That's what Karl Marx said. Opiate of the masses and such. It caught on, actually. Didn't really solve anything. People filled the void of religion with other ideas that played exactly the same role.
Actually, it was shared via Kazaa. They were in his My Music folder, not in his Kazaa shared folder. He claims that the music was shared without his knowledge. (This is plausible, since as I recall programs like this shared a lot of stuff by default, and you had to turn that off manually upon setup.) Part of Atlantic Records' argument, however, does hinge upon the 'fact' that the mp3 files were illegal copies.
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other. I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. There's no mystical energy field that controls my destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
I am somewhat at a loss as to how exactly mandatory pay-per-play is their next move. It isn't even a possible move. For starters, the low rate for outright purchase of a song implies that the price of a single play would be ridiculously low--they would have to introduce bulk rates, as in 100 plays for 10 cents. That's just asking for abuse either by customers who don't play the last few seconds, or by the companies themselves when they count all those typical, abortive plays of the first three seconds of a song as full plays. Perhaps they could charge for time listened.
Of course, to get to all these pitfalls, they'd have to introduce, and engineer the wide adoption of, a scheme for reliably tracking the number of plays of a song. Keep in mind that they'd have to kill off Apple's market share or co-opt it. Given Apple's position selling songs outright, that's questionable at best.
Even assuming they were able to create such a dubious system, they'd also have to continue the fight against quite a few pirates who would be more than happy to employ any of the numerous methods of stripping copy protection. They're not winning that fight right now.
Wow. You had me at "You're a rank hypocrite defending an indefensible corporate swindle." Great to know....Now I feel a little better about my paranoia. Maybe people are out to get me!
Current Oly athletes (and prospects) need to keep WADA abreasts of *where* they are in advance so WADA officials can show up from time to time to get a random test done.
Welcome to the world of yesterday! This has been standard practice for quite some time now.
There is a very good reason. That reason is... heh... get me my handkerchief here, I'm burning up... well, Jesus Christ, who turned up the heat in here? Well, to answer your question, corporate goals sometimes require a reimagining of customer service in order to leverage important new revenue sources.
Well, this comment is tongue-in-cheek, but it does capture the essence of things.
It's a lot of complicated group theory that describes symmetries of particles and forces. It was "only fully understood this year" if you believe TFA, which is why no one tried it yet.
Want to know more? Go to grad school.;)
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That's what Karl Marx said. Opiate of the masses and such. It caught on, actually. Didn't really solve anything. People filled the void of religion with other ideas that played exactly the same role.
No, I read it as "X-ray your carryon".
Actually, it was shared via Kazaa. They were in his My Music folder, not in his Kazaa shared folder. He claims that the music was shared without his knowledge. (This is plausible, since as I recall programs like this shared a lot of stuff by default, and you had to turn that off manually upon setup.) Part of Atlantic Records' argument, however, does hinge upon the 'fact' that the mp3 files were illegal copies.
Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other. I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen anything to make me believe there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. There's no mystical energy field that controls my destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.
Of course, to get to all these pitfalls, they'd have to introduce, and engineer the wide adoption of, a scheme for reliably tracking the number of plays of a song. Keep in mind that they'd have to kill off Apple's market share or co-opt it. Given Apple's position selling songs outright, that's questionable at best.
Even assuming they were able to create such a dubious system, they'd also have to continue the fight against quite a few pirates who would be more than happy to employ any of the numerous methods of stripping copy protection. They're not winning that fight right now.
Are those really slashdot's demographics? If so, how did you come by this information? If not--what led you to guess them?
Wow. You had me at "You're a rank hypocrite defending an indefensible corporate swindle." Great to know. ...Now I feel a little better about my paranoia. Maybe people are out to get me!
Well said--but I can see an argument, from their point of view, not to hook up such a treasure trove to the Internet at all.
That's no reason not to go. It wioll haven been fun!
Welcome to the world of yesterday! This has been standard practice for quite some time now.
it's not 4.568*10^6. it's 4.568*10^9. It's 4.568 billion years.
I don't know how many times I'll have to repeat this: the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck.
There is a very good reason. That reason is... heh... get me my handkerchief here, I'm burning up... well, Jesus Christ, who turned up the heat in here? Well, to answer your question, corporate goals sometimes require a reimagining of customer service in order to leverage important new revenue sources.
Now what's all this about copyright?
No, no, it's perfectly accurate. It holds them--and it doesn't let go, no matter what.
TF2 is way newer. I imagine that has something to do with it.
Were I to believe you, it would disturb me greatly to know that Steve Ballmer had graduated to throwing around entire tables. I'm glad you're wrong.
Really, even "Vista-only" games aren't Vista-only. See for example Halo 2.
Sshh, no one tell him about General Grievous.
Because you're David X. Cohen? Because it was funny? Because he rrrrrolls his rrrrrr's?
It's a government, actually.
Mod parent up for good study advice.
Ha. Yeah right. No one would be that bullish about the PS3, of all things!
Wouldn't you have to include the operation where you just do nothing (i.e. the identity operation)?
Er, THIS comment: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=362251&cid=21372733
Well, this comment is tongue-in-cheek, but it does capture the essence of things. It's a lot of complicated group theory that describes symmetries of particles and forces. It was "only fully understood this year" if you believe TFA, which is why no one tried it yet. Want to know more? Go to grad school. ;)