"
i agree that uploading torrents of dvd rips, etc. is beyond fair use. these mega-conglomerate companies feel that we should give up fair use entirely. i think that's the "middle ground" stated in the summary. i'm not advocating piracy, but the consumers have shown time and time again with itunes, allofmp3, etc. that they are perfectly willing to spend their hard earned cash on media in a format they prefer without restrictions like DRM or other nonsense. that being said, those mega-conglomerate corporations would rather sue the whole world into oblivion than adapt their business model to accommodate the consumer. this is why there is a high level of resentment among consumers towards these companies. on a side note, i think its only common sense that that the large-scale pirates selling bootleg dvds in bazaars the world over will not be affected in the least by any legislation or DRM. and those large-scale pirates are the ones actually hurting the industry. if you want to put out a fire, you extinguish the base. the media companies are blasting water directly into flames high above the base. their house continues to burn.
i'm pretty sure you can't patent an alloy. case-in-point is Ferarri. they use an alloy to craft engines that is uber-secret. if you could patent it, they would have. but since they cant, they keep it top-secret.
i sold almost 60 t-shirts at my last gig. given that i printed them myself using a home-made 2 color screen press and bought the t-shirts in bulk, i consider it 100% profit. i would have made the damn things for fun anyway. so thats 60 shirts at $20 a pop, so i made $1200 from that alone. if you wanna get nit-picky, lets say $1000 to count the price of ink and shirts. i've produced 3 albums for my band, and i've personally paid to have 1000 copies pressed each time. (4th and 5th are on the way for late summer) having such a low pressing costs a good bit more, but i usually only sell a few hundred copies of each. i save money by not having a jacket printed, but i still end up giving away literally hundreds of copies to friends, casual acquaintances, drunk chicks at random bars, etc. the reason i take the hit on the cds is because since i started giving away the cds, we went from playing for 15 people to playing for 150 people at every gig. needless to say, printing our own t-shirts has really payed off.. we managed to get some new top-shelf gear and we even have a fund aside for buying a brand new van. the point of my story is this: if you adapt your business model to your environment, you will do just fine.