Couple of things.
First off, spell check yourself. It makes it easier to read, and bad spelling makes you look less intelligent.
The idea that Bill Gates likes writing code, and does it for fun is laughable. I'm sure at some point he wrote some code, too bad he didn't write DOS or Windows. He bought both of them. He made money, not because he could write code, or even help create good products. He made money because he is a marketing genius.
I really dislike MS, but you've gotta admit, they've done a damn good job of selling what they have to the world. (Who cares if it's all legal)
And to say that monopolistic dictatorships are the only way big companies can make money, that's just dumb. Companies can make TONS of money if they create something people need/want and they do it WELL. The problem is, that they are more concerned with getting things onto the market fast, making a quick buck, than making a good product.
That's why OSS is cool, because the people involved are the ones that need/want it. They have a vested interest in making a good product. If you're gonna get paid anyway, why waste the extra hours? If you're not getting paid in the first place, why bother to do something half-way?
Yes, people are allowed to refuse to sign things, but then again, people are allowed to not accept software licenses.
People are signing up because they are being offered lots of money all at once, $400, and getting something they want now anyway, and isp. Unfortunately they are only looking at the "Bright side of life," and not realizing that they just gave up 3 years of their lives.
Also, have you ever read a legal contract? I always at least skim everything I sign, but usually any more then that makes me want to pass out, or vomit.
The problem with lawyers is, once a few people have them to cover their asses, everyone else needs one to cover theirs as well. It's a nice big circle that gets anal-retentive people who don't mind pouring over minute details lots of money.
I think I had a point along the way. I guess it's up to the flamers to decide.
Look, Napster was created so that it's author and his friends could have an easy way to trade thier mp3's. You know what's gonna happen if they do shut down Napster, someone else is gonna create a similar program. It's too late to stifle the vast amounts of pirated music out there.
It may not be legal, but it's too late. It was inevitable. Once the mp3 format was created people were gonna start to share music with each other, and once people started sharing it, they were gonna find easier ways to do it.
How come no one has yelled at all of the people running ftp sites off of their computers? Those have been around a lot longer than Napster. It's just that it has become too easy in the eyes of some. They have also found an easy target.
Would there be all of these lawsuits if there were a hundred different programs out there?
I'm not saying that Metallica and Dr. Dre don't have a valid complaint. It's just that it's too late to complain. The cat is out of the bag, and they should be spending their time trying to find a way to work with what's going on, not trying to suppress a tidal wave.
All of my friends that could be considered "geeks," myself included, do drink a significant amount of caffine, and eat junky food when we're working, but that's not all that we are.
We're not socially inept, we have poker at my apt every thursday night, we go out to parties, we even drink. Heck some of my friends can really drink.
We do spend time doing work, and if needed, we'll work for 16 hours straight with only minor breaks, but that's usually cause we put it off unti too late, and decided to go have fun first. Geeks do have lives.
Yes people make mistakes, and it probably isn't right that others derive humor from it, but everyone has laughed at least once when someone's trippped over their own feet too. It's not like the comic strips take real people's names and post them on the internet for the entire world to laugh at the mistakes of a single person. Comedy works by taking a situation and adding a different outcome than expected. In the case of computers, the unexpected outcome may make sense to others, but to those who know what should be done it is unexpected and humorous. There is also the fact that if people are offended, or not amused by Tech Comic Strips, THEY DON'T HAVE TO READ THEM. Some people just like to complain and rant(and I would not be offended if someone found this to be a rant).
Its always been known that you here the GOOD songs on radio, and you get to hear the other stuff when you buy the CD.
Actually, it isn't KNOWN that only the good songs are on the radio, some good songs don't make it to the radio. Heck, some good BANDS don't even make it to the radio.
And sometimes the singles are nothing like the rest of the CD, Everlast's "White Ford Sings the Blues" comes to mind. "Ends" and "What it's like" are really cool blues songs, but the rest of the CD is rap. Too bad the rock station that I heard them on didn't mention that.
As for the arguement about singles, I personally don't own, nor can afford, a cd changer, so that means that once a CD ends, and I want to listen to a new one, I have to stop what I'm doing and change the CD. I'd hate to do that every 3 songs.
I personally think that the ability to test drive a CD is would be a great thing. Maybe somebody should start up a music store with this idea in mind.
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First off, spell check yourself. It makes it easier to read, and bad spelling makes you look less intelligent.
The idea that Bill Gates likes writing code, and does it for fun is laughable. I'm sure at some point he wrote some code, too bad he didn't write DOS or Windows. He bought both of them. He made money, not because he could write code, or even help create good products. He made money because he is a marketing genius.
I really dislike MS, but you've gotta admit, they've done a damn good job of selling what they have to the world. (Who cares if it's all legal)
And to say that monopolistic dictatorships are the only way big companies can make money, that's just dumb. Companies can make TONS of money if they create something people need/want and they do it WELL. The problem is, that they are more concerned with getting things onto the market fast, making a quick buck, than making a good product.
That's why OSS is cool, because the people involved are the ones that need/want it. They have a vested interest in making a good product. If you're gonna get paid anyway, why waste the extra hours? If you're not getting paid in the first place, why bother to do something half-way?
People are signing up because they are being offered lots of money all at once, $400, and getting something they want now anyway, and isp. Unfortunately they are only looking at the "Bright side of life," and not realizing that they just gave up 3 years of their lives.
Also, have you ever read a legal contract? I always at least skim everything I sign, but usually any more then that makes me want to pass out, or vomit.
The problem with lawyers is, once a few people have them to cover their asses, everyone else needs one to cover theirs as well. It's a nice big circle that gets anal-retentive people who don't mind pouring over minute details lots of money.
I think I had a point along the way. I guess it's up to the flamers to decide.
Look, Napster was created so that it's author and his friends could have an easy way to trade thier mp3's. You know what's gonna happen if they do shut down Napster, someone else is gonna create a similar program. It's too late to stifle the vast amounts of pirated music out there.
It may not be legal, but it's too late. It was inevitable. Once the mp3 format was created people were gonna start to share music with each other, and once people started sharing it, they were gonna find easier ways to do it.
How come no one has yelled at all of the people running ftp sites off of their computers? Those have been around a lot longer than Napster. It's just that it has become too easy in the eyes of some. They have also found an easy target.
Would there be all of these lawsuits if there were a hundred different programs out there?
I'm not saying that Metallica and Dr. Dre don't have a valid complaint. It's just that it's too late to complain. The cat is out of the bag, and they should be spending their time trying to find a way to work with what's going on, not trying to suppress a tidal wave.
Billy S G McCarthy
All of my friends that could be considered "geeks," myself included, do drink a significant amount of caffine, and eat junky food when we're working, but that's not all that we are.
We're not socially inept, we have poker at my apt every thursday night, we go out to parties, we even drink. Heck some of my friends can really drink.
We do spend time doing work, and if needed, we'll work for 16 hours straight with only minor breaks, but that's usually cause we put it off unti too late, and decided to go have fun first. Geeks do have lives.
Yes people make mistakes, and it probably isn't right that others derive humor from it, but everyone has laughed at least once when someone's trippped over their own feet too. It's not like the comic strips take real people's names and post them on the internet for the entire world to laugh at the mistakes of a single person. Comedy works by taking a situation and adding a different outcome than expected. In the case of computers, the unexpected outcome may make sense to others, but to those who know what should be done it is unexpected and humorous. There is also the fact that if people are offended, or not amused by Tech Comic Strips, THEY DON'T HAVE TO READ THEM. Some people just like to complain and rant(and I would not be offended if someone found this to be a rant).
Actually, it isn't KNOWN that only the good songs are on the radio, some good songs don't make it to the radio. Heck, some good BANDS don't even make it to the radio.
And sometimes the singles are nothing like the rest of the CD, Everlast's "White Ford Sings the Blues" comes to mind. "Ends" and "What it's like" are really cool blues songs, but the rest of the CD is rap. Too bad the rock station that I heard them on didn't mention that.
As for the arguement about singles, I personally don't own, nor can afford, a cd changer, so that means that once a CD ends, and I want to listen to a new one, I have to stop what I'm doing and change the CD. I'd hate to do that every 3 songs.
I personally think that the ability to test drive a CD is would be a great thing. Maybe somebody should start up a music store with this idea in mind.